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The Oversized Drinking Straw of Fail

2011-10-21T16:46:08Z

Turbam: /* Gallery */

'''The Oversized Drinking Straw of Fail''' was introduced in [[Sub-Episode 7]] of [[Sonichu 4|''Sonichu'' #4]], wherein Chris fellated a beverage whilst evading [[jerkop]]s. Numerous [[Trolls]] and [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]] pointed out that the clumsy artwork make it look like Chris was sucking on a big, fat phallus, playing on his deeply-rooted fear of becoming a [[homo]]. In the version posted on [[CWCipedia]], Chris has edited the Oversized Drinking Straw to look slightly less retarded:

[[Image:Chris-Straw-Retcon.JPG|center]]

It's worth noting that even the "new, improved" Drinking Straw is wider than any of cartoon Chris-chan's fingers or thumbs, and the part above the bend is for some reason narrower than the part below. Also, given the nature of Chris's terrible artwork, it's hard to determine which of the following is correct about his "new" mouth...

'''1> ''Is his mouth wide open?'''''
:If this is the case, it would be impossible to drink in the manner depicted. The drinker's lips have to form an airtight seal around the straw in order to draw liquid up through it, unless you have vacuum lungs.

'''2> ''Has he drawn himself with massive [[niggo]] lips?'''''
:Chris's lips may have simply ballooned to an enormous size, giving the impression that [[tomgirl|he's wearing lipstick now]].

Whatever the truth may be, Chris cannot even correct any of his mistakes without finding some other way to screw up in the process.

==Gallery==

<center><gallery>
Image:Straw.jpg|Like father, like son.
Image:SWEETHEARTS.jpeg|GENTLEMEN.
Image:Slurp1.png|Slurp.
Image:Slurp2.jpg|SLURP!
Image:PVCC_44.png|
Image:Paulyslurp.jpg|It's true - the straw has its own fan art devotees.
Image:RobotnikStraw of Fail.jpg|Possible inspiration?
Image:Asperstraw.png|''[[Asperchu]]'' variant.
Image:Freudslipstraw.png| Could the straw be a euphemism for Chris' own bent [[duck]]?
Image:ChrisVSstrawcanvaspainting.jpg|Serious skills.
Image:Superbigassgulp.jpg|A challenger appears.
Image:Ponystraw.png|She doesn't seem to like it...
</gallery></center>

==See also==

*[[Get-Tar Region]]
*[[Sonichu 8]]
*[[Retroactive continuity in Sonichu]]
*[[Chris and Art]]
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[[Category:Relics of Fail]]

True and Loyal Fanbase

2010-10-08T01:01:32Z

Turbam:

[[Image:SchuComicFreeBack.jpg|thumb|Spread the word!]]

{{quote|1000000000+|[[Chris's]] totally accurate and [[Chris and His Ego|unbiased]] estimate of the number of Sonichu fans, [[Common_Questions#26_January_2010|Common Questions, 26 January 2010]]}}

[[Chris]] constantly refers to his [[trolls|fans]] as his "'''True and Loyal Fanbase'''" (aka his "fandase"). Fun fact: There are no actual [[Sonichu]] fans. Literally none. Let's pretend that looking at the garbage Chris produces is not enough proof to support that statement. Let's pretend the fact that he updates his shit about once every six months, and expects everyone to wait patiently is not enough proof to support that statement. Consider this: If there actually was one, wouldn't we have found out about them by now?

Nevertheless, in [[Mailbag 48]], Chris stated that he believes he has '''over a billion fans''', meaning that roughly 1/7th of the world's population (or approximately over [[Chris and the Internet|half of the users of the Internet]]) has supposedly discovered and grown to love Sonichu since the comic began back in [[2000]]. It may be worth noting that approximately 1/6 of the world's population is illiterate.

==Personal army==
[[File:ChrisPersonalArmy.jpg|thumb|This is what Chris actually believes.]]
Like many individuals who have become notorious on the internet, Chris believes that he has a sizable fanbase that adores him. Furthermore, he persists in this belief despite the fact that his "fanbase" has repeatedly proven to be comprised exclusively of [[trolls]].

Chris addresses his supposed supporters whenever he feels they would be most helpful, such as when he needs support in a [[Chop Chop Master Onion's Rap Showdown|contest]] or wants to see a [[Clyde Cash|troll taken care of]], and speaks in the sincere expectation that total strangers will carry out his orders simply because he gave them. This belief was likely reinforced by the backfired trolling attempt during the [[GameStop Be A Star Sweepstakes]], and it's possible that's what drives him to continue acting this way.

Chris recently tried to play the Personal Army game in the aftermath of his [[Michael Snyder is ColdHearted and Mean|confrontation]] with [[Michael Snyder]]. The related [[Jackie e-mails]] gave us an interesting glance at Chris's perspective on his ability to command his fans, as well as this interesting tidbit:

{{Quote|Considering after what had transpired, I decided to upload the audio-only video onto my [[YouTube]]. I tried to be nice and peaceful. Now HE (Michale) will have to deal with my [[Trolls]] for his discrimination against me.|Chris, [[Jackie e-mails Part 2#The Game Place Aftermath: Chris' Version|expressing his belief that trolls will help him]].}}

It's currently unclear ''why'' Chris believes his trolls would bow to his requests. It's possible he thinks that his trolls are indiscriminately cruel to everyone, and that, if given a target, they would lash out against it without a second thought. Then again, given his sizable [[ego]] and shaky grasp on [[reality]], it's also possible he thinks that trolls will do what he says just because he said it.

On July 17th, 2010 Chris posted a series of tweets (if they can be called that given that Chris boldly defies the definition of microblogging) on his [[Twitter]] account after roughly three months of silence. In typical Chris fashion, he was only doing so not out of care for his fans but to ask for people to give him DLC codes for [[ModNation Racers]], helping to push his agenda along by claiming that he was ''still'' working on the Sonichu comics. This is despite the fact that much of Chris's Sonichu fan base had long ago given up hopes for any new pages. Along with e-begging, Chris proceeded to plug his ModNation Racers creations.

==Chris's contempt for his fans==
[[Image:Sonichufans.png|thumb|Fans of Sonichu lining up to get an autograph from Chris-Chan]]
Chris takes his alleged fanbase entirely for granted. When he doesn't want something from them, he ignores them. He is happy to try and extort them, in fact, as when he threatened [[Take that Page DOWN NOW!|to withhold his comics unless the ED page was taken down]]. Despite his contemptuous attitude towards them, he assumes that his TRUE and LOYAL fans will keep the [[trolls]] in check. Another example came on [[THAT IS MY HOUSE|27 August 2009]], when Chris implored his fanbase to remove every last video that showed the tour of his house after his father found out about it. To this day, mirrors of the two-part video still pop up to mock Chris.

Despite his belief that his fans adore him, Chris is notoriously inattentive to the sort of things that allow a person to continue having fans. He believes that people love him for his [[Sonichu (comic)|comic]], and yet his updates are often months apart. His attitude is neatly summed up at the end of [[Sonichu 10]], in the message from [[Things Chris has ripped off|Marvey Blaziken]]. Chris wants the adulation that goes along with being a popular artist, but he thinks that he ought to receive it in exchange for whatever amount of effort he feels like putting forth. Which, Chris being Chris, isn't very much at all.

Chris refuses to take responsibility for his output or lack thereof, blaming any troubles on [[stress]] caused by the trolls. In a sense, because he expects his fans to take care of the trolls for him, he's blaming them for the fact that he can't keep updates regular. He also shows his fans contempt by having the radio on in the background during fan chats over Mumble and giving extremely short, often rude, responses to lengthy, innocent questions in the [[Mailbag]].

As his ego has swollen over the years, Chris seems to have come to believe he can control what his fans do with their lives. In [[Down with asperchu|a video from January 2010]], Chris told his fans to never read an issue of [[Asperchu]] because "there are no LINKS" to Chris's works. He later went so far as to try and [[U8C43P2A37A8_y_U8C1N023V0L|brainwash]] his followers into hating what he viewed as a rival comic.

==Chris turns on his fans==
In March 2010, after a troll interfered in Chris's pursuit of [[The Wallflower]], Chris took to his [[CWC Blog|blog]] and attacked his fans along with the trolls, accusing them of breaking up his quest for True Love out of a selfish desire to consume more of his comics. "You all are just as Terrible as I portrayed Mary Lee Walsh to be," he declared, "[[Chris and hypocrisy|so self-absorbed in yourselves]], [[Snorlax|spoiled]], and such, YOU ONLY want more story arcs and [[Chris and art|art]] MORE QUICKLY than my own Inspiration can come up with. You all are nothing bug [[Chris and money|greedy]], [[Chris and anger|impatient]], [[Sarah Hammer|un]][[Megan|lov]][[The Wallflower|ed]] and corrupted people."

He also claimed to tire of trying to please the "millions" of fans he has. Instead, he explained that he only wants to please "[[Chris|the local few around me]] who I truly and deeply care about." What this could mean is a number of things. The biggest thing he feels they have done is trolled him just as badly as the trolls themselves just to get his comics. Thus, he feels that they share equal blame with the trolls just because he doesn't want to spend time working on his comic.

This might have represented a valuable moment of clarity on Chris's part. He may have managed to discover, however inadvertently, that all his comic really accomplishes is to draw unwelcome attention to him.

Unsurprisingly, Chris soon forgot all about this and went back to assuming command over his personal army, directing them to [[Michael Snyder is ColdHearted and Mean|harass a manager]] for not letting him back into a store.

==List of fans who aren't trolls==
[[Image:Tumbleweed.gif]]

==See also==
* [[Chris and his Ego]]
[[Category:Chris-chan]]

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2010-10-08T00:59:18Z

Turbam:

Excel Saga

2010-04-30T15:41:46Z

Turbam: OBJECTION! Pedro never appeard in the manga

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[[Image:CWCMonica.jpg|thumb|300px|Chris meets Monica Rial, who played Hyatt in the English dub of ''Excel Saga''. This is also perhaps the only time Chris has touched an attractive woman without her being immediately repulsed. What a brave, brave woman.]]

While the plagiarism of ''[[Sonichu (character)|Sonichu]]'' is obvious to just about anyone, there are even deeper, more subtle layers of unoriginality in Chris's masterwork. Truly, if Sonichu is the bastard gay love-child of [[Sonic The Hedgehog]] and [[Pikachu]], then Excel is surely his surrogate mother. For while the characters in ''Sonichu'' are mostly fusions of [[Sonic]] characters and ''[[Pokemon]]'' characters, Chris draws a lot of his "humor" from '''''Excel Saga''''', along with various other miscellaneous ideas that wound up in the comics.

Additionally, ''Excel Saga'' has left something of a cultural impression upon Chris's personal life as well. The purpose of this article is to list as many of these influences as possible, and to provide the original context for those unfamiliar with the anime. Due to the relative obscurity of ''Excel Saga'', and the complexity of Chris's plagiarism of it, this article will also provide some additional background on the series.

==Introduction==
[[Image:Excel-Saga.jpg|thumb|''Excel Saga'' Note: Lord Ilpalazzo in background & Menchi (the dog), a plushie Chris owns.]]

The genesis of the [[anime]] lay in Koshi Rikdo's fan comic, ''Municipal Force Daitenzin'', which was an adult-themed parody of the ''sentai'' genre (read: ''[[Power Rangers]]''). By [[1990s#1996|1996]] he had retooled the concept to focus on Excel, one of the characters in the original fan comic, and the first ''Excel Saga'' comics saw print in Japan. Fun fact: Rikdo dabbled in some Sonic fancomics as well, and he hit the big time at the age of 26, making him everything Chris has ever dreamed of being professionally, whether Chris is aware of it or not.

The manga tells the story of two factions struggling for control of the city of Fukuoka, Japan. One, ACROSS, is led by the ruthless but myopic Lord Il Palazzo, who seeks to conquer the city as a stepping stone to world domination under his own high-minded ideals. His organization consists of only a handful of young women, who seem only vaguely aware of his intentions. The title character, Excel, is the first of these agents, later joined by Hyatt, and even later, Elgala. The second faction is the Department of City Security, headed by the civic-minded but manipulative Dr. Kabapu, a powerful government official. Over the course of the series, he recruits a number of people to work for his department, then slowly compels them to perform increasingly bizarre tasks in the name of civil defense. Though Kabapu and Il Palazzo share some mysterious history, the rest of their respective groups remain unaware of each other for much of the series. Against this backdrop, Rikdo weaves a satire of life in Japan during the recession of the [[1990s]].

Soon after the manga began publication, Rikdo was approached about an anime adaptation. He agreed, on the condition that the anime's storyline differ from his own, as the manga's plot was still unfolding. Further, much of the cynical, sometimes controversial humor in the comics was unsuitable for Japanese television, and so the anime's director, Shinichi Watanabe, had to come up with additional material to fill out the show. Among these contributions were a new character Pedro, an immigrant worker, the Great Will of the Macrocosm, a cosmic entity capable of reshaping continuity, and Nabeshin, the director's over-the-top alter ego. To explain this flagrant disregard for the source material, one of the running gags of the anime is an ongoing struggle between Rikdo and Nabeshin for control over the creative direction of the series, with Rikdo using a comically oversized rubber stamp to approve the use of his characters to lampoon various anime genres.

The series was then adapted for release in North America by ADV in [[2002]], and would eventually end up in the DVD player of a certain autistic man-child we all know. The English dub adds yet another layer to the series, which parodies other anime series as it partially adapts a manga that itself parodies even more anime. To better help American audiences get the references, ADV included optional pop-up notes in the DVDs so that a befuddled viewer could learn just what the hell Excel was imitating or why such-and-such dialogue was supposed to be a pun in Japanese. In other words, 99.99999999996% of the humor in ''Excel Saga'' was almost certainly over Chris's head, and so when he speaks of the series as being funny, he's probably just repeating what it says on the back of the DVD case, or referring to slapstick humor like Excel falling down a hole. That Chris would dare to steal material from this series has three side-effects:

1) Chris doesn't actually understand what he's stealing. At least when he ripped off Pikachu, he knew how to do it. Cute yellow thing shoots lightning. Simple. From there, Chris would go on to draw its penis, but the basic gist of Pikachu was properly stolen. When Chris rips off a joke from ''Excel Saga'', however, he robs the gag of all context, resulting in an awkward line of dialogue that's unoriginal ''and'' unfunny.

2) Chris is ripping off anime he hasn't even seen. For example, since Chris actually had watched ''[[Dragon Ball Z]]'', it's difficult to say for certain if the [[Curse-ye-ha-me-ha]] was lifted directly from ''DBZ'', or the episode of ''Excel Saga'' that parodied it. The vast majority of anime titles mocked or referenced by ''Excel Saga'', however, Chris has probably never even heard of, so when he steals that material, he doesn't realize it was already borrowed the first time.

3) For once, it isn't immediately obvious when Chris is ripping something off. Since ''Excel'' isn't nearly as well-known as Sonic or Pikachu, Chris can actually sort of get away with lifting ideas from it.

{{quote|Anime Review: Excel on Excel Saga

Excel Saga is a [[Random-access humor|wacky]] [[anime]] with [[parody|parodies]], an energetic girl, Excel, the ideological commander of ACROSS, Illpalazzo, a wandering soul, Pedro, and many other characters. The story is that it is a saga where Excel must suffer numerous hard adventures to realize ACROSS’ plan of conquest over a corrupted world.

Excel Saga has a total of 26 episodes on a set of 6 DVDs. If I had to pick a favorite episode, I’d pick episode 17 where Excel travels to America where she describes the differences between Anime and American Animation. She also does an excellent parody to the classic Anime, [[Sailor Moon]], in this episode.|--Review by [[Chris|Christian Chandler]]<ref>http://cogsdev.110mb.com/sonichu/SchusNews3.htm</ref>.}}

==Episode guide to ''Excel Saga'', with influences on Chris==

===Episode 1===
[[Image:405-ExcelV1.jpg|thumb|Chris's autographed copy of volume 1 of ''Excel Saga''.]]
Excel is assigned to assassinate manga artist Koshi Rikdo, who created the ''Excel Saga'' comics on which the anime is based. After the Will of the Macrocosm restarts the story several times, Excel gets a part-time job directing traffic for a construction site. There, she meets immigrant worker Pedro, who gets killed as a result of Excel's hyperactive negligence.

Influences on Chris:

*'''FQX as a replacement for the FOX network:''' An FQX searchlight logo is used at the end of each episode as Excel promotes the next one. Chris would use "FQX News" as the home network of Greta Squall when he ripped off the Spring Break bit from ''[[Family Guy]]'' in [[Sonichu 8|''Sonichu'' #8]].

*'''"Only three days since I skipped my last deadline":''' Sung aloud by Koshi Rikdo as he blithely draws his comics in his home, unaware that Excel is preparing to murder him. Chris would repeat this line for no good reason in "Off Target", featured in [[Sonichu 4|''Sonichu'' #4]].

*'''"PEDRO IS SHOCKED!":''' One of the many running gags throughout ''Excel Saga''. When a character is shocked they will scream out "SHOCK!" This is usually done by Pedro, but Nabeshin and Sandora have also said this. "SHOCK" has been used many times throughout the Sonichu comics, and this is most likely the inspiration.

*'''"I could do all this before breakfast, but I had lunch a couple of hours ago":''' Said by Pedro when Excel motivates him to work harder at the construction site. Even the characters acknowledge that's a shitty wordplay gag native to Japan. It's less of a joke than a sign that Pedro is settling into his host country. Nevertheless, Chris uses it in his "classic" Sonichu strip from January 13, [[2004]], featured in [[Sonichu 0|''Sonichu'' #0]].

