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The twenty-sixth episode, "Going Too Far", never aired in Excel Saga ' s original run on TV Tokyo because it was purposefully too violent and obscene for broadcast in Japan. [2] The series is licensed for an English-language release in North America and the United Kingdom by ADV Films, and in Australia and New Zealand by Madman Entertainment.
Excel Saga (Japanese: エクセル♥サーガ, Hepburn: Ekuseru Sāga) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kōshi Rikudō. It was serialized in Shōnen Gahōsha 's seinen manga magazine Young King OURs from 1996 to 2011, and its individual chapters were collected and published in 27 tankōbon volumes .
Like Excel Saga, it is a parody of other anime, manga and various aspects of popular culture, though in this case with the magical girl genre providing its primary focus and general structure. The series was originally an in-joke from an episode of Excel Saga ; Watanabe decided to take the in-joke to its most extreme logical conclusion ...
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A 26-episode anime television series adaptation by J.C.Staff aired on TV Tokyo from October 7, 1999, to March 30, 2000. [1] Viz Media licensed Excel Saga for an English language release in North America in 2003. [2] Viz released the first volume on August 13, 2003, and has released all twenty-seven volumes of the series by January 2014.
Excel Kobayashi and Mikako Hyatt are a pair of self-promoting, neophyte voice actresses who cosplay as Excel and Hyatt and perform the opening song "Ai (Chuuseishin)" as the Excel Girls. They appear in only three episodes (Episodes 5, 9, and 13) of the anime, in which they often receive much comedic physical abuse at the hands of the real Excel.
This episode was banned from airing on Nickelodeon, and the show's creator John Kricfalusi was fired along with his team. It later aired on Spike TV. You can watch the episode here. 2.
The episode criticized the way US media accommodates Chinese censorship laws, with one character saying: "It's not worth living in a world where China controls my country's art."