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From Viz: Today, the city--tomorrow, the world! That's the plan of Il Palazzo, the haughty, pretty-boy leader of ACROSS, a secret society based somewhere deep beneath the streets and sewers of Fukuoka, Japan. It's a good thing he's starting small, because ACROSS begins its bid for global domination with just two members--Il Palazzo and Excel, the teenaged girl smitten with him. After setting up house in a cheap apartment, Il Palazzo explains that the budget for world conquest and the budget for room and board must regrettably be kept separate. Their neighbors are a trio of regular guys, whom they hope will all overlook the irregularities of their comings and goings; not to mention the sound of screams, struggles, and gasoline explosions!
While the earliest volumes are a bit shaky in both art and writing quality, Excel Saga eventually elevates itself to a much higher level than most comedies. Rikudou's sense of humor is almost perfectly in tune with my own, evoking big laughs on nearly every other page. The storyline is barely comprehensible, but the characters are all lovable and the sociopolitical satire is spot on. If you like your comedy dark, witty, somewhat violent, and occasionally subtle, you'll probably love this manga. And (in later books) the artwork is great, too! The facial expressions are some of the funniest you'll ever see.
Series is genius, but the humor is primarily what will make it sink or swim for most readers, and the first volume is much more rough around the edges than the subsequent ones. The characters are brilliant, the satire is laser-accurate, and the author never seems to run out of ideas. Thoroughly recommended.
If you read whats readily available of this manga your probably not get to into it, but as the volumes increase the story starts to take form, but still retains its crazy, almost in a senseless way, feel. The manga greatly differs from the anime in the sense that the manga DOSE have a story line, even if it is hard to grasp. The story its self is still very weird, but that is what makes this manga so intersting, the fact that it has a crazy feel to it while retaining an almost minimal amount of seriousness and a maximum amount of fun. In the end the manga is a great read but its not for everyone, but I think at least everyone should give it a try!
The whole point of this manga is a parody of other mangas. It's artful in its presentation and Excel is hilarious. I highly suggest this to anyone who likes a comedy filled series with lots of randomness!
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