from Excel Saga / Quack Experimental Animation (Heppoko Jikken Animation)
The heroine of the story. She joines ACROSS immediately after graduating from high school. Excel's principal virtues are her energy and loyalty to ACROSS' mission, and her single-minded infatuation with Lord Il Palazzo. Despite this, Excel is incompetent in her position and rarely succeeds in her missions, even by accident. Excel is hyperactive and energetic, and is known to talk so fast and inconsistent that people around her find her difficult to understand, an example being that even though Il Palazzo admires her energy, he states that he has no idea what she's talking about most of the time. One notable characteristic of Excel is that she often talks in third person, even when speaking about herself. Excel also dies quite often, especially in the first episode, and she is being resurrected several times by The Great Will of the Macrocosm. Menchi is her emergency food supply, even though she luckily never actually eats her. While Excel's given name and family name are both "Excel" in the anime adaptation, "Excel" is merely her codename in the original manga. She also uses a false name, Hanako Dosukoi, a few times. Her actual name has not yet been revealed.
Excel Saga / Quack Experimental Animation (Heppoko Jikken Animation)
Believing the World to be corrupt, the secret organization Across plans to conquer the world. The first step in the plan for world domination is to begin by focusing on one city in order to minimize setbacks. Across consists of the leader of the organization, Il Palazzo, and officers Excel and Hyatt. Excel and Hyatt live in an apartment building in the city, along with their pet dog Menchi, who is also their emergency food supply, and are later joined by Elgala, another Across officer. Living in the neighboring apartment are three guys: Iwata, Sumiyoshi and Watanabe, and other building dwellers such as co-worker Matsuya, and later Ropponmatsu, who all work for the Department of City Security under Dr Kabapu, who intends to stop Across. Eventually the members of Across begin making appeals directly to the City's citizens before Il Palazzo publicly declares the existence of Across and its intentions to the public. Hyatt is captured and Excel and Elgala are later held in an immigrant detention center before being rescued by Il Palazzo, who begins the new phase of his plans.
