Editing Excel Saga (section)

==Plot==
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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.<!--for the moment, to save confusion I'll not name the city, there's no consistency between media, and even different chapters!--> Across consists of the leader of the organization, [[List of Excel Saga characters#Il Palazzo|Il Palazzo]], and his young adult officers: the enthusiastic and energetically devoted [[List of Excel Saga characters#Excel|Excel]] and the soft-spoken [[List of Excel Saga characters#Hyatt|Hyatt]], who is prone to fainting and losing lots of blood at a time. Excel and Hyatt live in an apartment building in the city, along with their pet dog [[List of Excel Saga characters#Menchi|Menchi]], who they have deemed their emergency food supply. Excel and Hyatt are later joined by a snobbish but equally clueless rival officer of Across named [[List of Excel Saga characters#Elgala|Elgala]].

Living in the neighboring apartment are three guys: [[List of Excel Saga characters#Norikuni Iwata|Iwata]], [[List of Excel Saga characters#Daimaru Sumiyoshi|Sumiyoshi]] and [[List of Excel Saga characters#Toru Watanabe|Watanabe]], who along with apartment neighbor and co-worker [[List of Excel Saga characters#Misaki Matsuya|Matsuya]], work for the Department of City Security. The Department's leader, [[List of Excel Saga characters#Kabapu|Dr. Kabapu]], also has a grandiose plan on stopping Across; he has the City Security workers dress in [[Super Sentai]]-like uniforms and sends them on different missions. Supporting Kabapu is an inventor [[List of Excel Saga characters#Gojo Shiouji|Gojo Shiouji]] who [[lolicon|likes little girls]], and his [[gynoid]] [[List of Excel Saga characters#Ropponmatsu|Ropponmatsu]], who later is deployed as two models.

The series follows the daily interactions among the two groups. Il Palazzo would send the girls on their missions but the results are usually a failure with some explosive or catastrophic damage to the city. Kabapu would send the City Security workers on some equally ridiculous assignment which would also go wrong. Eventually Il Palazzo and Kabapu become aware of each other's manipulations and escalate their plans. Excel finds herself being replaced by an impersonator who heads the ILL Corporation. Massive amounts of money is spent on elections and politics. 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.

The anime adaptation introduces some original characters: immigrant worker turned wandering spirit [[List of Excel Saga characters#Pedro|Pedro]]; alien mascot-like creatures called [[List of Excel Saga characters#Puchuu|Puchuu]]; and [[List of Excel Saga characters#The Great Will of the Macrocosm|The Great Will of the Macrocosm]], the last of whom occasionally resets the storyline. The anime director [[Shinichi Watanabe]] cameos as an afro-wearing guy named [[Nabeshin]], and a caricature of the manga artist also makes appearances.