Studio Set off Anime ‘New Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt’ Is a Raunchy, Foul-Mouthed Riot

Someplace between Cartoon Community’s super-powered lady mayhem in Powerpuff Girls and Netflix’s unfiltered sex-fueled comedy in Big Mouth, Neon Genesis Evangelion studio Gainax unleashed Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt into the world of animation in 2010. The sequence, which will be greatest described as what would occur if Powerpuff Women had been created with crass Grownup Swim humor in thoughts, immediately grew to become an anime cult touchstone with its brazen, raunchy comedy and balls-to-the-wall motion.

Now, Studio Trigger—an anime juggernaut no longer adverse to making sequel seasons—has launched its continuation of the anime with the aptly titled New Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt on Prime Video. If its premiere episode is something to go on, the bitches are again with much more brazen, full-throttle misadventures that’ll depart viewers side-splitting simply as onerous as its predecessor.

The sequence correct follows the Anarchy sisters, Panty and Stocking, two angels who had been kicked out of Heaven. The sex-and-candy-obsessed duo lives in Daten Metropolis, the place they exterminate demons and ghosts with lingerie they’ve magically remodeled right into a gun and a katana, in hopes of shopping for their means again into Heaven.

With its explosive premiere, New Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt sees Studio Set off knock it out of the park, reuniting the foul-mouthed sisters in a riotous chaos nodding to the lengthy hiatus and annointing Set off as Gainax’s rightful inheritor, spinning a recent new journey for the soiled pair to wreak havoc on the anime panorama as soon as once more.

The premiere episode, Homecoming (spoofing Marvel’s Tom Holland Spider-Man flick with a hilarious end credit illustration), jumps straight off the season one finale and hurls viewers again into the chaos. After Transient (the sequence’ self-described “bottom-tier loser” and Panty’s new beau) delivers a fast recap, the episode detonates a wild twist. The twist sees Panty and Stocking pressured to battle one another whereas wrestling to retain their former personas, all whereas Transient, Garterbelt, and even their former rivals from hell, the Scanty sisters, look on in horrified fascination as they attempt to pitch in. What ensues is a bunch of hilariously efficient brainwashing, demonic resurrection, a operating joke about one’s non-public elements being a vital cornerstone of their character, and an enormous kaiju battle to ship viewers residence wanting extra of no matter bonkers hijinks Set off has cooked up for followers.

One notable shift for followers of the Funimation-era English dub is that Monica Rial, Jamie Marchi, and Christopher Sabat received’t be returning as Panty, Stocking, and Garterbelt. Getting into their roles are Courtney Lin (Rhys Rochelle in Moonrise), Cristina Vee Valenzuela (Killua Zoldyck in Hunter x Hunter), and Daniel Walton (Osceola Redarm in Blue Exorcist). Whereas it takes some slight adjusting to get used to within the premiere episode’s early goings (the earlier trio actually put their stamp on these characters), the brand new trio captures the manic spirit of their predecessors whereas injecting recent aptitude all their very own into them. And by aptitude, meaning their rapid-fire, profanity-laced quips land like machine-gun bursts that punctuate each outlandish battle with nice comedic timing.

Studio Set off has constructed its fame on defiant, high-octane animation—from Kill La Kill‘s space-bound finale to Delicious in Dungeon‘s playful brutality and Cyberpunk: Edgerunner‘s neon-soaked rampages—and with New Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, it’s flexing effortlessly. Every website gag lands like a rapid-fire jab to the humorous bone, certain to hit its mark regardless of the haphazard unfold of its potty-mouth humor, whereas the sister’s battle virtually vibrates the margins of viewers’ screens off its hinges. Plus, simply as essential, its music is still a bop all these years later.

As famous earlier, New Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt got here with its fair proportion of hype earlier than its launch, following Anime Expo 2025. Gainax West’s official Twitter account teased news of a new Panty & Stocking project in 2016, with the added message that it will don’t have anything to do with pachinko. That information turned out to be a brand new exhibition for the sequence, in keeping with Anime Information Community. That was till Set off introduced it will take over the sequel at Anime Expo 2022.

In simply 24 minutes, the premiere not solely channels Panty & Stocking‘s authentic, sex-addled spirit however outpaces even probably the most parental advisory-laden moments of the 2010 sequence, protecting twice as a lot narrative floor as your common anime opener. And when the chaos seems to have peaked, the anime hints towards much more raucous adventures ready in episodes to come back that’ll have each newfound and old-head followers sitting for extra.

New Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt episodes launch each Wednesday on Prime Video.

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