Trivia / Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt

• Accidental Downer Ending: This series has one of the most infamous Gainax Endings of all time. After the big final battle, The Stinger shows the gang returning to the chapel, Stocking questions what would happen if their weapons were to be used on angels, and following a nonchalant response from Panty, she stabs her in the back of the head and cuts her into 666 pieces. When questioned on why, she replies with a deadpan: "I'm sorry, but surprise I'm actually a demon." Walking off with a bag full of Panty's remains as the season ends on "To Be Continued In the Next Season." Said next season would not be announced for 12 years, and only by the succeeding studio.
• Anime First: An original anime project, having two manga adaptations.
• Approval of God: Jhonen Vasquez reportedly loves the fact that Chuck was based on GIR's dog suit, saying "It's like I have my own Mr. Sparkle!"
• Bad Export for You: The early copies of the UK DVD release were based off of faulty masters that cut the last 20-30 seconds off of the last three episodes. Unfortunately, that meant The Stinger from the finale was lost as well. Thankfully, the publisher fixed this issue, with the DVD reissued two months after the original release.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer:
  • A Polish review of the anime at Anime Tanuki website wrongfully states that Stocking wears pantyhose instead of stockings (the fact that her Zettai Ryouiki is barely visible (if at all) in majority of her outfits doesn't help).
  • The article at The Tough Tackle made around the same time Season 2 was announced, apparently misidentified Anarchy sisters in the plot section (though not in character descriptions), where it states that Stocking is into sex with men, while Panty is obsessed with sweets, rather than vice versa.
• Development Hell: Season 2 has been hinted by Gainax since 2011. To make matters worse, the original crew has since left the series, putting the production in extreme jeopardy. In December 2016, it seemed Season 2 was finally happening. However, it turned out the announcement was about an anime cafe, an exhibition◊ and concept shoes for the cafe's staff. In an AMA on r/anime, Hiromi Wakabayashi said (through a translator) that he and the team at Studio Trigger would very much like to work on Season 2, but indicated that it had been Screwed by the Lawyers. However, after years of being stuck in limbo, Season 2 would finally be Saved from Development Hell by Studio TRIGGER (who had obtained the rights from Gainax), who would go on to announce the show's return during their Anime Expo 2023 panel.
• Fan Community Nickname: Fallen angels, for the fans of the series.
• Franchise Ownership Acquisition: Along with Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, the series was originally produced and owned by Studio Gainax until the rights were bought by Studio TRIGGER in 2021.
• God Does Not Own This World: Rather infamously, most of the people who worked on the show left and founded Studio TRIGGER shortly after the show ended. They've expressed their desire to come back to the series and work on it again, but can't because Gainax had the rights to it, which might be why Geek Boy Homecoming was released. TRIGGER would finally avert this in 2021 by outright buying the show from Gainax, allowing them to work on the show again, with the second season getting announced at Anime Expo 2023.
• Inspiration for the Work: The staff have noted that the biggest influence on the show was the mid-2000s Animated Shock Comedy Drawn Together, specifically the sheer audacity the show had and how it explicit it was and they wanted to do something similar.
• Referenced by...:
  • One America's Funniest Home Videos episode from the early 2010s had a home movie with a girl falling down while dancing to "Fly Away Now".
  • Panty and Stocking are among the magical girls that drive Incognito back to hell in And Shine Heaven Now.
  • SiIvaGunner had a Panty and Stocking event day on December 24, 2020, the 10th anniversary of the finale's airing.
  • Several in Ben 10: Omniverse: Malware's design is heavily influenced after the Ghosts, one of the mutant To'kustars resembles Scanty, and Stocking makes a cameo in "Mystery, Incorporeal" as one of Darkstar's cultists.
• Rule 34 – Creator Reactions: Gainax is well aware of the Rule 34, and greatly supports it - going as far to tell Doujinshi artists to "work hard" for the Comiket 79.
• Sampling: The theme "Fly Away" originated from a sample library called Vocal Forge.
• Saved from Development Hell: After spending 12 years in a state of limbo due to legal issues, the long awaited second season would finally be announced by Studio TRIGGER during their Anime Expo 2022 Panel.
• Screwed by the Lawyers: Various people who worked on the series have expressed a desire to make a second season. Unfortunately, most of the original staff left Gainax to form Studio Trigger, and they couldn't make another season since they no longer had the rights to the show as it was still owned by Gainax. However, Trigger would go on to obtain the rights to the show in 2021 (though it was not confirmed until Anime Expo 2023), allowing them to finally make a second season after years of being stuck in legal limbo.
• Studio Hop: The second season is planned to be done by Studio TRIGGER as opposed to Studio Gainax. This is largely due to the fact that Hiroyuki Imaishi and most of the people that worked on Panty and Stocking are now at TRIGGER as opposed to Gainax, on top of TRIGGER having obtained the rights from Gainax.
• Trolling Creator: Studio Trigger posted on their Twitter account a picture of a pile of one dollar bills which featured angel wings (not unlike Heaven Coins) and the words "Who Can We Trust?" a few hours before making an upcoming series announcement at their panel at Anime Expo 2017. The announcement was for three new series that have absolutely nothing to do with Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt in any conceivable way.
• What Could Have Been: A minor example in that the early character concept sketches showed Panty with two-tone hair like Stocking's—her regular blonde on the outside, pink on the inside. Another showed her with blonde hair and with red eyes.
• Written by Cast Member: Jamie Marchi wrote the English dub scripts and voiced Panty.

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