Who's That Anime?

Excel Saga continues to…continue!

Join us this week as we discuss The Bicentennial Man, cringe at the thought of the sound of claws on a chalkboard (kids ask your parents), and think deeply on the statute of limitations on burglary!

[Episode 11] Butt Out, Youth!: This episode is a parody of the teen drama genre. In order to learn more about the education system, Excel and Hyatt infiltrate Excel's alma mater, Inunabe High School – the school in which Excel has graduated from, which means Excel herself, with Hyatt, is paying a return visit. The ACROSS duo quickly whip their class of thugs and degenerates into shape. They next have to save the school baseball team, and to do so Excel tries to recruit the team's legendary dropout, Bean Boy.

[Episode 12] Big City Part II: This episode is a parody of the detective anime genre. It's Christmas Eve in F City, F District, and Kabapu orders the Department of City Security to shadow a cute, but possessed detective, named Purin (プリン, lit. "Pudding"), who's out for revenge on her father's killers. At the same time, Hyatt is taken hostage by some extremely incompetent bank-robbers.

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This is getting silly now! Excel Saga brings out the dog and pony show…well mostly just dog show!

Join us this week as we declare the genius of Johnny Bravo (the show idea, not the character), give praise to the fan service episode title from last week, and try to figure out if Excel Saga is the Seinfeld of anime!

[Episode 9] Bowling Girls: In a parody of the sports anime genre, Excel and Hyatt infiltrate a bowling alley in order to understand Japan's youth through (what Excel mistakenly thinks is) their most popular sport. Things become far too exciting when a bowling-fanatic terrorist organization hijacks the alley and the late-night, low-rated TV show Bowling Girls. This episode has a substantial role for the Excel Girls, an animated rendition of the two female artists who sing the opening theme.

[Episode 10] Elegy to the Dogs (Menchi's Great Adventure): In a homage to animal shows, Menchi has escaped, having had enough of her role as ACROSS' emergency rations. She soon joins a pack of helpful strays, who undertake the quest to return Menchi to her former owner. Little does she know the storm of betrayal and vengeance approaching her and her new friends.

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What even is this show!? More Excel Saga! 

Join us this week as we ponder the existence of Castlevania pornography, reminisce about Angelic Layer, and agree that the enemy must be referred to as the Alien Queen!

[Episode 7] Melody of the Underground Passage: In a parody of monster horror movies, the Puchuu shock troops have penetrated F City's sewers, and Kabapu's new Department of City Security is closing in on ACROSS' HQ! Excel and Hyatt try to deal with the two-front situation at arm's length, but hands-on action is required – including an Alien Queen who breeds more Puchuus as reinforcements.

[Episode 8] Increase Ratings Week: In a bout of pure fanservice, the girls chill out at the pool. Everyone is in their best poolside attire – except Excel, who gets stuck with a decidedly un-stylish high school swimsuit. Things get even worse for Excel when she gorges herself into a bloated, immobile state on free food provided by their new friend, Cosette – who is not quite as innocent as she appears. No men are fully shown in this episode, except Rikdo, briefly and to approve the experiment, Nabeshin to hold up ending signs to the Beauty Theaters (and getting hurt), and Pedro, with the rest – including Ilpalazzo – at the end.

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It’s time for more Excel Saga, and the hits just keep coming!

Join us this week as we marvel at Excel using Excel, grow confused about vomit zombies, and most importantly, avenging Masa!

[Episode 5] The Interesting Giant Tower: In a parody of dramas about social problems, Excel and Hyatt infiltrate City Hall to gather dirt on the corrupt politicians. In the course of their investigations, they encounter Dr. Kapabu, who controls F City's leaders and has no qualms about removing obstacles with violence. Kabapu creates the Department of City Security in order to defend the city from future threats (with embezzled funds), and hires Watanabe, who pins his romantic hopes on a government job, as well as Iwata and Sumiyoshi, who just wanted to tag along with Watanabe. ACROSS scores a victory of sorts, with the help of green drink-induced zombies and bathroom scribbles.

[Episode 6] The Cold is Winter! Snowed under Episode: This episode is a parody of the survival movie genre. ACROSS plans to set up a laser cannon in the mountains in order to terrify F City into submission and at the mercy of the idealist organization – however, due to her usual stupidity and the sub-zero arctic environment, things don't go as Ilpalazzo has planned. Meanwhile, Watanabe, Iwata and Sumiyoshi are sent on a training exercise in the same mountains, and meet their new co-worker, the sexy but fierce Misaki Matsuya, who becomes Iwata's new fetish.

