Excel Saga - Going Way Too Far (Vol. 6)

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Summary: GOODBYE WITH A WHIMPER
Review: Volume 6 of Excel Saga. I wish I could say I was sorry that the series ended. Actually, I'm glad to be done with it. I don't think I've laughed at an episode since the end of Volume 3. The jokes just seemed humorless to me by the end of it. It got old. Or let me put it another way. It got boring. A series of this style should've never been given 26 episodes.

After being caught in the middle of a Puchuu civil war in episode 22, F City is left destroyed in a post-apocalyptic state. Lord Illpalazzo, seizing the moment of the city's weakness and the absence of the always bungling Excel, makes his move. He finally gains his goal, that of ruling the city, but finds that his insatiable appetite to conquer is not satiated. Meanwhile, an amnesiac Excel wanders the wasteland while the Daitenzen squad tries to board the ACROSS battleship for a final battle.

Episode 26 is an extra episode that was never shown on TV. For good reason. We have everything from Menchi excreting waste to Hyatt coughing billows of blood. A lot of nudity and sexual graphicness, some of a child molestation taste. Some people might find it offensive, but I saw it as a weak attempt to shock an audience out of the boredom they had to live through to get to episode 26. It had energy if nothing else.

All in all, I would recommend the first 3 volumes of this series, nothing more. I would more likely favor the manga series which is ongoing to the anime. It has a lot more balance and roughness to it, and doesn't try to parody anime genres every week. It also lacks the intrusive presence of the director of the anime inserting himself as a character. It's actually funnier than the anime. While Excel Saga started off with lots of energy, there was no way you could keep on sustaining that madcap level of humor for so long.