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Excel Saga
Excel Saga is a comedy anime directed by Shinichi Watanabe and based on a manga series written by Rikdo Koshi . The complete Japanese title is へっぽこ実験アニメーション　エクセル・サーガ , translated as Quack Experimental Anime Excel Saga.
Excel Saga is a television show which originally aired on TV Tokyo from August 7, 1999 to March 30, 2000. There are 26 episodes, but only the first 25 were aired (Episode 26, Going Too Far, was intentionally made to be too controversial to show on TV, even down to the show's opening and closing animation.)
The Excel Saga manga is published in English by Viz Communications.The anime is available in the U.S. from ADV Films.
Lord Ilpalazzo, head of the secret organization "ACROSS", wants to rid the world of corruption, starting with just one city ("Conquering one city is a reasonable plan that allows some leeway for setbacks"). Trouble is, "ACROSS" consists in its entirety of himself and Agent Excel, an airheaded blonde who never stops talking. (The situation doesn't improve noticeably when Excel gains a sidekick in the second episode; Agent Hyatt is quite a bit smarter than Excel but has an unfortunate tendency to keep dying for no readily apparent reason.)
The show relentlessly parodies various films, games, dramas, and other works of anime, including but by no means limited to Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball, Superman, Doraemon, Fist of the North Star, Biohazard, Mickey Mouse, Lupin III, Mobile Suit Gundam, Captain Harlock, Space Battleship Yamato and Star Wars. It is also very self-aware and features appearances from the writer, the director and the singers of the theme tune (the Excel♥Girls).
The writer of the comic, Rikdo Koshi , is killed in the first episode by Excel, with a big Chinese sword. In a parody of many manga-to-anime translations (including Sailor Moon), Excel Saga the anime has very little to do with Excel Saga the manga (in fact, they knowingly skip sections from the manga).
The Japanese voice actor of Excel, Kotono Mitsuishi, is same as Misato in Neon Genesis Evangelion and Tsukino Usagi, the central character of Sailor Moon.
Excel Saga comics are originally based on the dojinshi comic Municipal Force Daitenzin, also written by Koshi Rikdo.
There is also an (even wackier) OVA spinoff called Puni Puni Poemi.
Characters
ACROSS
Excel Excel, aka Hanako Dosukoi: Fast talking, wise-cracking heroine. Initially the sole minion within ACROSS. Excel, Il Palazzo, and Hyatt are named after Tokyo's three largest hotels. In the original manga series these are codenames, the real names of the members of ACROSS are never revealed.
One particular character of Excel is seemingly unable to be killed or indestructible, perhaps because she had been 'reset' several times. Normally completes/screws up the mission with a combination of extreme determination, over enthusiasm and completely lacking the understanding on how to finish the objective.
Lord Il Palazzo: Typical evildoer, Excel and Hyatt's boss. His obligatory catchphrase: "This world is becoming rotten!"
Despite all his scheming, he seems to be an ordinary man obsessed with the little things of life, like games, music, or arranging domino blocks.
Menchi: Excel's pet dog and emergency food supply. She was sent away by her caring owner who hoped she would have a better life that he could provide. What a pity Excel found her first.
Hyatt Ayasugi: Discovered on an alien space ship and saved from the clutches of the excessively cute Puchuus. Dies all the time but always revives soon thereafter. (This aspect of her character parodies an anime tradition of attractive heroines with weak constitutions. Another less extreme parody of the same thing can be seen in Mutsumi Otohime from Love Hina, who Hyatt not coincidentally physically resembles.)
Hyatt seems to have suffered a terminal disease, and this 'killed' her most of the time. She always revived afterwards, very often after medically pronounced dead. Excel herself admitted she is learning medicals much more then she expected(unwillingly)thanks to Hyatt.
Department of City Security
Kabapu: Officious leader. Has a handlebar moustache which can spin around and even fall off (though his mouth is never shown).
Tooru Watanabe: Excel and Hyatt's neighbor, he lives in an apartment with Iwata and Sumiyoshi, but he's fed up with them, all the time. He falls in love with Hyatt.
Norikuni Iwata: A really stupid guy. He falls in love with Misaki. And Ropponmatsu #1. And Excel. And any cute girls (except Ropponmatsu #2) Unfortunately for him, he ALWAYS ended up on the wall.
Daimaru Sumiyoshi: A fat guy who speaks the Kansai dialect, but only in subtitles. (in the English translation version he speak Georgie )
Misaki Matsuya: Attractive and intelligent female recruit.
