• And all this time I thought my panties were getting sucked into the dryer instead...

• SHIPPY TRIT! VERY SHIPPY TRIT! Although it was rather funny...

• Heh, Stephen, I'm with you. Seriously. If you guys think a flock of flying panties is perverted, you need to look at your own sexual taboos. Would it have been okay if it were a bunch of men's boxers and Y-fronts flying through the sky? If so, why do you hold womens' undergarments as shameful and mens' as funny? That's more disturbing to me than seeing a bunch of jet-panties XD

• Flying panties disturb people? Perverted? Says who? I thought it was great. You people (most Americans) need to lighten up. Reality TV shows - now that's obscene!

• I really, REALLY want to see someone, anyone, wearing those panties when they go supersonic. Better yet, I want an ass in every pair of panties, which then go supersonic simultaneously. It would be like Ironman but with more crying and less bladder control. Or maybe they can incorporate them into an issue of X-men for the obvious WTF contrast. (and per my observation, saying that innocents within a country deserve gruesome death due to the actions of their government, over which civilians have no control, is the exact rationale employed by terrorists, including but not limmted to Al Quaida/ the Taliban. I'm not going to touch the issue of the appropriateness of certain jokes, though)

• "vashfanatic said: If the nuclear strikes had been against military installations, that would be a whole different story." The citizens of Dresden in 1945 would like a word with you. On the topic of the EP, it gave me a chuckle. For those going off on the whole pantsu/perversion thing, you obviously haven't watched any American beer commercials from the last 10 years or so, or any Adult Swim shows...

• dacalicious said: re ZADAL's buddy's incredibly thoughtless joke: Do you make 9/11 offhand jokes, too, opining that not enough airplanes suicide-bombed NYC? Alot more women, children, and innocent citizens were obliterated, or worse, burnt only half to death. & of course, there's the hundreds who died from radiation sickness in the following months and years. But -- ha ha -- maybe we shoulda dropped MORE atomic bombs on 'em, huh? Teach 'em a REAL lesson! That sort of ignorant joke is what's "scary." not animated flying panties. Dude... youre like those islamists who went fucking nuts over some danish dude that made that drawing of the holy prophet mohammad with a bomb in his turban. its you and those nutjobs who are dangerous. go on ebay and see if you can find yourself some cheap sense of humor...

• A heated debate about humor limits & political correctness started by a clip of flying underwear??? That's why I love you Toplessrobot.com!

• Perhaps it is a gigantic meta-statement about panty perversion among otaku? There seems to be a far more subtle thing being done here than fetishism by making them a surreal flock of birdlike creatures and putting it in the face of the audience. It is no small irony that the same sexual repression that makes seeing flying underpants uncomfortable to one viewer is perhaps a similar sort of repression that creates a fetish in another.

• So coconuts don't migrate.. but panties do?

• @Everyone getting bent out of shape about the nuke thing: It's a joke spanky. A fucking joke. Get over yourself. "Blah blah tragedy, blah blah so terrible" fuck off. Clearly the poster was trying to express humor for the enjoyment of other readers, so whatever the content, you should probably chill the fuck out. Welcome to the internet, people say things, move the fuck on with life you tragic motherfuckers...damn.

• It should be noted, all bombs aside, that Japan has quite recently been criticized by the UN for not doing more to reduce sexism and promote gender equality. Glass Ceilings are very low there, and flying panties are at best a symptom of a greater national issue.

• hahaahh they're magical flying panties, in geese flyinging south formation. i used to have alot of respect for japan because of martial arts and they always looked so serious, but theyve got alot of repressed feelings because of acting so serious all the time.

• On the plus side none of them were thongs or crotchless. That should count for something right?

• You have to watch the anime in order to understand whats happening... its funny because i just saw this like 2 days ago...

• So..The panties...Have afterburners.... I for one would like to be the first to welcome our new, airborne panty overlords.

• And sorry about "getting my panties in a twist," I had a teacher from Hiroshima.

