Product Details

• Actors: Christine M. Auten, Jessica Calvello, Kelli Cousins, Tiffany Grant, Yuka Imai
• Format: Animated, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), Japanese (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: A.D. Vision
• DVD Release Date: November 5, 2002
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00006CY4H
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #85,140 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Excel Saga - When Excels Strike (Out) (Vol. 3)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

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As this screwball comedy reaches its midpoint, the filmmakers take aim at the clichés of anime, manga, and Japanese live-action television. In "Butt Out, Youth," Excel and Hyatt pose as teachers in a parody of high school sports shows. Faced with a classroom of unruly thugs, Excel flourishes a set of steel ninja claws--and drags them over the blackboard, reducing everyone to agonized submission. In episode 10, Menchi, the hapless cat everyone refers to as a dog (and Excel keeps threatening to eat), escapes in an outrageous send-up of adventure series, down to the scar across the canine villain's face. How this insanity is supposed to advance Lord Ilpalazzo's plan to purify the world is never made clear. Menchi also appears onscreen to translate the wordplays ("a small pun") and explain what's being spoofed onscreen. (Rated 17 and older: violence, profanity; risqué and gross-out humor) --Charles Solomon

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Madness Thickens, November 18, 2002

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"madnessmark" (Maple Grove, MN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Excel Saga - When Excels Strike (Out) (Vol. 3) (DVD)

Well, this is the last volume when you'll hear the current dub actress of Excel, so relish it. This marks the half way point in the series and takes place nearing the end of the year.

Episode 10: Menchi goes on an adventure with some dog friends to find his old master.
Parodies: Geobreeders.

Episode 11: Excel and Hyatt take jobs at school and also help out with the baseball team.
Parodies: Yu Yu Hakusho, Excel Saga manga, Geobreeders, Princess Nine.

Episode 12: The Civil Servants take lessions from a real detective who wants to help her dead father.
Parodies: Castle of Cagliostro, Black Jack, Gundam.

Episode 13: Excel and Hyatt have a contest to see who made a better presentation of characters *clip show*.
Parodies: Lupin 3, Excel Saga singers.

The extras on this disc are more humorous. First, we have the Find The Mint game, which is basically a matching game to find a mint in a toilet. The results are pretty funny. We also have Menchi recipes, more production sketches and an interview with the series director. The ADVidnotes this time actually dissapointed me. There are several instances where they make errors, repeat Vidnotes and even recommend products from ADV.

However, I found the inserted Sumo Game that you can cut out and use on a tissue box was a great extra feature. I can't wait to see what wacky inserts ADV will come up with next. The menus are a little bit slow, but very funny. For instance, you can listen to Excel and Hyatt have a conversation about DVDs on the main menu.

Overall, these episodes weren't quite what I hoped they would be, but they were still humurous. Therefore, the show is still doing a good job at what it does best: Making anime fans laugh.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ACROSS is insane, but who say's it's a bad thing?, December 27, 2002

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Aozame (In the Trees) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Excel Saga - When Excels Strike (Out) (Vol. 3) (DVD)

The third DVD has the best DVD menu I've ever seen. When it starts up, you get a clip from the final ep of the DVD (The review episode) of an audience full of Excels and Hyatts (The Hyatts are almost all sick) and if you don't push any buttons, Excel and Hyatt have a small conversation that ends with Hyatt saying "trickle trickle" a lot (It doesn't make sense or sound funny out of context, but it's so darn cute the way she says it!) There is another conversation that is just wierd.

The show gets even wierder in this set of episodes. There are more parodies, including Excel moving like a mobile suit from Gundam and Hyatt dying a lot. I still don't know if she actually dies or not, but it makes me feel so darn sorry for her. She became my favorite character quickly.

If you are a fan of the show, you'll pick up small threads of a plot connecting all these random episodes, but they're not easy to find. There's plenty of hilarity and Excel getting dropped (often on the slightest pretext) into a pit by Ilpalazzo. And the Excel Girls, who are apparently the anime-ized versions of the women who sing the opening song of the show (note that they look like, and are dressed like, Excel and Hyatt) appear some more and then make ilpalazzo angry by messing with his dominoes (Don't ask). Nabeshin, as usual, shows up everywhere, and he's quite the entertaining character.

If you like Excel Saga volumes 1 and 2, get this one too!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "You used to be a good woof-woof!", April 9, 2004

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TrezKu13 (Norfolk, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Excel Saga - When Excels Strike (Out) (Vol. 3) (DVD)

The ideological organization ACROSS continues it's plan to conquer the world one city at a time. But it's a little hard what with government agencies bent on killing insurgent dogs, underdog baseball teams, incompetant kidnappers, and New Years specials.

If you've enjoyed the past two DVD's, you won't mind taking out the greens to add this to your collection. If you're hoping the plot develops some where, best to look else-where. Silly you...trying to find plot! Bah! I got all the plot I need when Excel tries to take down a baseball team made up entirely of monkeys! While I'll admit the 3rd episode on this DVD was lacking to me (except for the "Castle of Cagliostro" reference with Koshi Reikdo) the other episodes were still entertaining. Menchi fans take note - an entire episode is dedicated to the hapless pooch! I won't give away too much, but let me just say that I never knew dogs were so well armed with explosives.

One thing I was depressed this round was the Menchi help that usually gives you info on Japanese culture or references to other anime or films. There were times in this DVD when I KNEW they were making fun of some thing or were making a cultural reference, but there was no Menchi head to confirm me. They must have cut the Menchi head budget or some thing...

Gfah, I digress. Buy this DVD. That is today's mission. No seriously, stop reading this review and do it. I don't care if you already bought the DVD, do it again...