Ropponmatsu: A beautiful bomb-disposal expert who happens to be a robot. Rebuilt after an explosion in two forms; as herself, and as a perky young cat-girl.
Other Citizens of F
Nabeshin: A strange guy with an afro, who dresses like Lupin III. The name comes from Watanabe Shinichi, the voice actor's name in Japanese order. (This is the same Shinichi Watanabe who directs the anime.) Being the director, he is the personified deus ex machina. Also, as a parody of the struggle manga artists often find themselves in with anime adaptations of their work, Nabeshin and Rikdo are often at each other's throat throughout the series.
Pedro: The unluckiest man on Earth. Died in the process of working on a construction project alongside Excel. Keeps referring to his wife in the English translation as his "sexy wife", and always end his appearance in an episode with teary face and a loud "NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!"
Daiuchuu no Ooinaru Ishi: The Great Will of the Macrocosm. Appearing in the form of galaxy with arms, she acts kind of a reset button to revive Excel when she dies (she dies a lot in Episode 1). She falls in love with Pedro. Usually called "Iz-chan," an abbreviation of her name in Japanese. Strangley, she and Pedro's former wife have the same voice...
That Man: Pedro's archnemesis, who masquerades as a friend and seduces both Pedro's wife and his lover. The characters never learn his real name and therefore refer to him simply as "That Man" (in reality, the character only had a minor part in the manga. He was never expected to turn into such a major character and was never officially named).
Sandora: Pedro's first son, who has a thing for anime. Sandora is moved to America where he first starts his drawings, not knowing that the pictures are being sold to the Mafia. Eventually he comes back home at the end of the series.
Puchu-puchu: Alien from outer space that came to earth to invade. Has an extremely cute outlook that few can resist (holding a whacker stick known in Asian countries to dust matresses). However when killed, they reveal their true 'not-so-cute' form. The interesting thing is when they are not pre-occupied with their earth-invasion ambision, they cohabit and mix up with humans either as pets or as helpers (like maids)
Gojou Shioji: Shioji is the creator of the Ropponmatsu's he also has a serious Lolicon. In the final episode he ends up in a love hotel with the young girl assassin Cosette luckily for the audience a certain plot twist keeps it from as the title of thee suggests going way to far.
Episode Guide
01. The Koshi Rikdo Assassination Plot
Excel joins up with ACROSS. Her first task is to kill Rikdo Koshi . Excel keeps on messing the job up, usually dying in the process.
02. The Woman From Mars
Hyatt arrives on the scene. However, the aliens transporting her to earth have the usual world-domination plans. This parodize western Sci-Fi movies, especially Star Wars (Puchu's ship resemble Star Destroyer)
03. The Sacrificial Lamb of the Venomous Great Escape of Hell
The episode resembles a war b-movie. Excel is trapped in the jungle, alongside some very manly mercenaries, who also happen to have some unfinished business with Nabeshin. But some of them have a very soft side for her dog Menchi. The androgynous prisoner in an iron mask complicates the situation.
04. Love Puny
"Love Puny" is a romantic comedy spoof. Watanabe sets his sights on Hyatt, but he is actually under the control of a dating game Ilpalazzo is playing, causing hilarity to ensue. The title of this episode is a reference to "Love Hina", a popular romantic anime and manga. The dating game is played on what appears to be a Game Boy Advance.
05. The Interesting Giant Tower
Social Drama proof in name, Residental Evil clone in reality. Excel and Hyatt set out to infiltrate the government of F City. It turns out that the officials are even more incompetent than the heroines.
06. The Cold is Winter!
"I, Rikdo Koshi, hereby authorize Excel Saga be made into a survivor show!" ACROSS plans to set up a laser in the mountains. Of course, they become stranded again.
07. Melody of the Underground Passage
The Puchus from Ep 2 seem to have infiltrated F City's sewers. Since it's an horror-movie spoof, an Aliens-style cleanup action is necessary, pitting the Department of Security against ACROSS for the first time. Quote from Watanabe, "Just Puchu it!" (kicking a puchu)
08. Increase Ratings Week
Everybody chills out in the pool, and the males are never on-camera (except for one single man). This episode is pure fanservice.
09. Bowling Girls
This episode has to do with bowling. ACROSS is not the only nefarious organization to get that idea. The title of this episode in Japanese ("Bowling Musume") is an oblique reference to the Japanese girl-band Morning Musume (essentially, a Japanese female version of Menudo).
