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I had high expectations for this anime after reading the raving reviews about Panty and Stocking. Unfortunately after watching the first episode, I was too bored to watch. Panty and Stocking is probably the only anime to date I have dropped after watching the first episode, although I watched the second episode before writing this review to reaffirm my hatred.
Panty and Stocking has the same fatal flaw many live action comedy films fail in theaters. It’s purely a comedy series, yet it is not funny. Without humor the show has absolutely nothing. Some of the bits, such as blatantly obvious model monster explosions could have ... worked for me if the rest of the show wasn’t so dull. A successful comedy should have you laughing more often than not. The momentum of hilarity can be more important than the value of a joke. Instead of laughing at the humorously overdone death animations, I was left spiting it along with the rest of the show. The sex jokes were overdone and I’ve grown past the age where I would laugh at something just because it was a piece of shit.
There is a large group of people who believe Panty and Stocking is a parody of how a majority of the animes produced are moe kawaii trash. One reviewer puts it as this: “To put it plainly, the entire point of this show is to take the illusions otaku have surrounded themselves with for the last 10 years and annihilate them through a wanton, infinite assault of sex and Western style”
Really?
Not being a K-on, Strike Witches, or To Love-Ru automatically makes it a parody of stereotypical otaku culture? The show does nothing to address anything about waifus. It is just different.
And Panty and Stocking does have fanservice. Chuck is Gir. What other purpose does he serve other than reminding viewers of Invader Zim. Don’t pretend that just because the transformation scene could be a parody of other animu is enough to separate it from all the other scenes in animu just to please viewers.
Yes I hate Panty and Stocking. I could have found some of the other aspects of the show, such as it’s western style animation and music interesting but I don’t care because it failed to be funny. If there was any plot, at least there would be reason to watch more, but Panty and Stocking bet everything on humor and it didn’t work for me.