Finished
“Two inept”
Excel Saga
エクセル・サーガ
7.31
5,158 rank · 7,167 readers · 187 favorites
Seinen
Gag Humor
Action
Comedy
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Synopsis
Two inept
Earnest young girls Excel and Hyatt (both codenames) hold down minimum-wage jobs to support their true avocation: trying to conquer the city of Fukuoka for the secret organization ACROSS and its dreamy dictator, Il Palazzo—a man whose dignity is such that he could never acknowledge that ACROSS consists of himself, a leaky basement, two unpaid teenage interns, and a stray dog. But society is all to blame, as creator Rikudo Koshi takes aim at everything from organized religion to public television, in a manga that makes reindeer spit blood and puts puppies on the dinner menu. (Source: VIZ Media)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 4 sampled reviews
9.3
/10
What 4 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 9
mode 9
σ 0.43
Agreement
Strong agreement
σ 0.43 · scores cluster tight
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↑ 0.25
Running avg · Nov 2010 → Mar 2026
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10 “The original Excel Saga manga is very different from its more well-known anime. And in my opinion (despite also liking the anime), the manga is way better. The story starts simple enough: Excel is...”
- 9 “First Zaregoto and now this, it pains me to read stuff that are kind of underrated, at the very least in the west. The manga has only 5 thousand members as of today, yet a lot of generic stuff has...”
- 9 “I've finished reading this manga up to volume 21 (as of this writing, the most recent english-translated volume), and I'm ready to write a review of it. Like most people, my first exposure to the...”
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Long · 50%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 178 × 27 ch × vol
- Total read 23h 44m approx
- Published Apr 1997 – Jul 2011
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M0656 catalog