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The story started getting more complex around volume nine. New characters were introduced, like [[MaterialGirl Elgala]], the third member of ACROSS, and roboticist Goji Shiouji and his family, which is teeming with [[UnfortunateImplications unfortunate implications about their childhood]]. Il Palazzo created ILL Electronics, a front for ACROSS, and Dr. Kabapu and the Department of City Security tried to stop them. Excel got a lot more focus as her life became more difficult. Much of the plot began to narrow its focus down to "[[RobotGirl First]]" or "Ropponmatsu", a black box robot built by Shioji's mysteriously absent father. First's body contains a device which allows her to move around and act independently; thus, between her and Shioji's own robot Second, only one can be active (and independent) at any given time. In the anime, [[Fanservice this is ignored to have them meet]].
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The story started getting more complex around volume nine. New characters were introduced, like [[MaterialGirl Elgala]], the third member of ACROSS, and roboticist Goji Shiouji and his family, which is teeming with [[UnfortunateImplications unfortunate implications about their childhood]]. Il Palazzo created ILL Electronics, a front for ACROSS, and Dr. Kabapu and the Department of City Security tried to stop them. Excel got a lot more focus as her life became more difficult. Much of the plot began to narrow its focus down to "[[RobotGirl First]]" or "Ropponmatsu", a black box robot built by Shioji's mysteriously absent father. First's body contains a device which allows her to move around and act independently; thus, between her and Shioji's own robot Second, only one can be active (and independent) at any given time. In the anime, [[Fanservice [[MissFanservice this is ignored to have them meet]].
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''Excel Saga'' is a 27 volume manga written by Koshi Rikdo that ran from 1996 to 2011 in Young King Ours magazine and is being translated by Viz Media. Originally written as a way to mock the recession Japan was going through, ''Excel Saga'' tells the story of the group ACROSS and their attempts to take over Fukuoka City as a first step towards WorldDomination. The manga's title character, Excel, was based on a character from one of Rikdo's earlier works, ''Municipal Force Daitenzin'', which is [[NotSafeForWork definitely not for kids]]. He was interested in expanding on the character and created Excel Saga as a [[Spinoff]] of sorts. The Daitenzin themselves mostly carry over from that Dojin as well, opposing Excel.
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''Excel Saga'' is a 27 volume manga written by Koshi Rikdo that ran from 1996 to 2011 in Young King Ours magazine and is being translated by Viz Media. Originally written as a way to mock the recession Japan was going through, ''Excel Saga'' tells the story of the group ACROSS and their attempts to take over Fukuoka City as a first step towards WorldDomination. The manga's title character, Excel, was based on a character from one of Rikdo's earlier works, ''Municipal Force Daitenzin'', which is [[NotSafeForWork definitely not for kids]]. He was interested in expanding on the character and created Excel Saga as a [[Spinoff]] spinoff of sorts. The Daitenzin themselves mostly carry over from that Dojin as well, opposing Excel.
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''Excel Saga'' is a manga written by Koshi Rikdo that ran from 1996 to 2011 in Young King Ours magazine and was translated by Viz Media. Originally written as a way to mock the recession Japan was going through, ''Excel Saga'' tells the story of the group ACROSS and their attempts to take over Fukuoka City as a first step towards WorldDomination.
Specifically, it began with the day-to-day lives of its only minions Excel and Hyatt, as they tried to pay for food and rent while fulfilling the goals of their glorious leader Il Palazzo. Both girls are fiercely loyal to Il Palazzo, especially Excel, who is deeply in love with Il Palazzo. Unfortunately for Il Palazzo's goals, Excel is extremely [[GenkiGirl hyperactive]] and often somewhat incompetent, and Hyatt [[IllGirl tends to die and revive at the drop of a hat]]. Excel, however, proves many times to be a near-indestructible force of nature, with innumerable skills (especially in adaptation and survival).
Opposing them are the Department of City Security, made up of [[ActionGirl Misaki Matsuya]], [[TheEveryman Toru Watanabe]], [[OnlySaneMan Daimaru Sumiyoshi]], and [[LovableIdiot Norikuni Iwata]], and led by Dr. Kabapu. Watanabe and Matsuya joined the department in the hopes of getting a decent government jobs, not expecting that they would have to fight supervillains, and Iwata and Sumiyoshi joined because they are Watanabe's friends. Ironically, both teams start out living in the same apartment complex, but only know each other as neighbors and not as enemies. Later, after the two groups relocate to other places, a romantic subplot spanning nearly the entire series begins between Watanabe and Hyatt. When he discovers she's a terrorist, the psychological damage [[Understatement goes deep]].
Specifically, it began with the day-to-day lives of its only minions Excel and Hyatt, as they tried to pay for food and rent while fulfilling the goals of their glorious leader Il Palazzo. Both girls are fiercely loyal to Il Palazzo, especially Excel, who is deeply in love with Il Palazzo. Unfortunately for Il Palazzo's goals, Excel is extremely [[GenkiGirl hyperactive]] and often somewhat incompetent, and Hyatt [[IllGirl tends to die and revive at the drop of a hat]]. Excel, however, proves many times to be a near-indestructible force of nature, with innumerable skills (especially in adaptation and survival).
Opposing them are the Department of City Security, made up of [[ActionGirl Misaki Matsuya]], [[TheEveryman Toru Watanabe]], [[OnlySaneMan Daimaru Sumiyoshi]], and [[LovableIdiot Norikuni Iwata]], and led by Dr. Kabapu. Watanabe and Matsuya joined the department in the hopes of getting a decent government jobs, not expecting that they would have to fight supervillains, and Iwata and Sumiyoshi joined because they are Watanabe's friends. Ironically, both teams start out living in the same apartment complex, but only know each other as neighbors and not as enemies. Later, after the two groups relocate to other places, a romantic subplot spanning nearly the entire series begins between Watanabe and Hyatt. When he discovers she's a terrorist, the psychological damage [[Understatement goes deep]].
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''Excel Saga'' is a 27 volume manga written by Koshi Rikdo that ran from 1996 to 2011 in Young King Ours magazine and was is being translated by Viz Media. Originally written as a way to mock the recession Japan was going through, ''Excel Saga'' tells the story of the group ACROSS and their attempts to take over Fukuoka City as a first step towards WorldDomination.
Specifically, itWorldDomination. The manga's title character, Excel, was based on a character from one of Rikdo's earlier works, ''Municipal Force Daitenzin'', which is [[NotSafeForWork definitely not for kids]]. He was interested in expanding on the character and created Excel Saga as a [[Spinoff]] of sorts. The Daitenzin themselves mostly carry over from that Dojin as well, opposing Excel.
It began with the day-to-day lives ofits ACROSS's only minions minions, Excel and Hyatt, as they tried to pay for food and rent while fulfilling the goals of their glorious leader Il Palazzo.Palazzo (one way or another). Both girls are fiercely loyal to Il Palazzo, especially Excel, who is deeply in love with Il Palazzo. Unfortunately for Il Palazzo's goals, Excel is extremely [[GenkiGirl hyperactive]] and often somewhat incompetent, and Hyatt [[IllGirl tends to die and revive at the drop of a hat]]. Excel, however, proves many times to be a near-indestructible force of nature, with innumerable skills (especially in adaptation and survival).
Opposing them are the Department of City Security, made up of [[ActionGirl Misaki Matsuya]], [[TheEveryman Toru Watanabe]], [[OnlySaneMan Daimaru Sumiyoshi]], and[[LovableIdiot [[IdiotHero Norikuni Iwata]], and led by Dr. Kabapu. Watanabe and Matsuya joined the department in the hopes of getting a decent government jobs, not expecting that they would have to fight supervillains, and Iwata and Sumiyoshi joined because they are Watanabe's friends. Ironically, both teams start out living in the same apartment complex, but only know each other as neighbors and not as enemies. Later, after the two groups relocate to other places, a romantic subplot spanning nearly the entire series begins between Watanabe and Hyatt. When he discovers she's a terrorist, the psychological damage [[Understatement [[SlowlySlippingIntoEvil goes deep]].
deeper than it seems]], sending a fairly generic character on a spiral of moral deterioration.
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Specifically, it deals with the day-to-day lives of its only minions Excel and Hyatt, as they try to pay for food and rent while fufilling the goals of their glorious leader Il Palazzo. Both girls are fiercely loyal to Il Palazzo, especially Excel, who is deeply in love with Il Palazzo. Unfortunately for Il Palazzo's goals, Excel's is extremely [[GenkiGirl hyperactive]] and incompetent, and Hyatt [[IllGirl tends to die and revive at the drop of a hat]].
Opposing them are the Department of City Security, made up of Misaki Matsuya, Toru Watanabe, Daimaru Sumiyoshi, and Norikuni Iwata, and led by Dr. Kabapu. Watanabe and Matsuya joined the department in the hopes of getting a decent government jobs, not expecting that they would have to fight supervillains, and Iwata and Sumiyoshi joined because they are Watanabe's friends. Ironically, both teams live in the same apartment complex, but only know each other as neighbors and not as enemies.
