They’re back! It’s been over four years since GAINAX taught us all the true meaning of the holiday season with the Christmas Eve 2010 finale of Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt. Now fallen angels Panty & Stocking Anarchy and their dubious preacher-man boss Garterbelt have returned in manga form, with nine all-new stories written and drawn by TAGRO…and it’s in your store this week!
Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt was directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi, whose most recent series Kill La Kill is on Adult Swim right now. The director writes the afterword to the manga, and in it Imaishi relates how he asked (and practically begged) the artist TAGRO to do the manga adaptation—and as you can see from the front cover, TAGRO nailed the look of the anime perfectly. But Imaishi wanted TAGRO to do the P&Sw/G manga not only for the art style, but because he knew the creator would also understand the characters. In fact, as Imaishi writes, he’s known TAGRO since the days when both of them were published in the same magazine, back in the early 1990s when they were aspiring young artists.
So I mention all this just to let you know that the manga is full flavor (what would be the point of doing P&Sw/G otherwise?). Thanks to the work of our printing ace Heather Doornink, we were even able to reproduce the cover with extra color inks to bring across the bright pinks and oranges of the Panty & Stocking art style. The covers, incidentally, were printed in Seattle, and since the translator, Zack Davisson (known also for Satoshi Kon’s OPUS, the Satoshi Kon-Mamoru Oshii collaboration Seraphim 266613336 Wings, and for Shigeru Mizuki’s Showa, just nominated for an Eisner Award for the second year in a row) is also based in Seattle, I like to think it brings a Pacific Northwest, locally-sourced tone to this manga. I might even call it artisanal, were it not for the risk of undue stress upon the final syllables. 
—Carl Horn
Manga Editor 
They’re back! It’s been over four years since GAINAX taught us all the true meaning of the holiday season with the Christmas Eve 2010 finale of Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt. Now fallen angels Panty & Stocking Anarchy and their dubious preacher-man boss Garterbelt have returned in manga form, with nine all-new stories written and drawn by TAGRO…and it’s in your store this week!

Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt was directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi, whose most recent series Kill La Kill is on Adult Swim right now. The director writes the afterword to the manga, and in it Imaishi relates how he asked (and practically begged) the artist TAGRO to do the manga adaptation—and as you can see from the front cover, TAGRO nailed the look of the anime perfectly. But Imaishi wanted TAGRO to do the P&Sw/G manga not only for the art style, but because he knew the creator would also understand the characters. In fact, as Imaishi writes, he’s known TAGRO since the days when both of them were published in the same magazine, back in the early 1990s when they were aspiring young artists.

So I mention all this just to let you know that the manga is full flavor (what would be the point of doing P&Sw/G otherwise?). Thanks to the work of our printing ace Heather Doornink, we were even able to reproduce the cover with extra color inks to bring across the bright pinks and oranges of the Panty & Stocking art style. The covers, incidentally, were printed in Seattle, and since the translator, Zack Davisson (known also for Satoshi Kon’s OPUS, the Satoshi Kon-Mamoru Oshii collaboration Seraphim 266613336 Wings, and for Shigeru Mizuki’s Showa, just nominated for an Eisner Award for the second year in a row) is also based in Seattle, I like to think it brings a Pacific Northwest, locally-sourced tone to this manga. I might even call it artisanal, were it not for the risk of undue stress upon the final syllables. 

—Carl Horn
Manga Editor 

Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt is out this Wednesday. Check out free preview pages here!