“	Mercy is not for the sake of Heaven...	”
—Polyester, "The Brothers from Heaven"

Polyester (ポリエステル Poriesuteru) is an angel, the older twin brother of Polyurethane,^[4] and a younger cousin of Panty and Stocking who acted as a supporting antagonist of New PANTY & STOCKING with GARTERBELT and made his debut in "The Brothers from Heaven".

When using his own or his brother's golden thong, he can transform them into his weapon of choice, an unnamed gun gauntlet.

Appearance

Polyester has pale skin, red eyes, and gradient purple-blue hair styled in a bowlcut with bangs covering his left eye. His accessories include a black choker and a black charm that resembles the kanji for "Heaven" (天). He wears a sleeveless, V-neckline white spandex bodysuit along with white gloves. His bulge is also visible.

In the PASWG x The Chara 2026 Pop Up wave of official merchandise, it is shown that he has pierced ears, but doesn't wear earrings often.

Angel form

In his angel transformation similarly to his younger brother, he is shown to be shirtless and noticeably well-built with a muscular frame, and his wings are noticeably smoother than his brother's.

He wears a tight black cap with a gold emblem, similar to a police-style hat. He wears black gloves and flared black pants that are fully unzipped along with a black choker that resembled a shirt collar with a gold chain which adds to the deliberately provocative style. The style of his bangs are also mirrored.

Personality

Polyester has a very high ego due to the amount of new-age technology he uses. He also commonly uses Generation Z slang and AAVE, such as "on God" and "ick". Whenever things don't go his way, he becomes very dramatic, even to the point of threatening suicide^[5]. However, in "Heaven Wars Episode 3 - Revenge of the Bitch", when Ramie allowed the two brothers to call him their father for the first time, Polyester was briefly overjoyed while Polyurethane was sent into an excited, bloodthirsty rage; this implies that Polyester is the more level-headed twin of the duo, unlike Panty and Scanty, who are more impulsive.

Polyester and his brother have a strict "No Work on Weekends" policy and won't so much as lift a finger to help humans being attacked by violent and malicious ghosts, though as soon as the weekends end, they both immediately resume their angelic work, showcasing a sense of professionalism.

The twins are also shown to be hypocritical in the sense that they ridicule their older cousins for cheating using gadgets to subdue ghosts whilst doing the same themselves, as well as reprimanding Garterbelt for having bought sex toys as offerings to their father, Ramie (after the latter had assumed the throne), for daring to bring such filth to a holy place all whilst having their own angelic transformation sequence feature them in a provocative manner.

Background

Main article: Polyester/History

Description

Taken from NewPSG.com:

"The older brother of the angel brothers newly sent from Heaven to Daten City."

Biography

Polyester and his twin brother, Polyurethane, are self-proclaimed "Newgen Angels" who work under their father Ramie, whom they usually refer to as Your Highness. In "The Brothers from Heaven", they were sent from Heaven to replace Panty and Stocking, their older cousins, as the Ghost hunters of Daten City. Despite their high-level technology, they weren't able to defeat as much Ghosts as Panty, Stocking, Scanty, and Kneesocks, and were reprimanded by Ramie for their spending habits. In Heaven, though, Ramie accepted their apology and allowed them to continue their agenda against the Anarchy sisters. For the rest of the second season, Polyester and Polyurethane continued their attempts to one-up their cousins by killing Ghosts or trying to find their weaknesses.

In "Heaven Wars Episode 1 - The Family Menace", during the church residents' visit to Heaven, Polyester and Polyurethane allowed the Anarchy sisters to enter the palace, though with clear malice. Their true intentions were revealed when Ramie tricked Linière into abdicating the throne to him. After he and his wife Silk were frozen, Polyester (along with Ramie and Polyurethane) strummed their electric guitars and killed them both. They then murdered all of Heaven's gods in order to construct Ramie's ultimate weapon with which he planned to spark a war against Hell in "Heaven Wars Episode 2 - Attack of the Uncle".

