Somewhere between Cartoon Network’s super-powered girl 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 series, which can be best described as what would happen if Powerpuff Girls were created with crass Adult Swim humor in mind, instantly became an anime cult touchstone with its brazen, raunchy comedy and balls-to-the-wall action.
Now, Studio Trigger—an anime juggernaut no longer adverse to making sequel seasons—has released its continuation of the anime with the aptly titled New Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt on Prime Video. If its premiere episode is anything to go on, the bitches are back with even more brazen, full-throttle misadventures that’ll leave viewers side-splitting just as hard as its predecessor.
The series proper follows the Anarchy sisters, Panty and Stocking, two angels who were kicked out of Heaven. The sex-and-candy-obsessed duo lives in Daten City, where they exterminate demons and ghosts with lingerie they have magically transformed into a gun and a katana, in hopes of buying their way back into Heaven.
With its explosive premiere, New Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt sees Studio Trigger knock it out of the park, reuniting the foul-mouthed sisters in a riotous chaos nodding to the long hiatus and annointing Trigger as Gainax’s rightful heir, spinning a fresh new adventure for the dirty pair to wreak havoc on the anime landscape once again.
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 back into the chaos. After Brief (the series’ self-described “bottom-tier loser” and Panty’s new beau) delivers a quick recap, the episode detonates a wild twist. The twist sees Panty and Stocking forced to fight each other while wrestling to retain their former personas, all while Brief, Garterbelt, and even their former rivals from hell, the Scanty sisters, look on in horrified fascination as they try to pitch in. What ensues is a bunch of hilariously effective brainwashing, demonic resurrection, a running joke about one’s private parts being a crucial cornerstone of their personality, and a giant kaiju battle to send viewers home wanting more of whatever bonkers hijinks Trigger has cooked up for fans.
One notable shift for fans of the Funimation-era English dub is that Monica Rial, Jamie Marchi, and Christopher Sabat won’t be returning as Panty, Stocking, and Garterbelt. Stepping 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). While it takes some slight adjusting to get used to in the premiere episode’s early goings (the previous trio really put their stamp on those characters), the new trio captures the manic spirit of their predecessors while injecting fresh flair all their own into them. And by flair, that means their rapid-fire, profanity-laced quips land like machine-gun bursts that punctuate every outlandish battle with great comedic timing.
Studio Trigger has built its reputation 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. Each site gag lands like a rapid-fire jab to the funny bone, bound to hit its mark despite the haphazard spread of its potty-mouth humor, while the sister’s battle practically vibrates the margins of viewers’ screens off its hinges. Plus, just as important, its music is still a bop all these years later.
As noted earlier, New Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt came with its fair share of hype before its release, 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 would have nothing to do with pachinko. That news turned out to be a new exhibition for the series, according to Anime News Network. That was until Trigger announced it would take over the sequel at Anime Expo 2022.
In just 24 minutes, the premiere not only channels Panty & Stocking‘s original, sex-addled spirit but outpaces even the most parental advisory-laden moments of the 2010 series, covering twice as much narrative ground as your average anime opener. And when the chaos appears to have peaked, the anime hints toward even more raucous adventures waiting in episodes to come that’ll have both newfound and old-head fans sitting for more.
New Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt episodes release every Wednesday on Prime Video.
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