10. Elegy to the Dogs
One of the first animal anime spoofs. Menchi has enough of her role as emergency food supply and runs away. Soon she meets up with some other strays.
11. Butt Out, Youth!
Excel temps as a substitute teacher/baseball coach. Parodize GTO and "spring time youth drama" in general.
12. Big City Part II
This Police-story spoof has no part one, by the way. The Department of City Security gets to tag along with a police detective for a day, while Hyatt is taken hostage by some extremely incompetent bankrobbers.
13. The New Year's-End Party Hidden Talent Contest
A recap of all previous episodes, in the form of a game show.
14. Prop
The Department of City Security gets a new member: Ropponmatsu, robotic bomb disposal expert. Just in time, because ACROSS now tries its luck with bombs.
15. More! Prop Memorial
Ropponmatsu is back, and so is her updated sister model, Ropponmatsu.
16. Take Back the AI!
The two Ropponmatsus fall madly in love with Excel and Hyatt. In the episode, it seems like having a near-indestructible combat robot fall madly in love with one is not all it's cracked up to be. AI has two meanings in here: as "Ai", which is Japanese for love, and as artifical intelligence, refering to the Ropponmatsus.
17. Animation USA
Excel and Hyatt are on a reconnaissance mission to the United States. Somehow, their wackiness seems even more inappropriate there. The episode contains the ultimate showdown between US and Japanese animation.
18. Municipal Force Daitenzin
The Department of City Security is outfitted with Sentai suits to stop crime even more effectively. They now are able to blow up anything, and of course they do. Quote from Kabapu, "Please try to solve at least ten incidents." Quote from Watanabe, "Damn it! the people of today are too morally right! From now on, spitting on the road is a felony!" This episode is a reference to a doujinshi Koshi Rikdo drew, which carried the same name and is what Excel Saga based on.
19. Menchi's Great Adventure 2: Around the World in 80 Hours
Another Menchi detour, she makes a trip around the world with a young industry magnet who is hunted by her evil uncle.
20. The Best of Mr. Pedro
Another recap, featuring all Pedro happenings up to this point and even some new ones.
21. Visual Kei
Seems like there is such a thing as ACROSS HQ, and it sends a messenger - Key, a typical J-Rock star. He does not blend in well with his coworkers. Lest to say that a guitar shadow just doesn't seem right. The title is a spoof on the word Visual kei.
22. Invasion, Mother
The Puchus are back, and now they try to take over the world for good. This leads to an epic space opera in the vein of Gundam and the works of Leiji Matsumoto - complete with Puchu versions of Captain Harlock and Char Aznable, among other characters. They "puchuized" the RX-78-2 Gundam down to the core fighter, as well as the Zeong , and ripped the final battle of Mobile Suit Gundam?not to mention the fact that the debris that was dropped look suspiciously like a space colony. Also, it was the first episode that actually upset audiences.
23. Legend of the End of the Century Conqueror
The space battle of the last episode didn't go out so well, so now earth has some dire problems. Gangs roam the deserted wastelands. There is one person standing up against them; that person is Excel. This episode directly parodies Fist of the North Star.
24. For You, I Could Die
Further exploring the "wastelands" storyline, the Department of City Security has survived having a city-sized space cruiser dropped onto their heads. Now they try to reclaim their city. This is the only "serious" episode in the series, as per Rikdo's edict at the start of the episode.
25. We Will Not Be Held Responsible
The episode begins with the politically incorrect super robot that appeared from the Daitenzin doujinshi. It leads to a group of fights: Pedro vs. That Man, the Daitenzin vs. Ilpalazzo vs. Excel, Hyatt vs. Watanabe (Hyatt's gun looks familiar). Also, while there are gags, it still retained some of the seriousness from the last episode. They purposely made it resembles an end-of-series episode, or so they say...
26. Going Too Far
This episode was not aired on TV Tokyo because it on purpose contains a lot of things that cannot be shown on Japanese television. The episode is completely detached from what little storyline Excel Saga managed to build up over the last episodes, and it features mostly sex (including one case of underage uncensored nudity), violence (overflowing of blood and shooting spree), and explosions (Nabeshin: "Can't end the series without a huge bomb!"). Regardless of content, it was not aired for ratings but the content inside (This was not rated 18+ in some countries). According to Nabeshin, they wanted to do see how far they'd have to go to piss people off, to take things too far. Aside from content, they went "too far" by going overtime, one minute longer than normal.
de:Excel Saga es:Excel Saga fr:Excel Saga ja:エクセル・サーガ
Excel Saga is a comedy anime directed by Shinichi Watanabe and based on a manga series written by Rikdo Koshi . The complete Japanese title is へっぽこ実験アニメーション　エクセル・サーガ , translated as Quack Experimental Anime Excel Saga.