That was the plot initially. Chapters would focus on a new temp job Excel and Hyatt had been hired for, and the ways they would try to fulfill a mission and not get fired. Or the story would be about a mission the Department was on, and how they would fail. Hints about the backstory of Il Palazzo and Kabapu were dropped early on, but were not the focus.
The story started getting more complex around volume nine. New characters were introduced, like Elgala, the third member of ACROSS, and roboticist Goji Shiouji and his family. Il Palazzo created ILL Electronics, a front for ACROSS, and Dr. Kabapu and the Department of City Security tried to stop them. Excel got a lot more focus as her life became more difficult.
''Excel Saga'' has never had that big an fanbase outside of Japan. Thanks to the sheer number of jokes and references it makes, no one has ever wanted to do a serious fan translation, and the official translation by Viz slowed down to one volume a year.
The manga was adapted into a twenty-six episode {{Anime}} in 1999. Since the anime's storyline changed several things, [[Anime/ExcelSaga it has its own page]], '''and tropes that only happened in the anime should go there.'''
Opposing them are the Department of City Security, made up of Misaki Matsuya, Toru Watanabe, Daimaru Sumiyoshi, and Norikuni Iwata, and led by Dr. Kabapu. Watanabe and Matsuya joined the department in the hopes of getting a decent government jobs, not expecting that they would have to fight supervillains, and Iwata and Sumiyoshi joined because they are Watanabe's friends. Ironically, both teams live in the same apartment complex, but only know each other as neighbors and not as enemies.
That was the plot initially. Chapters would focus on a new temp job Excel and Hyatt had been hired for, and the ways they would try to fulfill a mission and not get fired. Or the story would be about a mission the Department was on, and how they would fail. Hints about the backstory of Il Palazzo and Kabapu were dropped early on, but were not the focus.
The story started getting more complex around volume nine. New characters were introduced, like Elgala, the third member of ACROSS, and roboticist Goji Shiouji and his family. Il Palazzo created ILL Electronics, a front for ACROSS, and Dr. Kabapu and the Department of City Security tried to stop them. Excel got a lot more focus as her life became more difficult.
''Excel Saga'' has never had that big an fanbase outside of Japan. Thanks to the sheer number of jokes and references it makes, no one has ever wanted to do a serious fan translation, and the official translation by Viz slowed down to one volume a year.
The manga was adapted into a twenty-six episode {{Anime}} in 1999. Since the anime's storyline changed several things, [[Anime/ExcelSaga it has its own page]], '''and tropes that only happened in the anime should go there.'''
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Specifically, it deals began with the day-to-day lives of its only minions Excel and Hyatt, as they try tried to pay for food and rent while fufilling fulfilling the goals of their glorious leader Il Palazzo. Both girls are fiercely loyal to Il Palazzo, especially Excel, who is deeply in love with Il Palazzo. Unfortunately for Il Palazzo's goals, Excel's Excel is extremely [[GenkiGirl hyperactive]] and often somewhat incompetent, and Hyatt [[IllGirl tends to die and revive at the drop of a hat]].
hat]]. Excel, however, proves many times to be a near-indestructible force of nature, with innumerable skills (especially in adaptation and survival).
Opposing them are the Department of City Security, made up of [[ActionGirl MisakiMatsuya, Matsuya]], [[TheEveryman Toru Watanabe, Watanabe]], [[OnlySaneMan Daimaru Sumiyoshi, Sumiyoshi]], and [[LovableIdiot Norikuni Iwata, Iwata]], and led by Dr. Kabapu. Watanabe and Matsuya joined the department in the hopes of getting a decent government jobs, not expecting that they would have to fight supervillains, and Iwata and Sumiyoshi joined because they are Watanabe's friends. Ironically, both teams live start out living in the same apartment complex, but only know each other as neighbors and not as enemies.
That wasenemies. Later, after the plot initially. Chapters two groups relocate to other places, a romantic subplot spanning nearly the entire series begins between Watanabe and Hyatt. When he discovers she's a terrorist, the psychological damage [[Understatement goes deep]].
Early chapters would focus on a new temp job Excel and Hyatt had been hired for, and the ways they would try to fulfill a mission and not get fired. Or the story would be about a mission the Department was on, and how they wouldfail.fail (or narrowly avoid killing themselves or each other with highly dangerous experimental weapons). Hints about the backstory of Il Palazzo and Kabapu were dropped early on, but were not the focus.
The story started getting more complex around volume nine. New characters were introduced, likeElgala, [[MaterialGirl Elgala]], the third member of ACROSS, and roboticist Goji Shiouji and his family.family, which is teeming with [[UnfortunateImplications unfortunate implications about their childhood]]. Il Palazzo created ILL Electronics, a front for ACROSS, and Dr. Kabapu and the Department of City Security tried to stop them. Excel got a lot more focus as her life became more difficult.
difficult. Much of the plot began to narrow its focus down to "[[RobotGirl First]]" or "Ropponmatsu", a black box robot built by Shioji's mysteriously absent father. First's body contains a device which allows her to move around and act independently; thus, between her and Shioji's own robot Second, only one can be active (and independent) at any given time. In the anime, [[Fanservice this is ignored to have them meet]].
''Excel Saga'' has never hadthat big an a large fanbase outside of Japan. Thanks to the sheer number of jokes and references it makes, no one has ever wanted to do a serious fan translation, translation (also fearing copyright lawsuits), and the official translation by Viz (which has an entire section in each book dedicated to the sheer amount of untranslatable references and jokes they had to change), slowed down to one volume a year.
year. However, with the release of Volume 23, the 24th is already slated for November, so hopes are high that this may indicate a speedier release schedule to finish off the 27 volume series.
The manga was adapted into a twenty-six episode {{Anime}} in 1999. Since the anime's storyline was only loosely based on a scant four volumes of the manga, it changed several things, [[Anime/ExcelSaga it has its own page]], '''and tropes that only happened in the anime should go there.'''''' Due to the point where the anime and manga diverge, many of the characters introduced later on (such as Elgala) do not exist in the anime itself.
Opposing them are the Department of City Security, made up of [[ActionGirl Misaki
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Early chapters would focus on a new temp job Excel and Hyatt had been hired for, and the ways they would try to fulfill a mission and not get fired. Or the story would be about a mission the Department was on, and how they would
The story started getting more complex around volume nine. New characters were introduced, like
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''Excel Saga'' is a manga written by Koshi Rikdo, Rikdo that ran from 1996 to 2011 in Young King Ours magazine and was translated by Viz Media. Originally written as a way to mock the recession Japan was going through, ''Excel Saga'' tells the story of the group ACROSS and their attempts to take over Fukuoka City as a first step towards WorldDomination.
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''Excel Saga'' is a finished manga written by Koshi Rikdo, started in that ran from 1996 to 2011 in Young King Ours magazine and translated into English by Viz Media. Originally written as a way to mock the recession Japan was going through, ''Excel Saga'' tells the story of the group ACROSS and their attempts to take over Fukuoka City as a first step towards WorldDomination.
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''Excel Saga'' is a finished manga written by Koshi Rikdo, started in 1996 in Young Kings King Ours magazine and translated into English by Viz Media. Originally written as a way to mock the recession Japan was going through, ''Excel Saga'' tells the story of the group ACROSS and their attempts to take over Fukuoka City as a first step towards WorldDomination.
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''Excel Saga'' is a finished manga written by Koshi Rikdo, started in 1996 in Young Kings Ours magazine and translated into English by Viz Media. Originally written as a way to mock the recession Japan was going through, ''Excel Saga'' tells the story of the group ACROSS and their attempts to take over Fukuoka City as a first step towards WorldDomination.
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''Excel Saga'' is an ongoing a finished manga written by Koshi Rikdo, started in 1996 in Young Kings Ours magazine and translated into English by Viz Media. Originally written as a way to mock the recession Japan was going through, ''Excel Saga'' tells the story of the ACROSS and their attempts to take over Fukuoka City as a first step towards WorldDomination.
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* TrapDoor: Il Palazzo's favorite way of punishing Excel for her failures is dropping her through a trap door in his throne room into a pit filled with different dangerous things. Excel does not mind though, and is finds the experience comfortable whenever she is seperated from Il Palazzo.
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* ReferencedOverdosed: The manga makes so many references that each volume of the English translation has a small encyclopedia worth of annotations in the back.
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The manga was adapted into a twenty-six episode {{Anime}} in 1999. Since the anime's storyline changed several things, [[Anime/ExcelSaga it has its own page]], and tropes that only happened in the anime should go there. There is also a page for tropes that appeared in both the manga and the anime, [[ExcelSaga here]].
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The manga was adapted into a twenty-six episode {{Anime}} in 1999. Since the anime's storyline changed several things, [[Anime/ExcelSaga it has its own page]], and '''and tropes that only happened in the anime should go there. There is also a page for tropes that appeared in both the manga and the anime, [[ExcelSaga here]].there.''''
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* OddlySmallOrganization: ACROSS, an organization that wants to take over the entire planet, consists of one man, one dog, and two to three women.
* PerpetualPoverty: A recurring theme, since the whole thing was supposed to satirize the recession. Working for ACROSS doesn't pay the bills, so the girls repeatedly get temp jobs, which they always lose or run away from when they destroy the place. Meanwhile, Watanabe tries to get more steady work as a civil servant and ends up getting in over his head.
