Excel Saga
Excel Saga
TV ShowEnded

Excel Saga

7.8 / 10
1999
1 season
26 episodes
AnimationComedyAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy

Hyperactive Excel does anything and everything to try to please her lord, Il Palazzo, who wants to take over the planet. Excel’s misadventures takes her and her partner, the ever-dying Hyatt, all over the world, meeting several strange people as they go. Everything is bizarre and goofy, as any kind of anime or entertainment genre gets mocked and spoofed.

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Seasons

  • The Koshi Rikdo Assassination Plot

    1.The Koshi Rikdo Assassination Plot

    07-10-199925m

    The secret ideological organisation of Across has but one goal in mind- world domination. To that end, Across leader Lord Ilpallazzo sends his overenthusiastic (if somewhat incompe...

  • The Woman From Mars

    2.The Woman From Mars

    14-10-199925m

    Across has a new rival in its quest for world domination — a Puchuu invasion force from the planet Mars. As the city suffers from a torrential deoluge of rain, only one woman remai...

  • The Sacrificial Lamb of the Venomous Great Escape of Hell

    3.The Sacrificial Lamb of the Venomous Great Escape of Hell

    21-10-199925m

    Having been captured by guerrillas after accidentally ending up in a war zone, Excel finds herself trapped in the worst torture of all- being part of a B movie action flick! Meanwh...

  • Love Puny

    4.Love Puny

    28-10-199925m

    When Ilpalazzo decides to amuse himself with a handheld dating game, little does he realise that his in-game choices are affecting Watanabe’s real life attempts to spend time with...

  • The Interesting Giant Tower

    5.The Interesting Giant Tower

    04-11-199925m

    To find out just how corrupt F City’s officials are, Excel and Hyatt are sent to infiltrate City Hall, where they soon find themselves embroiled in a sea of deceitful, underhanded...

  • The Cold is Winter! Snowed Under Episode

    6.The Cold is Winter! Snowed Under Episode

    11-11-199925m

    When Ilpalazzo sends Excel and Hyatt on a mission to gather more resources for Across, the duo find themselves journeying out to the mountains. However, whether it’s panning for go...

  • Melody of the Underground Passage

    7.Melody of the Underground Passage

    18-11-199925m

    When Kabapu sends Watanabe and his colleagues to investigate the sewers surrounding the Across base, Ilpalazzo dispatches Excel and Hyatt to deal with the intruders. However, even...

  • Increase Ratings Week

    8.Increase Ratings Week

    25-11-199925m

    It’s an all-girl fan service fest as Excel and Hyatt take off to the swimming pool, accompanied by local girl Cosette. But even as they laze in the sun and enjoy all the clichés of...

  • Bowling Girls

    9.Bowling Girls

    02-12-199925m

    When Ilpalazzo orders Excel and Hyatt to learn how to control the masses through their most popular sports, the duo end up working in the rather less than mainstream field of ten p...

  • Menchi’s Great Adventure

    10.Menchi’s Great Adventure

    09-12-199925m

    When the stress of life as an emergency food supply becomes too much for Menchi, she takes the first opportunity she can to escape from Excel’s apartment and go in search of her fo...

  • Butt Out, Youth!

    11.Butt Out, Youth!

    16-12-199925m

    Thanks to the state of modern education, the future is looking bleak—and that means that Across must take action. To that end, Ilpalazzo sends Excel and Hyatt to work at Excel’s ol...

  • Big City Part II

    12.Big City Part II

    23-12-199925m

    Having decided that his employees need some additional training, Kabapu sends Watanabe and the others to train under Purin, a detective who can turn from a tough-as-nails old-timer...

  • The New Year’s-Year End Hidden Talent Contest

    13.The New Year’s-Year End Hidden Talent Contest

    06-01-200025m

    It had to happen eventually. The producers got behind schedule—there’s way no way enough material for a whole new show could be produced in time. So what plan than to polish off so...

  • Prop

    14.Prop

    6.0
    13-01-200025m

    In order to pick up flagging ratings, the Excel Saga writers introduce a new character: the android lady Ropponmatsu, creation of Dr. Shioji, a brilliant scientist with a mostly-in...

  • More! Prop Memorial

    15.More! Prop Memorial

    20-01-200025m

    Annoyed that Ropponmatsu has bought it after only one episode, the merchandising team demands that she be put back in the show immediately. In the meantime, Iwata tries to put up w...

  • Take Back Love!

    16.Take Back Love!

    27-01-200025m

    After getting demolished again in the last episode, new copies of Ropponmatsu 1 and 2 are delivered to Watanabe’s apartment. But by mistake, Excel and Hyatt accidentally activate t...

  • Animation USA

    17.Animation USA

    03-02-200025m

    On a mission to investigate the situation in America, Excel and Hyatt run into a band of street thugs… and a communication problem. Fortunately, they get some help from Sandora, th...

  • Municipal Force Daitenzin

    18.Municipal Force Daitenzin

    10-02-200025m

    Desperate for more material, the writers of "Excel Saga" take a page or two from Koshi Rikdou’s old "masked heroes" parody Daitenjin, and have our hapless heroes in the Safety Assu...

  • Menchi’s Great Adventure 2: Around the World in 80 Hours

    19.Menchi’s Great Adventure 2: Around the World in 80 Hours

    17-01-200025m

    Menchi makes another break while Excel and Hyatt are out of town on a mission, and ends up on a boat to America. There, she meets Ann Anzai, a young lady who must travel the world...

  • The Best of Mr. Pedro

    20.The Best of Mr. Pedro

    24-02-200025m

    Having charted the misadventures of Pedro, as he struggled for a season and a half to return home to his son and his sexy wife, the writers of Excel Saga have Excel and Hyatt sitti...

  • Visually Appealing Type

    21.Visually Appealing Type

    02-03-200025m

    Fed up with Ilpalazzo’s lack of progress, ACROSS HQ sends the leather-clad, ruggedly handsome, and more-bishonen-than-thou agent Key to deliver an important message to Ilpalazzo. B...

  • Invasion, Mother

    22.Invasion, Mother

    09-03-200025m

    Having finally gotten the hint from ACROSS that he should hurry up the whole invasion thing, Ilpalazzo orders Hyatt to perform final preparations for the conquest of the city of "F...

  • Legend of the End of the Century Conqueror

    23.Legend of the End of the Century Conqueror

    16-03-200025m

    We find Excel wandering the wasteland that once was "F" City, where she becomes entangled in a conflict between a settlement of survivors and a band of maraudering raiders. After f...

  • For You, I Could Die

    24.For You, I Could Die

    23-03-200025m

    After Koshi Rikdo declares this episode to be gag-free, an amnesiac Excel gives the performance of her life after being rescued by the surviving members of the Safety Assurance Age...

  • We Will Not Be Held Responsible

    25.We Will Not Be Held Responsible

    30-03-200025m

    Fed up with the insanity, Koshi Rikdo finally insists that the animation and writing crew finish the freaking series already. So, the Safety Assurance Agency locks horns with ACROS...

  • Going Too Far

    26.Going Too Far

    30-03-200025m

    In this aptly-named epilogue, an aborted attempt at making a musical version of Excel Saga is replaced by an exercise in pushing the boundaries of good taste for even Japanese tele...

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