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Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt..... (NSFW)

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Latest from Gainax and definitely NOT for kids despite the artwork similarity to the Powerpuff Girls... :D
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Shouldn't this be marked "NSFW"?

Oh, and er... "Oh, those wacky Japanese, did I do that right?
Then again, it sounds like it may be an American production. Considering that the girls don't look very old... erm... Yeah, the conclusions are rather obvious.

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Wait, did I get it right that their secret weapon is... their underwear?
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Zixinus wrote:Then again, it sounds like it may be an American production.
Nope. It's japanese.
Zixinus wrote:Wait, did I get it right that their secret weapon is... their underwear?
Yes. Yes you did.

Here is the transformation sequence. It is pretty much certainly unsafe for work, and it is goofy as all hell.
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Zixinus wrote:Shouldn't this be marked "NSFW"?

Oh, and er... "Oh, those wacky Japanese, did I do that right?
Then again, it sounds like it may be an American production. Considering that the girls don't look very old... erm... Yeah, the conclusions are rather obvious.

EDIT:
Wait, did I get it right that their secret weapon is... their underwear?
It's essentially a parody of various American cartoons like the Powerpuff girls.
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SilverWingedSeraph wrote:
Zixinus wrote:Then again, it sounds like it may be an American production.
Nope. It's japanese.
Zixinus wrote:Wait, did I get it right that their secret weapon is... their underwear?
Yes. Yes you did.

Here is the transformation sequence. It is pretty much certainly unsafe for work, and it is goofy as all hell.
Not the weirdest thing about the video, but looking at the link, it was weird how the audience and the panty girls were different styles of animation.
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spaceviking wrote: Not the weirdest thing about the video, but looking at the link, it was weird how the audience and the panty girls were different styles of animation.
The audience are the normal style for the series. The other part is a one-shot gag on magical girl transformation sequences.
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The projectionist at my anime club inflicted this on us last week... this show is somehow both too blatant and too subtle. The problem is that its clearly a parody of something, but even though it is clearly meant to be a parody of American pop culture you have no fucking clue as to what the Japanese think American pop culture is actually about. It's like Gainax skimmed over Ren and Stimpy, Invader Zim, South Park, and a couple Britney Spears music videos while doing some powerful pharmaceuticals and then decided to do a series in Powerpuff girls style with their sensibilities still calibrated for Gurren Lagan. It's baffling. It's full of sex jokes and gross out humour on an epic scale, of the sort that would not be allowed in American pop culture at even a third the dosage presented here.

Oh yeah, and they drive around a pink open topped hummer called See Through. Yeah...
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Hiroyuki Imaishi always has his crazy dial set to 11. This is more like an episodic (And only just naughtier) version of Dead Leaves.
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Well, for one, the Japenese really need to be told: an upside-down cross represents satanism!

Anyway, there are episodes on youtube. The thing is hilarious, or at least, I think it was sort of funny. For starters, the first episode is essentially a big toilet joke.

Also, what the hell is with the dog?
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Also, what the hell is with the dog?
The dialogue in the second episode makes me think it's a pig but I'm not sure. My only guess is an Invader Zim reference.
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Academia Nut wrote:It's like Gainax skimmed over Ren and Stimpy, Invader Zim, South Park, and a couple Britney Spears music videos while doing some powerful pharmaceuticals and then decided to do a series in Powerpuff girls style with their sensibilities still calibrated for Gurren Lagan.
You do realize that you just made it sound better than you're probably saying it is, right? :D
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Also, what the hell is with the dog?
The dialogue in the second episode makes me think it's a pig but I'm not sure. My only guess is an Invader Zim reference.
My guess its some sort of undead dog that is supposed to act as a conveyor for Heaven's messages. That explains why they constantly abuse the dog, yet still keep it around.
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Well, for one, the Japenese really need to be told: an upside-down cross represents satanism!
You mean the Cross of St. Peter?

(hint, satanists are hacks)
Also, what the hell is with the dog?
The dog is essential used as a means of communication with god via horrific abuse. I honestly don't know what they were aiming for there.
You do realize that you just made it sound better than you're probably saying it is, right?
Yes well, the reference to drugs means that it is really hard to figure out what the hell they are even trying to do, and I do mean to put emphasis on the 'skimmed' part. This show is funny in the way a clown getting hit by a train in slow motion is funny: for all the wrong reasons. Probably best watched with others for the purposes of MST3K-ing as a crowd.

Also, for reference, we watch a show called High School of the Dead AKA the Subtle Show, which really shows that Japan has something collectively wrong with it when the only way to get a George Romero style zombie story set in Japan told is via the inclusion of copious amounts of fanservice.

Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt is worse than that, although admittedly in its own twisted way.
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It's difficult at any given time to know exactly how self aware any Japanese show is; it's like a Poe's Law but for anime. The method for parody seems to be "like the thing we're parodying, just moreso" but the problem is that that's also the tactic used by serious productions to capitalize on a new trend. That show has a girl with a bow in her hair and it was well liked? Shit, we gotta stick two bows in our protagonist's hair! Is it parody or exploitation? Nobody knows!