* PerpetualPoverty: A recurring theme, since the whole thing was supposed to satirize the recession. Working for ACROSS doesn't pay the bills, so the girls repeatedly get temp jobs, which they always lose or run away from when they destroy the place. Meanwhile, Watanabe tries to get more steady work as a civil servant and ends up getting in over his head.
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* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Daitenzin and ACROSS.
* ReferencedOverdosed: The manga makes so many references that each volume of the English translation has a small encyclopedia worth of annotations in the back.
* ScaryShinyGlasses: Il Palazzo, Dr. Kabapu, and Shiouji too at times, but they're the least scary thing about that guy.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Daitenzin and ACROSS.
* ReferencedOverdosed: The manga makes so many references that each volume of the English translation has a small encyclopedia worth of annotations in the back.
* ScaryShinyGlasses: Il Palazzo, Dr. Kabapu, and Shiouji too at times, but they're the least scary thing about that guy.
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* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: The girls in this series find this out the hard way.
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* SuperSentai: Parodied with Department of City Security employees. Kabapu gives them SuperSentai uniforms and names the team Daitenzin, but they are not trained to handle the power of the suits, and often end up as a group of [[DestructiveSavior Destructive Saviors]].
* TheSweatDrop
* TakeOverTheCity: ACROSS' goal, as a first step towards taking over the world.
* TerribleTrio: Two ''warring'' TerribleTrio's in fact, though eventually it turned into a terrible quartet versus a FiveManBand.
* ThemeNaming: Many of the characters are named after hotels or other highlights of Fukuoka.
* SuperSentai: Parodied with Department of City Security employees. Kabapu gives them SuperSentai uniforms and names the team Daitenzin, but they are not trained to handle the power of the suits, and often end up as a group of [[DestructiveSavior Destructive Saviors]].
* TheSweatDrop
* TakeOverTheCity: ACROSS' goal, as a first step towards taking over the world.
* TerribleTrio: Two ''warring'' TerribleTrio's in fact, though eventually it turned into a terrible quartet versus a FiveManBand.
* ThemeNaming: Many of the characters are named after hotels or other highlights of Fukuoka.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: Excel's enthusiasm for everything and Watanabe's enthusiasm for Hyatt means pretty much everything becomes awesome.
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* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: ACROSS' headquarters are located Fukuoka sewers, and at one point in both the manga and the anime the department employess go looking for it.
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* CPRCleanPrettyReliable: Whenever Excel tries to revive Hyatt in this manner. Justified in that for Hyatt, death is a temporary condition.
** Tends to be less clean in the manga, where blood tends to spurt from Hyatt at the smallest provocation.
* DeathIsCheap:
** Hyatt can die and revive repeatedly, though Excel and Elgala sometimes work very hard to revive her.
** Iwata, due to being a cyborg and because WeCanRebuildHim, though Dr. Shioji does not appreciate all the time he wastes fixing Iwata's body.
** Tends to be less clean in the manga, where blood tends to spurt from Hyatt at the smallest provocation.
* DeathIsCheap:
** Hyatt can die and revive repeatedly, though Excel and Elgala sometimes work very hard to revive her.
** Iwata, due to being a cyborg and because WeCanRebuildHim, though Dr. Shioji does not appreciate all the time he wastes fixing Iwata's body.
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* FiveManBand: The government anti-insurgent team: Daitenzin.
** TheLeader: Matsuya
** TheLancer: Watanabe
** TheSmartGuy: Sumiyoshi
** TheBigGuy: Ropponmatsu I/Ropponmatsu II, depending on which one is operational at the time.
** TheChick: Iwata
** TheLeader: Matsuya
** TheLancer: Watanabe
** TheSmartGuy: Sumiyoshi
** TheBigGuy: Ropponmatsu I/Ropponmatsu II, depending on which one is operational at the time.
** TheChick: Iwata
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* HellishPupils: A trait people from the lost civilization Solaria hav is yellow cat eyes, a trait Il Palazzo, [[spoiler: Dr. Kabapu, and Miwa Rengaya]] have.
* {{Honorifics}}: Excel usually refers to Hyatt as "Ha-chan".
* JerkAss: A good portion of the cast, since most of them are morally grey.
* LargeHam: Il Palazzo, Kabapu, Iwata, and Excel.
* {{Honorifics}}: Excel usually refers to Hyatt as "Ha-chan".
* JerkAss: A good portion of the cast, since most of them are morally grey.
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Manga vol. 4, when Excel is accidentally struck by a speeding car. She finds herself acting out her usual mannerisms, calling for "what's-her-name-chan" and hailing Lord Il Palazzo, but not remembering their names or faces. About a chapter later, Menchi suffers a bump on her head, too, forgetting that she's supposed to be Excel and Hyatt's emergency food supply, and ''willingly goes with them'' to ACROSS HQ.
** This happens ''AGAIN'' in volumes 15 on, [[spoiler:when Umi Rengaya finds Excel washed up on a beach with amnesia (even her former personality is forgotten), resulting in her being adopted into the Shiouji household. As of this posting, 'Teriha' is beginning to recall bits and pieces, but has yet to make a full recovery.]]
*** She's apparently recovered her memory in volume 20.
** Not to mention Hyatt's bout of amnesia (a volume or so before Excel's second one) wherein she forgets everyone and everything except Watanabe [[spoiler:and therefore ends up living with him and then becoming engaged to him, though she deserts him as soon as Il Palazzo comes for her and her memory returns]].
** It's implied that Excel's "normal" state is amnesiac in itself. It's still unclear why she fears needles and why Dr. Kabapu seemed to recognise her. At one point Lord Il Palazzo seems dissapointed that her whole memory still hadn't returned after a more recent amnesiac episode.
* LostTechnology: Il Palazzo and Kabapu both have access to technology from the lost civilization of Solaria. Kabapu is allegedly trying to destroy the last of it to prevent a disaster.
** This happens ''AGAIN'' in volumes 15 on, [[spoiler:when Umi Rengaya finds Excel washed up on a beach with amnesia (even her former personality is forgotten), resulting in her being adopted into the Shiouji household. As of this posting, 'Teriha' is beginning to recall bits and pieces, but has yet to make a full recovery.]]
*** She's apparently recovered her memory in volume 20.
** Not to mention Hyatt's bout of amnesia (a volume or so before Excel's second one) wherein she forgets everyone and everything except Watanabe [[spoiler:and therefore ends up living with him and then becoming engaged to him, though she deserts him as soon as Il Palazzo comes for her and her memory returns]].
** It's implied that Excel's "normal" state is amnesiac in itself. It's still unclear why she fears needles and why Dr. Kabapu seemed to recognise her. At one point Lord Il Palazzo seems dissapointed that her whole memory still hadn't returned after a more recent amnesiac episode.
* LostTechnology: Il Palazzo and Kabapu both have access to technology from the lost civilization of Solaria. Kabapu is allegedly trying to destroy the last of it to prevent a disaster.
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Manga vol. 4, when Excel is accidentally struck by a speeding car. She finds herself acting out her usual mannerisms, calling for "what's-her-name-chan" and hailing Lord Il Palazzo, but not remembering their names or faces. About a chapter later, Menchi suffers a bump on her head, too, forgetting that she's supposed to be Excel and Hyatt's emergency food supply, and ''willingly willingly goes with them'' the' to ACROSS HQ.
** This happens''AGAIN'' again in volumes 15 on, [[spoiler:when 15, [[spoiler: when Umi Rengaya finds Excel washed up on a beach with amnesia (even her former personality is forgotten), resulting in her being adopted into the Shiouji household. As of this posting, 'Teriha' is beginning to recall bits and pieces, but has yet to make a full recovery.Excel recovers her memory in volume 20.]]
*** She's apparently recovered her memory in volume 20.
** Not to mention Hyatt's Hyatt suffers bout of amnesia (a volume or so before Excel's second one) wherein she forgets everyone and everything except Watanabe [[spoiler:and therefore ends up living with him and then becoming engaged to him, though she him. She deserts him as soon as Il Palazzo comes for her and her memory returns]].
** It's implied that Excel's "normal" state is amnesiac in itself. It'sstill unclear why she fears needles and why Dr. Kabapu seemed to recognise her. At one point Lord Il Palazzo seems is dissapointed that her whole memory still hadn't returned after a more recent amnesiac episode.
* LostTechnology: Il Palazzo and Kabapuboth have access to technology from the lost civilization of Solaria. Kabapu is allegedly trying to destroy the last of it to prevent a disaster.
** This happens
** It's implied that Excel's "normal" state is amnesiac in itself. It's
* LostTechnology: Il Palazzo and Kabapu
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* MorningSickness: Watanabe and Sumiyoshi get this after they eat some grade-Z meat [[IdiotBall that they sent Iwata to buy.]]
* PersonalitySwap: Il Palazzo is now running Fukuoka by bribing city officials and using corrupt business practices while Kabapu and his team are trying to conquer the city from his underground base.