Excel Saga is a television show which originally aired on TV Tokyo from August 7, 1999 to March 30, 2000. There are 26 episodes, but only the first 25 were aired (Episode 26, Going Too Far, was intentionally made to be too controversial to show on TV, even down to the show's opening and closing animation.)
The Excel Saga manga is published in English by Viz Communications.The anime is available in the U.S. from ADV Films.
Lord Ilpalazzo, head of the secret organization "ACROSS", wants to rid the world of corruption, starting with just one city ("Conquering one city is a reasonable plan that allows some leeway for setbacks"). Trouble is, "ACROSS" consists in its entirety of himself and Agent Excel, an airheaded blonde who never stops talking. (The situation doesn't improve noticeably when Excel gains a sidekick in the second episode; Agent Hyatt is quite a bit smarter than Excel but has an unfortunate tendency to keep dying for no readily apparent reason.)
The show relentlessly parodies various films, games, dramas, and other works of anime, including but by no means limited to Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball, Superman, Doraemon, Fist of the North Star, Biohazard, Mickey Mouse, Lupin III, Mobile Suit Gundam, Captain Harlock, Space Battleship Yamato and Star Wars. It is also very self-aware and features appearances from the writer, the director and the singers of the theme tune (the Excel♥Girls).
The writer of the comic, Rikdo Koshi , is killed in the first episode by Excel, with a big Chinese sword. In a parody of many manga-to-anime translations (including Sailor Moon), Excel Saga the anime has very little to do with Excel Saga the manga (in fact, they knowingly skip sections from the manga).
The Japanese voice actor of Excel, Kotono Mitsuishi, is same as Misato in Neon Genesis Evangelion and Tsukino Usagi, the central character of Sailor Moon.
Excel Saga comics are originally based on the dojinshi comic Municipal Force Daitenzin, also written by Koshi Rikdo.
There is also an (even wackier) OVA spinoff called Puni Puni Poemi.
Characters
ACROSS
Excel Excel, aka Hanako Dosukoi: Fast talking, wise-cracking heroine. Initially the sole minion within ACROSS. Excel, Il Palazzo, and Hyatt are named after Tokyo's three largest hotels. In the original manga series these are codenames, the real names of the members of ACROSS are never revealed.
One particular character of Excel is seemingly unable to be killed or indestructible, perhaps because she had been 'reset' several times. Normally completes/screws up the mission with a combination of extreme determination, over enthusiasm and completely lacking the understanding on how to finish the objective.
Lord Il Palazzo: Typical evildoer, Excel and Hyatt's boss. His obligatory catchphrase: "This world is becoming rotten!"
Despite all his scheming, he seems to be an ordinary man obsessed with the little things of life, like games, music, or arranging domino blocks.
Menchi: Excel's pet dog and emergency food supply. She was sent away by her caring owner who hoped she would have a better life that he could provide. What a pity Excel found her first.
Hyatt Ayasugi: Discovered on an alien space ship and saved from the clutches of the excessively cute Puchuus. Dies all the time but always revives soon thereafter. (This aspect of her character parodies an anime tradition of attractive heroines with weak constitutions. Another less extreme parody of the same thing can be seen in Mutsumi Otohime from Love Hina, who Hyatt not coincidentally physically resembles.)
Hyatt seems to have suffered a terminal disease, and this 'killed' her most of the time. She always revived afterwards, very often after medically pronounced dead. Excel herself admitted she is learning medicals much more then she expected(unwillingly)thanks to Hyatt.
Department of City Security
Kabapu: Officious leader. Has a handlebar moustache which can spin around and even fall off (though his mouth is never shown).
Tooru Watanabe: Excel and Hyatt's neighbor, he lives in an apartment with Iwata and Sumiyoshi, but he's fed up with them, all the time. He falls in love with Hyatt.
Norikuni Iwata: A really stupid guy. He falls in love with Misaki. And Ropponmatsu #1. And Excel. And any cute girls (except Ropponmatsu #2) Unfortunately for him, he ALWAYS ended up on the wall.
Daimaru Sumiyoshi: A fat guy who speaks the Kansai dialect, but only in subtitles. (in the English translation version he speak Georgie )
Misaki Matsuya: Attractive and intelligent female recruit.