*'''Il Palazzo:''' Excel's leader, whose vast ambitions are undermined by his myopic strategies. For example, Il Palazzo seeks to unite the entire world through conquest, yet seeks only the takeover of the city he lives in, since it poses a lesser risk. When he calls for a purge of comic books from his New Order, he sends Excel out to kill a single cartoonist (Koshi Rikdo), an empty gesture at best. Chris attempted to demonize the manager of the Fashion Square Mall by recreating him as "[[ScotPalazzo]]", but this is ineffective, as Il Palazzo is less a villain than a mere parody of one. This would be equivalent to combining Scot from Fashion Square Mall with Colonel Klink from ''Hogan's Heroes"'' or Dark Helmet from the movie ''Spaceballs''.

*'''Nabeshin:''' Self-insertion of series director Wata'''nabe Shin'''ichi. His appearance in his own anime is intended to be a parody of other directors who insert themselves in their own animes, and so he appears as a colorful man of action and mystery, often portrayed as more important and critical to the plot than the characters adapted from the original manga. In general, Chris probably draws justification for his own self-insertion into ''Sonichu'' because Shinichi did it first, ignoring the fact that the Nabeshin character manages to be ironic and badass at the same time.

Shinabe, the martial arts master who raised [[Punchy]] resembled Nabeshin in appearance and name.

*'''Excel:''' Hyperactive protagonist. Fanatically devoted to Il Palazzo's contradictory ideals, Excel blathers on endlessly throughout the series, with mixed comedic results. While the character "[[Mypoe]]" is named for ''Puni Puni Poemy'', another anime Shinichi Watanabe directed, she looks much more like Excel than anything else.

*'''Menchi:''' A small, white dog. In many ways, the mascot of the show. Chris owns a plushie of Menchi, which can be seen in the background of a many of his videos.

===Episode 2===
Sci-fi parody. Nabeshin senses his old master, the Space Butler, has been abducted by the Martian Puuchus, en route to invade the Earth. Excel destroys the Martian battleship in a manic fit, and the Martian's "Princess"--Hyatt--ends up in ACROSS headquarters, where Il Palazzo assumes her to be a new recruit.

Influences on Chris:

*'''Explaining the story''': After the opening credits Excel apologizes that the story from the first episode makes no sense at all. So she then tells us what the story is about, a few of the characters, and the setting as well. Being that Sonichu's story also makes no sense at all Chris would copy this in [[Sonichu 0|''Sonichu'' #0]].

*'''Puuchu''': If backed into a rhetorical corner, Chris would probably argue that his own blatant usage of Pikachu is legitimized by ''Excel Saga'''s Puuchus, cuddly yellow creatures clearly indented to resemble the popular ''Pokemon'' character. The difference, of course, being that Puuchus offer a humorous twist on Pikachu, in that not only their cuteness belies their hostile nature, but they also put a definitely not cute face on when hurt or serious.
** In addition, [[Sonee]]s and [[Rosey]]s certainly resemble Puchuus more than, say, Pichus.

===Episode 3===
B-movie action film parody. Il Palazzo tasks Hyatt with finding Excel, who was captured by mercenaries in the previous episode. Instead, Excel is rescued by Nabeshin, who infiltrates the mercenary camp to save his beloved Tetsuko. Nabeshin blows up a bunch of shit and Excel returns to Japan, where she meets the sickly Hyatt, who has barely even begun her first mission.

*'''Director as the main character''': While Nabeshin had been aggressively inserted into the story before, the action movie format necessitated him in a bigger role, and here he pretty much moves the entire storyline forward. Much of this episode, from Nabeshin's fruitless quest to save his love, to Nabeshin's impossible victory over an entire army, would be reflected in the [[Sub-Episodes]].

*'''Prolonged speeches''': This is a staple in ''Excel Saga'', but it's worth noting here because this is the first time Il Palazzo really gets to preach on about what's wrong with the world. Similarly, most of Excel's dialogue in the anime comes in the form of rapid-fire babbling, which she does a lot of here, since she's in mortal danger for most of the episode. Chris may have interpreted this to mean that long-winded speeches are funny in general, regardless of topic or context. And so, ''Excel Saga'' may have inspired all those walls of text Chris writes into his stories, especially the ones where he lectures the villains for daring to oppose him. It should be noted, however, that while Excel and Il Palazzo are no less chatty in the ''Excel Saga'' manga, the author is much more conservative about writing every single friggin' word they say, since the gag wouldn't work as well in print.

*'''Bumping into each other''': Throughout the episode Excel's side of the story is being told is shown in wide screen, while Hyatt's has been shown in a normal screen. Near the end of the episode Hyatt begins her mission to locate Excel. We then see Excel, which Menchi strapped to her chest, skipping happily down the street; overzealous with the joy of escaping. We then see Hyatt, walking down the street rather slowly, contemplating on where she should begin her mission. It switches between Excel and Hyatt a few more times; until the two happen to meet with Excel's side of the screen still in wide screen, and Hyatt's in full. [[Rosechu]] and [[Amy Rose]] would copy this in the epilogue of [[Sonichu 6]], resulting in something that just doesn't make sense. Also, if we consider that Rosechu was in wide screen mode, that means that she answers only to the all mighty ScotPalazzo.

===Episode 4===
Romantic comedy parody. The girls' next door neighbor, Toru Watanabe (not to be confused with Nabeshin) asks Hyatt out on a date, but the matter is soon complicated to the point of absurdity by the antics of their respective roommates.

*'''Dating game simulators''': This episode uses the concept brilliantly, depicting a real-life date between (Hyatt and Watanabe), parallel to Lord Il Palazzo, who plays a video game featuring Hyatt as the girl he's trying to win. The idea of the game is to respond to romantic situations with one of three options. Throughout this episode, option 3 is often simply "Put it in". As these dating simulator games never caught on in the United States, it's highly likely that this episode was what gave Chris the big idea to use ''[[Sprung]]'' to further his "[[Dating Education]]". This is further evidence that nearly all of the jokes in ''Excel Saga'' are way over Chris's head. The whole point of this episode is that these games are childish and unrealistic, and Chris simply assumes the writers are trying to give him tips on how to score.
[[Image: Pedro3.jpg|thumb|200px|Pedro, upon viewing the [[Kimmi|Chris-Chan Sex Tape]]]]
*'''Doll humping''': Excel rolls around on the floor with a life-size wooden figure dressed up to resemble Il Palazzo. Again, this is an example of Chris's warped behavior which might be attributed to him watching this show and thinking it's somehow acceptable in real life.

*'''Simple white background characters''': These nondescript bystanders appear during Hyatt's date with Watanabe, a parody of ''DiGi Charat''. Naturally, Chris took their use as implicit permission to slack off in his own drawings of large crowds. You can spot this in almost any issue of ''Sonichu''.

*'''NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!''': Before there was Darth Vader, there was Pedro. After dying in the first episode, Pedro's ghost endures a series of emotional trials throughout the series, as his wife immediately forgets about him and finds a new man (something Chris himself would later do when after a day he forgot about [[PandaHalo]] and moved on to [[Julie]]). Forced to watch the charming Gomez take over his family, Pedro can only watch in tears and scream his beloved catchphrase, which Chris would later repeat in [[Charlottesville Fashion Square]].

===Episode 5===
Drama about social issues. Excel and Hyatt infiltrate a government building to undermine the highest ranking city officials. Concurrently, Watanabe and his roommates, Iwata and Sumiyoshi, get jobs as civil servants working for the Department of City Security, a pet project run by the mysterious and influential Dr. Kabapu.

*'''[[Red String of Fate]]:''' When Watanabe whines about having to work alongside his odious roommates, Iwata suggests they're bound by the red string of fate. Watanabe angrily retorts that the Red String is only supposed to be for destined lovers, not just any two people. Watanabe then meets Hyatt, posing as a refreshments vendor, and decides that the Red String of Fate binds the two of them. This could be where Chris first learned of the concept, since it's not like he would have found out about it from ''Dragon Ball Z'' or ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]''.

*'''Dr. Kabapu:''' Dr. Kabapu is the leader of the city's defense team. However, he seems to hold a great amount of power in politics; so much that he could potentially make anyone mayor if he needed to. His desire to protect the city is strong; although a bit warped. If there is a threat to the city, he will find and destroy it. This warped way of thinking may have influenced the way that [[Chris-Chan|the mayor]] runs the city of CWCville.

*'''Drool Waterfalls:''' Tears streaming like waterfalls is an often-used effect in ''Excel Saga'', particularly seen on the long-suffering Pedro. However, in this episode, many of the government workers are sickened after consuming Hyatt's refreshments, and begin roaming the building in zombie-like fashion, green drool pouring from their mouths. A very similar visual appeared in ''Sonichu'' #4, when [[Crystal Weston Chandler (sister)|Crystal]] managed to paralyze the [[Jerkops]] in lust at a bowling alley.

===Episode 6===
Survival drama. Excel and Hyatt are sent to install a powerful weapon on a mountaintop and use it to destroy the city. Coincidentally, Kabapu's Department of City Security agents undergo training with laser pistols, and Iwata unwittingly foils ACROSS' plot when his weapon misfires.

*'''Misaki Matsuya's Character Notes''': The introduction of Matsuya was treated as a big deal in the anime, with a pause to display text on the screen describing the character's age, gender, hobbies, and personality traits. Chris would emulate this several times when introducing new characters, including [[Wes Iseli]], [[Sarah Hammer]], [[Allison Amber]], [[Simonla Rosechu]], and [[Zapina Rosechu]].

*'''Ha-chan, Eh-Chan, Will-Chan, etc.''': The suffix "-chan" is ubiquitous in anime, but most English dubs don't carry it over into the translation. Even if Chris had heard it before watching ''Excel Saga'', the sheer abundance of "-chan" combined with the first syllable of a character's name in the series is probably what led Chris to dub himself "Chris-Chan". This would also explain Chris's [[fail|failure]] to realize the context of -chan. While the honorific is used for children, girls, and young women, ''Excel Saga'' uses it so gratuitously that a viewer might never notice the pattern, especially in this episode. Nevertheless, the suffix "-chan" could be seen as working for Chris in a unique way, since it effectively puns off of his last name: "Chandler". The suffix is further validated by the fact that in many ways, Chris really is a child.

===Episode 7===
[[Image: Kabapu.jpg|thumb|200px|Fun Fact: Chris faps to this anime.]]

Horror film. Kabapu sends the DCS team into the sewers, not far from the underground lair of ACROSS. Excel and Hyatt activate defense systems at random, causing a flood. Both groups run afoul of the Puuchus, led by the hideous Puuchu Queen, until Nabeshin triggers a second flood which saves the cast and destroys the monsters.

*'''Ms. Momochi''': Kabapu's secretary, who walks in on Kabapu while he's in between changing clothes in his office. While bearing no physical resemblance, the character may well have been the inspiration for Miss [[Allison Amber]], Chris's mayoral aide and girl Friday.

===Episode 8===
Pretty girl anime. In a shameless bid to increase ratings, all male characters are stricken from the storyboards, appearing only as off-screen voices, shadows, or hands. The DCS team take a vacation day to visit the City Pool, while Excel and Hyatt coincidentally do the same. Hyatt befriends a young girl named Cosette Sara, who turns out to be a cunning assassin. In a strange twist of fate, Cosette is transported to the world of the dead, where she sees her mother's ghost once more, but Pedro warns that she cannot cross the Sanzu River to join her, for it would mean she would die as well. Taking pity on Cosette, the Great Will of the Macrocosm retcons Cosette's life so that her mother never died and her dark life as a child assassin never happened. The other male characters later confront Pedro for violating the "no-men" rule of the episode.

Influences on Chris: Nothing really obvious. This episode was primarily a tongue-in-cheek exercise in gratuitous fanservice, so Chris may have been too busy fapping away to notice anything else. He ''may'' have gotten the idea to do the Spring Break story in ''Sonichu'' #8 from this episode, but other than the all-Rosechu cover, it seems like a rather thin connection.

===Episode 9===
Sports anime. Considering athletics to be the universal language of the masses, Il Palazzo sends Hyatt and Excel to research ways to exploit sports for the purpose of world domination. This leads the duo to part-time jobs in a bowling alley, which is soon overrun by the [[9/11|terrorist]]/bowling organization "Stick and Balls", who plot to use the alley to spread their pro-bowling propaganda and return the "sport of kings" to its former glory. Excel flees to the women's restroom, where Nabeshin agrees to train her in the art of bowling to defeat the Stick and Balls' ringleader. Excel kicks everyone's ass and saves the day.

*'''"I'm much, much saltier":''' When Excel confronts the terrorists, they mock her for having run away earlier. Excel's response: "But I'm ''not'' the sweet little girl I was a few minutes ago! I'm much, much saltier now!" Compare to Chris's line from Sub-Episode 6 of ''Sonichu'' #4, as he describes his showdown with the Jerkops at a bowling alley: "Ah, but I am not the weak person they think I am; I am much, much saltier!" Chris has also used this phrase in private e-mails, to describe himself in the present compared to the naivete of his youth. Note that by omitting the word "sweet", he completely loses the pun.

*'''Bowling:''' The course of the battle in Sub-Episode 6 really doesn't match up well with Excel's bowling adventure, aside from the single hero challenging an entire squad of goons in a bowling alley and defeating them with superhuman bowling moves. It's possible Chris may be channeling some other cartoon in addition, but given the "much, much saltier" line, it's clear that ''Excel Saga'' gave Chris the bright idea to do a comic set in a bowling alley.

===Episode 10===
Animal anime. Menchi, Excel's pet dog/emergency food supply, escapes their apartment and tries to seek out a kindly old man who once took care of her. She soon befriends a pack of fellow strays, led by the charismatic Wolf. Wolf's pack agree to help Menchi find the old man, but soon run afoul of the Animal Control Department, a squad of dogs who serve as dog catchers. After great heartache and betrayal, Wolf and the others sacrifice themselves so that Menchi can escape. Perhaps favoring Excel's long-term threats to the immediate dangers of the outside world, she returns to Excel's apartment.

*'''Anthropomorphic dogs:''' While Menchi can't talk, and in fact seems to look and sound more like a cat than a dog, the other dogs in this episode can speak, and on occasion assume humanoid postures. It appears that Chris ripped off this imagery when he reincarnated his own dog, Patti, as [[Patti-Chan]]. Patti doesn't quite resemble any of the dogs in this episode (her design actually having been stolen from a picture by Megan), although her face does look sort of like a cross between Menchi's and Kyoko's. Her body seems to more closely resemble Wolf's when he's standing upright, and it may be that Chris had to combine their designs in order to approximate Patti's breed.

*'''A kind old man:''' Toward both the start and the ending of the episode Menchi has memories of the kind old man that took care of her before she met Excel. Once her memories are near completed, circles with memories of the old man fall slowly down the screen. Chris would copy this for the cover of [[Sonichu 7|''Sonichu'' #7]].

*'''Menchi's silent adventures:''' Until Menchi meets the other dogs, her speechless journey through the city bears a strong resemblance to the Sonichu Babies segments from [[Sonichu 3|''Sonichu'' #3]]. In particular, a band of cruel children start throwing rocks and boulders at Menchi, not unlike a certain Whale we all know and love.

*'''"I shall show you the power of the well-read dog!"''': Defiant last words of "The Professor", a Scottish terrier in Wolf's pack, as he sacrifices himself on Menchi's behalf. Chris alters the line into "Behold the power of the well-trusted dog!" when Patti-Chan appears in [[CWCville]] to save [[Crystal]] from [[Mary Lee Walsh]].

At this point, the folly of Chris's plagiarism should be clear. He steals ideas and clever lines, but dismisses the concepts that made them worthwhile in the first place. Patti-Chan's storyline in ''Sonichu'' is basically this episode in reverse, with a dead dog coming back to life and saving her friends, whereas the whole appeal to "Menchi's Great Adventure" is the absurd pathos of a Scottish Terrier with glasses and cartoon bombs being a suicide bomber.

===Episode 11===
Youth drama. Excel and Hyatt take temp jobs as teachers, and quickly get saddled with the responsibility of training the school's delinquent baseball team for the big championship game. They lose, as is a common trope in sports anime, to reinforce the greater importance of sportsmanship and teamwork.

Influence on Chris: None, apparently. Chalk this up to his apparent disinterest in sports, and the male-heavy cast of this particular episode.

===Episode 12===
Detective anime. Hyatt gets taken hostage by a pair of burglars, who panic and ultimately kill themselves when she dies and they fear they've murdered her. Meanwhile, the Department of City Security agents train under Purin, an impertinent young woman possessed by the ghost of her hardboiled gumshoe father.

Influence on Chris: None, again.

===Episode 13===
Review show. Excel and Hyatt compete in a game show-style contest assembling short films using recycled clips from the previous episodes.

Influence on Chris: None. Good going, Chris.

===Episodes 14 & 15===
[[Image:Mom_am_pig.JPG|thumb|Excel responds to Chris after reading the Sonichu comics.]]

Dr. Kabapu commissions the pederast cyberneticist Dr. Shioji to build Ropponmatsu, a female android to serve under the Department of City Security. Iwata immediately falls for the shapely robot, until she is destroyed while disarming an ACROSS bomb, and rebuilt as an obnoxious prepubescent girl.