• @ZADL You're still making the hideous mistake of lumping all of Japan together as if it was one unit that, en masse, committed the terrible atrocities of WW2. I'm not saying the bomb droppings were the equal to the war crimes that many members of the Japanese army and government committed, but the civilians of Nagasaki and Hiroshima didn't deserve what they went through because of what other people did in their name any more than the civilians of Asia deserved the awful things done to them (which you've cataloged succinctly). If the nuclear strikes had been against military installations, that would be a whole different story. The only real answer to war crimes would have been a thorough war crimes tribunal - which America aborted because we wanted to keep some of the leaders in power to fight our new threat, communism, helping to bring about the continued denial of Japan's war crime past that persists in Japan today. I personally think Hirohito should have been forced to abdicate and most of the leaders either imprisoned or executed the way we did with the Nazis, but we were too scared of the big Red Menace at the time to actually care about justice.

• The part with the SR-71 Blackbird allways makes me giggle like mad. And somehow, i expect it to transform into Jetfire for some reason . . it seems both cool and fitting . . also hillarious of course ^^

• That was a damn fine closing credits. I'm a bit disturbed by the fact that the attention to detail on the flight mechanics of pantsu is higher than any other anime's offering when dealing with actual birds. Whether this is because the pantsu have a ridiculously high level of flapping and bird behavior detail or that every other anime doesn't even try to make their birds fly in a believable manner is anyone's guess.

• PS - the above is in no way to imply that I'd condone further action against the Japanese for the actions of WWII or before, except to ridicule their pop culture and perversions from time to time.

• Japan terrorized millions of people for half a century, burning their history books, suppressing their languages, and forcing their women into sexual slavery. To imply that 50 years of monstrosity is somehow balanced or exceeded by what they suffered as a result of their monstrosity is disingenuous. Most other Asian nations feel that Japan had it coming, and that Japan's innocent civilians did not suffer one tenth of what had been done in their name. Anyway, it was a dumb joke and I'm sorry to get your panties in a bunch about it. Peace. (see how I brought it back to panties?)

• M*A*S*H was anti-war; Jesus Christ is a legend, if not a myth. It's lampooning a fairy tale. Some people take that fairy tale very seriously, but then again some subsets of those same people were responsible for ... "the Spanish Inquisition!" BUT I'm just being a nitpicking bastard and trying to make you think for a moment -- I don't know who you are, you don't know who I am, it's hardly beyond the realm of reason we're both swell guys with similar perspectives on stuff in general. I wouldn't bother to bring up the point if this were somehow redneckdaily.com we found ourself on ... I do apologize for so easily falling back on typical post-board didactism in the tone of my response rather than being friendly about it. Posting before that first cup of coffee has its pitfalls. BTW, the cultural and psychological effect of having been the only country to date to have been smacked by nuclear weapons has had a well-documented and examined influence on Japanese pop culture, from Godzilla to Astro Boy, etc etc ... but I don't think sexual perversity qualifies ... that's been a part of Japanese culture for centuries ...

• Sorry, I need to correct your absurdly bad FFF-esque grammar mistake: it's the most perverted/Japanese scene you've ever seen. You used SCENE to mean SEEN which, as I'm sure you know, is nonsensical. I fixed it there so both words would be used and used correctly.

• @ dacalicious - First of all, you have no idea who I am what my background is, or what race I or my friend belong to, or where my sympathies lie, who I married, and so on. Nice conclusions you jump to. Secondly, saying "I love black humor etc" and then ripping on someone for doing just that is like saying "some of my best friends are X" after ripping on X. You justify Monty Python's medieval humor (which I was not talking about) while ignoring my example of them lampooning Jesus Christ, who is a very serious subject for many people. That same movie, Life of Brian, also makes fun of terrorists, which as you know is a very real and present danger. You also ignored M*A*S*H lampooning the Korean war, while there were and are many survivors of that conflict alive, and you ignored Pryor and Murphy making fun of the very present, very real subject of racism. Ever watch Yellowbeard? It makes jokes about rape throughout the whole film. No subject is safe from someone making a joke from it. Yellowbeard goes a bit far for my tastes, but you won't see me condemning it because I don't care for some of the jokes. I never said my friend's joke was a good one, but I will take responsibility for posting it here. Yes, it's supposed to be provocative, yes it skirts the edge of acceptability. And it does make a sort of social commentary by taking responsibility for Japan's weird pop culture (the "too many" part of the joke) as well as expressing fear of Japan's pop culture being unchecked and taking over the world. Lighten up.

