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NEWS: Funimation to Simulcast C, Licenses Panty & Stocking

Canada - As you can read from the article and twitter post, we heard your concern.

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Aura Ichadora wrote:

Firstly, surprised that Funimation picked up Panty and Stocking. I would've thought that, if anyone picked it up, it'd be Media Blasters. However, now with it being licensed and getting a dub, I may have to watch it for the heck of it...and to settle my curiosity about it at last. Won't be surprised if it eventually shows on Adult Swim.

Tara Strong As Stocking
Johnny Young bosch As Brief
Phil LaMarr as Gater Belt
Megan Hollingshead as panty
MAKE IT HAPPEN

Cecilthedarkknight_234 wrote:

Aura Ichadora wrote: Firstly, surprised that Funimation picked up Panty and Stocking. I would've thought that, if anyone picked it up, it'd be Media Blasters. However, now with it being licensed and getting a dub, I may have to watch it for the heck of it...and to settle my curiosity about it at last. Won't be surprised if it eventually shows on Adult Swim. Tara Strong As Stocking Johnny Young bosch As Brief Phil LaMarr as Gater Belt Megan Hollingshead as panty MAKE IT HAPPEN

Hate to burst your bubbles, but that is NEVER gonna happen.

The broadcast for AS , probably, but definitely not the dub cast your have there. Their probably gonna use their own VA and former ADV cast.

Since this is Funi were talking about Here's my guess for the dub cast.

For Panty : Collen Cinkerbeard

Stocking : Laura Bailey

Brief : Vic Micnoga

Gater Belt : Christopher R Sabat


There's no way I can see that cast you posted will be for P&S. Too much union crap. Besides business wise they'll use their own vetrans VA than getting outside VA.

Brief : Vic Mignogna

Firstly, surprised that Funimation picked up Panty and Stocking. I would've thought that, if anyone picked it up, it'd be Media Blasters.

jr0904 wrote:

Brief : Vic Mignogna

For the love of God, and all that is Holy, DO NOT WANT! D: D: D:

He would make a terrible Brief....

Hiromi Wakabayashi is the twisted mind behind the initial idea for Panty and Stocking. I immediately asked who was responsible for episode 7 the transformers episode. It was him who wrote the script! Hahaha. Someone asked him about the inspiration behind the show. “ A few years ago I along with other Gainax staffers at an american convention were watching the American tv animation “drawn together” and we couldn’t believe they were showing such explicit things on tv….. I thought…why don’t we do that!” Haha. Everyone laughed.

Hiromi also sighted Power Puff Girls and his love for American shows like Glee and Gossip Girl. Hiromi is also a huge fan of American comics!

I also got an explanation about the big blow-up during Gurren Lagann production in which Takami Akai stepped down from his position Gainax.

Hiromi explained, “…the fans were upset at the quality of animation, but it was completely intentional on the part of Imaishi (series director). He wanted to parody the common occurance, in many productions of the past, to have huge dips in quality during the course of a shows tv production.” That is a great tidbit to know!

I assumed it had to be intentional, because a studio like Gainax could have easily executed Episode 4 just as the rest.

EDIT: A better way to translate what Wakabayashi was trying to say, instead of describing it as “low production quality“, it makes better sense to say that Imaishi was trying to homage the common occurance of TV animation drawings of the past, to go “off model” from scene to scene and sometimes episode to episode.

This could be taken as a drop in quality at the hands of less talented animators(and would be considered so by a director or animation checker) but is also sometimes tied to the strong individual style of animator's who were more concerned with great movement or action than about maintaining a characters likeness. This makes all the more sense coming from Imaishi as his biggest influence is none other than Yoshinori Kanada, one of the true “individuals” in animation history. Kanada was someone who frequently tossed out “likeness”, drawing off model, in favor of some dynamic movement or action.

Doujin with animation cuts from [Sushio's] Gurren Lagann Parallel Works short film “Kittan Zero”! Killer!


Later when we were all hanging out I asked Otsuka-san if there would be another season of Gurren Lagann and sadly he said “..I think it is done.”

Rukiia wrote:

jr0904 wrote: Brief : Vic Mignogna For the love of God, and all that is Holy, DO NOT WANT! D: D: D: He would make a terrible Brief....

I can't even see Vic Mignogna even having a part in this show. I mean, I COULD be wrong, since I haven't seen it yet, but from what I've heard I just can't see him being part of it.

But then again, he was in Hetalia, albeit a small part as Greece...

Ya guys wanna know a funny story?
Ya guys wouldn't believe what inspired Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt.
Go ahead, guess.

spoiler[ Drawn Together ]

No, really. Don't believe me?

enurtsol wrote:

Ya guys wanna know a funny story? Ya guys wouldn't believe what inspired Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt. Go ahead, guess. spoiler[ Drawn Together ] No, really. Don't believe me?

That was the show I instantly pegged as the inspiration because it also usually sucked with the occasionally good episode. Gainax probably should have tried to look for inspiration from something like South Park or Adam Reed and Matt Thompson, works that while adult doesn't need to rely entirely on one type of joke.