Escalating the conflict, ACROSS deploys a robot to deliver a second bomb, which battles the second Ropponmatsu to a standstill. Shioji delivers a reconstructed Model One Ropponmatsu to assist, but ultimately both are destroyed by the bomb... only to be rebuilt again.

Influences on Chris: Ropponmatsu II may have inspired Zapina Rosechu in some way, but that would require corroboration.

===Episode 16===
Desperate for story ideas, the writers use both Ropponmatsus in the same story. By mistake, the rebuilt androids end up living with Excel and Hyatt, and imprint upon them to an almost romantic degree. After stealing food and money to support the ACROSS Agents, the Ropponmatsus eventually sacrifice themselves so that Hyatt and Excel can escape the wrath of the city police.

*'''Ropponmatsu II's "death" scene''': This is played out as an over-the-top parody of sentimental self-sacrifice scenes in anime, and as Ropponmatsu II begins to break apart, a drop of fluid leaks from her eye socket like a tear, and is depicted as splashing into a darkened pool of water. This would be repeated in Episode 23 when Excel gets shot. Chris would imitate this in ''Sonichu'' #4, using blood instead of tears, and Chris's impotent rage instead of the sadness of loss.

===Episode 17===
"American Japanimation." Il Palazzo sends Excel and Hyatt to the United States on a reconnaissance mission. There, they meet Pedro's son Sandora, who dreams of becoming a rich and famous animator in Japan, where he believes cartoonists are highly respected. Sandora makes a living selling animation sheets of later successor ''Puni Puni Poemy'' to a suspicious-looking man, and is later horrified to discover that his artwork is being traded as bootleg anime cels. Excel rescues Sandora from the criminals by employing various "rules" of both American and Japanese animation.

This was Chris's favorite episode.

*'''Sailor Moon:''' Long before Chris met Megan and got into the ''Sailor Moon'' series itself, Chris had used ''Sailor Moon'' trademark poses and variants on her catchphrase for his alter ego, [[Chris-Chan Sonichu]]. The Excel connection here is that Excel does the same routine in this episode, and a gunsel recognizes the reference, and notes that it's a really old cartoon. Compare to Chris's battle with Mary Lee Walsh in "Witch Confront", where Mary mocks Chris's poses and slogan as being "so old".

===Episode 18===
Kabapu forces his DCS team to wear the power suits of Municipal Force Daitenzin, and use them to battle injustice in the city. Furious at being trapped in the ''sentai'' costumes, the team agrees to just combat litterbugs, jaywalkers, and other minor scofflaws until the suits finally deactivate. Ironically, the awesome powers of the Daitenzin, coupled with their self-absorbed motives, cause far more damage to the city than any mere crime wave.

*'''[[Bagget]], Jerkop Daitenzen (sic)''': Perhaps wanting a more powerful role for Bagget than a mere Jerkop, Chris put him in a brown Power Ranger suit and history was made in ''Sonichu'' #4. Strangely, Bagget never makes use of any of the Daitenzin's special attacks or weapons.

*'''The boy and girl on the bench who look like a character from ''Battle Athletes'' and Ash Ketchum''': In ''Excel'', these two characters are attacked by one of the Daitenzin for public displays of affection, when in fact the girl was refusing the boy's advances. Chris used the girl in a similar scene in [[Sonichu 5|''Sonichu'' #5]], only they were a more romantic couple, and it was the Jerkops who intervened.

*'''Man and woman in coffee shop assaulted by Daitenzin''': In the original version, the couple were discussing when the man would leave his wife, as the woman was pregnant with their child. Chris sanitizes the moment into a "love confession" interrupted by a Jerkop, who punches out the man just as Sumiyoshi does in ''Excel''.

===Episode 19===
Animal anime again. Menchi ends up joining a young heiress on a journey around the world, but their trip is cut short by a common enemy.

Influences on Chris: Chris said this was the episode with Key, but he's wrong. Way to suck, Chris.

*'''Old Man Cyborg''': The punchline of this episode ends up being that the assassin determined to kill the heiress turns out to be the kindly old man who once took care of Menchi, before he turned evil and Menchi shot him in Episode 10. He returns here with a powerful robot body, eager to take revenge. While he doesn't look much like any of Chris's characters, the connection to [[Merried Seinor Comic]] is apparent, and this character may have inspired the other Manajerks Chris depicted as cyborgs.

===Episode 20===
Review show again. This episode recaps the Pedro subplot that's been going on since the show began. In short, Pedro learns that the author of all his miseries is a cosmic Yakuza-type known only as "That Man". Pedro is helpless against his awesome power, until Nabeshin unleashes the secret powers within both Pedro and his son Sandora. Now sporting afros of their own, Pedro and Sandora join Nabeshin to confront That Man, until he escapes with the Will of the Macrocosm.

*'''Sub-Episodes:''' While the segments of the Pedro recap aren't titled this way, they are numbered independently of the episodes of the main series. This "saga within a saga" format probably inspired Chris to depict his own adventures as separate from Sonichu's. Also, combining Pedro's adventures into a single all-Pedro episode is probably how Chris decided to rehash his existing Sub-Episodes in ''Sonichu'' #4, with additional Sub-Episodes to provide some closure to the storyline.

*'''Pedro in Limbo:''' The common theme of Pedro's adventures is that he has been mostly powerless against the forces that affect his life. As a ghost, he could only look on in horror as his family abandoned him, and strange cosmic forces manipulated him for sex and lulz. Similarly, Chris has been describing a similar experience for himself in the ''[[Sonichu (comic)|Sonichu]]'' comics since he got marooned in the time void.

===Episode 21===
Rock anime. Il Palazzo's superiors send him a message via Key, an oversexed rock musician who insists on delivering the message through song, yet refuses to sing until he feels the proper artistic inspiration. To that end, Excel and Hyatt attempt to cultivate Key's creativity, but Excel finds herself becoming attracted to Key's untamed sexuality.

*'''Key''': Chris admitted that he adapted Key's revealing outfit to design the costume of his evil gay twin [[Reldnahc Notsew Naitsirhc]]. The only significant differences are the change from red leather straps to green, and torn blue jeans in place of Key's ass-less chaps. Also, while Key merely displayed an ambiguous sexuality in keeping with his role as a bishonen rock hero, Naitsirhc is a hardcore gay guy, living out Chris's fantasy life of ejaculating whenever and wherever he pleases.

===Episode 22===
[[Image:Cwcexcel.jpg|thumb|By Dean Walsh's order! For the glory of Dean Walsh! BECAUSE DEAN WALSH DEMANDS!]]

Koshi Rikdo grants permission for ACROSS to actually conquer the city. The matter becomes academic, however, when a Puuchu warlord leads an invasion force to Earth to avenge their past defeats. Excel joins forces with Puuchu rebels to defeat the invaders, but the city is destroyed when debris from the battle collides with the Earth.

*'''Nabeshin as martial arts master:''' As the series approached the end, Nabeshin teamed up with Pedro and Sandora to battle That Man, and the three of them would go to a special training ground to hone their powers for the final battle. Based on this, Chris recast Nabeshin in ''Sonichu'' as G.D.W. Shinabe, a martial arts ''sensei'' who teaches his students how to edit film with karate chops. Shinabe would adopt [[Punchy Sonichu]] into his dojo.

===Episode 23===
Post-apocalyptic anime. Cut off from ACROSS, Excel wanders the ruins of what was once F Prefecture, defending the survivors from gangs and warlords. Horrified to learn that the villains are working for ACROSS, and that she has been targeted for execution, Excel confronts Il Palazzo to learn the truth. He shoots her in the chest without a word.

*'''Time-delay attack:''' Mostly, this episode parodies ''Fist of the North Star'', which features a powerful fighter kicking ass in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Since Excel is in the role of the hero, she uses a variation of the anime's titular attack, which involves punching your opponent a billion times. The thing about the ''Fist of the North Star'' is that it takes three seconds to have any effect, after which the opponent explodes like a water balloon filled with blood, then becomes a pastiche of Dejiko from ''Digi Charat''. When dubious villains question the attack's power, the hero would famously reply "But you're already dead", right before they die. Chris adapted this idea when he first used the Curse-ye-ha-me-ha in ''Sonichu'' #0. The Jerkhief didn't feel a thing at first, and then his life began to unravel from the curse.

===Episode 24===
Koshi Rikdo strips the series of all gags. Excel is rescued by Municipal Force Daitenzin, but after recovering from the gunshot, she has amnesia. ACROSS has conquered the region, but Il Palazzo begins to teeter on the brink of madness. The only hope left for resistance are Kabapu's promise of a secret weapon, and Nabeshin, who sacrifices himself to defeat That Man, one of the Il Palazzo's superiors in ACROSS.

Influences on Chris: Make your own "joke-free comedy" joke here. Seriously, though, Chris probably never stole anything from this episode because he couldn't wrap his brain around the irony.

===Episode 25===
As Kapabu and Municipal Force Daitenzin stage a desperate attack on ACROSS's mobile fortress, Excel sneaks into the base to confront Il Palazzo, whom she vaguely recalls as the key to regaining her memories. Il Palazzo makes short work of Kabapu's forces, but when Excel arrives and confronts his madness, he regains his sanity and they escape the fortress together as it explodes. Meanwhile, Pedro and Sandora discover That Man has survived, and defeat him for good with their ultimate attack, the ''Nabehameha'' Wave.

*'''"One Shot is all we get!"''' This line is said in unison by both Pedro and That Man before they engage in their ''Dragon Ball'' style beam struggle. Chris blatantly stole it for his epic showdown with Mary Lee Walsh, depicted in [[Sonichu 2|''Sonichu'' #2]].

*'''Nabehameha''': Obviously, a parody of the Kamehameha attack from ''Dragon Ball'', renamed for Nabeshin, who invented it and taught it to Pedro off-screen. While Chris had watched ''Dragon Ball Z'', it was undoubtedly the Nabehameha that gave him the bright idea to customize his own version of the Kamehameha and pretend it was original. Thus, the "Curseyehameha", which he later changed to "Shinyehameha". As Chris has diluted every other idea he stole from ''Excel Saga'', he does so again here, since he failed to utilize the part of the Nabehameha that was so awesome: the afro.

*'''Those things always have weak knees!''': Kabapu uses a giant robot to attack ACROSS mobile fortress. When the defending troops counterattack, this is the strategy they offer. The way the idea is discussed, weak knees in giant robots may be some cliche in giant robot anime lore, but in any case, Chris stole the line for his battle against the Count Graduon's Golem in ''Sonichu'' #2.

*'''"[[Honest content|Honest-to-Goodness]]":''' Near the end of the episode, Excel fights Ilpalazzo's inner demons that are the reason behind his sudden outburst of megalomaniac actions. After punching them out, they fall back and take full control of him, and when they do so, Ilpalazzo says ''"Now, I'm the honest-to-goodness Ilpalazzo!".'' Judging by the climactic delivery of this line, it is very likely it got burned into Chris's subconscious, to end up being used every time he claims to be [[Honest content|True and Honest]]; an example is his [[User:ChrisChanSonichu profile|Wikipedia page]], which starts with "The One, The Only, from his Own ''Honest-to-God'' Words".

===Episode 26===
Sort of a bonus episode full of material too graphic for Japanese TV. Cosette Sara from Episode 8 returns as the newest member of ACROSS, who somehow causes Excel and Hyatt to switch bodies. After a lot of nudity and violence, Nabeshin kills the rest of the ACROSS Six and Hyatt floods the world in blood.

Influences on Chris: Chris was probably too busy fapping to anime noods to copy anything. The final scene is Nabeshin's wedding to some broad who kept trying to serve him soup throughout the series, and Chris probably plans to end ''Sonichu'' with [[Wedding Comic|his own wedding]], but Real Life has made this impossible.

===Puni Puni Poemy===
'''''[[Wikipedia:Puni Puni Poemy|Puni Puni Poemy]]''''' is something of an ''Excel Saga'' spinoff, starring Nabeshin's daughter Poemi Watanabe as she struggles to become a voice actress while fighting aliens with the assistance of the seven Aasu Sisters. The show's relation to ''Excel Saga'' is tenuous, with only Nabeshin and Kumi Kumi present (though a news anchor bears a resemblance to Koshi Rikdo), and some reused background music from the series.

[[Image: GDW.jpg|thumb|200px|Unlike Chris, this man is a TRUE and HONEST great director.]]

Influences on Chris: Chris has more than once referred to himself as "Great Director Chandler", shamelessly ripping off Nabeshin's declaration that he is the "Great Director Watanabe."

==Gallery of plagiarism==
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<gallery>
Image:Beforebreakfast.jpg|Compare this...
Image:Sonichustrip1.jpg|to ''this''
Image:Fqx.jpg|Chris would steal this logo, only without the searchlights, or the font, or anything else, really.
Image:graveyard.jpg|This is probably the only reason Chris considers the mall an ideal dating locale, instead of sitting in a cemetery all day.
Image:Coffeeshop.jpg|Actually, the coffee shop was [[Hanna]]'s idea, although Chris probably would have suggested it himself, based on this.
Image:Putitin4.jpg|Chris always picks option 3
Image:Stalkher.jpg|Option 1 is [[Megan|fine too]].
Image:Putitin2.jpg|Chris's SOP for how to interact with women.
Image:Red-string.jpg|"I have a NEW idea that I am sure will [[Fail|REEL]] in a girlfriend on a FATEFUL [[Red String of Fate|RED STRING]]."
Image:Nabeshin1.jpg|Character Chris identifies with.
Image:Sumiyoshi.jpg|Character Chris should identify with.
Image:Excel-julay.jpg|JULAAAAYYYY!
Image:Pedro1.jpg|Compare this...
Image:RainbowChris.jpg|to ''this''
Image:scotpalazzo1.jpg|Better One?
Image:ilpalazzo.jpg|Or better Two?
Image:drool1.jpg|Typical reaction to reading ''[[Sonichu (comic)|Sonichu]]''
Image: drool2.jpg|The Jerkop version
Image: Chris3days.jpg|Only three days...
Image: only3days.jpg|... since I skipped my last deadline.
Image: Title.JPG|The title is Excel Saga!
Image: Title2.JPG|...or maybe it's Sonichu...I can't remember.
Image: Hail.jpg|When you see it...
Image: Hailwrodents.jpg|...you'll have numerous pairs of [[Dirty_crapped_briefs|dirty, crapped briefs]]
Image: Bystanders.jpg|Even lazy shortcuts like this aren't original.
Image: Bystanders2.jpg|See?
Image: Pedro2.jpg|Pedro in Limbo
Image: Timevoid.jpg|Chris in the Time Void
Image: Bowling1.jpg|I'm not the same person I was just a moment ago...
Image: Saltier.jpg|I'm much, much saltier!
Image: Bowling.jpg|Chris defeats the bad guys with bowling power.
Image: Bowling2.jpg|And the original version.
Image: Rikdo-shit.jpg|Stereotypical depiction of a manga artist's room.
Image: More-rikdo-shit.jpg|Possible inspiration for Chris's interior decoration.
Image:0825-EP12-5P6-8.jpg|Compare to Chris's room.
Image:0821-EP12-5P6-5.jpg|The eerie similarities.
Image: Simonla-notes.jpg|Chris's useless character notes.
Image: Matsuya-notes.jpg|And their possible inspiration.
Image: BloodTear.jpg|The Passion of...
Image: Exceltear.jpg|...the Chris?
</gallery>
</center>

==Sauces==
<references/>

==See also==
*[[Parody]]
*[[Saga]]

==External links==
*[[Wikipedia:Excel Saga|Wikipedia article on ''Excel Saga'']]

[[Category:Things Chris has ripped off]]

Excel Saga

2010-04-27T18:32:23Z

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[[Image:CWCMonica.jpg|thumb|300px|Chris meets Monica Rial, who played Hyatt in the English dub of ''Excel Saga''. This is also perhaps the only time Chris has touched an attractive woman without her being immediately repulsed. What a brave, brave woman.]]

While the plagiarism of ''[[Sonichu (character)|Sonichu]]'' is obvious to just about anyone, there are even deeper, more subtle layers of unoriginality in Chris's masterwork. Truly, if Sonichu is the bastard gay love-child of [[Sonic The Hedgehog]] and [[Pikachu]], then Excel is surely his surrogate mother. For while the characters in ''Sonichu'' are mostly fusions of [[Sonic]] characters and ''[[Pokemon]]'' characters, Chris draws a lot of his "humor" from '''''Excel Saga''''', along with various other miscellaneous ideas that wound up in the comics.

Additionally, ''Excel Saga'' has left something of a cultural impression upon Chris's personal life as well. The purpose of this article is to list as many of these influences as possible, and to provide the original context for those unfamiliar with the anime. Due to the relative obscurity of ''Excel Saga'', and the complexity of Chris's plagiarism of it, this article will also provide some additional background on the series.

==Introduction==
[[Image:Excel-Saga.jpg|thumb|''Excel Saga'' Note: Lord Ilpalazzo in background & Menchi (the dog), a plushie Chris owns.]]

The genesis of the [[anime]] lay in Koshi Rikdo's fan comic, ''Municipal Force Daitenzin'', which was an adult-themed parody of the ''sentai'' genre (read: ''[[Power Rangers]]''). By [[1990s#1996|1996]] he had retooled the concept to focus on Excel, one of the characters in the original fan comic, and the first ''Excel Saga'' comics saw print in Japan. Fun fact: Rikdo dabbled in some Sonic fancomics as well, and he hit the big time at the age of 26, making him everything Chris has ever dreamed of being professionally, whether Chris is aware of it or not.