• That started out as "are you serious", then went to "Japan, you have officially killed any remaining taste you may have had" but as soon as the panties broke the sound barrier (Yeah, just try finding another way to use that last sentence in context), it wrapped all the way back around to hilarious.

• Whoa. Clarification time. My comment about ZADL winning the thread was based solely on his "Crotch Rocket" joke. That said: Before anyone gets further down ZADL's throat for referencing a friend's off-color joke about atom bombs and Japan... Let's not forget Monty Python's The Spanish Inquisition, or any random South Park episode. I will say, the part about "not dropping enough" bombs approaches beyond-the-paleness, but there is a current of thought that maybe the reason Japan is so weird now is because we did drop the bombs. So... yeah.

• Sorry about the double post, 4-chan boy. Anyway, I love black humor, satire, & am the last one to subscribe to brain-dead politically correct social rules. But here's the line: "Again, as my friend Dave says, "We either dropped too many or too few nukes on Japan."' There's no self-irony there, there's no social commentary about the banality of humanity, its tragic nature, etc. Just a sort of jingoistic reductionism. Also, Super-Jew Mel Brooks does the Holocaust, Monty Python does the Middle Ages torture thing, of which there are at this late date no survivors (to my knowledge); not the same as some American DOOD joking about repeating the most devastating single event(s) in the history of war cuz them folks are PRE-verts with their panty cartoons 'n' all ... Maybe your buddy's not like that. But he talks like he is!

• ow, my head. It's way to early in my day for this.

• Obviously Japan's new aerial weapons

• @dacalicious: Give it 40 years, and change the theme from 'flying panties' to 'fat people', and yes they will. And you know what else? There will be absolutely nothing wrong with it then, either.

• Actually, let me continue: joking that you ought to nuke a country because of a stupid panty sequence? Most Japanese are embarrassed by this sort of thing, and hate how, via anime, this is the image people have of them. And it doesn't matter what awful things the Japanese military did (and they were horrible, undeniably), the civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki didn't do them, but we killed them in one of the most terrible manners anyway. You're falling into the sort of propaganda that lumps all of one's enemies into a big pile of Evil, the same way the Japanese war machine did with their enemies in WW2, allowing them to perpetrate all kinds of atrocities without feeling guilty about it.

• For some reason, when that hawk grabbed one of those panties, I couldn't stop laughing.

• @ZADL: Look up the firebombing of Dresden and read "Barefoot Gen." Nobody got out of WW2 looking pretty. And yet we still call it "The Good War." And cracking jokes about how we should have nuked it more? Not funny, no matter how long time passes.

• i find the way they "fold" when they perch in the tree extremely unsettling.

• I get that there are panties flying like birds in a V formation for some reason, but did those panties then rocket past a Blackbird? Talking about anime causes one to compose some rather odd sentences.

• LOL at 1 min...

• It has been said that "Comedy is tragedy plus time and distance." Mel Brooks earns a living making jokes of Nazis who murdered 6 million people. Monty Python made an entire movie ridiculing a man who was nailed to a cross and tortured to death. Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy have made livings lampooning racism. M*A*S*H lampooned wounded soldiers for 11 years. Context is the pivotal point of humor, and if you can't see that, then no joke will ever be funny to you, ever. I did not make fun of nuclear annihilation because it wasn't horrible, I made fun of it because it <i>was</i> horrible. It's the context of humor, not the content. There is a huge difference between making a joke <b>of</b> something and a joke <b>about</b> something. Related topic: I encourage you to look up the Rape of Nanking, where the Japanese slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Chinese citizens <i>by hand</i>, and raped up to 80,000 Chinese women. I invite you to look up the phrase "comfort women" and educate yourself about the institutionalized rape of women by Japanese soldiers. Further I invite you to look up what the Japanese did in medical experiments to human beings, who they referred to as "monkeys" because their racism allowed them to view people as animals. Japan of World War II was every bit as awful as Nazi Germany, and they had done it for far longer. Ask any Korean how they feel about it.

