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A list of characters from Rikdo Koshi's comedy/gag series ''[[Excel Saga (manga)|Excel Saga]]''. This page covers both the anime and manga versions, with characters and tropes noted accordingly.

 

== ACROSS ==

 

=== Excel ===

Voiced by [[Kotono Mitsuishi]] (JP); [[Jessica Calvello]] (EN, episodes 1-13), Larissa Wolcott (EN, episodes 14-26)

 

 

=== Hyatt ===

Voiced by [[Omi Minami]] (JP), [[Monica Rial]] (EN)

 

 

=== Elgala ===

 

The third member of ACROSS, only seen in the manga. Elgala was hired in volume 8 and proved to be just as bad at her job as her seniors. While she is just as devoted to Il Palazzo as Excel and Hyatt, Elgala at least questions how Excel leads their missions, but is usually forced to go along with them. Elgala is very vain and materialistic, which constanlty puts her at odds with Excel's extreme penny pinching.

 

=== Il Palazzo ===

Voiced by [[Takehito Koyasu]] (JP), Jason Douglas (EN)

 

 

=== Menchi/Mince ===

Voiced by Satomi Koorogi (JP), [[Hilary Haag]] (EN)

 

* [[Precious Puppies]]: The other reason for Menchi/Mince's presence.

 

=== Tooru Watanabe ===

 

The first neighbor introduced and the only one who actually lives next door to Excel and Hyatt.

 

Suffers a [[Freak-Out]] in the manga when {{spoiler|after getting amnesia and living with Watanabe for a while, Hyatt leaves Watanabe when Il Palazzo restores her memory}}. Watanabe's normal complaining personality disappears, but he starts spending all his free time playing S&M video games and acting really creepy.

* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: At least Matsuya seems to believe that Dr. Kabapu did something unconventional to lift him from his depression, and that his creepy attitude is because of this. Kabapu refuses to either admit or deny the accusation.

* [[Break the Cutie]]: Hyatt's [[Comedic Sociopathy]] combined with his friends antics slowly turn Watanabe into perverted wreck.

 

=== Norikuni Iwata ===

 

Watanabe's "friend". Iwata is dumb as a brick and barrels into everything with enthusiasm and not a lot of forethought. Iwata is either oblivious or does not care that Watanabe hates him, and hangs out in his apartment regardless. He joined the Department of City Security because Watanabe did. As a member of Daitenzin Iwata is usually the first to run into a mission and mess everything up.

 

He will hit on any attractive lady in the area (except, oddly enough, the girls of ACROSS), but usually focuses his attention on Matsuya, whom he knew in college.

* [[Casanova Wannabe]]

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Iwata is prone to daydreaming that he is in a television show, or going off on pointless mental tangents.

 

=== Daimaru Sumiyoshi ===

 

Watanabe's other friend and neighbor. Sumiyoshi is smart enough to not go running head first into trouble like Iwata, but not smart enough to avoid trouble altogether and quit working for Kabapu.

Sumiyoshi is from a different part of Japan, and as such speaks with an accent, which in the anime is rendered as subtitles, and in the manga is written in a different font and with an accent. His father and younger sister speak with the same accent.

 

* [[British Accents]]: The English manga translates his dialect as being Geordie, which is from Northern England.

* [[Collector of the Strange]]: His apartment is filled with nothing but computers to house his collection of dating sims and other video games.

 

=== Misaki Matsuya ===

 

Arguably the most normal and reasonable person in the cast, Ms. Matsuya began to work for Kabapu around the same time as the others.

 

She does not appreciate Iwata constantly hitting on her, but has gotten used to it, and devotes considerable effort to coming up with ways to rebuke him.

* [[Action Girl]]

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: While many characters demonstrate this tendency none do as strongly as Matsuya, who manages to send Iwata and Watanabe to fits of spastic laughter with a single well-aimed line. She seems to do this deliberately, contrasting her serious exterior.

* [[Tomboyish Ponytail]]

* [[Tsundere]]: Actually played semi-straight with <s>Misaki</s> Matsuya in the manga, even lampshaded on one of the illustrations in a volume.