The manga tells the story of two factions struggling for control of the city of Fukuoka, Japan. One, ACROSS, is led by the ruthless but myopic Lord Il Palazzo, who seeks to conquer the city as a stepping stone to world domination under his own high-minded ideals. His organization consists of only a handful of young women, who seem only vaguely aware of his intentions. The title character, Excel, is the first of these agents, later joined by Hyatt, and even later, Elgala. The second faction is the Department of City Security, headed by the civic-minded but manipulative Dr. Kabapu, a powerful government official. Over the course of the series, he recruits a number of people to work for his department, then slowly compels them to perform increasingly bizarre tasks in the name of civil defense. Though Kabapu and Il Palazzo share some mysterious history, the rest of their respective groups remain unaware of each other for much of the series. Against this backdrop, Rikdo weaves a satire of life in Japan during the recession of the [[1990s]].

Soon after the manga began publication, Rikdo was approached about an anime adaptation. He agreed, on the condition that the anime's storyline differ from his own, as the manga's plot was still unfolding. Further, much of the cynical, sometimes controversial humor in the comics was unsuitable for Japanese television, and so the anime's director, Shinichi Watanabe, had to come up with additional material to fill out the show. Among these contributions were an expanded role for Pedro, an immigrant worker who played a bit part in the manga's first issue, the Great Will of the Macrocosm, a cosmic entity capable of reshaping continuity, and Nabeshin, the director's over-the-top alter ego. To explain this flagrant disregard for the source material, one of the running gags of the anime is an ongoing struggle between Rikdo and Nabeshin for control over the creative direction of the series, with Rikdo using a comically oversized rubber stamp to approve the use of his characters to lampoon various anime genres.

The series was then adapted for release in North America by ADV in [[2002]], and would eventually end up in the DVD player of a certain autistic man-child we all know. The English dub adds yet another layer to the series, which parodies other anime series as it partially adapts a manga that itself parodies even more anime. To better help American audiences get the references, ADV included optional pop-up notes in the DVDs so that a befuddled viewer could learn just what the hell Excel was imitating or why such-and-such dialogue was supposed to be a pun in Japanese. In other words, 99.99999999996% of the humor in ''Excel Saga'' was almost certainly over Chris's head, and so when he speaks of the series as being funny, he's probably just repeating what it says on the back of the DVD case, or referring to slapstick humor like Excel falling down a hole. That Chris would dare to steal material from this series has three side-effects:

1) Chris doesn't actually understand what he's stealing. At least when he ripped off Pikachu, he knew how to do it. Cute yellow thing shoots lightning. Simple. From there, Chris would go on to draw its penis, but the basic gist of Pikachu was properly stolen. When Chris rips off a joke from ''Excel Saga'', however, he robs the gag of all context, resulting in an awkward line of dialogue that's unoriginal ''and'' unfunny.

2) Chris is ripping off anime he hasn't even seen. For example, since Chris actually had watched ''[[Dragon Ball Z]]'', it's difficult to say for certain if the [[Curse-ye-ha-me-ha]] was lifted directly from ''DBZ'', or the episode of ''Excel Saga'' that parodied it. The vast majority of anime titles mocked or referenced by ''Excel Saga'', however, Chris has probably never even heard of, so when he steals that material, he doesn't realize it was already borrowed the first time.

3) For once, it isn't immediately obvious when Chris is ripping something off. Since ''Excel'' isn't nearly as well-known as Sonic or Pikachu, Chris can actually sort of get away with lifting ideas from it.

{{quote|Anime Review: Excel on Excel Saga

Excel Saga is a [[Random-access humor|wacky]] [[anime]] with [[parody|parodies]], an energetic girl, Excel, the ideological commander of ACROSS, Illpalazzo, a wandering soul, Pedro, and many other characters. The story is that it is a saga where Excel must suffer numerous hard adventures to realize ACROSS’ plan of conquest over a corrupted world.

Excel Saga has a total of 26 episodes on a set of 6 DVDs. If I had to pick a favorite episode, I’d pick episode 17 where Excel travels to America where she describes the differences between Anime and American Animation. She also does an excellent parody to the classic Anime, [[Sailor Moon]], in this episode.|--Review by [[Chris|Christian Chandler]]<ref>http://cogsdev.110mb.com/sonichu/SchusNews3.htm</ref>.}}

==Episode guide to ''Excel Saga'', with influences on Chris==

===Episode 1===
[[Image:405-ExcelV1.jpg|thumb|Chris's autographed copy of volume 1 of ''Excel Saga''.]]
Excel is assigned to assassinate manga artist Koshi Rikdo, who created the ''Excel Saga'' comics on which the anime is based. After the Will of the Macrocosm restarts the story several times, Excel gets a part-time job directing traffic for a construction site. There, she meets immigrant worker Pedro, who gets killed as a result of Excel's hyperactive negligence.

Influences on Chris:

*'''FQX as a replacement for the FOX network:''' An FQX searchlight logo is used at the end of each episode as Excel promotes the next one. Chris would use "FQX News" as the home network of Greta Squall when he ripped off the Spring Break bit from ''[[Family Guy]]'' in [[Sonichu 8|''Sonichu'' #8]].

*'''"Only three days since I skipped my last deadline":''' Sung aloud by Koshi Rikdo as he blithely draws his comics in his home, unaware that Excel is preparing to murder him. Chris would repeat this line for no good reason in "Off Target", featured in [[Sonichu 4|''Sonichu'' #4]].

*'''"PEDRO IS SHOCKED!":''' One of the many running gags throughout ''Excel Saga''. When a character is shocked they will scream out "SHOCK!" This is usually done by Pedro, but Nabeshin and Sandora have also said this. "SHOCK" has been used many times throughout the Sonichu comics, and this is most likely the inspiration.

*'''"I could do all this before breakfast, but I had lunch a couple of hours ago":''' Said by Pedro when Excel motivates him to work harder at the construction site. Even the characters acknowledge that's a shitty wordplay gag native to Japan. It's less of a joke than a sign that Pedro is settling into his host country. Nevertheless, Chris uses it in his "classic" Sonichu strip from January 13, [[2004]], featured in [[Sonichu 0|''Sonichu'' #0]].

*'''Il Palazzo:''' Excel's leader, whose vast ambitions are undermined by his myopic strategies. For example, Il Palazzo seeks to unite the entire world through conquest, yet seeks only the takeover of the city he lives in, since it poses a lesser risk. When he calls for a purge of comic books from his New Order, he sends Excel out to kill a single cartoonist (Koshi Rikdo), an empty gesture at best. Chris attempted to demonize the manager of the Fashion Square Mall by recreating him as "[[ScotPalazzo]]", but this is ineffective, as Il Palazzo is less a villain than a mere parody of one. This would be equivalent to combining Scot from Fashion Square Mall with Colonel Klink from ''Hogan's Heroes"'' or Dark Helmet from the movie ''Spaceballs''.

*'''Nabeshin:''' Self-insertion of series director Wata'''nabe Shin'''ichi. His appearance in his own anime is intended to be a parody of other directors who insert themselves in their own animes, and so he appears as a colorful man of action and mystery, often portrayed as more important and critical to the plot than the characters adapted from the original manga. In general, Chris probably draws justification for his own self-insertion into ''Sonichu'' because Shinichi did it first, ignoring the fact that the Nabeshin character manages to be ironic and badass at the same time.

Shinabe, the martial arts master who raised [[Punchy]] resembled Nabeshin in appearance and name.

*'''Excel:''' Hyperactive protagonist. Fanatically devoted to Il Palazzo's contradictory ideals, Excel blathers on endlessly throughout the series, with mixed comedic results. While the character "[[Mypoe]]" is named for ''Puni Puni Poemy'', another anime Shinichi Watanabe directed, she looks much more like Excel than anything else.

*'''Menchi:''' A small, white dog. In many ways, the mascot of the show. Chris owns a plushie of Menchi, which can be seen in the background of a many of his videos.

===Episode 2===
Sci-fi parody. Nabeshin senses his old master, the Space Butler, has been abducted by the Martian Puuchus, en route to invade the Earth. Excel destroys the Martian battleship in a manic fit, and the Martian's "Princess"--Hyatt--ends up in ACROSS headquarters, where Il Palazzo assumes her to be a new recruit.

Influences on Chris:

*'''Explaining the story''': After the opening credits Excel apologizes that the story from the first episode makes no sense at all. So she then tells us what the story is about, a few of the characters, and the setting as well. Being that Sonichu's story also makes no sense at all Chris would copy this in [[Sonichu 0|''Sonichu'' #0]].

*'''Puuchu''': If backed into a rhetorical corner, Chris would probably argue that his own blatant usage of Pikachu is legitimized by ''Excel Saga'''s Puuchus, cuddly yellow creatures clearly indented to resemble the popular ''Pokemon'' character. The difference, of course, being that Puuchus offer a humorous twist on Pikachu, in that not only their cuteness belies their hostile nature, but they also put a definitely not cute face on when hurt or serious.
** In addition, [[Sonee]]s and [[Rosey]]s certainly resemble Puchuus more than, say, Pichus.

===Episode 3===
B-movie action film parody. Il Palazzo tasks Hyatt with finding Excel, who was captured by mercenaries in the previous episode. Instead, Excel is rescued by Nabeshin, who infiltrates the mercenary camp to save his beloved Tetsuko. Nabeshin blows up a bunch of shit and Excel returns to Japan, where she meets the sickly Hyatt, who has barely even begun her first mission.

*'''Director as the main character''': While Nabeshin had been aggressively inserted into the story before, the action movie format necessitated him in a bigger role, and here he pretty much moves the entire storyline forward. Much of this episode, from Nabeshin's fruitless quest to save his love, to Nabeshin's impossible victory over an entire army, would be reflected in the [[Sub-Episodes]].

*'''Prolonged speeches''': This is a staple in ''Excel Saga'', but it's worth noting here because this is the first time Il Palazzo really gets to preach on about what's wrong with the world. Similarly, most of Excel's dialogue in the anime comes in the form of rapid-fire babbling, which she does a lot of here, since she's in mortal danger for most of the episode. Chris may have interpreted this to mean that long-winded speeches are funny in general, regardless of topic or context. And so, ''Excel Saga'' may have inspired all those walls of text Chris writes into his stories, especially the ones where he lectures the villains for daring to oppose him. It should be noted, however, that while Excel and Il Palazzo are no less chatty in the ''Excel Saga'' manga, the author is much more conservative about writing every single friggin' word they say, since the gag wouldn't work as well in print.

*'''Bumping into each other''': Throughout the episode Excel's side of the story is being told is shown in wide screen, while Hyatt's has been shown in a normal screen. Near the end of the episode Hyatt begins her mission to locate Excel. We then see Excel, which Menchi strapped to her chest, skipping happily down the street; overzealous with the joy of escaping. We then see Hyatt, walking down the street rather slowly, contemplating on where she should begin her mission. It switches between Excel and Hyatt a few more times; until the two happen to meet with Excel's side of the screen still in wide screen, and Hyatt's in full. [[Rosechu]] and [[Amy Rose]] would copy this in the epilogue of [[Sonichu 6]], resulting in something that just doesn't make sense. Also, if we consider that Rosechu was in wide screen mode, that means that she answers only to the all mighty ScotPalazzo.

===Episode 4===
Romantic comedy parody. The girls' next door neighbor, Toru Watanabe (not to be confused with Nabeshin) asks Hyatt out on a date, but the matter is soon complicated to the point of absurdity by the antics of their respective roommates.

*'''Dating game simulators''': This episode uses the concept brilliantly, depicting a real-life date between (Hyatt and Watanabe), parallel to Lord Il Palazzo, who plays a video game featuring Hyatt as the girl he's trying to win. The idea of the game is to respond to romantic situations with one of three options. Throughout this episode, option 3 is often simply "Put it in". As these dating simulator games never caught on in the United States, it's highly likely that this episode was what gave Chris the big idea to use ''[[Sprung]]'' to further his "[[Dating Education]]". This is further evidence that nearly all of the jokes in ''Excel Saga'' are way over Chris's head. The whole point of this episode is that these games are childish and unrealistic, and Chris simply assumes the writers are trying to give him tips on how to score.
[[Image: Pedro3.jpg|thumb|200px|Pedro, upon viewing the [[Kimmi|Chris-Chan Sex Tape]]]]
*'''Doll humping''': Excel rolls around on the floor with a life-size wooden figure dressed up to resemble Il Palazzo. Again, this is an example of Chris's warped behavior which might be attributed to him watching this show and thinking it's somehow acceptable in real life.

*'''Simple white background characters''': These nondescript bystanders appear during Hyatt's date with Watanabe, a parody of ''DiGi Charat''. Naturally, Chris took their use as implicit permission to slack off in his own drawings of large crowds. You can spot this in almost any issue of ''Sonichu''.

*'''NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!''': Before there was Darth Vader, there was Pedro. After dying in the first episode, Pedro's ghost endures a series of emotional trials throughout the series, as his wife immediately forgets about him and finds a new man (something Chris himself would later do when after a day he forgot about [[PandaHalo]] and moved on to [[Julie]]). Forced to watch the charming Gomez take over his family, Pedro can only watch in tears and scream his beloved catchphrase, which Chris would later repeat in [[Charlottesville Fashion Square]].

===Episode 5===
Drama about social issues. Excel and Hyatt infiltrate a government building to undermine the highest ranking city officials. Concurrently, Watanabe and his roommates, Iwata and Sumiyoshi, get jobs as civil servants working for the Department of City Security, a pet project run by the mysterious and influential Dr. Kabapu.

*'''[[Red String of Fate]]:''' When Watanabe whines about having to work alongside his odious roommates, Iwata suggests they're bound by the red string of fate. Watanabe angrily retorts that the Red String is only supposed to be for destined lovers, not just any two people. Watanabe then meets Hyatt, posing as a refreshments vendor, and decides that the Red String of Fate binds the two of them. This could be where Chris first learned of the concept, since it's not like he would have found out about it from ''Dragon Ball Z'' or ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]''.

*'''Dr. Kabapu:''' Dr. Kabapu is the leader of the city's defense team. However, he seems to hold a great amount of power in politics; so much that he could potentially make anyone mayor if he needed to. His desire to protect the city is strong; although a bit warped. If there is a threat to the city, he will find and destroy it. This warped way of thinking may have influenced the way that [[Chris-Chan|the mayor]] runs the city of CWCville.

*'''Drool Waterfalls:''' Tears streaming like waterfalls is an often-used effect in ''Excel Saga'', particularly seen on the long-suffering Pedro. However, in this episode, many of the government workers are sickened after consuming Hyatt's refreshments, and begin roaming the building in zombie-like fashion, green drool pouring from their mouths. A very similar visual appeared in ''Sonichu'' #4, when [[Crystal Weston Chandler (sister)|Crystal]] managed to paralyze the [[Jerkops]] in lust at a bowling alley.

===Episode 6===
Survival drama. Excel and Hyatt are sent to install a powerful weapon on a mountaintop and use it to destroy the city. Coincidentally, Kabapu's Department of City Security agents undergo training with laser pistols, and Iwata unwittingly foils ACROSS' plot when his weapon misfires.

*'''Misaki Matsuya's Character Notes''': The introduction of Matsuya was treated as a big deal in the anime, with a pause to display text on the screen describing the character's age, gender, hobbies, and personality traits. Chris would emulate this several times when introducing new characters, including [[Wes Iseli]], [[Sarah Hammer]], [[Allison Amber]], [[Simonla Rosechu]], and [[Zapina Rosechu]].

*'''Ha-chan, Eh-Chan, Will-Chan, etc.''': The suffix "-chan" is ubiquitous in anime, but most English dubs don't carry it over into the translation. Even if Chris had heard it before watching ''Excel Saga'', the sheer abundance of "-chan" combined with the first syllable of a character's name in the series is probably what led Chris to dub himself "Chris-Chan". This would also explain Chris's [[fail|failure]] to realize the context of -chan. While the honorific is used for children, girls, and young women, ''Excel Saga'' uses it so gratuitously that a viewer might never notice the pattern, especially in this episode. Nevertheless, the suffix "-chan" could be seen as working for Chris in a unique way, since it effectively puns off of his last name: "Chandler". The suffix is further validated by the fact that in many ways, Chris really is a child.

===Episode 7===
[[Image: Kabapu.jpg|thumb|200px|Fun Fact: Chris faps to this anime.]]

Horror film. Kabapu sends the DCS team into the sewers, not far from the underground lair of ACROSS. Excel and Hyatt activate defense systems at random, causing a flood. Both groups run afoul of the Puuchus, led by the hideous Puuchu Queen, until Nabeshin triggers a second flood which saves the cast and destroys the monsters.

*'''Ms. Momochi''': Kabapu's secretary, who walks in on Kabapu while he's in between changing clothes in his office. While bearing no physical resemblance, the character may well have been the inspiration for Miss [[Allison Amber]], Chris's mayoral aide and girl Friday.

===Episode 8===
Pretty girl anime. In a shameless bid to increase ratings, all male characters are stricken from the storyboards, appearing only as off-screen voices, shadows, or hands. The DCS team take a vacation day to visit the City Pool, while Excel and Hyatt coincidentally do the same. Hyatt befriends a young girl named Cosette Sara, who turns out to be a cunning assassin. In a strange twist of fate, Cosette is transported to the world of the dead, where she sees her mother's ghost once more, but Pedro warns that she cannot cross the Sanzu River to join her, for it would mean she would die as well. Taking pity on Cosette, the Great Will of the Macrocosm retcons Cosette's life so that her mother never died and her dark life as a child assassin never happened. The other male characters later confront Pedro for violating the "no-men" rule of the episode.