• That video made my brain explode! FLYING PANTIES!!!!!

• Oh come on, people, it's not /all/ Japanese who are perverts into panties. Sora no Otashimono isn't exactly airing in primetime and making top ratings. We're talking about a small group of otaku - a small, very scary, very disturbed group of otaku. Who get entire shows made for them that air on actual television. Hmm, maybe Japan is a little messed up after all...

• &#64;dacalicious I find your double post more offense then that joke ever could be. And if you don't believe in the existence of 9/11 bad jokes, you haven't been on the internet that long. I thought everyone had seen the picture of the Twin Twinkie Towers cake, with flaming airplane candles. And yes, it was from 4chan.

• re ZADAL's buddy's incredibly thoughtless joke: Do you make 9/11 offhand jokes, too, opining that not enough airplanes suicide-bombed NYC? Alot more women, children, and innocent citizens were obliterated, or worse, burnt only half to death. & of course, there's the hundreds who died from radiation sickness in the following months and years. But -- ha ha -- maybe we shoulda dropped MORE atomic bombs on 'em, huh? Teach 'em a REAL lesson! That sort of ignorant joke is what's "scary." not animated flying panties.

• Honestly, WTF is wrong with those people? Did the radiation from all those years ago really turn their minds into mutant gray matter that thinks up weird shit 80% of the time and super awesome shit the other 20%?

• re ZADAL's buddy's incredibly thoughtless joke: Do you make 9/11 offhand jokes, too, opining that not enough airplanes suicide-bombed NYC? Alot more women, children, and innocent citizens were obliterated, or worse, burnt only half to death. & of course, there's the hundreds who died from radiation sickness in the following months and years. But -- ha ha -- maybe we shoulda dropped MORE atomic bombs on 'em, huh? Teach 'em a REAL lesson! That sort of ignorant joke is what's "scary." not animated flying panties.

• How odd. Japan sure love their panties.

• I'm pretty sure this is a joke related to the show. No need to freak out about it. It's from a different culture.

• &#64;MattK: By offering free used loli panties as a prize for arriving at a place to have said intervention to each guest.

• ZADL wins the thread. Congratulations, ZADL! What are you gonna do now?

• How do you hold a sexual intervention for an entire country?

• <b>iObject:</b> <i>"Goofy Print Underwear — The impetus for the second episode. An ill-timed Panty Shot of dog-print panties leads to Sohara wearing nothing at all through the latent power of a card. The events of this ultimately lead to panties flying across the world like a flock of very strange birds."</i> I've read this about twelve times now. Every time I read it, it makes even less sense.

• "S&M midget balloon scat nonsense..." Links?

• &#64; Spessartine - Those aren't jet boosters. Those are crotch rockets.

• Yep, it's that time of year when panties fly south for the winter.

• I looked it up, apparently the flock o' panties is actually from the story. From TVTropes: "Goofy Print Underwear — The impetus for the second episode. An ill-timed Panty Shot of dog-print panties leads to Sohara wearing nothing at all through the latent power of a card. The events of this ultimately lead to panties flying across the world like a flock of very strange birds."

• Can I just point out that some of those panties apparently have jet boosters!? There are numerous questions about this, but frankly, I am most perturbed by the jet booster panties. We should be frightened. We really should be.

• I'm a chick but I find this hilarious. Especially when the panties break the sound barrier.

• There are not words too... But Japan... My brain can't... ... Is this a sign of the apocalypse?

• Wow. That's... creepy. Is it just me or is Japan populated by A-1 Class Alpha Perverts? Again, as my friend Dave says, "We either dropped too many or too few nukes on Japan."

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