After Garterbelt and the Daemon sisters made their way back up to Heaven in "Heaven Wars Episode 3 - Revenge of the Bitch", Polyester and Polyurethane fended off against the Daemon sisters to prevent them from thwarting Ramie's plan. The brothers shot the frozen Panty and Stocking after they poked Ramie, but this only caused the Anarchy sisters to be birthed anew. Polyester and Polyurethane utilized their car, Double Low-Riser, as battle armor for the transformed Ramie, but they were no match for the protagonists, who all managed to use their Armed Fuck Gun to shoot Ramie's weapon before it could annihilate Hell and Earth. Polyester, along with his brother and father, were all forgiven by Linière, who believed that Ramie just needed to spend time with his sons.

Abilities

Natural Abilities

• Angelic transformation - Using his halo, he can transform into his angelic form.
• Transforming garments - by removing his thong and placing it on his right hand, Polyester can summon a 4-barreled gun gauntlet which he uses to exterminate ghosts and fight both the Anarchy and Daemon Sisters.
• Enhanced durability - As an angel, he has better durability compared to the average human.
• Immortality - As an angel, his physical aging is much slower than than of a human's, while being able to age chronologically up to hundreds or even thousands of years.
• Good Luck - Angels possess immense good luck, as shown when he and his brother keep winning the jackpot at the Casino City slots.
• Regeneration - Though shown indirectly, he and his brother's regeneration ability was showcased by the Hierarchy Ghost after it swallowed them whole.

Skillset

• Weapon-handling - He's shown to have exceptional aim and timing with the gun, using it to fire in multiple different directions at once to hit different targets, even ones that haven't appeared yet. The gauntlet is even capable of killing a ghost as powerful as the Casino City Kaiju, which by itself was worth millions of Heaven Coins.
• Agility/Athleticism - As shown throughout the fights he has partaken in, he is quite nimble and agile.
• Hand-to-hand combat - When his weapon gets knocked out due to recoil, he uses the kitchen utensils around him to fight Panty during their brawl in "The Brothers from Heaven".
• Trumpet-playing - When guiding deceased human souls to Heaven, he is shown playing the trumpet.
• Guitar-playing - As shown during the three-part Heaven Wars arc, he and the rest of his family are adept at playing the guitar.
• Driving - He and his brother both drive their truck, Double-Low Riser, as well as their vacation vehicle, a Mercedes.
• Grass-whistling - He and his brother are shown to be able to grass-whistle in "Independence Dick".
• Craftsmanship - In one of the official promo art for "Not 2 Home Alone", both the Poly Brothers are shown to be the ones to handcraft the cardboard cutouts of themselves.

Unique Abilities

• Ghost Detection - Polyester has a detection system in or on his eyes, titled the Ghost Vision Pro Max, which immediately knows when a ghost is about to spawn and sees through ghost disguises.

