The twenty-sixth episode, "Going Too Far," never aired in Excel Saga's original run on TV Tokyo because it was purposely too explicit for broadcast.[9] The opening sequence is altered to contain pixelated nudity and more blood, and the closing presents the translator on fours, wearing a collar, and singing the "Bolero," as Menchi translates into her own language. The episode itself, in addition to much more violence, blood, and gore, features graphic sexual situations variously containing nudity, lesbianism, soaplands, and a love hotel—and instances of all of these involve minors. The director himself remarks that it "felt good to go past the limits of a TV series," although he thinks it "is not something that you should do too often
The twenty-sixth episode, "Going Too Far," never aired in Excel Saga's original run on TV Tokyo because it was purposely too explicit for broadcast.[9] The opening sequence is altered to contain pixelated nudity and more blood, and the closing presents the translator on fours, wearing a collar, and singing the "Bolero," as Menchi translates into her own language. The episode itself, in addition to much more violence, blood, and gore, features graphic sexual situations variously containing nudity, lesbianism, soaplands, and a love hotel—and instances of all of these involve minors. The director himself remarks that it "felt good to go past the limits of a TV series," although he thinks it "is not something that you should do too often