Though I normally surf DeviantART because the maker of my favorite flash games and a couple of old friends who aren?t complete fucking idiots are online there, it has a nasty tendency to bite me in the ass. Take for instance Soul Eater, an anime I checked out because of it?s bizarre prevalence on DeviantART. The fact that Square Enix appears in the credits should tip you off, the fact that the voice actress for Naruto appears should tip you off, but let me spell it out: STUPID FUCKING CHARACTERS!! It?s ridiculous! Only one character out of nearly a dozen that doesn?t make you want to go on a fucking killing spree. The only thing remarkable about it is the trippy art style and the fact that the soundtrack is good for anime standards. Mind you after things like K-On and Lucky Star the anime standard is so fucking low Justin Bieber could meet it.
And this anime certainly meets the current standard set somewhere in the second circle of hell. Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt. Now this is a really obscure one, you can tell because it?s still on YouTube and wasn?t taken down, so really I think fan subs are the only thing you?re going to get out of this series. Once again, what makes it stand out is the weird art style, only instead of making the moon a creepy face with bleeding gums, Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt looks like a western animation. That is to say almost completely phoned in.
Let?s get to the meat of things so we can more effectively take the piss of things. Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt stars two fallen angels called Panty and Stocking, named after the weapons they?ve been assigned.
No really. Their unique powers are that Panty can turn underwear into guns and Stocking can turn socks into swords. That?s a weird ass power. Is there a character named Bra who turns her push-up that isn?t fooling anyone into a sawn-off shotgun?
Anyway Panty and Stocking are two angels assigned to watch over Danten City, a city located on the verge between heaven and hell that is frequently plagued by demons. This is sort of a holy probation, Panty and Stocking are at risk of losing their status among Jah?s choir and need to gain holy coins to buy their way back into the promised land. The problem is that Panty is a raging nymphomaniac that will jump on anything with a pole and a pulse and Stocking has that magical girl tendency to make multiple attempts to give herself hypoglycemia by eating as much sweets in one hour as most of us would eat in three weeks. She also has a gothic Lolita appearance that in any other art style would make her look so pretentious you?d want to smother her with a pillow. Seriously Goths, what gives? You think you?re defying established convention and expressing individuality by all dressing the same and filling your body with so much metal your drawn to magnetic north?
Anyway obviously Panty and Stocking are totally fucking useless, so to aid them on their quest they work with a black gay priest with an absurd afro named Garterbelt and a weird zipper monster called Chuck who?s sole purpose seems to be getting physically abused. You could make accusations of racism in regards to Garterbelt, but I pull the old Capcom card in that it?s not racist if it?s simply sheer fucking stupidity on display as opposed to genuine hatred.
The anime is divided into several episodes with each episode containing two scenarios normally named after an old movie in which the slut and the diabetic tackle either a demon or their own bone-breaking idiocy. The first episode opens as the series means to go on with them fighting a demon who possesses toilets, with Panty marching in to battle the excremental (Shit Demon) covered in raw sewage while her sister doesn?t break an octave like she?s channeling Keanu Reaves.
Now is it all bad drawing, stupid jokes and cheap profanity? Weirdly, no. Right after we see Panty and Stocking march into battle with one covered in shit, it switches to a transformation animation of decent quality. The music isn?t of good quality, it sounds like Ballad of Gay Tony?s table scraps, but the art is decent. What do they do during this animation? A strip tease and sort of a prayer where they state that they fight using clothing of the holy virgin.
Uh? I know that Abrahamic religions like Christianity and Islam tend to be horribly inconsistent, but I don?t remember any publication stating Saint Mary was a stripper. Was this why Tyndale got executed? Was there actually something in older texts stating that Mary was actually a pole dancer and was suckered into the holy virgin thing because Jah really appreciated her talents?
But enough of that. We?re now at the final question of whether or not Panty and Stocking is a good anime.
Well, no. No it?s not. It?s stupid beyond all repair with the only humorous moments coming from bad attempts to use English profanity. I wouldn?t go so far to say it?s Japan?s answer to Family Guy which is nothing but a shitty animation desperately trying to cash in on The Simpson?s table scraps when it?s writers lack any form of talent and simply go for every desperate joke they can get I?ll instead compare it to the work of another Seth and say it?s more like Japan?s answer to Robot Chicken in that it is remarkably stupid but has some successful attempts and keeps an air of parody about it while Family Guy pushes the humor and stupidity so hard it comes off as frustrating.