Episodes

• Polyester/Appearances

Trivia

• Polyester and Polyurethane were both first revealed during AnimeJapan 2025.
• Polyester and his younger brother share the following distinctions:
  • The first angels known to be male.
  • The first set of twins^[6] in the franchise.
  • The third and fourth angels to be introduced to the series after Panty and Stocking.
  • The first entirely new characters to be revealed for New PANTY & STOCKING with GARTERBELT.
  • Both share the same clothing type that turns into their respective weapons, which is their golden thongs.
  • The only angels so far to not remain in their transformation outfits after the art style change sequence.
    • The only angels/demons so far to not be shown in their transformed outfits in the usual chibi art style.
• He and his brother both speak with Japanese Generation Z lingo combined with salaryman/office terminology.
  • Along those lines, their insistence on leaving work exactly as their shift ends and refusal to work overtime are both jabs at a common stereotype of said generation's work ethic.
    • This also hints at the strictness of following order and procedure that their father raised them with.
      • Possibly combining all time off with an adherence to the Sabbath.
• Polyester's Japanese voice actor, Junya Enoki, is also the voice of AΩ Nova from Space Patrol Luluco.
• "Polyester" is a type of synthetic material that is often used in the production of clothing and bed sheets.
  • When asked about why the character wasn't named after a garment, Hiromi Wakabayashi said that he couldn't answer this but to "keep watching as it may be answered".
• He and Junior are the only ones amongst the main angels and demons to not have their nails visibly painted.
• "The Ohagi of Doom" is the only episode wherein either of the twins appear without the other.
• As revealed in "Heaven Wars Episode 2 - Attack of the Uncle", the reason why the brothers don't have a zipper pet paralleling that of their cousins' (Chuck) or of the Daemon Sisters' (Fastener), was because they were too afraid to ask their father to begin with, but had always wanted a dog ever since.
• Polyester appears to inherit his red eyes from the transformed version of Ramie, whose eyes turn from bluish purple to red.
  • Though they could be red because of the Ghost Vision Pro Max.
• The Poly Brothers being adept guitarists was first foreshadowed in official merchandise^[7] of the two on guitars.
• Despite having five fingers as the rest of the characters, Polyester's gun glove only has four fingers.
• According to the official PASWG x primaniacs Polyester-themed perfume, he smells like a mix of lemons, oranges, bergamot, apples, jasmines, magnolia, mimosa, cyclamen, amber, musk, peaches, and raspberries.
• As revealed in the Neverending Streaming covering their debut episode, The Poly Brothers' transformation sequence is heavily inspired by the characters in the live action movie, Magic Mike.
• As revealed in the Neverending Streaming covering the episode "Independence Dick", the Poly Brothers (this also extending to their cousins, Panty and Stocking, as well as to Scanty and Kneesocks) are "around Brief's age" because they "wanted to give him similarly-aged friends".
  • Polyester's vacation outfit in "Independence Dick" (and later seen again at the end of "Heaven Wars Episode 3 - Revenge of the Bitch"), has his shirt follow the lightning bolt motif his family has, similar to Ramie, Panty, and Junior (who all have their hair shine in the shape of a lightning bolt), as well as Linière (whose facial hair also mimics the shape of lightning bolts).
    • In the same episode, it is revealed that the Poly Brothers' garments are interchangeable, meaning Polyester doesn't necessarily have to use Polyurethane's underwear as his weapon and vice versa, as Polyurethane was able to turn his own underwear into his bladed boot during the scene where he gets rid of the elevator sound alarm.
• The following were revealed in an interview for the spoon.2di magazine^[8]:
  • Uemura was directed to "act cuter" during his audition for Polyurethane, he proceeds to add on, saying how, after finding out that Enoki was cast as Polyester, Uemura thought it was fate that they got to play another pair of brothers.
  • According to Enoki, he was told to make Polyester sound like someone who was "new at (his) job/new employee".
  • When asked about how they would interact with their respective characters, they would become good friends with the Poly Brothers.
  • When asked what whether they thought that the Poly Brothers actually saw the boys' hang-out in "Independence Dick" as a genuine friendship, Enoki feels that it was all just an act, but Uemura comments how "at the time, [Polyurethane] might have felt like a "this is it" moment but never really thought about it much after".
    • Additionally, the two add on, saying how they added moans during the peeing on the road scene but was cut in the actual episode.
• The following were revealed in the Never Say Neverending Storytelling offline event that occurred on November 02, 2025:
  • The Poly Brothers initially were designed with swapped eye colors, with Polyester having light blue irises, and Polyurethane with red. Additionally, Ramie was also supposed to have red eyes as his default eye color.
    • Some of the notes of the brothers' designs point out that Polyester is drawn with his eye and eyebrow hidden behind his bangs, while Polyurethane's are both visible/see through regardless if his bangs are covering them or not.
    • The brothers were also initially planned to be given weapon-power ups as well.
      • The cop outfits they have during their transformations initially had tight boot-cut pants, including an open-crotch area; Additionally, their collars were initially neckties before being turned into chain accessories, and the rough draft for their halos were similarly designed to the ones from Blue Archive.
        • The golden brooch accessories attached to their cop hats is an emblem representing Ramie's faction.
        • Part of the inspiration of their design was from K-pop idols.
      • Both their weapons were designed to be much larger.
        • Polyester's was originally a machine gun or a Gatling gun.
    • One of Polyester's initial designs had him with white rectangular ear piercings.
      • Polyester was also initially to have his bangs parted in the middle.
    • The brothers were designed with the facial structures of Panty and Stocking in mind, such as their upturned and downturned eyes respectively.
  • Physical-wise, the Anarchy Sisters are confirmed to be teenagers, adding this from a previous Neverending Streaming comment, also puts the Daemon Sisters and Poly Brothers around their/Brief's age.
  • Based on the character popularity polls conducted by the event's official survey, Polyester ranked fourth as the fan favorite.
• Apart from the ones shown during the Neverending Storytelling offline event, the following are also revealed in the The Battle of GEEKBOAT TWO book:
  • One of the scrapped concepts for Polyester and Polyurethane's weapons were a pair of buff, monster-like bionic gauntlets for Polyester while Polyurethane had buff, monster-like bionic legs.
  • One of the scrapped designs of the brothers was of (one of) them wearing a business-like suit and tie, with gloves, as well as short boots decorated with accessories akin to angel wings, another was of (one of) them wearing a top that slightly exposes their chest, with long gloves, as well as long boots, with the last design having (one of) them wearing a cop-like hat adorned with angel wings, with them wearing a crop top and shorts.
• The following were revealed during the Anime North 2026 panel featuring New Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt^[9]
  • One of the initial ideas for new characters were a pair of ninja twin sisters, but due to having too many girl characters, they decided to create the Poly Brothers instead.
  • Hiroyuki Imaishi was very strict about giving the brothers "puffy, round muscles", insisting to avoid giving them "angular muscles".