Influences on Chris: Nothing really obvious. This episode was primarily a tongue-in-cheek exercise in gratuitous fanservice, so Chris may have been too busy fapping away to notice anything else. He ''may'' have gotten the idea to do the Spring Break story in ''Sonichu'' #8 from this episode, but other than the all-Rosechu cover, it seems like a rather thin connection.

===Episode 9===
Sports anime. Considering athletics to be the universal language of the masses, Il Palazzo sends Hyatt and Excel to research ways to exploit sports for the purpose of world domination. This leads the duo to part-time jobs in a bowling alley, which is soon overrun by the [[9/11|terrorist]]/bowling organization "Stick and Balls", who plot to use the alley to spread their pro-bowling propaganda and return the "sport of kings" to its former glory. Excel flees to the women's restroom, where Nabeshin agrees to train her in the art of bowling to defeat the Stick and Balls' ringleader. Excel kicks everyone's ass and saves the day.

*'''"I'm much, much saltier":''' When Excel confronts the terrorists, they mock her for having run away earlier. Excel's response: "But I'm ''not'' the sweet little girl I was a few minutes ago! I'm much, much saltier now!" Compare to Chris's line from Sub-Episode 6 of ''Sonichu'' #4, as he describes his showdown with the Jerkops at a bowling alley: "Ah, but I am not the weak person they think I am; I am much, much saltier!" Chris has also used this phrase in private e-mails, to describe himself in the present compared to the naivete of his youth. Note that by omitting the word "sweet", he completely loses the pun.

*'''Bowling:''' The course of the battle in Sub-Episode 6 really doesn't match up well with Excel's bowling adventure, aside from the single hero challenging an entire squad of goons in a bowling alley and defeating them with superhuman bowling moves. It's possible Chris may be channeling some other cartoon in addition, but given the "much, much saltier" line, it's clear that ''Excel Saga'' gave Chris the bright idea to do a comic set in a bowling alley.

===Episode 10===
Animal anime. Menchi, Excel's pet dog/emergency food supply, escapes their apartment and tries to seek out a kindly old man who once took care of her. She soon befriends a pack of fellow strays, led by the charismatic Wolf. Wolf's pack agree to help Menchi find the old man, but soon run afoul of the Animal Control Department, a squad of dogs who serve as dog catchers. After great heartache and betrayal, Wolf and the others sacrifice themselves so that Menchi can escape. Perhaps favoring Excel's long-term threats to the immediate dangers of the outside world, she returns to Excel's apartment.

*'''Anthropomorphic dogs:''' While Menchi can't talk, and in fact seems to look and sound more like a cat than a dog, the other dogs in this episode can speak, and on occasion assume humanoid postures. It appears that Chris ripped off this imagery when he reincarnated his own dog, Patti, as [[Patti-Chan]]. Patti doesn't quite resemble any of the dogs in this episode (her design actually having been stolen from a picture by Megan), although her face does look sort of like a cross between Menchi's and Kyoko's. Her body seems to more closely resemble Wolf's when he's standing upright, and it may be that Chris had to combine their designs in order to approximate Patti's breed.

*'''A kind old man:''' Toward both the start and the ending of the episode Menchi has memories of the kind old man that took care of her before she met Excel. Once her memories are near completed, circles with memories of the old man fall slowly down the screen. Chris would copy this for the cover of [[Sonichu 7|''Sonichu'' #7]].

*'''Menchi's silent adventures:''' Until Menchi meets the other dogs, her speechless journey through the city bears a strong resemblance to the Sonichu Babies segments from [[Sonichu 3|''Sonichu'' #3]]. In particular, a band of cruel children start throwing rocks and boulders at Menchi, not unlike a certain Whale we all know and love.

*'''"I shall show you the power of the well-read dog!"''': Defiant last words of "The Professor", a Scottish terrier in Wolf's pack, as he sacrifices himself on Menchi's behalf. Chris alters the line into "Behold the power of the well-trusted dog!" when Patti-Chan appears in [[CWCville]] to save [[Crystal]] from [[Mary Lee Walsh]].

At this point, the folly of Chris's plagiarism should be clear. He steals ideas and clever lines, but dismisses the concepts that made them worthwhile in the first place. Patti-Chan's storyline in ''Sonichu'' is basically this episode in reverse, with a dead dog coming back to life and saving her friends, whereas the whole appeal to "Menchi's Great Adventure" is the absurd pathos of a Scottish Terrier with glasses and cartoon bombs being a suicide bomber.

===Episode 11===
Youth drama. Excel and Hyatt take temp jobs as teachers, and quickly get saddled with the responsibility of training the school's delinquent baseball team for the big championship game. They lose, as is a common trope in sports anime, to reinforce the greater importance of sportsmanship and teamwork.

Influence on Chris: None, apparently. Chalk this up to his apparent disinterest in sports, and the male-heavy cast of this particular episode.

===Episode 12===
Detective anime. Hyatt gets taken hostage by a pair of burglars, who panic and ultimately kill themselves when she dies and they fear they've murdered her. Meanwhile, the Department of City Security agents train under Purin, an impertinent young woman possessed by the ghost of her hardboiled gumshoe father.

Influence on Chris: None, again.

===Episode 13===
Review show. Excel and Hyatt compete in a game show-style contest assembling short films using recycled clips from the previous episodes.

Influence on Chris: None. Good going, Chris.

===Episodes 14 & 15===
[[Image:Mom_am_pig.JPG|thumb|Excel responds to Chris after reading the Sonichu comics.]]

Dr. Kabapu commissions the pederast cyberneticist Dr. Shioji to build Ropponmatsu, a female android to serve under the Department of City Security. Iwata immediately falls for the shapely robot, until she is destroyed while disarming an ACROSS bomb, and rebuilt as an obnoxious prepubescent girl.

Escalating the conflict, ACROSS deploys a robot to deliver a second bomb, which battles the second Ropponmatsu to a standstill. Shioji delivers a reconstructed Model One Ropponmatsu to assist, but ultimately both are destroyed by the bomb... only to be rebuilt again.

Influences on Chris: Ropponmatsu II may have inspired Zapina Rosechu in some way, but that would require corroboration.

===Episode 16===
Desperate for story ideas, the writers use both Ropponmatsus in the same story. By mistake, the rebuilt androids end up living with Excel and Hyatt, and imprint upon them to an almost romantic degree. After stealing food and money to support the ACROSS Agents, the Ropponmatsus eventually sacrifice themselves so that Hyatt and Excel can escape the wrath of the city police.

*'''Ropponmatsu II's "death" scene''': This is played out as an over-the-top parody of sentimental self-sacrifice scenes in anime, and as Ropponmatsu II begins to break apart, a drop of fluid leaks from her eye socket like a tear, and is depicted as splashing into a darkened pool of water. This would be repeated in Episode 23 when Excel gets shot. Chris would imitate this in ''Sonichu'' #4, using blood instead of tears, and Chris's impotent rage instead of the sadness of loss.

===Episode 17===
"American Japanimation." Il Palazzo sends Excel and Hyatt to the United States on a reconnaissance mission. There, they meet Pedro's son Sandora, who dreams of becoming a rich and famous animator in Japan, where he believes cartoonists are highly respected. Sandora makes a living selling animation sheets of later successor ''Puni Puni Poemy'' to a suspicious-looking man, and is later horrified to discover that his artwork is being traded as bootleg anime cels. Excel rescues Sandora from the criminals by employing various "rules" of both American and Japanese animation.

This was Chris's favorite episode.

*'''Sailor Moon:''' Long before Chris met Megan and got into the ''Sailor Moon'' series itself, Chris had used ''Sailor Moon'' trademark poses and variants on her catchphrase for his alter ego, [[Chris-Chan Sonichu]]. The Excel connection here is that Excel does the same routine in this episode, and a gunsel recognizes the reference, and notes that it's a really old cartoon. Compare to Chris's battle with Mary Lee Walsh in "Witch Confront", where Mary mocks Chris's poses and slogan as being "so old".

===Episode 18===
Kabapu forces his DCS team to wear the power suits of Municipal Force Daitenzin, and use them to battle injustice in the city. Furious at being trapped in the ''sentai'' costumes, the team agrees to just combat litterbugs, jaywalkers, and other minor scofflaws until the suits finally deactivate. Ironically, the awesome powers of the Daitenzin, coupled with their self-absorbed motives, cause far more damage to the city than any mere crime wave.

*'''[[Bagget]], Jerkop Daitenzen (sic)''': Perhaps wanting a more powerful role for Bagget than a mere Jerkop, Chris put him in a brown Power Ranger suit and history was made in ''Sonichu'' #4. Strangely, Bagget never makes use of any of the Daitenzin's special attacks or weapons.

*'''The boy and girl on the bench who look like a character from ''Battle Athletes'' and Ash Ketchum''': In ''Excel'', these two characters are attacked by one of the Daitenzin for public displays of affection, when in fact the girl was refusing the boy's advances. Chris used the girl in a similar scene in [[Sonichu 5|''Sonichu'' #5]], only they were a more romantic couple, and it was the Jerkops who intervened.

*'''Man and woman in coffee shop assaulted by Daitenzin''': In the original version, the couple were discussing when the man would leave his wife, as the woman was pregnant with their child. Chris sanitizes the moment into a "love confession" interrupted by a Jerkop, who punches out the man just as Sumiyoshi does in ''Excel''.

===Episode 19===
Animal anime again. Menchi ends up joining a young heiress on a journey around the world, but their trip is cut short by a common enemy.

Influences on Chris: Chris said this was the episode with Key, but he's wrong. Way to suck, Chris.

*'''Old Man Cyborg''': The punchline of this episode ends up being that the assassin determined to kill the heiress turns out to be the kindly old man who once took care of Menchi, before he turned evil and Menchi shot him in Episode 10. He returns here with a powerful robot body, eager to take revenge. While he doesn't look much like any of Chris's characters, the connection to [[Merried Seinor Comic]] is apparent, and this character may have inspired the other Manajerks Chris depicted as cyborgs.

===Episode 20===
Review show again. This episode recaps the Pedro subplot that's been going on since the show began. In short, Pedro learns that the author of all his miseries is a cosmic Yakuza-type known only as "That Man". Pedro is helpless against his awesome power, until Nabeshin unleashes the secret powers within both Pedro and his son Sandora. Now sporting afros of their own, Pedro and Sandora join Nabeshin to confront That Man, until he escapes with the Will of the Macrocosm.

*'''Sub-Episodes:''' While the segments of the Pedro recap aren't titled this way, they are numbered independently of the episodes of the main series. This "saga within a saga" format probably inspired Chris to depict his own adventures as separate from Sonichu's. Also, combining Pedro's adventures into a single all-Pedro episode is probably how Chris decided to rehash his existing Sub-Episodes in ''Sonichu'' #4, with additional Sub-Episodes to provide some closure to the storyline.

*'''Pedro in Limbo:''' The common theme of Pedro's adventures is that he has been mostly powerless against the forces that affect his life. As a ghost, he could only look on in horror as his family abandoned him, and strange cosmic forces manipulated him for sex and lulz. Similarly, Chris has been describing a similar experience for himself in the ''[[Sonichu (comic)|Sonichu]]'' comics since he got marooned in the time void.

===Episode 21===
Rock anime. Il Palazzo's superiors send him a message via Key, an oversexed rock musician who insists on delivering the message through song, yet refuses to sing until he feels the proper artistic inspiration. To that end, Excel and Hyatt attempt to cultivate Key's creativity, but Excel finds herself becoming attracted to Key's untamed sexuality.

*'''Key''': Chris admitted that he adapted Key's revealing outfit to design the costume of his evil gay twin [[Reldnahc Notsew Naitsirhc]]. The only significant differences are the change from red leather straps to green, and torn blue jeans in place of Key's ass-less chaps. Also, while Key merely displayed an ambiguous sexuality in keeping with his role as a bishonen rock hero, Naitsirhc is a hardcore gay guy, living out Chris's fantasy life of ejaculating whenever and wherever he pleases.

===Episode 22===
[[Image:Cwcexcel.jpg|thumb|By Dean Walsh's order! For the glory of Dean Walsh! BECAUSE DEAN WALSH DEMANDS!]]

Koshi Rikdo grants permission for ACROSS to actually conquer the city. The matter becomes academic, however, when a Puuchu warlord leads an invasion force to Earth to avenge their past defeats. Excel joins forces with Puuchu rebels to defeat the invaders, but the city is destroyed when debris from the battle collides with the Earth.

*'''Nabeshin as martial arts master:''' As the series approached the end, Nabeshin teamed up with Pedro and Sandora to battle That Man, and the three of them would go to a special training ground to hone their powers for the final battle. Based on this, Chris recast Nabeshin in ''Sonichu'' as G.D.W. Shinabe, a martial arts ''sensei'' who teaches his students how to edit film with karate chops. Shinabe would adopt [[Punchy Sonichu]] into his dojo.

===Episode 23===
Post-apocalyptic anime. Cut off from ACROSS, Excel wanders the ruins of what was once F Prefecture, defending the survivors from gangs and warlords. Horrified to learn that the villains are working for ACROSS, and that she has been targeted for execution, Excel confronts Il Palazzo to learn the truth. He shoots her in the chest without a word.

*'''Time-delay attack:''' Mostly, this episode parodies ''Fist of the North Star'', which features a powerful fighter kicking ass in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Since Excel is in the role of the hero, she uses a variation of the anime's titular attack, which involves punching your opponent a billion times. The thing about the ''Fist of the North Star'' is that it takes three seconds to have any effect, after which the opponent explodes like a water balloon filled with blood, then becomes a pastiche of Dejiko from ''Digi Charat''. When dubious villains question the attack's power, the hero would famously reply "But you're already dead", right before they die. Chris adapted this idea when he first used the Curse-ye-ha-me-ha in ''Sonichu'' #0. The Jerkhief didn't feel a thing at first, and then his life began to unravel from the curse.

===Episode 24===
Koshi Rikdo strips the series of all gags. Excel is rescued by Municipal Force Daitenzin, but after recovering from the gunshot, she has amnesia. ACROSS has conquered the region, but Il Palazzo begins to teeter on the brink of madness. The only hope left for resistance are Kabapu's promise of a secret weapon, and Nabeshin, who sacrifices himself to defeat That Man, one of the Il Palazzo's superiors in ACROSS.

Influences on Chris: Make your own "joke-free comedy" joke here. Seriously, though, Chris probably never stole anything from this episode because he couldn't wrap his brain around the irony.

===Episode 25===
As Kapabu and Municipal Force Daitenzin stage a desperate attack on ACROSS's mobile fortress, Excel sneaks into the base to confront Il Palazzo, whom she vaguely recalls as the key to regaining her memories. Il Palazzo makes short work of Kabapu's forces, but when Excel arrives and confronts his madness, he regains his sanity and they escape the fortress together as it explodes. Meanwhile, Pedro and Sandora discover That Man has survived, and defeat him for good with their ultimate attack, the ''Nabehameha'' Wave.

*'''"One Shot is all we get!"''' This line is said in unison by both Pedro and That Man before they engage in their ''Dragon Ball'' style beam struggle. Chris blatantly stole it for his epic showdown with Mary Lee Walsh, depicted in [[Sonichu 2|''Sonichu'' #2]].

*'''Nabehameha''': Obviously, a parody of the Kamehameha attack from ''Dragon Ball'', renamed for Nabeshin, who invented it and taught it to Pedro off-screen. While Chris had watched ''Dragon Ball Z'', it was undoubtedly the Nabehameha that gave him the bright idea to customize his own version of the Kamehameha and pretend it was original. Thus, the "Curseyehameha", which he later changed to "Shinyehameha". As Chris has diluted every other idea he stole from ''Excel Saga'', he does so again here, since he failed to utilize the part of the Nabehameha that was so awesome: the afro.

*'''Those things always have weak knees!''': Kabapu uses a giant robot to attack ACROSS mobile fortress. When the defending troops counterattack, this is the strategy they offer. The way the idea is discussed, weak knees in giant robots may be some cliche in giant robot anime lore, but in any case, Chris stole the line for his battle against the Count Graduon's Golem in ''Sonichu'' #2.

*'''"[[Honest content|Honest-to-Goodness]]":''' Near the end of the episode, Excel fights Ilpalazzo's inner demons that are the reason behind his sudden outburst of megalomaniac actions. After punching them out, they fall back and take full control of him, and when they do so, Ilpalazzo says ''"Now, I'm the honest-to-goodness Ilpalazzo!".'' Judging by the climactic delivery of this line, it is very likely it got burned into Chris's subconscious, to end up being used every time he claims to be [[Honest content|True and Honest]]; an example is his [[User:ChrisChanSonichu profile|Wikipedia page]], which starts with "The One, The Only, from his Own ''Honest-to-God'' Words".

===Episode 26===
Sort of a bonus episode full of material too graphic for Japanese TV. Cosette Sara from Episode 8 returns as the newest member of ACROSS, who somehow causes Excel and Hyatt to switch bodies. After a lot of nudity and violence, Nabeshin kills the rest of the ACROSS Six and Hyatt floods the world in blood.

Influences on Chris: Chris was probably too busy fapping to anime noods to copy anything. The final scene is Nabeshin's wedding to some broad who kept trying to serve him soup throughout the series, and Chris probably plans to end ''Sonichu'' with [[Wedding Comic|his own wedding]], but Real Life has made this impossible.

