Excel Saga, Vol. 09

Stories the director himself said they didn’t dare put in the anime!

What happens when you try to act like an anime character in real life? EXCEL SAGA . Two groups of neighbors in an apartment building lead secret lives. One thinks they’re trying to take over the city of Fukuoka. The other thinks they’re trying to defend it. Only their bosses, would-be conqueror Lord Il Palazzo and obsessed bureaucrat Dr. Kabapu, know the truth behind this increasingly dangerous private game… Too bad neither will let their underlings in on it!

“Fukuoka 911!” Perhaps the stress of the hobo lifestyle has led Excel Saga ‘s characters to crack and imagine themselves cast in a badly edited retrospective on Japanese cop shows. But back in The Real World–no, not the MTV version, but the one with all the poverty, squalor, and filth–life brings surprising new fortune to Hyatt, Excel, and Elgâla, as they are mysteriously led to new digs equipped with–dig!–CABLE! Yet even that mercy packed syringe known as the remote cannot long keep them from their responsibilities, as both sides in the battle for the city and their shadow war to fight it out in the streets with lots of guns and lots of robots! Will the cynical masses respond to this awesome demonstration of power, or will they assume it’s just violent guerilla marketing for the next Power Rangers sequel?