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Excel Saga - When Excels Strike (Out) (Vol. 3)Rating:
Release Date: 05 November, 2002 Retail Price: $29.98 OUR Price: $26.98 You SAVE: $3.00! Cast: |
Excel Saga - When Excels Strike (Out) (Vol. 3) Reviews
"You used to be a good woof-woof!"
The ideological organization ACROSS continues it's plan to conquer the world one city at a time. But it's a little hard what with government agencies bent on killing insurgent dogs, underdog baseball teams, incompetant kidnappers, and New Years specials.
If you've enjoyed the past two DVD's, you won't mind taking out the greens to add this to your collection. If you're hoping the plot develops some where, best to look else-where. Silly you...trying to find plot! Bah! I got all the plot I need when Excel tries to take down a baseball team made up entirely of monkeys! While I'll admit the 3rd episode on this DVD was lacking to me (except for the "Castle of Cagliostro" reference with Koshi Reikdo) the other episodes were still entertaining. Menchi fans take note - an entire episode is dedicated to the hapless pooch! I won't give away too much, but let me just say that I never knew dogs were so well armed with explosives.
One thing I was depressed this round was the Menchi help that usually gives you info on Japanese culture or references to other anime or films. There were times in this DVD when I KNEW they were making fun of some thing or were making a cultural reference, but there was no Menchi head to confirm me. They must have cut the Menchi head budget or some thing...
Gfah, I digress. Buy this DVD. That is today's mission. No seriously, stop reading this review and do it. I don't care if you already bought the DVD, do it again...
ACROSS is insane, but who say's it's a bad thing?
The third DVD has the best DVD menu I've ever seen. When it starts up, you get a clip from the final ep of the DVD (The review episode) of an audience full of Excels and Hyatts (The Hyatts are almost all sick) and if you don't push any buttons, Excel and Hyatt have a small conversation that ends with Hyatt saying "trickle trickle" a lot (It doesn't make sense or sound funny out of context, but it's so darn cute the way she says it!) There is another conversation that is just wierd.
The show gets even wierder in this set of episodes. There are more parodies, including Excel moving like a mobile suit from Gundam and Hyatt dying a lot. I still don't know if she actually dies or not, but it makes me feel so darn sorry for her. She became my favorite character quickly.
If you are a fan of the show, you'll pick up small threads of a plot connecting all these random episodes, but they're not easy to find. There's plenty of hilarity and Excel getting dropped (often on the slightest pretext) into a pit by Ilpalazzo. And the Excel Girls, who are apparently the anime-ized versions of the women who sing the opening song of the show (note that they look like, and are dressed like, Excel and Hyatt) appear some more and then make ilpalazzo angry by messing with his dominoes (Don't ask). Nabeshin, as usual, shows up everywhere, and he's quite the entertaining character.
If you like Excel Saga volumes 1 and 2, get this one too!
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