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Episode 1: The Koshi Rikdo Assassination Plot

Excel is excited about working for ACROSS, unfortunately, she ends up being run over by a truck on graduation day. Fortunately, the Great Will of the Universe resurrects her so she can go work for Ilpalazzo. Ilpalazzo becomes so annoyed with Excel that he kills her again. The Great Will resurrects her again, and Excel makes an assassination attempt on the author of the “Excel Saga” manga.

Episode 2: The Woman From Mars

The City of F is invades by Puchuus, cute aliens from Mars, armed with laser powered futon beaters! Excel is too busy with her new part-time job to care, until she has an encounter with the Puchuus! Mwanwhile, Nabeshin tries to get aboard the Puchuu Mother ship and reunite with his older friend, Space Butlet.

Episode 3: The Sacrificial Lamb of the Venomous Great Escape of Hell

Excel is being held captive by a band of guerrilla troops, along with the masked stranger, Tetsuko. The two of them try to figure out an escape plan, and Nabeshin shows up to rescue Tesuko. Excel badgers him into rescuing her as well. Excel reunites with Menchi and escapes.

Episode 4: Love Puny

As Ilpalazzo struggles to figure out his new dating simulation game, Watanabe finds himself going on a date with Hyatt (or "Ayasugi-san", as he calls her), which is soon interrupted by his roommates, the obnoxious Iwata and the stoic, sardonic Sumiyoshi. Meanwhile, Excel (who is becoming increasingly jealous of Hyatt) becomes the target of an assassination plot, and the events in Ilpalazzo's game take on an alarming parallel to real-life events.

Episode 5: The Interesting Giant Tower

In order to pay the bills (and impress Hyatt), Watanabe seeks a job as a civil servant, and is not too happy to find that Iwata and Sumiyoshi have similar ideas. Meanwhile, Excel infiltrates the same civil service office building Watanabe and company have gone to, in an effort to dig up some dirt on the corrupt city government, and gets entangled in the machinations of Kabapu, the eccentric head of the Safety Assurance Agency.

Episode 6: The Cold is Winter! Snowed Under Episode

On a mission to get more "resources" for ACROSS, Excel and Hyatt travel to the mountains, where they proceed to get lost in the deep snow. Meanwhile, Watanabe and company meet the enigmatic, beautiful (and tempermental) Misaki Matsuya, and struggle to find the training center for their new jobs in the Safety Assurance Agency.

Episode 7: Melody of the Underground Passage

New Safety Assurance Agency recruits Watanabe, Iwata, Sumiyoshi, and Matsuya are assigned to investigate mysterious happenings in the sewers of F City! When the foursome blunders a bit too near the headquarters of ACROSS, Excel and Hyatt are placed in charge of getting rid of them. But none of them are prepared for what else is in the tunnels... a horde of Puchuus, including the dreaded Puchuu Queen!

Episode 8: Increase Ratings Week

At the request of a viewer (and, of course, in order to increase ratings), Excel Saga features an all-girls episode, in which only the females get any significant screentime. And as it happens, it`s the hottest day of the summer, so everyone`s going to the pool to cool off! Somewhere in all that is a plot about a pre-teen assassin named Cosette befriending Hyatt and Excel, but with all this fan-service, who really cares?

Episode 9: Bowling Girls

After getting jobs at the local bowling alley, Excel and Hyatt run afoul of an evil band of bowling terrorists known as the “Stick and Balls” group. Hyatt, and two idol singers are held hostage by the group, and Excel must learn enough about bowling in order to save them. Excel and Hyatt are sent on a mission to determine the latest sport fad, in an effort to find some way to manipulate it to ACROSS's ends.

Episode 10: Elegy to the Dogs

With Excel and Hyatt out of the house, Menchi takes advantage of an opportunity to escape, only to find that freedom isn't all its cracked up to be.

Episode 11: Butt Out, Youth!

Excel and Hyatt get jobs as teachers at Excel's old high school, Inu-Nabe High. There, they tame a classroom of the roughest thugs at the school and help out with the school baseball team. Esop, the bull headed coach, needs all the help he can get.

Episode 12: Big City Part II

Watanabe and his compatriots are sent by Kabapu to learn the art of detective work from Purin, a young cop with a bit of a split-personality, thanks to the restless spirit of her detective father, who won't rest until he finds the crooks who eluded his grasp after his death. Meanwhile, Excel has problems of her own, after two bumbling bank robbers kidnap Hyatt! (And in case you're wondering, there is no Big City, Part I)

Episode 13: The New Year`s-End Party Hidden Talent Contest

As the old year draws to a close, the Excel Saga crew decides to take a break with a clip show disguised as a "talent show" between the Excel Team and the Hyatt team, with such delights as a preview for "Pedro: The Movie", the "Engrish" version of the "Beauty Theatre" shorts from Episode 8, and a domino exhibit set up by none other than Lord Ilpalazzo!

