Product Details

• Actors: Arisa Ogasawara, Mariya Ise, Koji Ishii, Jamie Marchi, Monica Rial
• Directors: Masahiko Otsuka, Hiroaki Tomita
• Format: Animated, Color, Limited Edition, NTSC
• Language: Japanese, English
• Subtitles: English
• Dubbed: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 3
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Funimation
• DVD Release Date: July 10, 2012
• Run Time: 325 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (57 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B007V9ED38
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,088 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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The broadcast series Panty & Stockings with Garterbelt (2010) plays like a mash-up of Dirty Pair, The Powerpuff Girls, and Super Milk-Chan. The Anarchy Sisters are technically angels who were kicked out of heaven for bad behavior (how they got there in the first place is anyone's guess). They're condemned to fight ghosts in Daten City until they earn enough "heaven coins" to buy their way back in. Blonde Panty wants to have sex with every male she encounters; dark-haired Stockings constantly stuffs herself with sweets. They're sent on missions by the dubious African-American caricature Garterbelt, a thug-turned-reverend with a secret fondness for young men. When the going gets tough, the sisters get tougher: Panty's panties turn into a gun and Stockings' stockings into swords, weapons that enable them to wreak havoc on the threatening ghosts. Panty & Stockings is crude in every sense of the word: The designs are awkward and unattractive; the animation is minimal; and the dialogue is a nonstop string of profanity that makes the cast of South Park sound like choirboys. The writers trot out an endless and unfunny stream of gags about nose picking, excrement, vomit, genitals, flatulence, circumcision, etc., which the vocal cast screams out frantically. Even a potentially clever spoof of Transformers gets buried in the avalanche of obscenities. Watching Panty & Stockings is like sitting through a string of junior high locker-room jokes on fast forward. (Rated TV MA: extensive profanity, cartoon violence, nudity, alcohol and tobacco use; offensive ethnic and religious stereotypes; sexual, toilet, and gross humor) --Charles Solomon

(1. Excretion Without Honor and Humanity / Death Race 2010, 2. The Turmoil of the Beehive / Sex and Daten City, 3. Catfight Club / Pulp Addiction, 4. The Diet Syndrome / High School Nudical, 5. Raiders of the Nasal Dark / Vomiting Point, 6. Les Diaboliques, 7. Trans-Homme / The Stripping, 8. Of the Dead / One Angry Ghost, 9. If the Angels Wore Swimsuits / Ghost: The Phantom of Daten City, 10. Interbrief / Chuck to the Future / Chuck to the Future Part 2 / Chuck to the Future Part 3 / (Help) We Are Angels, 11. Once Upon a Time… in Garterbelt / Nothing to Room, 12. DC Confidential / Panty + Brief, 13. Bitch Girls / Bitch Girls 2)

Product Description

Panty and Stocking - the Anarchy Sisters - are two nasty angels who got booted from the pearly gates for being foul-mouthed bitches! Now they spend their days blowing up ghosts in the lecherous abyss between Heaven and Earth. Panty likes sex, Stocking likes sweets, their afro-sporting main man Garter Belt has a fetish we can't mention. Together, they're keeping the streets free of bodily fluids. Ghosts don't have a prayer against their panty pistols and stocking swords, and if this debaucherous duo can collect enough Heaven Coins, they just might get their halos back. They've got a slim chance in hell, but rolling commando is the best way to get lucky - especially with Panty and Stocking! This Limited Edition comes in a collectible art box.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

39 of 42 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Such great voice acting and extras!!! July 3, 2012

By Thomas M.

Format:DVD

I received my copy 2 weeks early from rightstuf.com. They really got the right people to voice the characters. Love all the extras that came with the dvd box set including a heaven coin & 8 extra short mini episodes that were weird with a mixture of gross to say the least. The dvd art along with the nice art on each dvd case along with the extras and the awesome job the VAs did with the voices made this box set worth the $38.99 for me.

Watching the subtitled version so many times before this came out; I'm glad I can finally enjoy the episodes in english because of such excellent voice acting, which is very rare in anime.

If you're a Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt fan get this set! it's worth it!

