This chic has lots of sex and she’s the initiator of the deeds. In the context of anime and their squeaky clean perfect virgin main characters, this angel blew me away.
Not to get carried away, since Panty is more a characature than a character, and in an odd way feels more fleshed out than a lot of properly fleshed out characters since many fleshed out characters are just check-lists of recycled traits and back-story elements if you want to take the cynical jadesville view of things, which for this sentence I am going to draw cards from the jadesville deck, but Panty is so different from what we almost always get, that when we break from the homogeneity of female lead characters it feels like an event.
Gainax’s homage to western cartoons, which isn’t shackled by some of the things those to which they are paying homage had to be wary of, is one of my favorite things this year. I don’t want to watch it all the time and is in fact something I avoid watching more than one-half episode at a time, but it cracks me up. It’s one of those works where it looks like the staff just had a lot of fun trying to one-up each other, and visually it’s such a treat. The crude humor works for me too, but it wears me out like an oh-so-good rich chocolate cake — more than a few bites and it’s overload time.
Panty may very well be the most progressive female character of the year. That’s a pretty scary thought. Personally, I’m inclined to view P&S as a exploration of the gap between east and west. Comparing the average bishoujo character to Panty reminds me of the differences between American and Japanese female porn actresses — there seems to be a clear distinction between the ideals of female sexuality between the east and the west.
That’s an interesting point. Making the character not Japanese kind of gives them a different area to roll around for Panty that they don’t normally get to do, particularly for a main character. Even in hentai, female characters tend to have stuff done to them, rather than being the ones to do stuff. Some of the stuff that Panty says has a lot of shock value, which I wonder how much more shock value she has to viewers over there.
The Japanese are putting their perspective about the western culture through this anime. Take Hollywood for example, sex scandals and almost all the movies have sex scenes.
It’s inevitable that some of the Japanese perspective bleeds into it, but I don’t know if I’d call it a perspective piece, as in “this is how we see the west.” Gainax clearly is having a lot of fun with the tropes of American cartoons and entertainment. I just don’t know if it is anything more than the staff running around that playground. Sort of how Gainax used Christian symbolism in Evangelion. They were having fun with the decor of the religion, but weren’t primarily examining the ideas of it.
My main problem with the show was the animation style,
I think if they would use the animation style from the transforming
scenes I would like the show a bit more, but with the last few episodes
I got more used to it .
since the demon sisters entered the stage the show is also
much more fun for me.
Panty is cool, at first she appeared a bit too nasty to me,
but I like her cool and slutty side now.
Well I still prefer Stockings in the end
From my point of view the image of women in anime is a bit different from
the real world, in anime they are cute and kind most of the time.
P&S just shows it the other way around the main characters curse, are impolite and have dirty thoughts but somehow they are still cute in my opinion XD
I can understand why people ran from the animation, but the visuals drew me into the show. To me the visuals were a statement of intent. This is not going to be a straight up anime. We’re messing around with what you’re used to seeing.
My view on people in reality and people in anime is different too. I hope it’s that way for almost everyone. The characters that bore me in anime tend to be the ones I’d rather hang out with in real life and the ones that interest me…I know I’d want nothing to do with in real life. That’s one of the big appeals of fiction to me, setting aside the parameters of everyday life and enjoying a different set of parameters from a comfy chair.
I like this show, you can clearly see Gainax is having fun with everything from the characters, the animation style, and the scripts.
I like the protagonists, uncouth and selfish, much like real people.
I love this anime show