 

== Department of City Security ==

 

=== Dr. Kabapu ===

 

A shadowy government figure, Kabapu is very protective of Fukuoka, but goes about protecting it through bribes, blackmail, and assassinations. He hired Watanabe, Iwata, Sumiyoshi, and Matsuya as a problem solvers / [[Super Sentai]] group known as the Department of City Security, or Daitenzin.

 

He shares a history with Il Palazzo that is only hinted at, and for a long time in both the anime and the manga was only vaguely aware of his presence. When he finally realizes that Il Palazzo is the leader of ACROSS Kabapu starts using more extreme methods of eliminating ACROSS, which puts him in financial trouble.

* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: Blonde in the anime, green in the manga, though manga cover art that showed Kabapu's hair color was released so long after the anime that the anime creators did not know.

* [[Anti-Hero|(Anti-?)]] [[Hero Antagonist]]

 

=== Ms. Momochi ===

 

Kabapu's secretary. Little is known about Ms. Momochi, including her past, first name, or eye color. The only things known for certain are that she has worked for Kabapu since before the series started, and she is the one that's probably keeping Kabapu's schemes from totally backfiring.

* [[Eyes Always Shut]]

* [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]]

 

== Shiouji Household ==

=== Dr. Gojo Shiouji ===

 

A brilliant roboticist hired by Kabapu to build an android for the Department of City Security. Dr. Shiouji builds Ropponmatsu I, based on Kabapu's designs. When Ropponmatsu I fails to disarm a bomb Shiouji builds a new robot, Ropponmatsu II, [[Lolicon|based on his own preferences]].

 

Dr. Shiouji's laboratory is staffed by a collection of little girls, and he usually relaxes in a park and watches little girls play on the playground.

* [[Always Second Best]]: To his father Tenmangu, and to his mother, below.

* [[Lolicon]]: The series couldn't make it any more obvious with Dr. Shiouji if they tried. In fact, [[Laser-Guided Karma|it comes back to bite him in the ass in episode 26]] in the anime, when {{spoiler|Cossette, a young girl he's brought to a hotel, reveals that [[Gag Boobs|she actually has the physical properties of a fully grown woman]], in the areas where it matters to him most, resulting in him immediately leaving [[Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?|with her clinging to his leg]].}}

 

=== Ropponmatsu I ===

 

The first robot Dr. Shiouji built for Kabapu. Ropponmatsu I was built as a [[Do-Anything Robot]], with skills like [[Super Strength]], fighting abilities, and bomb disposal. She's very bad with the last one. Depending on the continuity, she was either rebuilt alongside Ropponmatsu II, or because they share the same power source, Ropponmatsu I can only be activated when Ropponmatsu II is deactivated.

 

In the manga, Il Palazzo kidnaps her {{spoiler|and dresses her up to look like Excel}}. Il Palazzo sets her up as the vice president of ILL Electronics, with the rest of ACROSS unaware that she is a robot. After a fight with Daitenzin Ropponmatsu's programming gets scrambled and she becomes subservient to Excel {{spoiler|while still dressed as Excel}}.

* [[Emotionless Girl]]

* [[Leitmotif]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLisuOu9SN4&feature=BFa&list=PL89A73FF8477DF062 Att, Rompponmatsu!]

 

=== Ropponmatsu II (Nishiki) ===

 

Ropponmatsu I's replacement after she was blown up. Dr. Shiouji built her more to his liking, so instead of a tough full grown woman, Ropponmatsu II looks and acts like a ten year old girl. She has hyperactive personality that elicits annoyance from her co-workers particularly Iwata, though she gets along with Sumiyoshi. Ropponmatsu II can either work with Ropponmatsu I, or cannot because they have a single power source that they have to share, depending on the continuity.

 

In the manga, Dr. Shiouji builds a new Ropponmatsu II {{spoiler|with a new power source after Il Palazzo kidnaps Ropponmatsu I and the power core}} and calls her Nishiki.

* [[Bokukko]]

* [[Catgirl]]: In appearance.

 

=== Umi Rengaya ===

 

Dr. Shiouji's friendly cousin and lab assistant. Umi is love with her cousin, but her almost dangerous levels of stupidity constantly lead her to destroy his lab equipment, earning his ire. The fact that she is fully grown and busty does not help her.

 

Only appears in the manga.

* [[Cosplay Otaku Girl]]: Does this in part to get Shiouji's attention, and partly for fun. She tries to get Teriha into it too, but Teriha is not as interested.