English Dub

• In YouTuber Chris Mayek's interview with Polyester's English dub voice actor, Hunter McCoy, in the former's video titled "Voice Actor Hunter McCoy Interview", Hunter says he actually auditioned for Polyurethane, and was confused as to which role he got when he was given praise for his Polyurethane audition, but commented on how they suggested for him to take on Polyester's role instead.
  • Additionally, he reveals one of the adlibs he added was the line "And that's on God!", "Peep this shit!", as well as "I'm going to fucking kill myself!" when the Poly Brothers were panicking, and the line "Fuck you, Pussolini!".
  • He adds on, saying how he did the reading of the written judgement in one take.
  • He notes how his voice for Polyester is just his own but slightly higher-pitched and with a bit more sass.

References

Characters
Main Characters	Panty • Stocking • Garterbelt • Scanty • Kneesocks
Major Supporting Characters	Brief • Chuck • Fastener • Honekoneko
Supporting Characters	Corset • Polyester • Polyurethane • Ramie • Gunsmith Bitch
Minor Characters	Silk • Linière • Junior • Bastard • Super Guy Jin
Ghosts	Giant Brown • Crazy Crazzy Gabby • Queen Bee • Bloody Hood & Gal Ghoul • Cowpers • Hell Pound • Secret Speed Star • Ugly Snot • Boogey Pukey • Loser Ghost • No-Brain Ghost • Ghost Bot • Money Ghost • Zombie Ghost • Wife Petter • Husband Petter • Sea Animal Ghosts • Patrick Fagry • Totoro Ghost • The Other Gods • WaterOil Ghost • Duelist Ghost • Nin Djarin • Flex-Kong Ghost • President of Business • Vibe • Cosmic Monolith Cube Mother Space Ghost • Sushi Chef Ghost • Turtle Ghost • B-Grade Ghost • Cicada Ghost • Amalgamation Ghost • Casino City Kaiju • Bitch Prison Ghost • Internet Ghost • Loser Hat • Sato • Hierarchy Ghost • Impostep
Other Characters	Mr. Bombon • Impact Cop • Principal • Barby Dolls • Geek Fleet • Mick • Portschach • Q. Holly • Moon • Terao • Mika • Chi • Omori • Sugita • Yokoyama • Kitakawa • Masculimus Surprise • Femitron • Pantybots • Stockingcons • Spark • Mr. Abrams • Agent Man • Agent Woman • Arthur Rock • Granny • Sam • Baywatcher • Oyakata • Mob Bitch NPC • Detective Dario • Commissioner • Tezzly • Gominic Lubretto • Lady • Corman • Love-G • Bryan O'Dangler • Jobs • Hnng♡ • Tom Croose Jr. • Honekonator • Santa Claus
Manga Characters	Taurine 10,000 • Black Shlack • Boxer • Phantom Ghost • Natives' leader • Santa Claws • Randy Reindeer • Octopus Vagina • Hungry Spider • Retro Bush • Gigantic Cloud • Porno Vender • Fatty Skatole • NO NAME (ALIEN) • Cheese Moon • Killing Me Softly • AΩ Nova