Unfortunately, we cannot determine whether vampire equals boobies or panties. I tried doing some factoring, but only got as far as “rosario + vampire = 2 * boob + panties,” which was none too enlightening. One must be careful to realize that panties is one of those variables that seems to be plural when, in fact, it can be singular. We don’t know if that should be more than one “panties.”

Ostensibly, we are compelled to assume panties is greater than 1. After all, it would be a little disturbing if it were only a single pair.

New equation:

vampire = 2 * boob + n * panties – rosario
where n = [0, infinity)

What does this mean? Absolutely nothing.

Also, why is it called a pair of panties? I know it’s an old question, but I haven’t ever received a satisfactory answer to it. It’s not like pants. Pants have two legs that lend themselves to being called a pair. As far as I can tell panties are composed of a single unit.

I think what we have here is what linguists would call “semantic change.” Doesn’t it seem like the meanings of “pant” and “panties” are switched? I think a very long time ago some guy/girl with dyslexia kept getting the words mixed up and others simply stopped correcting the mistake because it was tiring. They probably just took what they were saying in context. Over time people started to use the same meanings for those two words.

Yeah, that’s the way it happened…

Extra credit:

• Blood+ = ?
• infinite Ryvius = ?
• 3×3 eyes = ?
• Samurai X = ?

These are the only ones I could think of at the moment. BTW, the 3×3 eyes OVA’s are pretty good.