Line #22 Trivia/ExcelSaga


1	!!Tropes
2	* ActorAllusion: At one point, Excel parodies ''Anime/SailorMoon'' by putting tennis balls in her hair so that she looks like her and copying her InTheNameOfTheMoon speech. The joke here is that Excel is voiced by the same person who voices Sailor Moon. Of course, this joke had to be changed in the dub, where Excel’s voice actor never voiced Sailor Moon.
3	--> '''Excel''': I wanted that part, but it was dubbed in Canada!
4	* CrossDressingVoices: In the English dub, Creator/TiffanyGrant plays Sandora, a boy.
5	* CutSong: Two pieces of BGM were scored for the show but never used: "Although I Didn't Get Any Request For This, I Happened to Make It, So Please Use It." and "Will I Ever Use This?" Both pieces were included on the second CD soundtrack, however.
6	* TheDanza:
7	** The anime stars two Excel and Hyatt lookalikes named Kobayashi and Mikako, who are played by Yumiko ''Kobayashi'' and ''Mikako'' Takahashi. Also, [[Creator/ShinichiWatanabe Nabeshin]].
8	** In the Italian dub, Excel (De Bortoli) and Hyatt (Liberatori) have the same last names as their voice actresses (Creator/FedericaDeBortoli and Creator/PerlaLiberatori).
9	* {{Defictionalization}}:
10	** ''Anime/PuniPuniPoemi'' only existed as a fictional ShowWithinAShow until a 2 episode OVA was made later. Doubles as a SpiritualSuccessor.
11	** Also, according to her Facebook, Creator/JessicaCalvello has a dog that she named Menchi, after the dog Excel keeps as an emergency ration.
12	* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: The Japanese television networks refused to air episode 26 – as per the director's intention – and one of the ''many'' reasons for this was that one of the first gags in it is a joke about the Sarin nerve gas attacks in the Tokyo subways just four years before. Firmly steeped into CanonDiscontinuity, as the anime ended definitively at 25.
13	* DyeingForYourArt: Creator/JessicaCalvello was Excel's original dub voice for the first thirteen episodes of the series, but due to the character's extreme hyperactive nature (combined with Creator/ADVFilms' [[CreatorThumbprint penchant for going way overboard]] on [[Anime/GhostStories zany dubs]] in general), she strained her voice to the point where she was unable to continue performing and was replaced by Creator/LarissaWolcott. Thankfully for a show as nonsensical as ''Saga'', the random voice change pretty much fit the theme.
14	* EasterEgg: The original North American DVD release by ADV contained these, mostly in Volume 2. Several of them are short clips featuring [[EmergencyFoodSupplyAnimal Menchi-themed food products]]. One [[InterfaceScrew flips the DVD menu upside-down]]. And then there's this…
15	-->'''Excel''': [-[pops out of toilet stall]-] "It's an ''Excel Saga'' Easter Egg!! Well, at least Excel ''tried'' to lay an Easter Egg! Uh, Excel kinda made a big mess in here."
16	* {{Feelies}}: Each DVD volume except the first came with a feelie, in order: a poster, a sumo game, a make a face game, a board game, and a special postcard.
17	* FollowTheLeader: While it was arguably famous for kick-starting the "wacky comedy" genre, it wasn't ''the'' first: Earlier in the decade, we had ''Manga/DragonHalf''. Although coincidentally, both also have Creator/KotonoMitsuishi voicing the main characters.
18	* MutuallyFictional: Just as ''Anime/PuniPuniPoemi'' is a show in the ''Excel Saga'' universe, ''Excel Saga'' is a show within the ''Puni Puni Poemi'' universe.
19	* TheOtherDarrin: Excel was so over-the-top that original English VA Creator/JessicaCalvello ended up ''damaging her vocal chords'' while recording Episode 14, necessitating Larissa Wolcott (an Austin-based actress) to replace her for the rest of the series. Even after that, Calvello was sidelined for several weeks to recuperate, during which time she moved to New York, acting in several dubs there over the next few years. She wouldn't appear in another Texas dub until 2013.
20	* RealLifeRelative: In the Italian dub, Creator/FedericaDeBortoli voices Excel and her older sister Creator/BarbaraDeBortoli voices Misaki Matsuya.
21	* StarMakingRole: Excel for Creator/JessicaCalvello (but also somewhat of a StarDerailingRole for her until 2013[[labelnote:*]] {her roles in New York were mostly secondary characters}[[/labelnote]]), Hyatt for Creator/MonicaRial, and Lord Il Palazzo for Creator/JasonDouglas.
22	** For dub fans, this series is something of an odd duck, as it marks the transition from ADV's original stable of voice actors like Calvello and Creator/SpikeSpencer to the 2000's-era actor pool they became known for – Rial, Douglas, Creator/HilaryHaag, et al.
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24	!!'''Miscellaneous''':
25	* Creator/ADVFilms dubbed and initially had the license for the series back in 2002. Creator/{{FUNimation}} rescued it and re-released it in 2011. Strangely, they did not rescue ''Anime/PuniPuniPoemi'', even though there are a lot of extras involving it in the DVD release that Funimation kept.
26	* This was one of the earliest series to utilize [=ADVidNotes=] – ADV's version of ''Pop-Up Video'' where one of the subtitle tracks is taken up with liner notes explaining the more obscure references and gags. Regrettably, they only exist on the original DVD release, as ADV dropped them in their later rerelease (as per their then-policy of deleting extras from most collections), and Funimation's later release could not have them (copyright aside, ADV also held a patent on [=VidNotes=]).

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