===Puni Puni Poemy===
'''''[[Wikipedia:Puni Puni Poemy|Puni Puni Poemy]]''''' is something of an ''Excel Saga'' spinoff, starring Nabeshin's daughter Poemi Watanabe as she struggles to become a voice actress while fighting aliens with the assistance of the seven Aasu Sisters. The show's relation to ''Excel Saga'' is tenuous, with only Nabeshin and Kumi Kumi present (though a news anchor bears a resemblance to Koshi Rikdo), and some reused background music from the series.

[[Image: GDW.jpg|thumb|200px|Unlike Chris, this man is a TRUE and HONEST great director.]]

Influences on Chris: Chris has more than once referred to himself as "Great Director Chandler", shamelessly ripping off Nabeshin's declaration that he is the "Great Director Watanabe."

==Gallery of plagiarism==
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<gallery>
Image:Beforebreakfast.jpg|Compare this...
Image:Sonichustrip1.jpg|to ''this''
Image:Fqx.jpg|Chris would steal this logo, only without the searchlights, or the font, or anything else, really.
Image:graveyard.jpg|This is probably the only reason Chris considers the mall an ideal dating locale, instead of sitting in a cemetery all day.
Image:Coffeeshop.jpg|Actually, the coffee shop was [[Hanna]]'s idea, although Chris probably would have suggested it himself, based on this.
Image:Putitin4.jpg|Chris always picks option 3
Image:Stalkher.jpg|Option 1 is [[Megan|fine too]].
Image:Putitin2.jpg|Chris's SOP for how to interact with women.
Image:Red-string.jpg|"I have a NEW idea that I am sure will [[Fail|REEL]] in a girlfriend on a FATEFUL [[Red String of Fate|RED STRING]]."
Image:Nabeshin1.jpg|Character Chris identifies with.
Image:Sumiyoshi.jpg|Character Chris should identify with.
Image:Excel-julay.jpg|JULAAAAYYYY!
Image:Pedro1.jpg|Compare this...
Image:RainbowChris.jpg|to ''this''
Image:scotpalazzo1.jpg|Better One?
Image:ilpalazzo.jpg|Or better Two?
Image:drool1.jpg|Typical reaction to reading ''[[Sonichu (comic)|Sonichu]]''
Image: drool2.jpg|The Jerkop version
Image: Chris3days.jpg|Only three days...
Image: only3days.jpg|... since I skipped my last deadline.
Image: Title.JPG|The title is Excel Saga!
Image: Title2.JPG|...or maybe it's Sonichu...I can't remember.
Image: Hail.jpg|When you see it...
Image: Hailwrodents.jpg|...you'll have numerous pairs of [[Dirty_crapped_briefs|dirty, crapped briefs]]
Image: Bystanders.jpg|Even lazy shortcuts like this aren't original.
Image: Bystanders2.jpg|See?
Image: Pedro2.jpg|Pedro in Limbo
Image: Timevoid.jpg|Chris in the Time Void
Image: Bowling1.jpg|I'm not the same person I was just a moment ago...
Image: Saltier.jpg|I'm much, much saltier!
Image: Bowling.jpg|Chris defeats the bad guys with bowling power.
Image: Bowling2.jpg|And the original version.
Image: Rikdo-shit.jpg|Stereotypical depiction of a manga artist's room.
Image: More-rikdo-shit.jpg|Possible inspiration for Chris's interior decoration.
Image:0825-EP12-5P6-8.jpg|Compare to Chris's room.
Image:0821-EP12-5P6-5.jpg|The eerie similarities.
Image: Simonla-notes.jpg|Chris's useless character notes.
Image: Matsuya-notes.jpg|And their possible inspiration.
Image: BloodTear.jpg|The Passion of...
Image: Exceltear.jpg|...the Chris?
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==Sauces==
<references/>

==See also==
*[[Parody]]
*[[Saga]]

==External links==
*[[Wikipedia:Excel Saga|Wikipedia article on ''Excel Saga'']]

[[Category:Things Chris has ripped off]]

Excel Saga

2010-03-18T15:32:19Z

Turbam: This is only a theory, so please feel free to erase it if it does not hold enough merit.

[[Image:CWCMonica.jpg|thumb|300px|Chris meets Monica Rial, who played Hyatt in the English dub of ''Excel Saga''. This is also perhaps the only time Chris has touched an attractive woman without her being immediately repulsed. What a brave, brave woman.]]

While the plagiarism of ''[[Sonichu (character)|Sonichu]]'' is obvious to just about anyone, there are even deeper, more subtle layers of unoriginality in Chris's masterwork. Truly, if Sonichu is the bastard gay love-child of [[Sonic The Hedgehog]] and [[Pikachu]], then Excel is surely his surrogate mother. For while the characters in ''Sonichu'' are mostly fusions of [[Sonic]] characters and ''[[Pokemon]]'' characters, Chris draws a lot of his "humor" from '''''Excel Saga''''', along with various other miscellaneous ideas that wound up in the comics.

Additionally, ''Excel Saga'' has left something of a cultural impression upon Chris's personal life as well. The purpose of this article is to list as many of these influences as possible, and to provide the original context for those unfamiliar with the anime. Due to the relative obscurity of ''Excel Saga'', and the complexity of Chris's plagiarism of it, this article will also provide some additional background on the series.

==Introduction==
[[Image:Excel-Saga.jpg|thumb|''Excel Saga'' Note: Lord Ilpalazzo in background & Menchi (the dog), a plushie Chris owns.]]

The genesis of the [[anime]] lay in Koshi Rikdo's fan comic, ''Municipal Force Daitenzin'', which was an adult-themed parody of the ''sentai'' genre (read: ''[[Power Rangers]]''). By [[1990s#1996|1996]] he had retooled the concept to focus on Excel, one of the characters in the original fan comic, and the first ''Excel Saga'' comics saw print in Japan. Fun fact: Rikdo also dabbled in some Sonic fancomics as well, and he hit the big time at the age of 26, making him everything Chris has ever dreamed of being professionally, whether Chris is aware of it or not.

The manga tells the story of two factions struggling for control of the city of Fukuoka, Japan. One, ACROSS, is led by the ruthless but myopic Lord Il Palazzo, who seeks to conquer the city as a stepping stone to world domination under his own high-minded ideals. His organization consists of only a handful of young women, who seem only vaguely aware of his intentions. The title character, Excel, is the first of these agents, later joined by Hyatt, and even later, Elgala. The second faction is the Department of City Security, headed by the civic-minded but manipulative Dr. Kabapu, a powerful government official. Over the course of the series, he recruits a number of people to work for his department, then slowly compels them to perform increasingly bizarre tasks in the name of civil defense. Though Kabapu and Il Palazzo share some mysterious history, the rest of their respective groups remain unaware of each other for much of the series. Against this backdrop, Rikdo weaves a satire of life in Japan during the recession of the [[1990s]].

Soon after the manga began publication, Rikdo was approached about an anime adaptation. He agreed, on the condition that the anime's storyline differ from his own, as the manga's plot was still unfolding. Further, much of the cynical, sometimes controversial humor in the comics was unsuitable for Japanese television, and so the anime's director, Shinichi Watanabe, had to come up with additional material to fill out the show. Among these contributions were an expanded role for Pedro, an immigrant worker who played a bit part in the manga's first issue, the Great Will of the Macrocosm, a cosmic entity capable of reshaping continuity, and Nabeshin, the director's over-the-top alter ego. To explain this flagrant disregard for the source material, one of the running gags of the anime is an ongoing struggle between Rikdo and Nabeshin for control over the creative direction of the series, with Rikdo using a comically oversized rubber stamp to approve the use of his characters to lampoon various anime genres.

The series was then adapted for release in North America by ADV in [[2002]], and would eventually end up in the DVD player of a certain autistic man-child we all know. The English dub adds yet another layer to the series, which parodies other anime series as it partially adapts a manga that itself parodies even more anime. To better help American audiences get the references, ADV included optional pop-up notes in the DVDs so that a befuddled viewer could learn just what the hell Excel was imitating or why such-and-such dialogue was supposed to be a pun in Japanese. In other words, 99.99999999996% of the humor in ''Excel Saga'' was almost certainly over Chris's head, and so when he speaks of the series as being funny, he's probably just repeating what it says on the back of the DVD case, or referring to slapstick humor like Excel falling down a hole. That Chris would dare to steal material from this series has three side-effects:

1) Chris doesn't actually understand what he's stealing. At least when he ripped off Pikachu, he knew how to do it. Cute yellow thing shoots lightning. Simple. From there, Chris would go on to draw its penis, but the basic gist of Pikachu was properly stolen. When Chris rips off a joke from ''Excel Saga'', however, he robs the gag of all context, resulting in an awkward line of dialogue that's unoriginal ''and'' unfunny.

2) Chris is ripping off anime he hasn't even seen. For example, since Chris actually had watched ''[[Dragon Ball Z]]'', it's difficult to say for certain if the [[Curse-ye-ha-me-ha]] was lifted directly from ''DBZ'', or the episode of ''Excel Saga'' that parodied it. The vast majority of anime titles mocked or referenced by ''Excel Saga'', however, Chris has probably never even heard of, so when he steals that material, he doesn't realize it was already borrowed the first time.

3) For once, it isn't immediately obvious when Chris is ripping something off. Since ''Excel'' isn't nearly as well-known as Sonic or Pikachu, Chris can actually sort of get away with lifting ideas from it.

{{quote|Anime Review: Excel on Excel Saga

Excel Saga is a [[Random-access humor|wacky]] [[anime]] with [[parody|parodies]], an energetic girl, Excel, the ideological commander of ACROSS, Illpalazzo, a wandering soul, Pedro, and many other characters. The story is that it is a saga where Excel must suffer numerous hard adventures to realize ACROSS’ plan of conquest over a corrupted world.

Excel Saga has a total of 26 episodes on a set of 6 DVDs. If I had to pick a favorite episode, I’d pick episode 17 where Excel travels to America where she describes the differences between Anime and American Animation. She also does an excellent parody to the classic Anime, [[Sailor Moon]], in this episode.|--Review by [[Chris|Christian Chandler]]<ref>http://cogsdev.110mb.com/sonichu/SchusNews3.htm</ref>.}}

==Episode guide to ''Excel Saga'', with influences on Chris==

===Episode 1===
[[Image:405-ExcelV1.jpg|thumb|Chris's autographed copy of volume 1 of ''Excel Saga''.]]
Excel is assigned to assassinate manga artist Koshi Rikdo, who created the ''Excel Saga'' comics on which the anime is based. After the Will of the Macrocosm restarts the story several times, Excel gets a part-time job directing traffic for a construction site. There, she meets immigrant worker Pedro, who gets killed as a result of Excel's hyperactive negligence.

Influences on Chris:

*FQX as a replacement for the FOX network: An FQX searchlight logo is used at the end of each episode as Excel promotes the next one. Chris would use "FQX News" as the home network of Greta Squall when he ripped off the Spring Break bit from ''[[Family Guy]]'' in [[Sonichu 8|''Sonichu'' #8]].

*"Only three days since I skipped my last deadline": Sung aloud by Koshi Rikdo as he blithely draws his comics in his home, unaware that Excel is preparing to murder him. Chris would repeat this line for no good reason in "Off Target", featured in [[Sonichu 4|''Sonichu'' #4]].

*"PEDRO IS SHOCKED!": One of the many running gags throughout ''Excel Saga''. When a character is shocked they will scream out "SHOCK!" This is usually done by Pedro, but Nabeshin and Sandora have also said this. "SHOCK" has been used many times throughout the Sonichu comics, and this is most likely the inspiration.

*"I could do all this before breakfast, but I had lunch a couple of hours ago": Said by Pedro when Excel motivates him to work harder at the construction site. Even the characters acknowledge that's a shitty wordplay gag native to Japan. It's less of a joke than a sign that Pedro is settling into his host country. Nevertheless, Chris uses it in his "classic" Sonichu strip from January 13, [[2004]], featured in [[Sonichu 0|''Sonichu'' #0]].

*Il Palazzo: Excel's leader, whose vast ambitions are undermined by his myopic strategies. For example, Il Palazzo seeks to unite the entire world through conquest, yet seeks only the takeover of the city he lives in, since it poses a lesser risk. When he calls for a purge of comic books from his New Order, he sends Excel out to kill a single cartoonist (Koshi Rikdo), an empty gesture at best. Chris attempted to demonize the manager of the Fashion Square Mall by recreating him as "[[ScotPalazzo]]", but this is ineffective, as Il Palazzo is less a villain than a mere parody of one. This would be equivalent to combining Scot from Fashion Square Mall with Colonel Klink from ''Hogan's Heroes"'' or Dark Helmet from the movie ''Spaceballs''.

*Nabeshin: Self-insertion of series director Watanabe Shinichi. His appearance in his own anime is probably intended to be a parody of other directors who insert themselves in their own animes, and so he appears as a colorful man of action and mystery, often portrayed as more important and critical to the plot than the characters adapted from the original manga. In general, Chris probably draws justification for his own self-insertion into ''Sonichu'' because Shinichi did it first, ignoring the fact that the Nabeshin character manages to be ironic and badass at the same time.

Shinabe, the martial arts master who raised [[Punchy]] resembled Nabeshin in appearance and name.

*Excel: Hyperactive protagonist. Fanatically devoted to Il Palazzo's contradictory ideals, Excel blathers on endlessly throughout the series, with mixed comedic results. While the character "[[Mypoe]]" is named for ''Puni Puni Poemy'', another anime Shinichi Watanabe directed, she looks much more like Excel than anything else.

*Menchi: A small, white dog. In many ways, the mascot of the show. Chris owns a plushie of Menchi, which can be seen in the background of a many of his videos.

===Episode 2===
Sci-fi parody. Nabeshin senses his old master, the Space Butler, has been abducted by the Martian Puuchus, en route to invade the Earth. Excel destroys the Martian battleship in a manic fit, and the Martian's "Princess"--Hyatt--ends up in ACROSS headquarters, where Il Palazzo assumes her to be a new recruit.

Influences on Chris:

*Explaining the story: After the opening credits Excel apologizes that the story from the first episode makes no sense at all. So she then tells us what the story is about, a few of the characters, and the setting as well. Being that Sonichu's story also makes no sense at all Chris would copy this in [[Sonichu 0|''Sonichu'' #0]].

*Puuchu: If backed into a rhetorical corner, Chris would probably argue that his own blatant usage of Pikachu is legitimized by ''Excel Saga'''s Puuchus, cuddly yellow creatures clearly indented to resemble the popular ''Pokemon'' character. The difference, of course, being that Puuchu's offer a humorous twist on Pikachu, in that not only their cuteness belies their hostile nature, but they also put a definitely not cute face on when hurt or serious.
** In addition, [[Sonee]]s and [[Rosey]]s certainly resemble Puchuus more than, say, Pichus.

===Episode 3===
B-movie action film parody. Il Palazzo tasks Hyatt with finding Excel, who was captured by mercenaries in the previous episode. Instead, Excel is rescued by Nabeshin, who infiltrates the mercenary camp to save his beloved Tetsuko. Nabeshin blows up a bunch of shit and Excel returns to Japan, where she meets the sickly Hyatt, who has barely even begun her first mission.

*Director as the main character: While Nabeshin had been aggressively inserted into the story before, the action movie format necessitated him in a bigger role, and here he pretty much moves the entire storyline forward. Much of this episode, from Nabeshin's fruitless quest to save his love, to Nabeshin's impossible victory over an entire army, would be reflected in the [[Sub-Episodes]].

*Prolonged speeches: This is a staple in ''Excel Saga'', but it's worth noting here because this is the first time Il Palazzo really gets to preach on about what's wrong with the world. Similarly, most of Excel's dialogue in the anime comes in the form of rapid-fire babbling, which she does a lot of here, since she's in mortal danger for most of the episode. Chris may have interpreted this to mean that long-winded speeches are funny in general, regardless of topic or context. And so, ''Excel Saga'' may have inspired all those walls of text Chris writes into his stories, especially the ones where he lectures the villains for daring to oppose him. It should be noted, however, that while Excel and Il Palazzo are no less chatty in the ''Excel Saga'' manga, the author is much more conservative about writing every single friggin' word they say, since the gag wouldn't work as well in print.

*Bumping into each other: The entirety of the episode when Excel's side of the story is being told is shown in wide screen. Near the end of the episode Hyatt <strike>resumes</strike> begins her mission to look for Excel; Hyatt's and everyone else's story has been told in a normal screen throughout this episode. We then see Excel, which Menchi strapped to her chest, skipping happily down the street; overzealous with the joy of escaping. We then see Hyatt, walking down the street rather slowly, contemplating on where she should begin her mission. It switches between Excel and Hyatt a few more times; until the two happen to meet with Excel's side of the screen still in wide screen, and Hyatt's in full. [[Rosechu]] and [[Amy Rose]] would copy this in the epilogue of [[Sonichu 6]], resulting in something that just doesn't make sense. Also if we consider that Rosechu was in wide screen mode, that means that she answers only to the all mighty ScotPalazzo.

===Episode 4===
Romantic comedy parody. The girls' next door neighbor, Toru Watanabe (not to be confused with Nabeshin) asks Hyatt out on a date, but the matter is soon complicated to the point of absurdity by the antics of their respective roommates.

