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NEWS: Gainax's Newest Is Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt


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Splitter



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PostPosted: Thu May 06, 2010 11:23 am Reply with quote
oh Gainax
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v1cious



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PostPosted: Thu May 06, 2010 11:37 am Reply with quote
Dear Gainax: WHY?!

on the bright side, it's being made by Hiroyuki Imaishi and Yoh Yoshinari, so it can't be THAT bad.
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omoikane



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The June issue of Kadokawa Shoten's Newtype magazine is revealing


I lol'd.
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PostPosted: Thu May 06, 2010 11:44 am Reply with quote
BWAAAAAHAHAAHHHHA! This will definitely get everyone's panties in a bind! Laughing

Oh, Japan! You slay me!

(Sorry, when I saw this I ROFL! And I just had to respond.)
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jmfsilenthill



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PostPosted: Thu May 06, 2010 11:54 am Reply with quote
Well this should be interesting Wink .
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PostPosted: Thu May 06, 2010 11:56 am Reply with quote
With a name like that I think I'll pass.
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PostPosted: Thu May 06, 2010 11:57 am Reply with quote
Not sure what to make of this. On the one hand it made me laugh. On the other...well...
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nightjuan



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PostPosted: Thu May 06, 2010 12:01 pm Reply with quote
Not quite what I expected, but maybe they'll make the best possible anime one can hope for within the limits of that premise. Or so I'd like to think.
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Otaku_X



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PostPosted: Thu May 06, 2010 12:02 pm Reply with quote
Sounds good. Looking forward to it.
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animalcalls



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PostPosted: Thu May 06, 2010 12:04 pm Reply with quote
Well.

Okay.

What happened to the Evangelion/Kare Kano/FLCL era of Gainax? Their recent endeavors have seemed way beneath them...
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DrizzlingEnthalpy



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PostPosted: Thu May 06, 2010 12:04 pm Reply with quote
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The story centers around a teen-celebrity-like blond-haired girl named Panty and a black-haired Goth Loli girl named Stocking. The two are angels sent from the heavens to battle the "Ghosts" on Earth.
Mmkay, so it looks like they're just doing Shikabane Hime again in 1900s England.
animalcalls wrote:
What happened to the Evangelion/Kare Kano/FLCL era of Gainax? Their recent endeavors have seemed way beneath them...
My guess is it's due to Mahoromatic's success. Yamaga said it was the first Gainax show to make a good profit (off the show itself, not just licensed merchandise), so for the sake of business they probably decided to go more in the direction of fanservicey semi-mainstream. Also, Anno stopped making anime. Then he started again without Gainax.
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hikaru004



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PostPosted: Thu May 06, 2010 12:15 pm Reply with quote
animalcalls wrote:
Well.

Okay.

What happened to the Evangelion/Kare Kano/FLCL era of Gainax? Their recent endeavors have seemed way beneath them...


Gone the way of the dodo bird apparently. Sad

I'll wait and see. It might actually be good.
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Megiddo



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PostPosted: Thu May 06, 2010 12:22 pm Reply with quote
DrizzlingEnthalpy wrote:
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The story centers around a teen-celebrity-like blond-haired girl named Panty and a black-haired Goth Loli girl named Stocking. The two are angels sent from the heavens to battle the "Ghosts" on Earth.
Mmkay, so it looks like they're just doing Shikabane Hime again in 1900s England.
animalcalls wrote:
What happened to the Evangelion/Kare Kano/FLCL era of Gainax? Their recent endeavors have seemed way beneath them...
My guess is it's due to Mahoromatic's success. Yamaga said it was the first Gainax show to make a good profit (off the show itself, not just licensed merchandise), so for the sake of business they probably decided to go more in the direction of fanservicey semi-mainstream. Also, Anno stopped making anime. Then he started again without Gainax.

But Mahoromatic was actually a pretty dang good show. At least, it's my personal favorite "fanservice" show because it still had a touching story (even if the end result was obvious since the end of the first episode).

However, given the dismal failure of KonoMini, I don't think it was Mahoromatic alone. Or at least, it wasn't just fanservice that people bought Mahoromatic for.
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garfield15



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PostPosted: Thu May 06, 2010 12:26 pm Reply with quote
animalcalls wrote:
Well.

Okay.

What happened to the Evangelion/Kare Kano/FLCL era of Gainax? Their recent endeavors have seemed way beneath them...

I don't know, I've loved Re: Cutie Honey, TTGL and Hanamaru Kindergarten.

Anyway, is this that one they said was like TTGL, Powerpuff Girls and Dead Leaves combined? Well with a staff like this, there's something either awesome or stupid to look forward to. Who knows. It's Gainax after all.
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YoSoyJaponesa



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PostPosted: Thu May 06, 2010 12:34 pm Reply with quote
Ick, the title totally throws me off....

But it's Gainax, so I'm not surprised if they throw a curveball with this.
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