New Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt
New PANTY&STOCKING with GARTERBELT
- Action
- Comedy
- Ecchi
- Fantasy
- Gag Humor
- Parody
- Episodes
- 13
- Duration
- 24 min per ep
- Aired
- Jul 10, 2025 to Sep 25, 2025
- Status
- Finished Airing
Synopsis
Panty and Stocking Anarchy, twin angels with a talent for trouble, return to Daten City to take on a fresh wave of ghosts after the Hell Gate fails to open properly. Their ongoing exorcism work continues under the watch of Garterbelt, the priest responsible for keeping the Anarchy sisters in line—at least in theory.
Complicating matters, their longtime rivals Scanty and Kneesocks Demon are also on the hunt, needing to gather Hell Coins to make it back to Hell. With the demon sisters now staying at the same church, two duos with completely opposite personalities are forced into uneasy cooperation, balancing Heaven and Hell Coins as they try to finish their respective missions and return to their own realms.
Otaku Consensus
New Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt lands as a proudly filthy Trigger revival whose strongest material comes from its whiplash pacing, hyper-saturated transformation cuts, and segment-to-segment parody instincts; Episode 4’s campaign gag, unusually sweet Panty-and-cat story, and Jack Kirby tribute became an easy shorthand for the season’s range. Reception is sharply split between viewers delighted that the series still feels like obscene Cartoon Network contraband and longtime fans who feel the sequel’s jokes are duller, more repetitive, more reference-dependent, and more explicit than the 2010 original.
Why You Should Watch
Watch this if you want adult animation with anime-grade impact frames, not a sitcom wearing anime clothes. New Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt scratches the same anarchic itch as FLCL’s visual restlessness and Kill la Kill’s Trigger-made overkill, but filtered through gross-out comedy, parody logic, and profanity-first timing. The appeal is not narrative momentum; it is seeing how far a 13-episode summer 2025 TV anime can bend format, taste, and color design before snapping back into a punchline. Viewers who love dubbed Western adult cartoons, Cartoon Network-era visual exaggeration, or gag anime that treats continuity as ammunition will get the most out of it. Viewers who need restrained ecchi, subtle references, or a respectful legacy sequel should expect friction.
Key Characters
- PPanty Anarchy(VA: Arisa Ogasawara)
Panty remains the season’s purest chaos engine, with fan discussion often centering on how her vulgar confidence can flip from abrasive comedy to unexpectedly disarming warmth.
- SStocking Anarchy(VA: Mariya Ise)
Stocking’s deadpan sweetness-and-spite contrast gives the revival some of its sharpest rhythm, especially when the show lets her carry a segment’s visual gag structure by herself.
- GGarterbelt(VA: Kouji Ishii)
Garterbelt works best as the exhausted authority figure the series clearly has no intention of respecting, grounding the nonsense just long enough for the next escalation to hit harder.
- BBriefers Rock(VA: Hiroyuki Yoshino)
Briefers Rock gives the cast a deliberately uncool human counterweight, making him useful whenever the comedy needs embarrassment, sincerity, or audience-proxy confusion.
What Makes It Stand Out
- 1
Studio Trigger’s hand is visible in the revival’s eye-popping color palettes and sakuga-heavy transformation scenes, which multiple viewers singled out as a major reason the sequel still feels energized rather than merely nostalgic.
- 2
The season keeps the franchise’s Western cartoon DNA intact, with reviews repeatedly pointing to Cartoon Network-style exaggeration, adult-animation timing, and a refusal to take its own mythology seriously.
- 3
Episode 4 became a notable showcase for the season’s tonal spread: a Stocking election segment, a rare heartwarming Panty-centered cat story, and a Jack Kirby tribute all appear in the same episode.
- 4
The comedy is built around short, high-velocity parody segments rather than conventional dramatic buildup, allowing the series to jump from campaign satire to gross-out gags to comic-book homage without smoothing the transitions.
- 5
The revival’s ecchi content is more aggressive than many remembered from the first season, a point that appears in both positive and negative user reactions and helps explain the unusually polarized response.
Fun Facts & Trivia
- Fun fact 1
- New Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt aired as a 13-episode TV anime from July 10, 2025 to September 25, 2025, placing it in the summer 2025 season.
- Fun fact 2
- The sequel arrived roughly 15 years after the original Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, a gap that shaped much of the fan conversation around whether the revival felt necessary or overdue.
- Fun fact 3
- On MyAnimeList, the series holds a 7.87 score from 24,358 votes, with a rank of #1014 and popularity placement of #2586 in the provided data.
- Fun fact 4
- User reception on MAL-style reviews is unusually contradictory: the supplied sample includes 10/10 reviews that still warn against recommending it broadly, alongside low-score reviews from viewers who loved the original.
- Fun fact 5
- Critical commentary highlighted it as one of summer 2025’s stronger adult comedy anime offerings, with particular praise for irreverent dialogue, unconventional presentation, and its fit for viewers already comfortable with filthy animated comedy.
Studios
- Trigger
