This week's new Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt featured three stories, the first based on Being John Malkovich, the second on Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and the third on the new Flash movie. It's hard to imagine a more disparate set of sources. Well, except they're all genre sources, of course.
The third one turned out to be the best. The title art shows it to be a parody of the Flash movie from last year, which was an international bomb, so I wonder how long ago this episode was animated. However, the plot of the segment is a mash-up of Terminator, Edge of Tomorrow, and Back to the Future. The connexion obviously is time travel. Stocking finds her beloved plushy cat, Honekoneko ("Bone Kitten"), has had the stuffing torn out of it. A time traveller called "Tom Croose Jr." appears to prevent her from repairing Honekoneko, something which would result in creating an army of Terminator Honekonekos. But a new side character, Gunsmith Bitch, takes her back in time where Stocking discovers it was a young Garterbelt who first created Honekoneko as a friend for one of the two little girls he's taking care of. In the middle of all the constant irony, it's refreshing to have one moment of sweetness. It doesn't last, of course, because a Terminator Honekoneko appears.
The other two stories were kind of forgettable. The Being John Malkovich segment couldn't hope to rival the weirdness of its source material. The Temple of Doom parody had a decent action sequence for the mine cart chase. Brief dresses as Indiana Jones, Panty dresses as Lara Croft, and Stocking dresses as presumably another famous adventuring character I didn't recognise.
Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt is available on Amazon Prime.
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