** Ropponmatsu, in a strange way. In the manga both Ropponmatsu 1 and Ropponmatsu 2 are the same processor/operating system/whatever being switched between two different bodies as the situation warrants, but the personality differences from the anime (where the two are different robots entirely, and actually meet at least once) are still apparent. This is eventually revealed to be because the Ropponmatsu 1 chassis is so heavy and unstable that the lion's share of Ropponmatsu's processing power is taken up just keeping her upright, while the Ropponmatsu 2 chassis is much lighter and better-balanced, leaving her processor free to be loud and obnoxious.
* {{Precursors}}: In the manga, it's implied that [[spoiler:at least]] Kabapu and Il Pallazzo are survivors of "Solaria", battling over its LostTechnology.
* PersonalitySwap: Il Palazzo is now running Fukuoka by bribing city officials and using corrupt business practices while Kabapu and his team are trying to conquer the city from his underground base.
** Ropponmatsu, in a strange way. In the manga both Ropponmatsu 1 and Ropponmatsu 2 are the same processor/operating system/whatever being switched between two different bodies as the situation warrants, but the personality differences from the anime (where the two are different robots entirely, and actually meet at least once) are still apparent. This is eventually revealed to be because the Ropponmatsu 1 chassis is so heavy and unstable that the lion's share of Ropponmatsu's processing power is taken up just keeping her upright, while the Ropponmatsu 2 chassis is much lighter and better-balanced, leaving her processor free to be loud and obnoxious.
* {{Precursors}}: In the manga, it's implied that [[spoiler:at least]] Kabapu and Il Pallazzo are survivors of "Solaria", battling over its LostTechnology.
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** Ropponmatsu, in a strange way.
* {{Precursors}}:
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* ShipTease: A big (and barring general {{Tsundere}} tendencies, the only) one in volume eleven between Matsuya and Iwata, where Matsuya admits she is thankful that Iwata got her to be more social while they were in college.
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* ShipTease: A big (and barring general {{Tsundere}} tendencies, the only) There is one in volume eleven between Matsuya and Iwata, where Matsuya admits she is thankful that Iwata got her to be more social while they were in college.college.
** There is another one in volume 22 when Matsuya [[spoiler: kisses Iwata because he is stuck in Ropponmatsu's body and needs to be shocked out]].
** There is another one in volume 22 when Matsuya [[spoiler: kisses Iwata because he is stuck in Ropponmatsu's body and needs to be shocked out]].
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* SoftWater: Averted by Iwata when ''he fell 50 stories and landed in the ocean'', which as Dr. Shiouji put it, "May as well be cement." Thankfully he was already a cyborg by then.
* VictoryIsBoring: Kabapu was suffering from this when we first met him. He had covertly seized power over the city, much as Il Palazzo has done now, and was actually desperate for someone to be trying to conquer or otherwise harm the city, just for some excitement. When Il Palazzo took over Fukuoka he found this out too.
* VillainProtagonist: ACROSS
* VisualPun: In the opening, Excel briefly does "the Monkey" after eating a bunch of bananas.
* WeCanRebuildHim: Iwata died of colon cancer and got his brain put in a robot body. He has since been repaired many times due to his carelessness.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness (such as it was): Il Palazzo [[spoiler: abandoning Excel to die on a desert island. And pretty much throwing Elgala out on the street once she revealed she knew Competent!Excel was an impostor.]]
* VictoryIsBoring: Kabapu was suffering from this when we first met him. He had covertly seized power over the city, much as Il Palazzo has done now, and was actually desperate for someone to be trying to conquer or otherwise harm the city, just for some excitement. When Il Palazzo took over Fukuoka he found this out too.
* VillainProtagonist: ACROSS
* VisualPun: In the opening, Excel briefly does "the Monkey" after eating a bunch of bananas.
* WeCanRebuildHim: Iwata died of colon cancer and got his brain put in a robot body. He has since been repaired many times due to his carelessness.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness (such as it was): Il Palazzo [[spoiler: abandoning Excel to die on a desert island. And pretty much throwing Elgala out on the street once she revealed she knew Competent!Excel was an impostor.]]
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* SoftWater: Averted by Iwata when ''he fell he falls 50 stories and landed lands in the ocean'', ocean, which as Dr. Shiouji put puts it, "May as well be cement." Thankfully he was already a cyborg by then.
* VictoryIsBoring: Kabapu was suffering from this when we first met him. He had covertly seized power over the city, much as Il Palazzo has done now, city and was actually desperate for someone to be trying to conquer or otherwise harm the city, just for some excitement. When Il Palazzo took takes over Fukuoka he found finds this out too.
* VillainProtagonist: ACROSS
* VisualPun: In the opening, Excel briefly does "the Monkey" after eating a bunch of bananas.
* WeCanRebuildHim: Iwata died dies of colon cancer and got gets his brain put in a robot body. He has since been is repaired many times due to his carelessness.
*YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness (such as it was): YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Il Palazzo [[spoiler: abandoning abandons Excel to die on a desert island. And pretty much throwing island, and throws Elgala out on the street once she revealed reveals she knew knows Competent!Excel was is an impostor.]]
* VisualPun: In the opening, Excel briefly does "the Monkey" after eating a bunch of bananas.
*
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Opposing them are the Department of City Security, made up of Misaki Matsuya, Toru Watanabe, Daimaru Sumiyoshi, and Norikuni Iwata, and led by Dr. Kabapu. Watanabe and Matsuya joined the department in the hopes of getting a decent government job, not expecting that he would have to fight supervillains, and Iwata and Sumiyoshi joined because they Watanabe's friends. Ironically, both teams live in the same apartment complex, but only know each other as neighbors and not enemies.
That was how the plot started out. Chapters would focus on a new temp job Excel and Hyatt had been hired for, and the ways they would try to fulfill a mission and not get fired. Or the story would be about a mission the Department was on, and how they would fail. Hints about the backstory of Il Palazzo and Kabapu were dropped early on, but were not the focus.
The story started getting more complex around volume nine. New characters were introduced, like Elgala, the third member of ACROSS, and
roboticist Goji Shiouji and his family. Everyone's backstories were revealed as ACROSS' plans toward taking over the world became more active, disrupting the status quo several times.
That was how the plot started out. Chapters would focus on a new temp job Excel and Hyatt had been hired for, and the ways they would try to fulfill a mission and not get fired. Or the story would be about a mission the Department was on, and how they would fail. Hints about the backstory of Il Palazzo and Kabapu were dropped early on, but were not the focus.
The story started getting more complex around volume nine. New characters were introduced, like Elgala, the third member of ACROSS, and
roboticist Goji Shiouji and his family. Everyone's backstories were revealed as ACROSS' plans toward taking over the world became more active, disrupting the status quo several times.
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Opposing them are the Department of City Security, made up of Misaki Matsuya, Toru Watanabe, Daimaru Sumiyoshi, and Norikuni Iwata, and led by Dr. Kabapu. Watanabe and Matsuya joined the department in the hopes of getting a decent government job, jobs, not expecting that he they would have to fight supervillains, and Iwata and Sumiyoshi joined because they are Watanabe's friends. Ironically, both teams live in the same apartment complex, but only know each other as neighbors and not as enemies.
That washow the plot started out.initially. Chapters would focus on a new temp job Excel and Hyatt had been hired for, and the ways they would try to fulfill a mission and not get fired. Or the story would be about a mission the Department was on, and how they would fail. Hints about the backstory of Il Palazzo and Kabapu were dropped early on, but were not the focus.
The story started getting more complex around volume nine. New characters were introduced, like Elgala, the third member of ACROSS,and
and roboticist Goji Shiouji and his family. Everyone's backstories were revealed as ACROSS' plans toward taking over Il Palazzo created ILL Electronics, a front for ACROSS, and Dr. Kabapu and the world Department of City Security tried to stop them. Excel got a lot more focus as her life became more active, disrupting the status quo several times.
difficult.
That was
The story started getting more complex around volume nine. New characters were introduced, like Elgala, the third member of ACROSS,
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Themanga was adapted into a twenty-six episode {{Anime}} in 1999. Since the anime's storyline changed several things, [[Anime/ExcelSaga it has its own page]], and tropes that only happened in the anime should go there. There is also a page for tropes that appeared in both the manga and the anime, [[ExcelSaga here]].
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* AirVentPassageway: Justified in Kabapu's underground base as Dr. Shiouji pointed out they have to be big in order for any sort of air to move though such a large place underground.
* AuthorAppeal: It started out chaste enough, but as the series went on Rikdo let his old history of drawing adult doujin start to seep in. Dude loves drawing women's butt in tight pants.
* AuthorAppeal: It started out chaste enough, but as the series went on Rikdo let his old history of drawing adult doujin start to seep in. Dude loves drawing women's butt in tight pants.
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* AirVentPassageway: Justified in Kabapu's underground base base, as Dr. Shiouji pointed out out, they have to be big in order for any sort of air to move though such a large place underground.
* AuthorAppeal:It The manga started out chaste enough, but as the series went on Rikdo let his old history of drawing adult doujin start to seep in. Dude loves drawing women's butt in tight pants.