Episode 14: Prop

The Excel Saga writers introduce a new character, a creation of Dr. Shioji, a brilliant scientist with a mostly innocent fixation with small girls. Iwata becomes hopelessly enamored with the new character, completely oblivious to the fact that she is not a human. Meanwhile, Excel and Hyatt bundle a seemingly simple mission to deliver a package with a bomb in it.

Episode 15: More! Prop Memorial

Annoyed that Ropponmatsu has bought it after only one episode, the merchandising team demands that she be put back in the show immediately. In the meantime, Iwata tries to put up with Ropponmatsu 2, an annoyingly cute little-girl version of the original Ropponmatsu, and Excel and Hyatt try their last mission over again, this time with a robot of their own!

Episode 16: Take Back Love!

After getting demolished again in the last episode, new copies of Ropponmatsu 1 and 2 are delivered to Watanabe`s apartment. But by mistake, Excel and Hyatt accidentally activate the new models, which immediately become fixated with them, in more ways than one! But will this double dose of shoujo-ai end in tragedy... or just dark comedy?

Episode 17: Animation USA

On a mission to investigate the situation in America, Excel and Hyatt run into a band of street thugs... and a communication problem. Fortunately, they get some help from Sandora, the son of Excel`s late friend Pedro, who is working as a cel animator to support his mother. But it seems these cels are being hoarded by an evil gangster, who quickly gets a hard lesson in the rules of cartoon heroics by an outraged Excel.

Episode 18: Municipal Force Daitenzin

Desperate for more material, the writers of "Excel Saga" take a page or two from Koshi Rikdou's old "masked heroes" parody Daitenjin, and have our hapless heroes in the Safety Assurance Agency (Watanabe, Iwata, Sumiyoshi, Matsuya, and both Ropponmatsus) made into the Municipal Force Daitenjin, against their will no less. In order to get out of the rather uncomfortable jumpsuits, the team goes about finding and dealing with all the terrible crimes (or not-so-terrible ones) they can find.

Episode 19: Menchi`s Great Adventure 2 Around the World in 80 Hours

Menchi makes another break while Excel and Hyatt are out of town on a mission, and ends up on a boat to America. There, she meets a young girl who must travel the world in 80 hours before she can collect her inheritance from her grandfather, and accompanies the girl on her adventure. Can the two of them make it in time, and can Menchi defend her new friend from a mysterious assassin out to get both of them?

Episode 20: The Best of Mr. Pedro

Having charted the misadventures of Pedro, as he struggled for a season and a half to return home to his son and his sexy wife, the writers of Excel Saga have Excel and Hyatt sitting around in a bar and recapping Pedro`s escapades. Yep, it`s another clip show... but with a twist, as new footage is revealed showing the return of Nabeshin, and the kidnapping of the Great Will of the Macrocosm and Pedro`s wife by the evil That Man!

Episode 21: Visually Appealing Type

ACROSS HQ sends Key to deliver an important message to Ilpalazzo, but Key won't deliver his little singing telegram until his muse returns. In the meantime, Ilpalazzo sends Excel and Hyatt to keep an eye on Key.

Episode 22: Invasion, Mother

Ilpalazzo orders Hyatt to perform final preparations for the conquest of the city of "F," and orders the bungling Excel to keep her nose out of it. Excel has no time to be dejected, though: the Puchuus have returned, and she and Hyatt must help a band of freedom fighters thwart the machinations of an evil conqueror and his really big spaceship! But even after our favorite ACROSS agents defeat the invaders and destroy their ship, the city of "F" gets squashed by the falling debris.

Episode 23: Legend of the End of the Century Conqueror

Excel wanders the wasteland that was once “F” City, and becomes entangled in a conflict between a settlement of survivors and a band of marauding raiders. After fending off the thugs, Excel finds her beloved Ilpalazzo, only for him to strike her down callously. Without the Great Will to revive her, can the mortally wounded Excel survive?

Episode 24: For You, I Could Die

After Koshi Rikdo declares this episode to be gag-free, an amnesiac Excel gives the performance of her life after being rescued by the surviving members of the Safety Assurance Agency (i.e. all of them). But as she copes with her betrayal and tries to recover her identity, Ilpalazzo is having an identity crisis of his own, as his drive to conquer pushes him further forward. Angst and pointless plot twists abound as Excel searches for ACROSS... and Ilpalazzo struggles with his ambition.

Episode 25: We Will Not Be Held Responsible

Fed up with the insanity, Koshi Rikdo finally insists that the animation and writing crew finish the freaking series already. So, the Safety Assurance Agency locks horns with ACROSS, Excel tracks down Ilpalazzo and beats some sense into him, Watanabe finally realizes the truth about Hyatt, and the series finally comes to an end... or does it?

Episode 26: Going Too Far

In this aptly-named epilogue, an aborted attempt at making a musical version of Excel Saga is replaced by an exercise in pushing the boundaries of good taste for even Japanese television. As a small sampling of the insanity, Excel and Hyatt switch bodies, Cosette returns only to get naughty with Dr. Shioji, Watanabe takes Hyatt (in Excel`s body) to a love hotel, Nabeshin gets married, and there's way too much blood and pointless violence. What better way to end a "Quack Experimental Anime?"