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We continue to try to understand what Excel Saga means! It’s a struggle, we'll be honest…

Join us this week as we discuss building a doghouse with explosions, having the right to blink, and the difference between venomous and poisonous!

[Episode 3] The Sacrificial Lamb of the Venomous Great Escape of Hell: In the fashion of an action B-movie (including letterboxing), Excel is trapped in the jungle after the Puchuu mothership was destroyed. Hyatt is dispatched to find her, meeting her neighbor Watanabe on the way. Excel's captors are some very manly and gruesome troops (with a soft spot for dogs), but Nabeshin has some unfinished business with them and with Excel's fellow prisoner who is revealed to be Maetel from Galaxy Express 999.

[Episode 4] Love Puny: A spoof of the romantic comedy genre of anime, Watanabe sets his sights on Hyatt, his thoughts paralleling the choices offered in a dating simulation game – but fate and Ilpalazzo are playing games with him (rather literally). Meanwhile, Excel is searching for Hyatt, but both are caught up in more explosive trouble due to Nabeshin and the Gold Syndicate's new bomb type.

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After 2024’s year of mostly bummer, sad-time shows, Colin suggested 2025 take a bit of a tonal shift. This year we aim to enjoy happier anime, starting the utterly insane Excel Saga!

Join us this week as we ask what this show is about, what IS this show about, and WHAT IS THIS SHOW ABOUT!?

[Episode 1] The Koshi Rikdo Assassination Plot: Ilpalazzo desires to exterminate the world's manga artists, ordering Excel to start with Rikdo Koshi, but she is thwarted by the intervention of the Great Will of the Macrocosm and her own conscience. After chatting with Pedro, the immigrant worker, and chasing down dinner, Excel makes a second attempt on Rikdo's life.

[Episode 2] The Woman from Mars: In the fashion of sci-fi movies. Reinforcements from ACROSS Headquarters turn out to be an invasion by the incredibly cute but deceptively tyrannic Puchuu Imperium, and Excel stages a brave, if somewhat misguided, raid on their Mothership. Meanwhile, Nabeshin is also aboard in order to help an old friend escape the clutches of the Puchuus. At the end, the aerial alien invasion force is destroyed, Excel is being held as a prisoner of war, and Ilpalazzo admits Hyatt to ACROSS' ranks.

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Join Steve and Colin as they talk about their first encounters into the world  of anime...We discuss the likes of Devilman to some more obscure anime like Birthday (The world of the talisman).

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It’s Christmas time, so Colin and Steve have decided to get together for an in-person recording! What kind of anime would necessitate this kind of action you ask? Well it’s the Di Gi Charat Christmas Special of course!

[Bonus] Di Gi Charat Christmas Special: The Di Gi Charat Christmas Special is about Piyoko's attempt to capture Dejiko by inviting all the characters on a cruise.

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Gantz is over and now it’s time to take a breath and enjoy a bonus episode! We finally take the plunge and watch Golgo 13: The Professional!

Join us this week as we discuss the early days of CGI (including the intro to the 90’s  Spider-man cartoon), Snake from the Simpsons, and John Wick!

[Bonus] Golgo 13: The Professional: After killing the son of a powerful oil tycoon, an infamous hit-man is targeted by American governmental forces and superhuman assassins.

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The time has come to finish Gantz! Will we survive?!

Join us this week as we discuss how dark Hocus Pocus is, reference Rick & Morty a bunch more, and finally ask Steve why it is that he needs so many copies of the 1986 Transformers Movie?!

[Episode 25] Let's Go Back Alive: Madness is taking over as the team hunts the two brutal maniacs in their midst. The number of fatalities grows quickly, and Kei begins to understand that the Gantz might not be his worst problem.

[Episode 26] Please Live!: When people die, they are brought to a room where they must suit up and fight for their lives against all odds for the chance to return the the lives they once knew. Gantz, the maniacal sphere that brings the dead back to a state of limbo, will rest at nothing to see that it is entertained by senseless killing of alien creatures it gives orders to dispatch. Can Kei Kurono survive the insanity of this upsidedown reality?

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