* AuthorAppeal:
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* EvilVersusEvil: At this point in the manga, Dr. Kabapu and Il Palazzo are both trying to take over Fukuoka using very illicit means, like espionage, mind control, and explosives the size of city blocks.
* FreakOut: Watanabe suffers one of these after being dumped by Hyatt.
* FreakOut: Watanabe suffers one of these after being dumped by Hyatt.
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* EvilVersusEvil: At this point in the manga, Dr. Kabapu and Il Palazzo are both trying to take over Fukuoka using very illicit means, like espionage, mind control, and explosives the size of city blocks.
* FreakOut: Watanabe suffers one of these after [[spoiler: being dumped byHyatt.Hyatt]].
* FreakOut: Watanabe suffers one of these after [[spoiler: being dumped by
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*** Kabapu has been getting several lately. His expression in volume nineteen as he explains how he's not going to be a dictator...he's going to be MORE than a dictator to his terrified employees, is a thing of horror.
* GagBoobs: The manga's art originally kept things modest, then came [[AlphaBitch Elgala]], then [[CosplayOtakuGirl Umi]], then [[MyBelovedSmother Miwa]].
* GeckoEnding: The still-running manga is so far from the anime that it's shifted into a [[{{Seinen}} whole different genre]], along with massively shifted characterization and the completely different plot that it takes to make an anime qualify as a Gecko Ending in the first place.
* GagBoobs: The manga's art originally kept things modest, then came [[AlphaBitch Elgala]], then [[CosplayOtakuGirl Umi]], then [[MyBelovedSmother Miwa]].
* GeckoEnding: The still-running manga is so far from the anime that it's shifted into a [[{{Seinen}} whole different genre]], along with massively shifted characterization and the completely different plot that it takes to make an anime qualify as a Gecko Ending in the first place.
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*** Kabapu has been getting gets several lately.of these. His expression in volume nineteen as he explains how he's not going to be a dictator...he's going to be MORE '''more'' than a dictator to his terrified employees, is a thing of horror.
* GagBoobs:The manga's Rikdo's art originally kept things modest, then came [[AlphaBitch Elgala]], then [[CosplayOtakuGirl Umi]], then and [[MyBelovedSmother Miwa]].
* GeckoEnding: The still-running manga is so far from the anime that it's shifted into a [[{{Seinen}} whole different genre]], along with massively shifted characterization and the completely different plot that it takes to make an anime qualify as a Gecko Ending in the first place.Miwa]].
* GagBoobs:
* GeckoEnding: The still-running manga is so far from the anime that it's shifted into a [[{{Seinen}} whole different genre]], along with massively shifted characterization and the completely different plot that it takes to make an anime qualify as a Gecko Ending in the first place.
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Specifically, it deals with the day-to-day lives of its only minions Excel and Hyatt, as they try to pay the bills while fufilling the goals of their glorious leader Il Palazzo. Both girls are fiercely loyal to Il Palazzo, especially Excel, who is deeply in love with Il Palazzo. Unfortunately for Il Palazzo's goals, Excel's is extremely [[GenkiGirl hyperactive]] and incompetent, and Hyatt [[IllGirl tends to die and revive at the drop of a hat]].
Opposing them are the Department of City Security, made up of Misaki Matsuya, Toru Watanabe, Daimaru Sumiyoshi, and Norikuni Iwata, and led by Dr. Kabapu. Dr. Kabapu's team investigate, sometimes inadvertently, ACROSS and not make any progress in defeating them, while trying to cope with the bizarre demands of Kabapu. Ironically, both teams live in the same apartment complex, but only know each other as neighbors.
That was how the plot started out. Chapters would focus on a new temp job Excel and Hyatt had been hired for, and the way they would try to fulfill a mission without getting fired. Or the story would be about a mission the Department was on, and how they would fail. Hints about the backstory of Il Palazzo and Kabapu were dropped early on, but were not the focus.
Opposing them are the Department of City Security, made up of Misaki Matsuya, Toru Watanabe, Daimaru Sumiyoshi, and Norikuni Iwata, and led by Dr. Kabapu. Dr. Kabapu's team investigate, sometimes inadvertently, ACROSS and not make any progress in defeating them, while trying to cope with the bizarre demands of Kabapu. Ironically, both teams live in the same apartment complex, but only know each other as neighbors.
That was how the plot started out. Chapters would focus on a new temp job Excel and Hyatt had been hired for, and the way they would try to fulfill a mission without getting fired. Or the story would be about a mission the Department was on, and how they would fail. Hints about the backstory of Il Palazzo and Kabapu were dropped early on, but were not the focus.
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Specifically, it deals with the day-to-day lives of its only minions Excel and Hyatt, as they try to pay the bills for food and rent while fufilling the goals of their glorious leader Il Palazzo. Both girls are fiercely loyal to Il Palazzo, especially Excel, who is deeply in love with Il Palazzo. Unfortunately for Il Palazzo's goals, Excel's is extremely [[GenkiGirl hyperactive]] and incompetent, and Hyatt [[IllGirl tends to die and revive at the drop of a hat]].
Opposing them are the Department of City Security, made up of Misaki Matsuya, Toru Watanabe, Daimaru Sumiyoshi, and Norikuni Iwata, and led by Dr. Kabapu.Dr. Kabapu's team investigate, sometimes inadvertently, ACROSS Watanabe and Matsuya joined the department in the hopes of getting a decent government job, not make any progress in defeating them, while trying expecting that he would have to cope with the bizarre demands of Kabapu. fight supervillains, and Iwata and Sumiyoshi joined because they Watanabe's friends. Ironically, both teams live in the same apartment complex, but only know each other as neighbors.
neighbors and not enemies.
That was how the plot started out. Chapters would focus on a new temp job Excel and Hyatt had been hired for, and theway ways they would try to fulfill a mission without getting and not get fired. Or the story would be about a mission the Department was on, and how they would fail. Hints about the backstory of Il Palazzo and Kabapu were dropped early on, but were not the focus.
Opposing them are the Department of City Security, made up of Misaki Matsuya, Toru Watanabe, Daimaru Sumiyoshi, and Norikuni Iwata, and led by Dr. Kabapu.
That was how the plot started out. Chapters would focus on a new temp job Excel and Hyatt had been hired for, and the
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''Excel Saga'' is an ongoing manga written by Koshi Rikdo, started in 1996 in Young Kings Ours magazine and translated into English by Viz Media. Originally written as a way to mock the recession Japan was going through, ''Excel Saga'' tells the story of the ACROSS and their attempts to take over Fukuoka City as a first step towards WorldDomination. Specifically, it deals with the day-to-day lives of its only minions Excel and Hyatt, as they try to pay the bills while fufilling the goals of their glorious leader Il Palazzo, and fail miserably at both. Opposing them are the Department of City Security, made up of Misaki Matsuya, Toru Watanabe, Daimaru Sumiyoshi, and Norikuni Iwata, and led by Dr. Kabapu. Dr. Kabapu's team investigate, sometimes inadvertently, ACROSS and not make any progress in defeating them, while trying to cope with the bizarre demands of Kabapu. Ironically, both teams live in the same apartment complex, but only know each other as neighbors.
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''Excel Saga'' is an ongoing manga written by Koshi Rikdo, started in 1996 in Young Kings Ours magazine and translated into English by Viz Media. Originally written as a way to mock the recession Japan was going through, ''Excel Saga'' tells the story of the ACROSS and their attempts to take over Fukuoka City as a first step towards WorldDomination. WorldDomination.
Specifically, it deals with the day-to-day lives of its only minions Excel and Hyatt, as they try to pay the bills while fufilling the goals of their glorious leader Il Palazzo. Both girls are fiercely loyal to Il Palazzo, especially Excel, who is deeply in love with Il Palazzo. Unfortunately for Il Palazzo's goals, Excel's is extremely [[GenkiGirl hyperactive]] andfail miserably incompetent, and Hyatt [[IllGirl tends to die and revive at both. the drop of a hat]].
Opposing them are the Department of City Security, made up of Misaki Matsuya, Toru Watanabe, Daimaru Sumiyoshi, and Norikuni Iwata, and led by Dr. Kabapu. Dr. Kabapu's team investigate, sometimes inadvertently, ACROSS and not make any progress in defeating them, while trying to cope with the bizarre demands of Kabapu. Ironically, both teams live in the same apartment complex, but only know each other as neighbors.
Specifically, it deals with the day-to-day lives of its only minions Excel and Hyatt, as they try to pay the bills while fufilling the goals of their glorious leader Il Palazzo. Both girls are fiercely loyal to Il Palazzo, especially Excel, who is deeply in love with Il Palazzo. Unfortunately for Il Palazzo's goals, Excel's is extremely [[GenkiGirl hyperactive]] and
Opposing them are the Department of City Security, made up of Misaki Matsuya, Toru Watanabe, Daimaru Sumiyoshi, and Norikuni Iwata, and led by Dr. Kabapu. Dr. Kabapu's team investigate, sometimes inadvertently, ACROSS and not make any progress in defeating them, while trying to cope with the bizarre demands of Kabapu. Ironically, both teams live in the same apartment complex, but only know each other as neighbors.
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* CaptainErsatz: "Ms. Manager" is a ShoutOut to Emeraldas from ''CaptainHarlock''.
