Excel Saga Volume 1, Mission 4: Everyday Living Permissible by Rikdo Koshi

Originally published 1997 by Shonengahosha Co.. Ltd, Tokyo; this edition July 2003, September 2003 printing

Publisher: Viz 

M

(L, V, D)

Coarse Language (PG)

Violence (M) {This time Watanabe is doing the off-screen beating up of Iwata, although Iwata gets his revenge}

Drug Use (M) {Once again Hyatt getting buzzed from an assortment of pills}

Representations

Gender:

I think this is the first story in Excel Saga to actually pass the Bechdel Test, as Excel and Hyatt are finally in the same place and talking to each other. Gender representation is split about 50/50 in this one.

Sex:

Watanabe gives Hyatt some of his excess stuff, possibly because of his interest in her.

Race & Ethnicity:

Back to an all-Japanese affair.

Disability, Physical Diversity and Health:

We also find out Hyatt's eyesight is quite bad.

Notes

Almost a single-room story. Excel and Hyatt spend the entire time in the flat they now share. The rest is Watanabe and Iwata's interactions in two adjacent flats and just outside. I suppose it is a further characterisation sort of episode.