Ropponmatsu: A beautiful bomb-disposal expert who happens to be a robot. Rebuilt after an explosion in two forms; as herself, and as a perky young cat-girl.
Other Citizens of F
Nabeshin: A strange guy with an afro, who dresses like Lupin III. The name comes from Watanabe Shinichi, the voice actor's name in Japanese order. (This is the same Shinichi Watanabe who directs the anime.) Being the director, he is the personified deus ex machina. Also, as a parody of the struggle manga artists often find themselves in with anime adaptations of their work, Nabeshin and Rikdo are often at each other's throat throughout the series.
Pedro: The unluckiest man on Earth. Died in the process of working on a construction project alongside Excel. Keeps referring to his wife in the English translation as his "sexy wife", and always end his appearance in an episode with teary face and a loud "NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!"
Daiuchuu no Ooinaru Ishi: The Great Will of the Macrocosm. Appearing in the form of galaxy with arms, she acts kind of a reset button to revive Excel when she dies (she dies a lot in Episode 1). She falls in love with Pedro. Usually called "Iz-chan," an abbreviation of her name in Japanese. Strangley, she and Pedro's former wife have the same voice...
That Man: Pedro's archnemesis, who masquerades as a friend and seduces both Pedro's wife and his lover. The characters never learn his real name and therefore refer to him simply as "That Man" (in reality, the character only had a minor part in the manga. He was never expected to turn into such a major character and was never officially named).
Sandora: Pedro's first son, who has a thing for anime. Sandora is moved to America where he first starts his drawings, not knowing that the pictures are being sold to the Mafia. Eventually he comes back home at the end of the series.
Puchu-puchu: Alien from outer space that came to earth to invade. Has an extremely cute outlook that few can resist (holding a whacker stick known in Asian countries to dust matresses). However when killed, they reveal their true 'not-so-cute' form. The interesting thing is when they are not pre-occupied with their earth-invasion ambision, they cohabit and mix up with humans either as pets or as helpers (like maids)
Gojou Shioji: Shioji is the creator of the Ropponmatsu's he also has a serious Lolicon. In the final episode he ends up in a love hotel with the young girl assassin Cosette luckily for the audience a certain plot twist keeps it from as the title of thee suggests going way to far.
Episode Guide
01. The Koshi Rikdo Assassination Plot
Excel joins up with ACROSS. Her first task is to kill Rikdo Koshi . Excel keeps on messing the job up, usually dying in the process.
02. The Woman From Mars
Hyatt arrives on the scene. However, the aliens transporting her to earth have the usual world-domination plans. This parodize western Sci-Fi movies, especially Star Wars (Puchu's ship resemble Star Destroyer)
03. The Sacrificial Lamb of the Venomous Great Escape of Hell
The episode resembles a war b-movie. Excel is trapped in the jungle, alongside some very manly mercenaries, who also happen to have some unfinished business with Nabeshin. But some of them have a very soft side for her dog Menchi. The androgynous prisoner in an iron mask complicates the situation.
04. Love Puny
"Love Puny" is a romantic comedy spoof. Watanabe sets his sights on Hyatt, but he is actually under the control of a dating game Ilpalazzo is playing, causing hilarity to ensue. The title of this episode is a reference to "Love Hina", a popular romantic anime and manga. The dating game is played on what appears to be a Game Boy Advance.
05. The Interesting Giant Tower
Social Drama proof in name, Residental Evil clone in reality. Excel and Hyatt set out to infiltrate the government of F City. It turns out that the officials are even more incompetent than the heroines.
06. The Cold is Winter!
"I, Rikdo Koshi, hereby authorize Excel Saga be made into a survivor show!" ACROSS plans to set up a laser in the mountains. Of course, they become stranded again.
07. Melody of the Underground Passage
The Puchus from Ep 2 seem to have infiltrated F City's sewers. Since it's an horror-movie spoof, an Aliens-style cleanup action is necessary, pitting the Department of Security against ACROSS for the first time. Quote from Watanabe, "Just Puchu it!" (kicking a puchu)
08. Increase Ratings Week
Everybody chills out in the pool, and the males are never on-camera (except for one single man). This episode is pure fanservice.
09. Bowling Girls
This episode has to do with bowling. ACROSS is not the only nefarious organization to get that idea. The title of this episode in Japanese ("Bowling Musume") is an oblique reference to the Japanese girl-band Morning Musume (essentially, a Japanese female version of Menudo).