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* ShoutOut: [[ShoutOut/ExcelSaga See here]]].
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* GoodAngelBadAngel: Not just subverted but demolished. Watanabe's angel is actually his evil side, and his good side is dressed like [[JojosBizarreAdventure Jotaro Kujo]].
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* BleachedUnderpants: Koshi Rikdo was an adult doujin artist before creating ''Municipal Force Daitenzin'' and ''Excel Saga''.
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''Excel Saga'' is an ongoing manga written by Koshi Rikdo, started in 1996 in Young Kings Ours and translated into English by Viz Media. Originally written as a way to mock the recession Japan was going through, ''Excel Saga'' tells the story of the villainous organization ACROSS and their attempts to take over Fukuoka City as a first step towards WorldDomination. Specifically, it deals with the day-to-day lives of its only minions Excel and Hyatt as they try to pay the rent on their apartment while fufilling the goals of their glorious leader Il Palazzo, and fail miserably at both. Opposing them are the Department of City Security, made up of Misaki Matsuya, Toru Watanabe, Daimaru Sumiyoshi, and Norikuni Iwata, and led by Dr. Kabapu. Dr. Kabapu's team would investigate, sometimes inadvertently, ACROSS and not make any progress, while trying to cope with the bizarre demands of Kabapu. Ironically, both teams live in the same apartment complex, but only know each other as neighbors.
The plot has thickened greatly since the beginning, with the introduction of several new characters such as Elgala, the third member of ACROSS, and Miwa and Umi, the mother and cousin (respectively) of resident {{Lolicon}} roboticist Dr. Shiouji. Il Palazzo has grown dangerously more competent in his world domination plans, while Kabapu has become more desperate as he loses influence in Fukuoka. And there is an increasingly important and involved backstory involving the origins of Excel, the Shiouji family, and an apparent lost civilization that Kabapu and Il Palazzo both belong to. It is still a humorous manga, but it is less wacky and somewhat dark at times.
''Excel Saga'' was adapted into a twenty-six episode {{Anime}} in 1999. Since the anime's storyline changed several things, [[Anime/ExcelSaga it has its own page]], and tropes that only happened in the anime should go there. There is also a page for tropes that appeared in both the manga and the anime, [[ExcelSaga here]].
The plot has thickened greatly since the beginning, with the introduction of several new characters such as Elgala, the third member of ACROSS, and Miwa and Umi, the mother and cousin (respectively) of resident {{Lolicon}} roboticist Dr. Shiouji. Il Palazzo has grown dangerously more competent in his world domination plans, while Kabapu has become more desperate as he loses influence in Fukuoka. And there is an increasingly important and involved backstory involving the origins of Excel, the Shiouji family, and an apparent lost civilization that Kabapu and Il Palazzo both belong to. It is still a humorous manga, but it is less wacky and somewhat dark at times.
''Excel Saga'' was adapted into a twenty-six episode {{Anime}} in 1999. Since the anime's storyline changed several things, [[Anime/ExcelSaga it has its own page]], and tropes that only happened in the anime should go there. There is also a page for tropes that appeared in both the manga and the anime, [[ExcelSaga here]].
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''Excel Saga'' is an ongoing manga written by Koshi Rikdo, started in 1996 in Young Kings Ours magazine and translated into English by Viz Media. Originally written as a way to mock the recession Japan was going through, ''Excel Saga'' tells the story of the villainous organization ACROSS and their attempts to take over Fukuoka City as a first step towards WorldDomination. Specifically, it deals with the day-to-day lives of its only minions Excel and Hyatt Hyatt, as they try to pay the rent on their apartment bills while fufilling the goals of their glorious leader Il Palazzo, and fail miserably at both. Opposing them are the Department of City Security, made up of Misaki Matsuya, Toru Watanabe, Daimaru Sumiyoshi, and Norikuni Iwata, and led by Dr. Kabapu. Dr. Kabapu's team would investigate, sometimes inadvertently, ACROSS and not make any progress, progress in defeating them, while trying to cope with the bizarre demands of Kabapu. Ironically, both teams live in the same apartment complex, but only know each other as neighbors.
The That was how the plot has thickened greatly since started out. Chapters would focus on a new temp job Excel and Hyatt had been hired for, and the beginning, with way they would try to fulfill a mission without getting fired. Or the introduction story would be about a mission the Department was on, and how they would fail. Hints about the backstory of several new Il Palazzo and Kabapu were dropped early on, but were not the focus.
The story started getting more complex around volume nine. New characterssuch as were introduced, like Elgala, the third member of ACROSS, and Miwa and Umi, the mother and cousin (respectively) of resident {{Lolicon}} and
roboticistDr. Shiouji. Il Palazzo has grown dangerously more competent in his world domination plans, while Kabapu has become more desperate as he loses influence in Fukuoka. And there is an increasingly important and involved backstory involving the origins of Excel, the Goji Shiouji family, and an apparent lost civilization that Kabapu and Il Palazzo both belong to. It is still a humorous manga, but it is less wacky and somewhat dark at his family. Everyone's backstories were revealed as ACROSS' plans toward taking over the world became more active, disrupting the status quo several times.
''Excel Saga'' has never had that big an fanbase outside of Japan. Thanks to the sheer number of jokes and references it makes, no one has ever wanted to do a serious fan translation, and the official translation by Viz slowed down to one volume a year.
Themanga was adapted into a twenty-six episode {{Anime}} in 1999. Since the anime's storyline changed several things, [[Anime/ExcelSaga it has its own page]], and tropes that only happened in the anime should go there. There is also a page for tropes that appeared in both the manga and the anime, [[ExcelSaga here]].
The story started getting more complex around volume nine. New characters
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''Excel Saga'' has never had that big an fanbase outside of Japan. Thanks to the sheer number of jokes and references it makes, no one has ever wanted to do a serious fan translation, and the official translation by Viz slowed down to one volume a year.
Themanga was adapted into a twenty-six episode {{Anime}} in 1999. Since the anime's storyline changed several things, [[Anime/ExcelSaga it has its own page]], and tropes that only happened in the anime should go there. There is also a page for tropes that appeared in both the manga and the anime, [[ExcelSaga here]].
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''Excel Saga'' is an ongoing manga written by Koshi Rikdo, started in 1996 in Young Kings Ours and translated into English by Viz Media. Originally written as a way to mock the recession Japan was going through, ''Excel Saga'' tells the story of the villainous organization ACROSS and their attempts to take over Fukuoka City as a first step towards WorldDomination. Specifically, it deals with the day-to-day lives of its only minions Excel and Hyatt as they try to pay the rent on their apartment while fufilling the goals of their glorious leader Il Palazzo, and fail miserably at both. Meanwhile, Dr. Kabapu's team would investigate, sometimes inadvertently, ACROSS and not make any progress while trying to cope with the bizarre demands of their own lousy government jobs.
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''Excel Saga'' is an ongoing manga written by Koshi Rikdo, started in 1996 in Young Kings Ours and translated into English by Viz Media. Originally written as a way to mock the recession Japan was going through, ''Excel Saga'' tells the story of the villainous organization ACROSS and their attempts to take over Fukuoka City as a first step towards WorldDomination. Specifically, it deals with the day-to-day lives of its only minions Excel and Hyatt as they try to pay the rent on their apartment while fufilling the goals of their glorious leader Il Palazzo, and fail miserably at both. Meanwhile, Opposing them are the Department of City Security, made up of Misaki Matsuya, Toru Watanabe, Daimaru Sumiyoshi, and Norikuni Iwata, and led by Dr. Kabapu. Dr. Kabapu's team would investigate, sometimes inadvertently, ACROSS and not make any progress progress, while trying to cope with the bizarre demands of their own lousy government jobs.
Kabapu. Ironically, both teams live in the same apartment complex, but only know each other as neighbors.
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''Excel Saga'' is an ongoing manga written by Koshi Rikdo, started in 1996 in Young Kings Ours and translated into English by Viz Media. Originally written as a way to mock the recession Japan was going through, ''Excel Saga'' tells the story of the villainous organization ACROSS and their attempts to take over Fukuoka City as a first step towards WorldDomination. Specifically, it deals witht the day-to-day lives of its only minions Excel and Hyatt as they tried to pay the rent on their apartment while fufilling the goals of their glorious leader Il Palazzo, and failing miserably at both. Meanwhile, Dr. Kabapu's team would investigate, sometimes inadvertently, ACROSS and not make any progress while trying to cope with the bizarre demands of their own lousy government jobs.
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''Excel Saga'' is an ongoing manga written by Koshi Rikdo, started in 1996 in Young Kings Ours and translated into English by Viz Media. Originally written as a way to mock the recession Japan was going through, ''Excel Saga'' tells the story of the villainous organization ACROSS and their attempts to take over Fukuoka City as a first step towards WorldDomination. Specifically, it deals witht with the day-to-day lives of its only minions Excel and Hyatt as they tried try to pay the rent on their apartment while fufilling the goals of their glorious leader Il Palazzo, and failing fail miserably at both. Meanwhile, Dr. Kabapu's team would investigate, sometimes inadvertently, ACROSS and not make any progress while trying to cope with the bizarre demands of their own lousy government jobs.