38 of 46 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Anarchy in Daten City June 14, 2012

By trashcanman VINE™ VOICE

Format:DVD

Move over, Kei and Yuri, the dirtiest pair of all have arrived and they are not messing around. "Panty and Stocking with Garter Belt" (PSG for short) is a madcap exercise in obscenity and hilarity that uses and abuses a semi-American kiddie animation style (think The Powerpuff Girls or My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic) to increase it's own patent offensiveness. Panty and Stocking are the first names of the Anarchy sisters, fallen angels who are trying to buy their way back into Heaven by defeating earthly ghosts using weapons formed out of their undergarments. Garterbelt is the perverse afro-priest who plays the Charlie to their angels. And they are all majorly effed up. This is an anime for those of you with a truly sick sense of humor. Profanity flies profusely from the mouths of these characters in both English and Japanese (often in the same sentence) as they argue about such topics as the importance of breast size versus perkiness or belittle each other's BDSM techniques like opponents with opposing styles in an old chop-socky flick. Every bodily fluid known to man comes into play at some point in the series and the flow of sexual humor is nearly constant. This is not a show for your kids and it is not for the easily offended. If you have delicate sensibilities at all, leave them at the door when you view PSG. It will push your buttons with inane regularity.

What do I make of this insanity? Loved it. The Japanese voice cast is hilarious (as of this point, I've note heard the dub) and the soundtrack is among the most instantly memorable I've ever heard. Auto-tuned pop and dance grooves with bits of reggae and even a little speed metal are thrown in to make the sounds of PSG incredibly infectious and full of personality. The sound effects are spelled out onscreen comic book style, which adds to the stylish visual charm of the animation. The show is also a humorous cocktail of parody and genre subversion. References to everything from grindhouse classics like Death Race 2000 and Vanishing Point to full-on parodies of Transformers and the zombie films of George Romero make every episode an adventure for experienced viewers. In a single music video, PSG manages to reference everyone from KISS to Lady Gaga to The Beatles, to name just a few. This is a very hyper-literate series from a pop culture standpoint, which is impressive for a show that is based around some of the most base and vulgar humor possible. Where else will you see sperm playing as soldiers in a Saving Private Ryan send-up attempting to storm "the bush" like it was Normandy? Also, whenever an enemy dies at the hands of the sisters, animation is replaced with a real life model of the foe being blown up. That is awesome.

One thing that stands out as an example of the cleverness of this show is the girls' transformation sequence, among the most dreaded of anime cliches. PSG parodies this particular standard without allowing it to become the annoyance it is in any other series in very interesting ways. First off, the normally low-rent chibi animation is replaced with detailed sexualized hi-def hotness as halos appear above the girls' heads and swoop down the length of their body as the angels' Madonna-esque dance groove kicks in, which just plain looks cool. Panty and Stocking then exchange ridiculously suggestive poses making for a mix of legitimately sweet animation, hilariously obnoxious fan service, and the admitted cheesy enjoyment of the classic anime heroine battle ritual. But only the first episode shows the entire sequence in it's entirety while subsequent transformations show different bits and pieces so it takes up minimal episode time to clear room for more laughs. Win. Win. Win. This is a great example of how PSG subverts and exploits the appeal of an anime staple while at the same time parodying it. Best of both worlds, baby.

I tore through PSG in record time. I just wanted more and more of it and could not leave it alone. But it's not without flaw. While usually highly episodic in nature, the final episodes of the first season reveal a story arc that the series would have been better off without. The finale is a bit of a confused mess that brought down what could have been a five star series for me. Particularly the closing moments of the season were troubling. The final twist was so random and so nonsensical it felt like it was specifically devised as a metaphorical middle finger to the audience who saw the characters give so many literal middle fingers over the course of the show. This would have been awesome, but the cliffhanger "to be continued" ending implies a second season that will probably be more story driven from the get-go. And the second that PSG started trying to be anything but minute-to-minute random craziness was the second it stopped being a perfect show for me. Nonetheless, I am very much looking forward to the upcoming DVD release of this one (I can definitely see a possible Adult Swim slot in it's future) and will definitely be looking forward to more Panty, more Stocking, and even more Garterbelt (afros rule) in the future.

4 1/2 stars: rounded down for a weak ending.

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Made for the Military September 6, 2012

By LarkManEX

Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase

This is a sure fire way to get any guy hooked on anime. Swearing, adult themes, and violence all screem perfection. I showed this to some of my marine buddies and they loved it. These chicks swear worse than sailors, and kick more tail than marines. What more do we want?