The result is shit just keeps getting more crazy over there, like there is some kind of arms race between people trying to push a trend as far as it'll go for humour and people doing the same to capitalize on it's popularity, and nobody can tell who is who, so you end up getting a serious series going even farther than the popular parody that influenced it. It's madness!
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Academia Nut wrote:Also, for reference, we watch a show called High School of the Dead AKA the Subtle Show, which really shows that Japan has something collectively wrong with it when the only way to get a George Romero style zombie story set in Japan told is via the inclusion of copious amounts of fanservice.
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The reason why it has lots of fanservice is because it's a fanservice show. It wasn't to 'sell' zombies to the audience at all. That's just how the manga was: Daisuke Sato previously did a lot of hentai work, then decided to do a zombie action story. It's basically the same thing with Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt. Yoh Yoshinari is fairly well known for being a big fan of American cartoons, he's good mates with Hiroyuki Imaishi and they were both instrumental in the successful Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. I don't think it's really appropriate to call it a parody of American pop culture at all. It's obviously pretty cheap too, which was the secret to the success of shows like Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, so I'm not really surprised that Gainax put money into it.
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Zixinus wrote:Well, for one, the Japenese really need to be told: an upside-down cross represents satanism!
To paraphrase Inigo Montoya: "I do not think that means what you think it means."

It's the Cross of St. Peter and has been for centuries. If satanists adopted it as some sort of anti-cross, then that's just more hilarious ignorance than they already typically display.
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Satanists claim the upside down crucifix not the Cross of St. Peter. Upside down cross =/ upside down crucifix.

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I admit that I didn't know the bit about Saint Peter and how he wanted to be crucified upside down. So, yeah. Although I still wonder whether priests wear it on their daily clothing but that's really a detail question, isn't it?

But Sorchus told what on what logic I learned that the upside-down thing represents Satanism trough symbolism: it's upside down, so it's the faith upside down.

I didn't know the bit about Saint Peter, so can we move on now?
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See, this is why I stopped watching Gainax productions after EVA -- with Nadia being the one exception.
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Watching their college project, Daikon, just shows how little they've changed. Like at all. The shows contain huge amounts of references to various crap and usually contain some big-breasted red-head. Yet I still can't help but like at least Gurren Lagann and FLCL. And while EVA isn't my thing at least they tried to do something with it that was unique-ish.
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JME2 wrote:See, this is why I stopped watching Gainax productions after EVA -- with Nadia being the one exception.
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Swindle1984 wrote:
Zixinus wrote:Well, for one, the Japenese really need to be told: an upside-down cross represents satanism!
To paraphrase Inigo Montoya: "I do not think that means what you think it means."

It's the Cross of St. Peter and has been for centuries. If satanists adopted it as some sort of anti-cross, then that's just more hilarious ignorance than they already typically display.
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Ford Prefect wrote:
JME2 wrote:See, this is why I stopped watching Gainax productions after EVA -- with Nadia being the one exception.
Congratulations on missing Kare Kano, genius.
Yeah well, that didn't stop my friends from trying to force FLCL, Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi, and Gurren Lagann on me.

It didn't work, but I allowed one episode each out of a misguided respect for Gainax. It was EVA that kick-started my interest in anime, but I like Nadia more because while it has many similiar characteristics, it's not a mindscrew (and it's steampunk and it has Captain Nemo and submarine warfare and one of my all-time favorite antagonists, Gargoyle).
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Oh, God damnit, Japan.

I know why this is happening: anime is gearing more towards an older audience, because of low birth rates. The fallen economy means they are more desperate for money and thus, without toys to hock to kids, have turned to effectively pornography to support themselves.

This is also the reason why many other programs normally aimed at children (Tokusatsu shows like Kamen Rider and Ultraman) have turned to anniversary series now that they can--get the older viewers via nostalgia (Kamen Rider Decade and Ultraman Mebius). Possibly some of the remakes/re-dos as well.

I am not a fan of the rise in fanservice. It's not just High School of the Dead (which at least had no bones about it being soft core pornography). Dai Mahou Touge actually made me nauseous from the amount of blatant fanservice it had, which is sad because the core premise (wannabe high priest is destined to be the next evil overlord) is actually rather funny. It has other problems, too, but lets move on. Even the recent iterations of Super Robot Wars. Endless Frontier has its fans even joke about it, and the current anime The Inspectors first episode can be effectively describe from the first episode as being 15% Fanservice, 15% Exposition and 70% shit blowing up. That's also a kind of fanservice, but at least its more tolerable. It says something when the series gives one of the core mecha a boob job and the ending is nothing but images of half the female cast in bikinis (save one, who caters to the schoolgirl fetish instead).

God damnit, Japan.

It's gotten so bad that I've managed to effectively tune it out when I read manga these days. Possibly a byproduct of reading Negima--which at least has the decency to mostly play the nudity/fanservice for comedic value--or some other dramatic point.

Also, do remember, to the Japanse, Christianity is effectively Voodoo as seen by Hollywood. In japan, you're more likely to see a vampire wear a cross than be repelled by it.
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Why what's happening? Do you really think this is supposed to be serious? Or are you saying that raunchy comedies with sexual humor are porno? Because I think I'd have to put warning stickers on my Mel Brooks movies, then.
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