‘New Panty & Stocking’ Simply Tackled the Gen Z-Millennial Divide within the Most Absurd Fashion

Though Prime Video hasn’t adequately promoted Studio Set off’s sequel collection to the raunchy cult traditional New Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, the present stays one of many funniest anime airing this season. Its newest episode prominently highlights the contentious generational divide between Millennials and Gen Z.

In its sixth episode, titled “The Brothers from Heaven,” the anime slows down its compilation of quick tales to current a unified narrative stuffed with popular culture references all through its 24-minute runtime. For these preserving monitor, that is the second time the present has adopted this strategy since its premiere, the primary occasion being the opening episode, which needed to resolve a 13-year cliffhanger. Included among the many mayhem of the episode is the anime’s long-teased introduction of two new angel twin characters becoming a member of the fray.

On this plot-thrusting episode, two new diving troublemakers crash onto the scene: the “twin twink angels,” Polyester and Polyurethane, performed respectively by Junya Enoki (Yuji Itadori from Jujutsu Kaisen) and Yūto Uemura (Thorfinn from Vinland Saga) in Japanese and by Hunter McCoy and Corey Wilder (Zanka Nijiku from Gachiakuta) in English. Teased within the anime’s official trailer, their arrival throws the debaucherous angels, Panty and Anarchy, and the disgraced demons, Scanty and Kneesocks, right into a chaotic scramble to purchase their means again into Heaven and Hell. Within the episode, we study that Polyester and Polyurethane are Panty and Stocking’s youthful cousins—a familial tie that wastes no time delving into generational warfare.

Their introduction, which serendipitously echoes the disruptive aptitude of KPop Demon Hunter‘s Saja Boys, threatens the present’s total dynamic with their extra high-tech strategy, proving to be a precognitive drive that makes the women’ demon trying to find cash like Mario characters out of date. So as to add even additional insult to harm, Polyester and Polyurethane dish out zoomer quips, mislabeling the millennial girlies “boomers,” utilizing slang (“deadass,” “no cap,” “interval,” “sussy”), and calling the women “Karens,” amongst different kitschy TikTok lingo.

To not be outdone, the gender and generational battle all through the episode has Panty and Stocking firing again with their very own insults, representing the millennials on this divide by calling the boys “iPad children.” Whereas their comeback might not be as substantial as that of the boys, because the outdated saying goes, “brevity is the soul of wit,” so maybe the women are onto one thing with just one diss registering from their facet of the aisle.

All that mentioned, the episode nonetheless has its enjoyable with referential humor. Amid their contest to gather probably the most cash by slaying demons, the episode additionally continues the collection’ signature of pop culture references. Chief amongst them is a reference to John Carpenter’s They Live, which sees the city of Daten Metropolis remodeled right into a horde of bug-eyed creatures, a Good Burger, and The Matrix‘s infinite armory.

The final of which introduces one other new character, Gunsmith Bitch, the present’s second Black main forged member. Performed by Yoshino Aoyama (Hitori Gotoh in Bocchi the Rock!) in Japanese and Krysta Gonzales (Eddy Ripple in Elemental) in English. Gunsmith Bitch’s entire deal is she’s a nerd woman who moonlights as an arms vendor. She additionally has a sexual attraction to weapons. She turns out to be useful for Panty and Stocking when Polyester and Polyurethane’s Gen-Z angelic iPad-baby techniques disable the women’ divine weapons.

After a wonderful angel-demon team-up, the boys are defeated, and the episode sees the women reign supreme, with their “uncle Rami” rising from heaven by way of a large hand gag straight out of SpongeBob SquarePants, bringing the boys again to heaven. Nonetheless, that’s most likely not the final we’ll see of them as a result of the episode’s stinger sees their uncle, and Panty and Stocking’s father, ship an edict permitting them to proceed operating amok for his daughters.

With an ending like that, followers can count on extra shenanigans from Polyester and Polyurethane when new episodes of New Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt air each Wednesday on Prime Video.

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