*Dating game simulators: This episode uses the concept brilliantly, depicting a real-life date between (Hyatt and Watanabe), parallel to Lord Il Palazzo, who plays a video game featuring Hyatt as the girl he's trying to win. The idea of the game is to respond to romantic situations with one of three options. Throughout this episode, option 3 is often simply "Put it in". As these dating simulator games never caught on in the United States, it's highly likely that this episode was what gave Chris the big idea to use ''[[Sprung]]'' to further his "[[Dating Education]]". This is further evidence that nearly all of the jokes in ''Excel Saga'' are way over Chris's head. The whole point of this episode is that these games are childish and unrealistic, and Chris simply assumes the writers are trying to give him tips on how to score.
[[Image: Pedro3.jpg|thumb|200px|Pedro, upon viewing the [[Kimmi|Chris-Chan Sex Tape]]]]
*Doll humping: Excel rolls around on the floor with a life-size wooden figure dressed up to resemble Il Palazzo. Again, this is an example of Chris's warped behavior which might be attributed to him watching this show and thinking it's somehow acceptable in real life.

*Simple white background characters: These nondescript bystanders appear during Hyatt's date with Watanabe, a parody of ''DiGi Charat''. Naturally, Chris took their use as implicit permission to slack off in his own drawings of large crowds. You can spot this in almost any issue of ''Sonichu''.

*NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!: Before there was Darth Vader, there was Pedro. After dying in the first episode, Pedro's ghost endures a series of emotional trials throughout the series, as his wife immediately forgets about him and finds a new man (something Chris himself would later do when after a day he forgot about [[PandaHalo]] and moved on to [[Julie]]). Forced to watch the charming Gomez take over his family, Pedro can only watch in tears and scream his beloved catchphrase, which Chris would later repeat in [[Charlottesville Fashion Square]].

===Episode 5===
Drama about social issues. Excel and Hyatt infiltrate a government building to undermine the highest ranking city officials. Concurrently, Watanabe and his roommates, Iwata and Sumiyoshi, get jobs as civil servants working for the Department of City Security, a pet project run by the mysterious and influential Dr. Kabapu.

*[[Red String of Fate]]: When Watanabe whines about having to work alongside his odious roommates, Iwata suggests they're bound by the red string of fate. Watanabe angrily retorts that the Red String is only supposed to be for destined lovers, not just any two people. Watanabe then meets Hyatt, posing as a refreshments vendor, and decides that the Red String of Fate binds the two of them. This could be where Chris first learned of the concept, since it's not like he would have found out about it from ''Dragon Ball Z'' or ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]''.

*Dr. Kabapu: Dr. Kabapu is the leader of the city's defense team. However he seems to hold a great amount of power in politics; so much that he could potentially make anyone mayor if he needed to. His desire to protect the city is strong; although a bit warped. If there is a threat to the city, he will find and destroy it. This warped way of thinking may have influenced the way that [[Chris-Chan|the mayor]] runs the city of Cwcville.

*Drool Waterfalls: Tears streaming like waterfalls is an often-used effect in ''Excel Saga'', particularly seen on the longsuffering Pedro. However, in this episode, many of the government workers are sickened after consuming Hyatt's refreshments, and begin roaming the building in zombie-like fashion, green drool pouring from their mouths. A very similar visual appeared in ''Sonichu'' #4, when [[Crystal Weston Chandler (sister)|Crystal]] managed to paralyze the [[Jerkops]] in lust at a bowling alley.

===Episode 6===
Survival drama. Excel and Hyatt are sent to install a powerful weapon on a mountaintop and use it to destroy the city. Coincidentally, Kabapu's Department of City Security agents undergo training with laser pistols, and Iwata unwittingly foils ACROSS' plot when his weapon misfires.

*Misaki Matsuya's Character Notes: The introduction of Matsuya was treated as a big deal in the anime, with a pause to display text on the screen describing the character's age, gender, hobbies, and personality traits. Chris would emulate this several times when introducing new characters, including [[Wes Iseli]], [[Sarah Hammer]], [[Allison Amber]], [[Simonla Rosechu]], and [[Zapina Rosechu]].

*Ha-chan, Eh-Chan, Will-Chan, etc.: The suffix "-chan" is ubiquitous in anime, but most English dubs don't carry it over into the translation. Even if Chris had heard it before watching ''Excel Saga'', the sheer abundance of "-chan" combined with the first syllable of a character's name in the series is probably what led Chris to dub himself "Chris-Chan". This would also explain Chris's [[fail|failure]] to realize the context of -chan. While the honorific is used for children, girls, and young women, ''Excel Saga'' uses it so gratuitously that a viewer might never notice the pattern, especially in this episode. Nevertheless, the suffix "-chan" could be seen as working for Chris in a unique way, since it effectively puns off of his last name: "Chandler". The suffix is further validated by the fact that in many ways, Chris really is a child.

===Episode 7===
[[Image: Kabapu.jpg|thumb|200px|Fun Fact: Chris faps to this anime.]]

Horror film. Kabapu sends the DCS team into the sewers, not far from the underground lair of ACROSS. Excel and Hyatt activate defense systems at random, causing a flood. Both groups run afoul of the Puuchus, led by the hideous Puuchu Queen, until Nabeshin triggers a second flood which saves the cast and destroys the monsters.

*Ms. Momochi: Kabapu's secretary, who walks in on Kabapu while he's in between changing clothes in his office. While bearing no physical resemblance, the character may well have been the inspiration for Miss [[Allison Amber]], Chris's mayoral aide and girl Friday.

===Episode 8===
Pretty girl anime. In a shameless bid to increase ratings, all male characters are stricken from the storyboards, appearing only as off-screen voices, shadows, or hands. The DCS team take a vacation day to visit the City Pool, while Excel and Hyatt coincidentally do the same. Hyatt befriends a young girl named Cosette Sara, who turns out to be a cunning assassin. In a strange twist of fate, Cosette is transported to the world of the dead, where she sees her mother's ghost once more, but Pedro warns that she cannot cross the Sanzu River to join her, for it would mean she would die as well. Taking pity on Cosette, the Great Will of the Macrocosm retcons Cosette's life so that her mother never died and her dark life as a child assassin never happened. The other male characters later confront Pedro for violating the "no-men" rule of the episode.

Influences on Chris: Nothing really obvious. This episode was primarily a tongue-in-cheek exercise in gratuitous fanservice, and Chris may have been too busy fapping away to notice anything else. He ''may'' have gotten the idea to do the Spring Break story in ''Sonichu'' #8 from this episode, but other than the all-Rosechu cover, it seems like a rather thin connection.

===Episode 9===
Sports anime. Considering athletics to be the universal language of the masses, Il Palazzo sends Hyatt and Excel to research ways to exploit sports for the purpose of world domination. This leads the duo to part-time jobs in a bowling alley, which is soon overrun by the [[9/11|terrorist]]/bowling organization "Stick and Balls", who plot to use the alley to spread their pro-bowling propaganda and return the "sport of kings" to its former glory. Excel flees to the women's restroom, where Nabeshin agrees to train her in the art of bowling to defeat the Stick and Balls' ringleader. Excel kicks everyone's ass and saves the day.

*"I'm much, much saltier": When Excel confronts the terrorists, he mocks her for having run away earlier. Excel's response: "But I'm ''not'' the sweet little girl I was a few minutes ago! I'm much, much saltier now!" Compare to Chris's line from Sub-Episode 6 of ''Sonichu'' #4, as he describes his showdown with the Jerkops at a bowling alley: "Ah, but I am not the weak person they think I am; I am much, much saltier!" Chris has also used this phrase in private e-mails, to describe himself in the present compared to the naivete of his youth. Note that by omitting the word "sweet", he completely loses the pun.

*Bowling: The course of the battle in Sub-Episode 6 really doesn't match up well with Excel's bowling adventure, aside from the single hero challenging an entire squad of goons in a bowling alley and defeating them with superhuman bowling moves. It's possible Chris may be channeling some other cartoon in addition, but given the "much, much saltier" line, it's clear that ''Excel Saga'' gave Chris the bright idea to do a comic set in a bowling alley.

===Episode 10===
Animal anime. Menchi, Excel's pet dog/emergency food supply, escapes their apartment and tries to seek out a kindly old man who once took care of her. She soon befriends a pack of fellow strays, led by the charismatic Wolf. Wolf's pack agree to help Menchi find the old man, but soon run afoul of the Animal Control Department, a squad of dogs who serve as dog catchers. After great heartache and betrayal, Wolf and the others sacrifice themselves so that Menchi can escape. Perhaps favoring Excel's long-term threats to the immediate dangers of the outside world, she returns to Excel's apartment.

*Anthropomorphic dogs: While Menchi can't talk, and in fact seems to look and sound more like a cat than a dog, the other dogs in this episode can speak, and on occasion assume humanoid postures. It appears that Chris ripped off this imagery when he reincarnated his own dog, Patti, as [[Patti-Chan]]. Patti doesn't quite resemble any of the dogs in this episode (her design actually having been stolen from a picture by Megan), although her face does look sort of like a cross between Menchi's and Kyoko. Her body seems to more closely resemble Wolf's when he's standing upright, and it may be that Chris had to combine their designs in order to approximate Patti's breed.

*A kind old man: Towards both the start and the ending of the episode Menchi has memories of the kind old man that took care of her before she met Excel. Once her memories are near completed, circles with memories of the old man fall slowly down the screen. Chris would copy this for the cover of [[Sonichu 7|''Sonichu'' #7]].

*Menchi's silent adventures: Until Menchi meets the other dogs, her speechless journey through the city bears a strong resemblance to the Sonichu Babies segments from [[Sonichu 3|''Sonichu'' #3]]. In particular, a band of cruel children start throwing rocks and boulders at Menchi, not unlike a certain Whale we all know and love.

*"I shall show you the power of the well-read dog!": Defiant last words of "The Professor", a Scottish terrier in Wolf's pack, as he sacrifices himself on Menchi's behalf. Chris alters the line into "Behold the power of the well-trusted dog!" when Patti-Chan appears in [[CWCville]] to save [[Crystal]] from [[Mary Lee Walsh]].

At this point, the folly of Chris's plagiarism should be clear. He steals ideas and clever lines, but dismisses the concepts that made them worthwhile in the first place. Patti-Chan's storyline in ''Sonichu'' is basically this episode in reverse, with a dead dog coming back to life and saving her friends, whereas the whole appeal to "Menchi's Great Adventure" is the absurd pathos of a Scottish Terrier with glasses and cartoon bombs being a suicide bomber.

===Episode 11===
Youth drama. Excel and Hyatt take temp jobs as teachers, and quickly get saddled with the responsibility of training the school's delinquent baseball team for the big championship game. They lose, as is a common trope in sports anime, to reinforce the greater importance of sportsmanship and teamwork.

Influence on Chris: None, apparently. Chalk this up to his apparent disinterest in sports, and the male-heavy cast of this particular episode.

===Episode 12===
Detective anime. Hyatt gets taken hostage by a pair of burglars, who panic and ultimately kill themselves when she dies and they fear they've murdered her. Meanwhile, the Department of City Security agents train under Purin, an impertinent young woman possessed by the ghost of her hardboiled gumshoe father.

Influence on Chris: None, again.

===Episode 13===
Review show. Excel and Hyatt compete in a game show-style contest assembling short films using recycled clips from the previous episodes.

Influence on Chris: None. Good going, Chris.

===Episodes 14 & 15===
[[Image:Mom_am_pig.JPG|thumb|Excel responds to Chris after reading the Sonichu comics.]]

Dr. Kabapu commissions the pederast cyberneticist Dr. Shioji to build Ropponmatsu, a female android to serve under the Department of City Security. Iwata immediately falls for the shapely robot, until she is destroyed while disarming an ACROSS bomb, and rebuilt as an obnoxious prepubescent girl.

Escalating the conflict, ACROSS deploys a robot to deliver a second bomb, which battles the second Ropponmatsu to a standstill. Shioji delivers a reconstructed Model One Ropponmatsu to assist, but ultimately both are destroyed by the bomb... only to be rebuilt again.

Influences on Chris: Ropponmatsu II may have inspired Zapina Rosechu in some way, but that would require corroboration.

===Episode 16===
Desperate for story ideas, the writers use both Ropponmatsus in the same story. By mistake, the rebuilt androids end up living with Excel and Hyatt, and imprint upon them to an almost romantic degree. After stealing food and money to support the ACROSS Agents, the Ropponmatsus eventually sacrifice themselves so that Hyatt and Excel can escape the wrath of the city police.

*Ropponmatsu II's "death" scene: This is played out as an over-the-top parody of sentimental self-sacrifice scenes in anime, and as Ropponmatsu II begins to break apart, a drop of fluid leaks from her eye socket like a tear, and is depicted as splashing into a darkened pool of water. This would be repeated in Episode 23 when Excel gets shot. Chris would imitate this in ''Sonichu'' #4, using blood instead of tears, and Chris's impotent rage instead of the sadness of loss.

===Episode 17===
"American Japanimation." Il Palazzo sends Excel and Hyatt to the United States on a reconnaissance mission. There, they meet Pedro's son Sandora, who dreams of becoming a rich and famous animator in Japan, where he believes cartoonists are highly respected. Sandora makes a living selling animation sheets of later succesor ''Puni Puni Poemy'' to a suspicious-looking man, and is later horrified to discover that his artwork is being traded as bootleg anime cels. Excel rescues Sandora from the criminals by employing various "rules" of both American and Japanese animation.

This was Chris' favorite episode.

*Sailor Moon: Long before Chris met Megan and got into the ''Sailor Moon'' series itself, Chris had used ''Sailor Moon'' trademark poses and variants on her catchphrase for his alter ego, [[Chris-Chan Sonichu]]. The Excel connection here is that Excel does the same routine in this episode, and a gunsel recognizes the reference, and notes that it's a really old cartoon. Compare to Chris's battle with Mary Lee Walsh in "Witch Confront", where Mary mocks Chris's poses and slogan as being "so old".

===Episode 18===
Kabapu forces his DCS team to wear the power suits of Municipal Force Daitenzin, and use them to battle injustice in the city. Furious at being trapped in the ''sentai'' costumes, the team agrees to just combat litterbugs, jaywalkers, and other minor scofflaws until the suits finally deactivate. Ironically, the awesome powers of the Daitenzin, coupled with their self-absorbed motives, cause far more damage to the city than any mere crime wave.

*[[Bagget]], Jerkop Daitenzen (sic): Perhaps wanting a more powerful role for Bagget than a mere Jerkop, Chris put him in a brown Power Ranger suit and history was made in ''Sonichu'' #4. Strangely, Bagget never makes use of any of the Daitenzin's special attacks or weapons.

*The boy and girl on the bench who look like a character from ''Battle Athletes'' and Ash Ketchum: In ''Excel'', these two characters are attacked by one of the Daitenzin for public displays of affection, when in fact the girl was refusing the boy's advances. Chris used the girl in a similar scene in [[Sonichu 5|''Sonichu'' #5]], only they were a more romantic couple, and it was the Jerkops who intervened.

*Man and woman in coffee shop assaulted by Daitenzin: In the original version, the couple were discussing when the man would leave his wife, as the woman was pregnant with their child. Chris sanitizes the moment into a "love confession" interrupted by a Jerkop, who punches out the man just as Sumiyoshi does in ''Excel''.

===Episode 19===
Animal anime again. Menchi ends up joining a young heiress on a journey around the world, but their trip is cut short by a common enemy.

Influences on Chris: Chris said this was the episode with Key, but he's wrong. Way to suck, Chris.

*Old Man Cyborg: The punchline of this episode ends up being that the assassin determined to kill the heiress turns out to be the kindly old man who once took care of Menchi, before he turned evil and Menchi shot him in Episode 10. He returns here with a powerful robot body, eager to take revenge. While he doesn't look much like any of Chris's characters, the connection to [[Merried Seinor Comic]] is apparent, and this character may have inspired the other Manajerks Chris depicted as cyborgs.

===Episode 20===
Review show again. This episode recaps the Pedro subplot that's been going on since the show began. In short, Pedro learns that the author of all his miseries is a cosmic Yakuza-type known only as "That Man". Pedro is helpless against his awesome power, until Nabeshin unleashes the secret powers within both Pedro and his son Sandora. Now sporting afros of their own, Pedro and Sandora join Nabeshin to confront That Man, until he escapes with the Will of the Macrocosm.

*Sub-Episodes: While the segments of the Pedro recap aren't titled this way, they are numbered independently of the episodes of the main series. This "saga within a saga" format probably inspired Chris to depict his own adventures as separate from Sonichu's. Also, combining Pedro's adventures into a single all-Pedro episode is probably how Chris decided to rehash his existing Sub-Episodes in ''Sonichu'' #4, with additional Sub-Episodes to provide some closure to the storyline.

*Pedro in Limbo: The common theme of Pedro's adventures is that he has been mostly powerless against the forces that affect his life. As a ghost, he could only look on in horror as his family abandoned him, and strange cosmic forces manipulated him for sex and lulz. Similarly, Chris has been describing a similar experience for himself in the ''[[Sonichu (comic)|Sonichu]]'' comics since he got marooned in the time void.

===Episode 21===
Rock anime. Il Palazzo's superiors send him a message via Key, an oversexed rock musician who insists on delivering the message through song, yet refuses to sing until he feels the proper artistic inspiration. To that end, Excel and Hyatt attempt to cultivate Key's creativity, but Excel finds herself becoming attracted to Key's untamed sexuality.

