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Excel Saga (Ekuseru Sāga?) is a manga series by Koushi Rikudou, and a TV anime series based on it and directed by Shinichi Watanabe. Both the anime and the manga are absurdist comedies following the attempts of the "secret ideological organisation" ACROSS, to conquer the city of Fukuoka as a first step towards world domination. Excel, the title character, is a key member of ACROSS and ranks below only the organization's enigmatic leader, Ilpalazzo. In both the manga and anime, the city is defended by a shadowy government agency led by Dr. Kabapu, whose subordinates engage Excel and her junior officer, Hyatt on several occasions.
The manga focuses on the development of its principal characters by means of satirizing life and culture in Japan: Rikudou notes that Excel Saga developed out of his earlier dojinshi comic Municipal Force Daitenzin as a way both to "laugh off" economic problems of the time and to explore Excel's character, which he felt he had neglected in Daitenzin. While the anime maintains much of the satire, it is more gag-based and self-referential, featuring animated representations of the Rikudou, Watanabe, and other members of the production staff. It also relies more than the manga on parodies of popular Japanese works, including Super Sentai, Space Battleship Yamato, and Fist of the North Star. The English-language reception of the Excel Saga anime was generally positive, likening the humor in nature and quality to the works of Tex Avery and Monty Python. Nevertheless, many reviewers were dissatisfied with later episodes, and some censured the series for frequent references to obscure aspects of Japanese culture.
The Excel Saga manga began publication in Japan in the mid-1990s, serialized in Shonen Gahosha's Young King OURs, and as of August 2006 sixteen collected volumes have been published. The TV adaptation was animated by J.C.STAFF and produced by Victor Entertainment. TV Tokyo broadcast the series, beginning 1999-10-07, on Thursdays at 1:45 a.m. Japan Standard Time (16:45 UTC Wednesdays). Although twenty-six episodes were made, the last one was intentionally made too violent and obscene for public broadcast and did not air in Japan. Several international editions of both media have been made, with the manga released in English, French and Italian, and the anime in these languages, Spanish and Portuguese.
Excel (Ekuseru)
The fast-talking, wise-cracking heroine, who was initially the sole minion of ACROSS, joining immediately after graduating from high school, dying, and being resurrected several times. Excel approaches her work with an excess of determination and enthusiasm, but an utter dearth of foresight and understanding. She is in quick succession impossibly lucky and impossibly unlucky, but she never manages to complete a mission without help, and even her successes are usually attained by happenstance. Pseudonyms: Excel Excel, Hanako Dosukoi, Convoy Butterfly, and Pseudonym Undercover.
Voiced by: Kotono Mitsuishi (Japanese), Jessica Calvello and Larissa Wolcott (English)
Hyatt
Hyatt is a fictional character in the Excel Saga anime, and the manga upon which it is based. Her most notable trait is her tendency of dying and then reviving over short periods of time, much to the shock of medical professionals. While her constant illness and ability to revive despite apparently being dead are not explained in either the anime or the manga, it should be noted that in the manga Hyatt takes often large amounts of prescription drugs, whereas in the anime (although her drugs are shown at least once) Hyatt may indeed be from another world. She is noticeably Ilpalazzo's favorite agent, receiving much more praise and much less punishment than Excel or Elgala, even to the point being promoted above her senior coworker. Ilpalazzo also has some romantic interest in her, although this might be more in Excel's imagination than in reality.
Hyatt is a rather innocent, naive and sensible woman, often serving as the agent that thinks things through more as opposed to Excel who seems to act on impulse. Although she is rather oblivious to Il Palazzo's mild romantic interest in her, she is well aware of the more rampant romantic intent of their neighbour, Watanabe, who knows her by her alias of "Miss Ayasugi". Hyatt is very weak in both the anime and the manga: professing to be anemic, she often needs assistance in walking, or needing to be rescued from the Puchuus or Daitenzin by Excel (and later in the manga Elgala). These aspects of her character parody a tradition of wan, consumptive, attractive heroines with weak constitutions and unachievablely thin frames who more often than not faint at the slightest display of emotion. (Compare these attributes, her voice, and her appearance with those of Mutsumi Otohime from Love Hina.)
Menchi
Menchi (, "Mince" in the North American manga release)
Although the manga and anime differ in regards to her origins, both agree that Excel captures Menchi with an intent to eat her, sooner or later. Despite numerous threats, Excel comes to care for her after a fashion. Hyatt, though, more intently views Menchi as a ration. In the manga, Menchi gains an apparent ally in Elgâla, who nevertheless views her as an emergency food supply. Several anime and manga plots, notably episodes ten and nineteen, revolve to some extent around Menchi, her past, and her quest to escape |
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