* [[Dojikko]]

 

=== Miwa Rengaya ===

 

Dr. Shiouji's mother, who is much more intelligent than her son. She showed up out of nowhere and moved into Shiouji's lab, then frustrated Shiouji's attempts to find out more about Kabapu and his father and started working with Kabapu. The "affection" she hoists upon her son is the reason he's a [[Lolicon]].

 

Only appears in the manga.

* [[Always Someone Better]]

* [[Dirty Old Woman]]

* [[My Beloved Smother]]

* [[Skinship Grope]]

 

== Other Characters ==

=== Dr. Sekifumi Iwata ===

 

A parody of Dr. [[Black Jack]]. Dr. Iwata is a brilliant but irresponsible doctor whose father owns the hospital. He is kept in check by his assistant. He is Iwata's cousin, whom he hates for giving him a giant X-shaped scar across his face with a pair of scalpels when they were four.

 

Since Dr. Iwata works at the local hospital, he has had first hand experience with Hyatt's ability to die and resurrect.

* [[The Cameo]]: Appeared in one scene in the anime, in the non-canon episode that didn't air.

* [[Dr. Jerk]]: He is a parody of [[Black Jack]], but without the redeeming qualities.

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=== Shiki Fukuya ===

 

Dr. Iwata's [[Beleaguered Assistant]], who was put in charge of keeping an eye on Dr. Iwata by the hospital's administrator. Usually has to restrain or bludgeon Dr. Iwata so he will not do anything criminal or lecherous.

 

Like Dr. Iwata, Fukuya has seen Hyatt's ability to die and revive.

* [[Carry a Big Stick]]: Uses whatever is lying around to beat Dr. Iwata into submission.

* [[Hospital Hottie]]

 

=== The Great Will of the Macrocosm ===

 

The [[Reset Button]] given form. At first she was simply a gag, a way to bring characters who were killed back to life. Then she got embroiled in the C-Plot when she slept with Pedro, earning him the ire of "That Man". {{spoiler|She is actually the other half of Pedro's Sexy Wife, and is kidnapped by "That Man" as part of his global domination plan.}}

* [[Anthropomorphic Personification]]: Of the [[Deus Ex Machina]].

* [[Leitmotif]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYteSeezgTU&feature=BFa&list=PL89A73FF8477DF062 Maa benri! Omochimo yaketa!]

 

=== Pedro ===

 

An immigrant worker who worked with Excel on a construction job. His story is the C-plot of the show. He was killed in a fire (caused by Excel) and spends most of the series as a ghost trying to get back to his Sexy Wife and his son Sandora.

* [[Afro Asskicker]]: Both him and his son.

* [[Big No]]: He uses it so often that it's practically his [[Catch Phrase]].

 

=== Pedro's Sexy Wife ===

 

A [[Housewife]]. She sits around all day while her husband works overseas. She quickly moved on when she found out Pedro had died and married Gomez, who mistreats her and spends all her money. {{spoiler|She is actually the other half of The Great Will of the Macrocosm.}}

* [[Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder]]: She gets remarried after Pedro's death to a man named Gomez {{spoiler|(who is eventually revealed as "That Man").}}

* [[No Name Given]]

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=== Nabeshin ===

 

The [[Badass]] director of the ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]]'' anime and alter ego of [[Shinichi Watanabe]]. He is usually seen doing some cool spy thing in the background, hanging out with the show writers, or arguing with Koshi Rikdo over the direction of the series.

* [[Afro Asskicker]]

* [[Author Avatar]]: Of director [[Shinichi Watanabe]].

 

=== "That Man" ===

 

A [[Yakuza]] thug who gets angry with Pedro after he sleeps with The Great Will of the Macrocosm and throws him into the ocean. {{spoiler|Is actually the real leader of ACROSS and Il Palazzo's boss. He kidnaps The Great Will and uses the destruction of F City as part of a plan to take over the planet.}}

* [[Bigger Bad]]: {{spoiler|Is the actual leader of ACROSS}}.

* [[Evil Counterpart]]

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=== The Puchus ===

 

The Puchus are an alien race of unknown origin, and are rarely seen in the daylight. They resemble plush toys, and look huggably cute... at first glance.

* [[Aliens and Monsters]]

* [[Berserk Button]]: If you hit them.