I also "bounced off" the original Panty and Stocking way back when, so it's interesting to know that the new version is made by our beloved Trigger. Makes it almost seem worth a shot...!

Funny thing is it's got the same creators, they've just had another 15 years of experience in the meantime. Now I only made it a few episodes into the original series, so maybe that picks up and becomes better further in, but what I saw of it was very one note, with its one joke being that Panty is horny and says slurs.

The new season is much better than that across the board, being as trashy or more while not being malicious about it. I don't know if I'd recommend it in general, because it is still extremely edgy absurdist shitposting, but it does have some real standout peaks like the episodes where it completely changes artstyles, doing things like including a character that's literally just one static drawing that gets moved around the screen and is just mirrored to turn around, riffing on specific movies, imitating old western superhero comics, or doing a low-quality VHS looking homage to old 80s sword and sorcery cartoons that was done entirely in gibberish.

Oh look!! Character names I... don't recognize,

Senshi's the dwarf who knows a lot about monster cooking, Laios is the dorky swordsman who's really into monsters to an unhealthy degree. The plot of Akujiki Reijou to Kyoutetsu Koushaku (which is such a better title than "Pass the Monster Meat, Milady!", being "Voracious Villainous and Bloodthirsty Duke") is basically a count's daughter who purifies (as they're naturally poisonous because of mutagenic magic), cooks, and eats monsters meets a duke whose role is more "game warden who culls monsters to stop them from having the equivalent of what makes grasshoppers into locusts happen to them and turn them into a serious threat" than it is actually ruling anything, and they immediately bond over both being absolute nerds about monsters who are completely unconcerned about the fact that they're both covered in monster blood on account of the meeting happening at a party that was attacked by a monster. It's a funny twist on basic shoujo aristocrat romance slop.

I 'member that thread! It gave me a mixed impression of the show, like the gimmick is just "waow the pretty formal lady said a naughty word" but maybe there is more to it and it is worth my time.

You know how with any series involving aristocrats most of them are (accurately) the most insufferable, monstrous pieces of shit alive, to the point that you wish the protagonist would just kick the shit out them instead of tolerating their bullshit? That's the premise of this one, just a stoic, long-suffering daughter of a noble family who somewhere along the way discovered a conscience and a burning rage at all the evils of the world and particularly of the aristocracy around her, hid it away, and now is being set loose on them by an ostensibly benevolent but absolutely insufferable prince who's giving her the equivalent of a license to kill. So far she worked her way through a slaver ring, and is now getting into going after clergy.

I also can't help but laugh every time she pulls on a pair of fingerless leather gloves with metal spikes, while wearing heels and a formal dress. It's such a jarring anachronistic juxtaposition and I just don't get tired of it.