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''Excel Saga'' was adapted into a twenty-six episode {{Anime}} in 1999. Since the anime's storyline changed several things, [[Anime/ExcelSaga it has its own page]], and tropes that only happened in the anime should go there. There is also a page for tropes that appeared in both the manga and the anime, [[ExcelSaga here]].
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''Excel Saga'' is an ongoing manga written by KoshiRikdo, started in 1996 in Young Kings Ours and translated into English by Viz Media. Originally written as a way to mock the recession Japan was going through, ''Excel Saga'' tells the story of the villainous organization ACROSS and their attempts to take over Fukuoka City as a first step towards WorldDomination. Excel and Hyatt would try to fit ACROSS' world domination schemes in between their minimum wage part time jobs and fail miserably. Meanwhile, Dr. Kabapu's team would investigate, sometimes inadvertently, ACROSS and not make any progress while trying to cope with the bizarre demands of their own lousy government jobs.
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''Excel Saga'' is an ongoing manga written by KoshiRikdo, Koshi Rikdo, started in 1996 in Young Kings Ours and translated into English by Viz Media. Originally written as a way to mock the recession Japan was going through, ''Excel Saga'' tells the story of the villainous organization ACROSS and their attempts to take over Fukuoka City as a first step towards WorldDomination. Specifically, it deals witht the day-to-day lives of its only minions Excel and Hyatt would try as they tried to fit ACROSS' world domination schemes in between pay the rent on their minimum wage part time jobs apartment while fufilling the goals of their glorious leader Il Palazzo, and fail miserably.failing miserably at both. Meanwhile, Dr. Kabapu's team would investigate, sometimes inadvertently, ACROSS and not make any progress while trying to cope with the bizarre demands of their own lousy government jobs.
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Originally written as a way to mock the recession Japan was going through, the manga had many of the same storylines that were later used in the anime, but did not parody media genres as much as it focused on the unusual characters and social satire. Excel and Hyatt would try to fit ACROSS' world domination schemes in between their minimum wage part time jobs and fail miserably. Meanwhile, Dr. Kabapu's team would investigate, sometimes inadvertently, ACROSS and not make any progress while trying to cope with the bizarre demands of their own lousy government jobs.
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''Excel Saga'' is an ongoing manga written by KoshiRikdo, started in 1996 in Young Kings Ours and translated into English by Viz Media. Originally written as a way to mock the recession Japan was going through, ''Excel Saga'' tells the manga had many story of the same storylines that were later used in the anime, but did not parody media genres as much as it focused on the unusual characters villainous organization ACROSS and social satire.their attempts to take over Fukuoka City as a first step towards WorldDomination. Excel and Hyatt would try to fit ACROSS' world domination schemes in between their minimum wage part time jobs and fail miserably. Meanwhile, Dr. Kabapu's team would investigate, sometimes inadvertently, ACROSS and not make any progress while trying to cope with the bizarre demands of their own lousy government jobs.
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->''This world, is corrupt!''
->--'''Lord Il Palazzo''', opening line
Originally written as a way to mock the recession Japan was going through, the manga had many of the same storylines that were later used in the anime, but did not parody media genres as much as it focused on the unusual characters and social satire. Excel and Hyatt would try to fit ACROSS' world domination schemes in between their minimum wage part time jobs and fail miserably. Meanwhile, Dr. Kabapu's team would investigate, sometimes inadvertently, ACROSS and not make any progress while trying to cope with the bizarre demands of their own lousy government jobs.
The plot has thickened greatly since the beginning, with the introduction of several new characters such as Elgala, the third member of ACROSS, and Miwa and Umi, the mother and cousin (respectively) of resident {{Lolicon}} roboticist Dr. Shiouji. Il Palazzo has grown dangerously more competent in his world domination plans, while Kabapu has become more desperate as he loses influence in Fukuoka. And there is an increasingly important and involved backstory involving the origins of Excel, the Shiouji family, and an apparent lost civilization that Kabapu and Il Palazzo both belong to. It is still a humorous manga, but it is less wacky and somewhat dark at times.
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!!The {{Manga}} provides examples of:
* AirVentPassageway: Justified in Kabapu's underground base as Dr. Shiouji pointed out they have to be big in order for any sort of air to move though such a large place underground.
* AuthorAppeal: It started out chaste enough, but as the series went on Rikdo let his old history of drawing adult doujin start to seep in. Dude loves drawing women's butt in tight pants.
* CaptainErsatz: "Ms. Manager" is a ShoutOut to Emeraldas from ''CaptainHarlock''.
* ClarkKenting: Matusya undoes her ponytail and puts on a pair of glasses when she sneaks into a ILL Electronics store to look at the merchandise. Sumiyoshi spots her immediately.
* DisappearedDad: Dr. Shioji's father, the even more brilliant Tenmangu Shioji, disappeared without a trace when Shioji was four. Right before he disappeared he had discovered ''something'' about Kabapu and the technology he owned, and his disappearence is allegedly the reason Miwa became a MyBelovedSmother mother.
* EvilVersusEvil: At this point in the manga, Dr. Kabapu and Il Palazzo are both trying to take over Fukuoka using very illicit means, like espionage, mind control, and explosives the size of city blocks.
* FreakOut: Watanabe suffers one of these after being dumped by Hyatt.
** Mince had one after seeing Excel again. It was a two page spread of just [[NightmareFuel her horrified face]].
*** Kabapu has been getting several lately. His expression in volume nineteen as he explains how he's not going to be a dictator...he's going to be MORE than a dictator to his terrified employees, is a thing of horror.
* GagBoobs: The manga's art originally kept things modest, then came [[AlphaBitch Elgala]], then [[CosplayOtakuGirl Umi]], then [[MyBelovedSmother Miwa]].
* GeckoEnding: The still-running manga is so far from the anime that it's shifted into a [[{{Seinen}} whole different genre]], along with massively shifted characterization and the completely different plot that it takes to make an anime qualify as a Gecko Ending in the first place.
* InformedAbility: Supposedly, Elgala and Hyatt are a master swordsman and marksman respectively. Elgala has been seen holding a sword on the cover of volume 10, brings a stick to a possible fight and brandishes it like an IaijutsuPractitioner, and claims to have found gold on a real-life ''TheLegendOfZelda'' adventure. Hyatt once offered to throw a rock at a suspicious repairman and died in the process.
* KissOfLife: Subverted in volume 21. Excel and Elgala are trapped in a flood. Excel looks like she is going to do that thing where they share oxygen. Instead Excel sucks all the air out of Elgala "like an aqualung", and leaves her to die.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Manga vol. 4, when Excel is accidentally struck by a speeding car. She finds herself acting out her usual mannerisms, calling for "what's-her-name-chan" and hailing Lord Il Palazzo, but not remembering their names or faces. About a chapter later, Menchi suffers a bump on her head, too, forgetting that she's supposed to be Excel and Hyatt's emergency food supply, and ''willingly goes with them'' to ACROSS HQ.
** This happens ''AGAIN'' in volumes 15 on, [[spoiler:when Umi Rengaya finds Excel washed up on a beach with amnesia (even her former personality is forgotten), resulting in her being adopted into the Shiouji household. As of this posting, 'Teriha' is beginning to recall bits and pieces, but has yet to make a full recovery.]]
*** She's apparently recovered her memory in volume 20.
** Not to mention Hyatt's bout of amnesia (a volume or so before Excel's second one) wherein she forgets everyone and everything except Watanabe [[spoiler:and therefore ends up living with him and then becoming engaged to him, though she deserts him as soon as Il Palazzo comes for her and her memory returns]].
** It's implied that Excel's "normal" state is amnesiac in itself. It's still unclear why she fears needles and why Dr. Kabapu seemed to recognise her. At one point Lord Il Palazzo seems dissapointed that her whole memory still hadn't returned after a more recent amnesiac episode.
* LostTechnology: Il Palazzo and Kabapu both have access to technology from the lost civilization of Solaria. Kabapu is allegedly trying to destroy the last of it to prevent a disaster.
* {{Meganekko}}: Miwa for the MILF lovers, and Kanal Sumiyoshi's little sister for the {{Lolicon}} crowd.
* MorningSickness: Watanabe and Sumiyoshi get this after they eat some grade-Z meat [[IdiotBall that they sent Iwata to buy.]]
* PersonalitySwap: Il Palazzo is now running Fukuoka by bribing city officials and using corrupt business practices while Kabapu and his team are trying to conquer the city from his underground base.
** Ropponmatsu, in a strange way. In the manga both Ropponmatsu 1 and Ropponmatsu 2 are the same processor/operating system/whatever being switched between two different bodies as the situation warrants, but the personality differences from the anime (where the two are different robots entirely, and actually meet at least once) are still apparent. This is eventually revealed to be because the Ropponmatsu 1 chassis is so heavy and unstable that the lion's share of Ropponmatsu's processing power is taken up just keeping her upright, while the Ropponmatsu 2 chassis is much lighter and better-balanced, leaving her processor free to be loud and obnoxious.