10. Elegy to the Dogs
One of the first animal anime spoofs. Menchi has enough of her role as emergency food supply and runs away. Soon she meets up with some other strays.
11. Butt Out, Youth!
Excel temps as a substitute teacher/baseball coach. Parodize GTO and "spring time youth drama" in general.
12. Big City Part II
This Police-story spoof has no part one, by the way. The Department of City Security gets to tag along with a police detective for a day, while Hyatt is taken hostage by some extremely incompetent bankrobbers.
13. The New Year's-End Party Hidden Talent Contest
A recap of all previous episodes, in the form of a game show.
14. Prop
The Department of City Security gets a new member: Ropponmatsu, robotic bomb disposal expert. Just in time, because ACROSS now tries its luck with bombs.
15. More! Prop Memorial
Ropponmatsu is back, and so is her updated sister model, Ropponmatsu.
16. Take Back the AI!
The two Ropponmatsus fall madly in love with Excel and Hyatt. In the episode, it seems like having a near-indestructible combat robot fall madly in love with one is not all it's cracked up to be. AI has two meanings in here: as "Ai", which is Japanese for love, and as artifical intelligence, refering to the Ropponmatsus.
17. Animation USA
Excel and Hyatt are on a reconnaissance mission to the United States. Somehow, their wackiness seems even more inappropriate there. The episode contains the ultimate showdown between US and Japanese animation.
18. Municipal Force Daitenzin
The Department of City Security is outfitted with Sentai suits to stop crime even more effectively. They now are able to blow up anything, and of course they do. Quote from Kabapu, "Please try to solve at least ten incidents." Quote from Watanabe, "Damn it! the people of today are too morally right! From now on, spitting on the road is a felony!" This episode is a reference to a doujinshi Koshi Rikdo drew, which carried the same name and is what Excel Saga based on.
19. Menchi's Great Adventure 2: Around the World in 80 Hours
Another Menchi detour, she makes a trip around the world with a young industry magnet who is hunted by her evil uncle.
20. The Best of Mr. Pedro
Another recap, featuring all Pedro happenings up to this point and even some new ones.
21. Visual Kei
Seems like there is such a thing as ACROSS HQ, and it sends a messenger - Key, a typical J-Rock star. He does not blend in well with his coworkers. Lest to say that a guitar shadow just doesn't seem right. The title is a spoof on the word Visual kei.
22. Invasion, Mother
The Puchus are back, and now they try to take over the world for good. This leads to an epic space opera in the vein of Gundam and the works of Leiji Matsumoto - complete with Puchu versions of Captain Harlock and Char Aznable, among other characters. They "puchuized" the RX-78-2 Gundam down to the core fighter, as well as the Zeong , and ripped the final battle of Mobile Suit Gundam?not to mention the fact that the debris that was dropped look suspiciously like a space colony. Also, it was the first episode that actually upset audiences.
23. Legend of the End of the Century Conqueror
The space battle of the last episode didn't go out so well, so now earth has some dire problems. Gangs roam the deserted wastelands. There is one person standing up against them; that person is Excel. This episode directly parodies Fist of the North Star.
24. For You, I Could Die
Further exploring the "wastelands" storyline, the Department of City Security has survived having a city-sized space cruiser dropped onto their heads. Now they try to reclaim their city. This is the only "serious" episode in the series, as per Rikdo's edict at the start of the episode.
25. We Will Not Be Held Responsible
The episode begins with the politically incorrect super robot that appeared from the Daitenzin doujinshi. It leads to a group of fights: Pedro vs. That Man, the Daitenzin vs. Ilpalazzo vs. Excel, Hyatt vs. Watanabe (Hyatt's gun looks familiar). Also, while there are gags, it still retained some of the seriousness from the last episode. They purposely made it resembles an end-of-series episode, or so they say...
26. Going Too Far
This episode was not aired on TV Tokyo because it on purpose contains a lot of things that cannot be shown on Japanese television. The episode is completely detached from what little storyline Excel Saga managed to build up over the last episodes, and it features mostly sex (including one case of underage uncensored nudity), violence (overflowing of blood and shooting spree), and explosions (Nabeshin: "Can't end the series without a huge bomb!"). Regardless of content, it was not aired for ratings but the content inside (This was not rated 18+ in some countries). According to Nabeshin, they wanted to do see how far they'd have to go to piss people off, to take things too far. Aside from content, they went "too far" by going overtime, one minute longer than normal.
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