Though I wouldn?t recommend you stay for the full course, I?d still recommend you watch the pilot simply to see Japan?s interpretation of American toilet humor. Just don?t go past episode one, what little quality that episode had didn?t survive into the following episodes. And for the love of fuck, do not ever make my mistake of checking out an anime because it appears a lot on DeviantART if you want to keep your sanity.
Turns condoms into spears
--Pyramid Head
Next Review: Hellsing and Hellsing Ultimate
And this anime certainly meets the current standard set somewhere in the second circle of hell. Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt. Now this is a really obscure one, you can tell because it?s still on YouTube and wasn?t taken down, so really I think fan subs are the only thing you?re going to get out of this series. Once again, what makes it stand out is the weird art style, only instead of making the moon a creepy face with bleeding gums, Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt looks like a western animation. That is to say almost completely phoned in.
Let?s get to the meat of things so we can more effectively take the piss of things. Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt stars two fallen angels called Panty and Stocking, named after the weapons they?ve been assigned.
No really. Their unique powers are that Panty can turn underwear into guns and Stocking can turn socks into swords. That?s a weird ass power. Is there a character named Bra who turns her push-up that isn?t fooling anyone into a sawn-off shotgun?
Anyway Panty and Stocking are two angels assigned to watch over Danten City, a city located on the verge between heaven and hell that is frequently plagued by demons. This is sort of a holy probation, Panty and Stocking are at risk of losing their status among Jah?s choir and need to gain holy coins to buy their way back into the promised land. The problem is that Panty is a raging nymphomaniac that will jump on anything with a pole and a pulse and Stocking has that magical girl tendency to make multiple attempts to give herself hypoglycemia by eating as much sweets in one hour as most of us would eat in three weeks. She also has a gothic Lolita appearance that in any other art style would make her look so pretentious you?d want to smother her with a pillow. Seriously Goths, what gives? You think you?re defying established convention and expressing individuality by all dressing the same and filling your body with so much metal your drawn to magnetic north?
Anyway obviously Panty and Stocking are totally fucking useless, so to aid them on their quest they work with a black gay priest with an absurd afro named Garterbelt and a weird zipper monster called Chuck who?s sole purpose seems to be getting physically abused. You could make accusations of racism in regards to Garterbelt, but I pull the old Capcom card in that it?s not racist if it?s simply sheer fucking stupidity on display as opposed to genuine hatred.
The anime is divided into several episodes with each episode containing two scenarios normally named after an old movie in which the slut and the diabetic tackle either a demon or their own bone-breaking idiocy. The first episode opens as the series means to go on with them fighting a demon who possesses toilets, with Panty marching in to battle the excremental (Shit Demon) covered in raw sewage while her sister doesn?t break an octave like she?s channeling Keanu Reaves.
Now is it all bad drawing, stupid jokes and cheap profanity? Weirdly, no. Right after we see Panty and Stocking march into battle with one covered in shit, it switches to a transformation animation of decent quality. The music isn?t of good quality, it sounds like Ballad of Gay Tony?s table scraps, but the art is decent. What do they do during this animation? A strip tease and sort of a prayer where they state that they fight using clothing of the holy virgin.
Uh? I know that Abrahamic religions like Christianity and Islam tend to be horribly inconsistent, but I don?t remember any publication stating Saint Mary was a stripper. Was this why Tyndale got executed? Was there actually something in older texts stating that Mary was actually a pole dancer and was suckered into the holy virgin thing because Jah really appreciated her talents?
But enough of that. We?re now at the final question of whether or not Panty and Stocking is a good anime.
Well, no. No it?s not. It?s stupid beyond all repair with the only humorous moments coming from bad attempts to use English profanity. I wouldn?t go so far to say it?s Japan?s answer to Family Guy which is nothing but a shitty animation desperately trying to cash in on The Simpson?s table scraps when it?s writers lack any form of talent and simply go for every desperate joke they can get I?ll instead compare it to the work of another Seth and say it?s more like Japan?s answer to Robot Chicken in that it is remarkably stupid but has some successful attempts and keeps an air of parody about it while Family Guy pushes the humor and stupidity so hard it comes off as frustrating.
Though I wouldn?t recommend you stay for the full course, I?d still recommend you watch the pilot simply to see Japan?s interpretation of American toilet humor. Just don?t go past episode one, what little quality that episode had didn?t survive into the following episodes. And for the love of fuck, do not ever make my mistake of checking out an anime because it appears a lot on DeviantART if you want to keep your sanity.
Turns condoms into spears
--Pyramid Head
Next Review: Hellsing and Hellsing Ultimate