* {{Precursors}}: In the manga, it's implied that [[spoiler:at least]] Kabapu and Il Pallazzo are survivors of "Solaria", battling over its LostTechnology.
* SceneryPorn: Beautiful shots of Fukuoka landmarks are drawn all the time.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Matsuya attempts this when she [[OnlySaneMan realizes]] that things are getting [[EscalatingWar out of hand]]. Unfortunately she is caught and detained at the airport.
* ShipTease: A big (and barring general {{Tsundere}} tendencies, the only) one in volume eleven between Matsuya and Iwata, where Matsuya admits she is thankful that Iwata got her to be more social while they were in college.
* SoftWater: Averted by Iwata when ''he fell 50 stories and landed in the ocean'', which as Dr. Shiouji put it, "May as well be cement." Thankfully he was already a cyborg by then.
* VictoryIsBoring: Kabapu was suffering from this when we first met him. He had covertly seized power over the city, much as Il Palazzo has done now, and was actually desperate for someone to be trying to conquer or otherwise harm the city, just for some excitement. When Il Palazzo took over Fukuoka he found this out too.
* VillainProtagonist: ACROSS
* VisualPun: In the opening, Excel briefly does "the Monkey" after eating a bunch of bananas.
* WeCanRebuildHim: Iwata died of colon cancer and got his brain put in a robot body. He has since been repaired many times due to his carelessness.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness (such as it was): Il Palazzo [[spoiler: abandoning Excel to die on a desert island. And pretty much throwing Elgala out on the street once she revealed she knew Competent!Excel was an impostor.]]
->--'''Lord Il Palazzo''', opening line
Originally written as a way to mock the recession Japan was going through, the manga had many of the same storylines that were later used in the anime, but did not parody media genres as much as it focused on the unusual characters and social satire. Excel and Hyatt would try to fit ACROSS' world domination schemes in between their minimum wage part time jobs and fail miserably. Meanwhile, Dr. Kabapu's team would investigate, sometimes inadvertently, ACROSS and not make any progress while trying to cope with the bizarre demands of their own lousy government jobs.
The plot has thickened greatly since the beginning, with the introduction of several new characters such as Elgala, the third member of ACROSS, and Miwa and Umi, the mother and cousin (respectively) of resident {{Lolicon}} roboticist Dr. Shiouji. Il Palazzo has grown dangerously more competent in his world domination plans, while Kabapu has become more desperate as he loses influence in Fukuoka. And there is an increasingly important and involved backstory involving the origins of Excel, the Shiouji family, and an apparent lost civilization that Kabapu and Il Palazzo both belong to. It is still a humorous manga, but it is less wacky and somewhat dark at times.
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!!The {{Manga}} provides examples of:
* AirVentPassageway: Justified in Kabapu's underground base as Dr. Shiouji pointed out they have to be big in order for any sort of air to move though such a large place underground.
* AuthorAppeal: It started out chaste enough, but as the series went on Rikdo let his old history of drawing adult doujin start to seep in. Dude loves drawing women's butt in tight pants.
* CaptainErsatz: "Ms. Manager" is a ShoutOut to Emeraldas from ''CaptainHarlock''.
* ClarkKenting: Matusya undoes her ponytail and puts on a pair of glasses when she sneaks into a ILL Electronics store to look at the merchandise. Sumiyoshi spots her immediately.
* DisappearedDad: Dr. Shioji's father, the even more brilliant Tenmangu Shioji, disappeared without a trace when Shioji was four. Right before he disappeared he had discovered ''something'' about Kabapu and the technology he owned, and his disappearence is allegedly the reason Miwa became a MyBelovedSmother mother.
* EvilVersusEvil: At this point in the manga, Dr. Kabapu and Il Palazzo are both trying to take over Fukuoka using very illicit means, like espionage, mind control, and explosives the size of city blocks.
* FreakOut: Watanabe suffers one of these after being dumped by Hyatt.
** Mince had one after seeing Excel again. It was a two page spread of just [[NightmareFuel her horrified face]].
*** Kabapu has been getting several lately. His expression in volume nineteen as he explains how he's not going to be a dictator...he's going to be MORE than a dictator to his terrified employees, is a thing of horror.
* GagBoobs: The manga's art originally kept things modest, then came [[AlphaBitch Elgala]], then [[CosplayOtakuGirl Umi]], then [[MyBelovedSmother Miwa]].
* GeckoEnding: The still-running manga is so far from the anime that it's shifted into a [[{{Seinen}} whole different genre]], along with massively shifted characterization and the completely different plot that it takes to make an anime qualify as a Gecko Ending in the first place.
* InformedAbility: Supposedly, Elgala and Hyatt are a master swordsman and marksman respectively. Elgala has been seen holding a sword on the cover of volume 10, brings a stick to a possible fight and brandishes it like an IaijutsuPractitioner, and claims to have found gold on a real-life ''TheLegendOfZelda'' adventure. Hyatt once offered to throw a rock at a suspicious repairman and died in the process.
* KissOfLife: Subverted in volume 21. Excel and Elgala are trapped in a flood. Excel looks like she is going to do that thing where they share oxygen. Instead Excel sucks all the air out of Elgala "like an aqualung", and leaves her to die.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Manga vol. 4, when Excel is accidentally struck by a speeding car. She finds herself acting out her usual mannerisms, calling for "what's-her-name-chan" and hailing Lord Il Palazzo, but not remembering their names or faces. About a chapter later, Menchi suffers a bump on her head, too, forgetting that she's supposed to be Excel and Hyatt's emergency food supply, and ''willingly goes with them'' to ACROSS HQ.
** This happens ''AGAIN'' in volumes 15 on, [[spoiler:when Umi Rengaya finds Excel washed up on a beach with amnesia (even her former personality is forgotten), resulting in her being adopted into the Shiouji household. As of this posting, 'Teriha' is beginning to recall bits and pieces, but has yet to make a full recovery.]]
*** She's apparently recovered her memory in volume 20.
** Not to mention Hyatt's bout of amnesia (a volume or so before Excel's second one) wherein she forgets everyone and everything except Watanabe [[spoiler:and therefore ends up living with him and then becoming engaged to him, though she deserts him as soon as Il Palazzo comes for her and her memory returns]].
** It's implied that Excel's "normal" state is amnesiac in itself. It's still unclear why she fears needles and why Dr. Kabapu seemed to recognise her. At one point Lord Il Palazzo seems dissapointed that her whole memory still hadn't returned after a more recent amnesiac episode.
* LostTechnology: Il Palazzo and Kabapu both have access to technology from the lost civilization of Solaria. Kabapu is allegedly trying to destroy the last of it to prevent a disaster.
* {{Meganekko}}: Miwa for the MILF lovers, and Kanal Sumiyoshi's little sister for the {{Lolicon}} crowd.
* MorningSickness: Watanabe and Sumiyoshi get this after they eat some grade-Z meat [[IdiotBall that they sent Iwata to buy.]]
* PersonalitySwap: Il Palazzo is now running Fukuoka by bribing city officials and using corrupt business practices while Kabapu and his team are trying to conquer the city from his underground base.
** Ropponmatsu, in a strange way. In the manga both Ropponmatsu 1 and Ropponmatsu 2 are the same processor/operating system/whatever being switched between two different bodies as the situation warrants, but the personality differences from the anime (where the two are different robots entirely, and actually meet at least once) are still apparent. This is eventually revealed to be because the Ropponmatsu 1 chassis is so heavy and unstable that the lion's share of Ropponmatsu's processing power is taken up just keeping her upright, while the Ropponmatsu 2 chassis is much lighter and better-balanced, leaving her processor free to be loud and obnoxious.
* {{Precursors}}: In the manga, it's implied that [[spoiler:at least]] Kabapu and Il Pallazzo are survivors of "Solaria", battling over its LostTechnology.
* SceneryPorn: Beautiful shots of Fukuoka landmarks are drawn all the time.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Matsuya attempts this when she [[OnlySaneMan realizes]] that things are getting [[EscalatingWar out of hand]]. Unfortunately she is caught and detained at the airport.
* ShipTease: A big (and barring general {{Tsundere}} tendencies, the only) one in volume eleven between Matsuya and Iwata, where Matsuya admits she is thankful that Iwata got her to be more social while they were in college.
* SoftWater: Averted by Iwata when ''he fell 50 stories and landed in the ocean'', which as Dr. Shiouji put it, "May as well be cement." Thankfully he was already a cyborg by then.
* VictoryIsBoring: Kabapu was suffering from this when we first met him. He had covertly seized power over the city, much as Il Palazzo has done now, and was actually desperate for someone to be trying to conquer or otherwise harm the city, just for some excitement. When Il Palazzo took over Fukuoka he found this out too.
* VillainProtagonist: ACROSS
* VisualPun: In the opening, Excel briefly does "the Monkey" after eating a bunch of bananas.
* WeCanRebuildHim: Iwata died of colon cancer and got his brain put in a robot body. He has since been repaired many times due to his carelessness.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness (such as it was): Il Palazzo [[spoiler: abandoning Excel to die on a desert island. And pretty much throwing Elgala out on the street once she revealed she knew Competent!Excel was an impostor.]]
