Excel Saga

[A Black Falcon]

MSDA was funny, but it relied to much on crude jokes and it just couldn't match Excel Saga's pace.

Yeah... its humor just is not on the same level. I enjoyed it, but I saw it before I saw Excel Saga... now it doesn't seem as good. :)

Excel Saga wasn't perfect, of course... there were a few not-so-good episodes (like the one with the humanized animals when Menchi ran away... not so good, IMO)... and I never quite understood the whole 'Hyatt bleeds a lot and dies constantly isn't that funny' thing (though the "let's constantly make Pedro's life hard" stuff was great...), but oh well... overall it was fantastic. It's really a show for anime fans, though... I watched it with the additional subtitles on (that explain the innumerable references to other shows, etc), and someone new to anime just wouldn't get so much of it...

Oh yeah, and it was kind of hard to follow sometimes... when you've got two tiers of subtitles for two people talking very quickly at the same time and reference subtitles on top of that, it's impossible to read it all in time, so I found myself rewinding and rewatching parts of it all the time... oh well, it made it make sense (or at least as much sense as this show makes), so it was worth it.