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Jun 27, 2009 9:53 PM
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THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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Theme of the week: youth drama, in theory, I saw it more like another sports anime episode but with delinquents.

In this episode:
- Excel returns to her old high school... Inunabe High, which is Japanese for "Roasted Dog High". No wonder why she picked a dog as emergency food XD
- We see a delinquent with a 3 meter pompadour. Yes, I said, 3 meters, or 10 feet in Imperial units.
- The opposing team is made of monkeys.
- It became a high school more wretched than the most ghetto high school of Compton.

I can tell it's not youth drama because the focus was in the baseball tournament, and because many people around my age grew up with a youth drama very successful in Latin America called Rebelde. And though I thought it was kinda redundant to put another sports anime episode, this one was way better done than the one at the bowling alley. It did actually featured some clichéd but well done drama (though that's a given), and it was a good save our students plot overall.

So, what do you guys think?
Feb 18, 2010 4:17 PM
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There was a song that was parodied numerous times in this episode. It is 冬が来る前に (fuyu ga kuru mae ni) by 紙ふうせん (kamifūsen). Lol @ the monkey batter, both his names started with Saru which is Japanese for monkey xD.
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Mar 17, 2010 10:56 PM
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the ghetto school was great and all... but the 10 foot pompadour took the cake. I fell out of my chair laughing.
May 18, 2010 1:03 PM
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Haha the delinquents were great, especially Binbou XD
May 28, 2014 8:53 AM
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wha anal disease.Oh noes no TP.
Oct 12, 2016 6:59 AM
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loved the sazae-san reference. loved the pompadour
Apr 17, 2019 12:10 PM
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Yay to more sports, also felt a bit like Onizuka xD

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Quite the unorthodox teaching style...I've seen this raw power once before...Great teacher onizuka..

Quite the strong team, they will sure Koshien soon

May 24, 2025 11:59 PM
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5mins into English dub
"well sure excel is a girl" - "rub harder and mysterious fluids will come out" - *weird noises*
Aug 29, 2025 5:08 AM
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LOL Binbou's giant pompadour 🤣

This was exactly the kind of cocaine-fueled chaos that I want from Excel Saga.
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- Lord Il Palazzo, saying this in the year 2025, you weren't wrong at all. Spot on in fact.
- Ah, if only we had teachers like Hyatt-chan. Maybe then the education system nowadays wouldn't be a mess!
- I don't know if it's intended or not, but Excel's hand signs in this screen grab here really remind me of Ataru Moroboshi from Urusei Yatsura.
- It kind of surprises me that Excel went to a so-called 'prestigious' school. I'm not sure if her brain power as demonstrated in the series thus far is really what I would call 'prestigious' level, but whatever.
- These delinquent students' hairdos remind me a lot of Josuke from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, probably because Josuke himself was inspired by delinquent character designs, lol. These guys are pretty mean-looking, but at least they know a beauty like Excel when they see one.
- Excel is strangely competent at times. She really pulled an Usopp move here (fans of One Piece will know what I'm talking about).
- I'm not sure what the relevance of the guy's humongous face is. That joke is kind of missed on me.
- Ew. This kind of bathroom humor kind of turns me the wrong way. I was glad the series avoided it up till now.
- Is tomato juice really that delicious?
- Ah, yes, totally normal-looking seventeen year old. Nothing weird going on here at all, lol.
- Live Broadcast. Glorious name for a host, indeed. Very fitting.
- What a creative and wild way to play that punch the bag game. I've never seen it done this way before, but it works.
- Seeing as Excel seems to possess quite a good amount of athletic ability, I feel like she has a good chance to bat well, but no, the monkeys are just too good.
- Wow, he really looks a lot like Kuwabara from Yu Yu Hakusho. He's got the face only a mother could love.
- So sad. Binbou's hair even shrunk because of how disappointed and sad he was.
- Well, I'm pretty sure that even if a company is bankrupt that doesn't mean that the owners live in poverty. It just means that the company isn't generating any profit anymore, but I could be wrong. Anyways, I'm sure the authors of Excel Saga don't give a fuck about this kind of detail splitting at all though, lol.
- This is a really nice sunrise.
- What a nice, beautiful, and poignant quote to end the episode off with.
- Ah, yes. Of course Pedro had to get his ass kicked again before the episode could really be over.
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