*Key: Chris admitted that he adapted Key's revealing outfit to design the costume of his evil gay twin [[Reldnahc Notsew Naitsirhc]]. The only significant differences are the change from red leather straps to green, and torn blue jeans in place of Key's ass-less chaps. Also, while Key merely displayed an ambiguous sexuality in keeping with his role as a bishonen rock hero, Naitsirhc is a hardcore gay guy, living out Chris's fantasy life of ejaculating whenever and wherever he pleases.

===Episode 22===
[[Image:Cwcexcel.jpg|thumb|By Dean Walsh's order! For the glory of Dean Walsh! BECAUSE DEAN WALSH DEMANDS!]]

Koshi Rikdo grants permission for ACROSS to actually conquer the city. The matter becomes academic, however, when a Puuchu warlord leads an invasion force to Earth to avenge their past defeats. Excel joins forces with Puuchu rebels to defeat the invaders, but the city is destroyed when debris from the battle collides with the Earth.

*Nabeshin as martial arts master: As the series approached the end, Nabeshin teamed up with Pedro and Sandora to battle That Man, and the three of them would go to a special training ground to hone their powers for the final battle. Based on this, Chris recast Nabeshin in ''Sonichu'' as G.D.W. Shinabe, a martial arts ''sensei'' who teaches his students how to edit film with karate chops. Shinabe would adopt [[Punchy Sonichu]] into his dojo.

===Episode 23===
Post-apocalyptic anime. Cut off from ACROSS, Excel wanders the ruins of what was once F Prefecture, defending the survivors from gangs and warlords. Horrified to learn that the villains are working for ACROSS, and that she has been targeted for execution, Excel confronts Il Palazzo to learn the truth. He shoots her in the chest without a word.

*Time-delay attack: Mostly, this episode parodies ''Fist of the North Star'', which features a powerful fighter kicking ass in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Since Excel is in the role of the hero, she uses a variation of the anime's titular attack, which involves punching your opponent a billion times. The thing about the ''Fist of the North Star'' is that it takes three seconds to have any effect, after which the opponent explodes like a water balloon filled with blood, then becomes a pastiche of Dejiko from ''Digi Charat''. When dubious villains question the attack's power, the hero would famously reply "But you're already dead", right before they die. Chris adapted this idea when he first used the Curse-ye-ha-me-ha in ''Sonichu'' #0. The Jerkhief didn't feel a thing at first, and then his life began to unravel from the curse.

===Episode 24===
Koshi Rikdo strips the series of all gags. Excel is rescued by Municipal Force Daitenzin, but after recovering from the gunshot, she has amnesia. ACROSS has conquered the region, but Il Palazzo begins to teeter on the brink of madness. The only hope left for resistance are Kabapu's promise of a secret weapon, and Nabeshin, who sacrifices himself to defeat That Man, one of the Il Palazzo's superiors in ACROSS.

Influences on Chris: Make your own "joke-free comedy" joke here. Seriously, though, Chris probably never stole anything from this episode because he couldn't wrap his brain around the irony.

===Episode 25===
As Kapabu and Municipal Force Daitenzin stage a desperate attack on ACROSS's mobile fortress, Excel sneaks into the base to confront Il Palazzo, whom she vaguely recalls as the key to regaining her memories. Il Palazzo makes short work of Kabapu's forces, but when Excel arrives and confronts his madness, he regains his sanity and they escape the fortress together as it explodes. Meanwhile, Pedro and Sandora discover That Man has survived, and defeat him for good with their ultimate attack, the ''Nabehameha'' Wave.

*"One Shot is all we get!" This line is said in unison by both Pedro and That Man before they engage in their ''Dragon Ball'' style beam struggle. Chris blatantly stole it for his epic showdown with Mary Lee Walsh, depicted in [[Sonichu 2|''Sonichu'' #2]].

*Nabehameha: Obviously, a parody of the Kamehameha attack from ''Dragon Ball'', renamed for Nabeshin, who invented it and taught it to Pedro off-screen. While Chris had watched ''Dragon Ball Z'', it was undoubtedly the Nabehameha that gave him the bright idea to customize his own version of the Kamehameha and pretend it was original. Thus, the "Curseyehameha", which he later changed to "Shinyehameha". As Chris has diluted every other idea he stole from ''Excel Saga'', he does so again here, since he failed to utilize the part of the Nabehameha that was so awesome: the afro.

*Those things always have weak knees!: Kabapu uses a giant robot to attack ACROSS mobile fortress. When the defending troops counterattack, this is the strategy they offer. The way the idea is discussed, weak knees in giant robots may be some cliche in giant robot anime lore, but in any case, Chris stole the line for his battle against the Count Graduon's Golem in ''Sonichu'' #2.

*"[[Honest content|Honest-to-Goodness]]": Near the end of the episode, Excel fights Ilpalazzo's inner demons that are the reason behind his sudden outburst of megalomaniac actions. After punching them out, they fall back and take full control of him, and when they do so, Ilpalazzo says ''"Now, I'm the honest-to-goodness Ilpalazzo!".'' Judging by the climactic delivery of this line, it is very likely it got burned into Chris's subconscious, to end up being used every time he claims to be [[Honest content|True and Honest]]; an example is his [[User:ChrisChanSonichu profile|Wikipedia page]], which starts with "The One, The Only, from his Own ''Honest-to-God'' Words".

===Episode 26===
Sort of a bonus episode full of material too graphic for Japanese TV. Cosette Sara from Episode 8 returns as the newest member of ACROSS, who somehow causes Excel and Hyatt to switch bodies. After a lot of nudity and violence, Nabeshin kills the rest of the ACROSS Six and Hyatt floods the world in blood.

Influences on Chris: Chris was probably too busy fapping to anime noods to copy anything. The final scene is Nabeshin's wedding to some broad who kept trying to serve him soup throughout the series, and Chris probably plans to end ''Sonichu'' with [[Wedding Comic|his own wedding]], but Real Life has made this impossible.

===Puni Puni Poemy===
'''''[[Wikipedia:Puni Puni Poemy|Puni Puni Poemy]]''''' is something of an ''Excel Saga'' spinoff, starring Nabeshin's daughter Poemi Watanabe as she struggles to become a voice actress while fighting aliens with the assistance of the seven Aasu Sisters. The show's relation to ''Excel Saga'' is tenuous, with only Nabeshin and Kumi Kumi present (though a news anchor bears a resemblance to Koshi Rikdo), and some reused background music from the series.

[[Image: GDW.jpg|thumb|200px|Unlike Chris, this man is a TRUE and HONEST great director.]]

Influences on Chris: Chris has more than once referred to himself as "Great Director Chandler", shamelessly ripping off Nabeshin's declaration that he is the "Great Director Watanabe."

==Gallery of plagiarism==
<center>
<gallery>
Image:Beforebreakfast.jpg|Compare this...
Image:Sonichustrip1.jpg|to ''this''
Image:Fqx.jpg|Chris would steal this logo, only without the searchlights, or the font, or anything else, really.
Image:graveyard.jpg|This is probably the only reason Chris considers the mall an ideal dating locale, instead of sitting in a cemetery all day.
Image:Coffeeshop.jpg|Actually, the coffee shop was [[Hanna]]'s idea, although Chris probably would have suggested it himself, based on this.
Image:Putitin4.jpg|Chris always picks option 3
Image:Stalkher.jpg|Option 1 is [[Megan|fine too]].
Image:Putitin2.jpg|Chris's SOP for how to interact with women.
Image:Red-string.jpg|"I have a NEW idea that I am sure will [[Fail|REEL]] in a girlfriend on a FATEFUL [[Red String of Fate|RED STRING]]."
Image:Nabeshin1.jpg|Character Chris identifies with.
Image:Sumiyoshi.jpg|Character Chris should identify with.
Image:Excel-julay.jpg|JULAAAAYYYY!
Image:Pedro1.jpg|Compare this...
Image:RainbowChris.jpg|to ''this''
Image:scotpalazzo1.jpg|Better One?
Image:ilpalazzo.jpg|Or better Two?
Image:drool1.jpg|Typical reaction to reading ''[[Sonichu (comic)|Sonichu]]''
Image: drool2.jpg|The Jerkop version
Image: Chris3days.jpg|Only three days...
Image: only3days.jpg|... since I skipped my last deadline.
Image: Title.JPG|The title is Excel Saga!
Image: Title2.JPG|...or maybe it's Sonichu...I can't remember.
Image: Hail.jpg|When you see it...
Image: Hailwrodents.jpg|...you'll have numerous pairs of [[Dirty_crapped_briefs|dirty, crapped briefs]]
Image: Bystanders.jpg|Even lazy shortcuts like this aren't original.
Image: Bystanders2.jpg|See?
Image: Pedro2.jpg|Pedro in Limbo
Image: Timevoid.jpg|Chris in the Time Void
Image: Bowling1.jpg|I'm not the same person I was just a moment ago...
Image: Saltier.jpg|I'm much, much saltier!
Image: Bowling.jpg|Chris defeats the bad guys with bowling power.
Image: Bowling2.jpg|And the original version.
Image: Rikdo-shit.jpg|Stereotypical depiction of a manga artist's room.
Image: More-rikdo-shit.jpg|Possible inspiration for Chris's interior decoration.
Image:0825-EP12-5P6-8.jpg|Compare to Chris's room.
Image:0821-EP12-5P6-5.jpg|The eerie similarities.
Image: Simonla-notes.jpg|Chris's useless character notes.
Image: Matsuya-notes.jpg|And their possible inspiration.
Image: BloodTear.jpg|The Passion of...
Image: Exceltear.jpg|...the Chris?
</gallery>
</center>

==Sauces==
<references/>

==See also==
*[[Parody]]

==External links==
*[[Wikipedia:Excel Saga|Wikipedia article on ''Excel Saga'']]

[[Category:Things Chris has ripped off]]

Excel Saga

2010-02-06T05:26:33Z

Turbam:

[[Image:CWCMonica.jpg|thumb|300px|Chris meets Monica Rial, who played Hyatt in the English dub of Excel Saga. This is also perhaps the only time Chris has touched an attractive woman without her being immediately repulsed. What a brave, brave woman.]]

While the plagiarism of [[Sonichu (character)|Sonichu]] is obvious to just about anyone, there are even deeper, more subtle layers of unoriginality in Chris's masterwork. Truly, if Sonichu is the bastard gay love-child of [[Sonic The Hedgehog]] and [[Pikachu]], then Excel is surely his surrogate mother. For while the characters in Sonichu are mostly fusions of [[Sonic]] characters and ''[[Pokemon]]'' characters, Chris draws a lot of his "humor" from ''Excel'', along with various other miscellaneous ideas that wound up in the comics. Additionally, '''Excel Saga''' has left something of a cultural impression upon Chris's personal life as well. The purpose of this article is to list as many of these influences as possible, and to provide the original context for those unfamiliar with the anime. Due to the relative obscurity of Excel Saga, and the complexity of Chris's plagiarism of it, this article will also provide some additional background on the series.

==Introduction==
[[Image:Excel-Saga.jpg|thumb|''Excel Saga'' Note: Lord <s>Scott</s>Ilpalazzo in background & Menchi (the dog), a plushie Chris owns.]]

The genesis of the anime lay in Koshi Rikdo's fan comic, Municipal Force Daitenzin, which was an adult-themed parody of the sentai genre (read: Power Rangers). By [[1990s#1996|1996]] he had retooled the concept to focus on Excel, one of the characters in the original fan comic, and the first Excel Saga comics saw print in Japan. Fun fact: Rikdo also dabbled in some Sonic fancomics as well, and he hit the big time at the age of 26, making him everything Chris has ever dreamed of being professionally, whether Chris is aware of it or not.

The manga tells the story of two factions struggling for control of the city of Fukuoka, Japan. One, ACROSS, is led by the ruthless but myopic Lord Il Palazzo, who seeks to conquer the city as a stepping stone to world domination under his own high-minded ideals. His organization consists of only a handful of young women, who seem only vaguely aware of his intentions. The title character, Excel, is the first of these agents, later joined by Hyatt, and even later, Elgala. The second faction is the Department of City Security, headed by the civic-minded but manipulative Dr. Kabapu, a powerful government official. Over the course of the series, he recruits a number of people to work for his department, then slowly compels them to perform increasingly bizarre tasks in the name of civil defense. Though Kabapu and Il Palazzo share some mysterious history, the rest of their respective groups remain unaware of each other for much of the series. Against this backdrop, Rikdo weaves a satire of life in Japan during the recession of the [[1990s]].

Soon after the manga began publication, Rikdo was approached about an anime adaptation. He agreed, on the condition that the anime's storyline differ from his own, as the manga's plot was still unfolding. Further, much of the cynical, sometimes controversial humor in the comics was unsuitable for Japanese television, and so the anime's director, Shinichi Watanabe, had to come up with additional material to fill out the show. Among these contributions were an expanded role for Pedro, an immigrant worker who played a bit part in the manga's first issue, the Great Will of the Macrocosm, a cosmic entity capable of reshaping continuity, and Nabeshin, the director's over-the-top alter ego. To explain this flagrant disregard for the source material, one of the running gags of the anime is an ongoing struggle between Rikdo and Nabeshin for control over the creative direction of the series, with Rikdo using a comically oversized rubber stamp to approve the use of his characters to lampoon various anime genres.

The series was then adapted for release in North America by ADV in [[2000s#2002|2002]], and would eventually end up in the DVD player of a certain autistic man-child we all know. The English dub adds yet another layer to the series, which parodies other anime series as it partially adapts a manga that itself parodies even more anime. To better help American audiences get the references, ADV included optional pop-up notes in the DVDs so that a befuddled viewer could learn just what the hell Excel was imitating or why such-and-such dialogue was supposed to be a pun in Japanese. In other words, 99.99999999996% of the humor in Excel Saga was almost certainly over Chris's head, and so when he speaks of the series as being funny, he's probably just repeating what it says on the back of the DVD case, or referring to slapstick humor like Excel falling down a hole. That Chris would dare to steal material from this series has three side-effects:

1) Chris doesn't actually understand what he's stealing. At least when he ripped off Pikachu, he knew how to do it. Cute yellow thing shoots lightning. Simple. From there, Chris would go on to draw its penis, but the basic gist of Pikachu was properly stolen. When Chris rips off a joke from Excel Saga, however, he robs the gag of all context, resulting in an awkward line of dialogue that's unoriginal and unfunny.

2) Chris is ripping off anime he hasn't even seen. For example, since Chris actually had watched Dragon Ball Z, it's difficult to say for certain if the [[Curse-ye-ha-me-ha]] was lifted directly from DBZ, or the episode of Excel Saga that parodied it. The vast majority of anime titles mocked or referenced by Excel Saga, however, Chris has probably never even heard of, so when he steals that material, he doesn't realize it was already borrowed the first time.

3) For once, it isn't immediately obvious when Chris is ripping something off. Since Excel isn't nearly as well-known as Sonic or Pikachu, Chris can actually sort of get away with lifting ideas from it.

{{quote|Anime Review: Excel on Excel Saga

Excel Saga is a [[Random-access humor|wacky]] [[anime]] with [[parody|parodies]], an energetic girl, Excel, the ideological commander of ACROSS, Illpalazzo, a wandering soul, Pedro, and many other characters. The story is that it is a saga where Excel must suffer numerous hard adventures to realize ACROSS’ plan of conquest over a corrupted world.

Excel Saga has a total of 26 episodes on a set of 6 DVDs. If I had to pick a favorite episode, I’d pick episode 17 where Excel travels to America where she describes the differences between Anime and American Animation. She also does an excellent parody to the classic Anime, [[Sailor Moon]], in this episode.|--Review by [[Chris|Christian Chandler]]<ref>http://cogsdev.110mb.com/sonichu/SchusNews3.htm</ref>.}}

==Episode guide to Excel Saga, with influences on Chris==

===Episode 1===
[[Image:405-ExcelV1.jpg|thumb|Chris's autographed copy of volume 1 of ''Excel Saga''.]]
Excel is assigned to assassinate manga artist Koshi Rikdo, who created the ''Excel Saga'' comics on which the anime is based. After the Will of the Macrocosm restarts the story several times, Excel gets a part-time job directing traffic for a construction site. There, she meets immigrant worker Pedro, who gets killed as a result of Excel's hyperactive negligence.

Influences on Chris:

*FQX as a replacement for the FOX network. An FQX searchlight logo is used at the end of each episode as Excel promotes the next one. Chris would use "FQX News" as the home network of Greta Squall when he ripped off the Spring Break bit from [[Family Guy]] in [[Sonichu 8|Sonichu #8]]

*"Only three days since I skipped my last deadline". Sung aloud by Koshi Rikdo as he blithely draws his comics in his home, unaware that Excel is preparing to murder him. Chris would repeat this line for no good reason in "Off Target", featured in [[Sonichu 4|Sonichu #4]].

*"PEDRO IS SHOCKED!". One of the many running gags throughout Excel Saga. When a character is shocked they will scream out "SHOCK!" This is usually done by Pedro, but Nabeshin and Sandora have also said this. "SHOCK" has been used many times throughout the Sonichu comics, and this is most likely the inspiration.

*"I could do all this before breakfast, but I had lunch a couple of hours ago." Said by Pedro when Excel motivates him to work harder at the construction site. Even the characters acknowledge that this a shitty wordplay gag native to Japan. It's less of a joke than a sign that Pedro is settling into his host country. Nevertheless, Chris uses it in his "classic" Sonichu strip from January 13, [[2004]], featured in [[Sonichu 0|Sonichu #0]]

*Il Palazzo. Excel's leader, whose vast ambitions are undermined by his myopic strategies. For example, Il Palazzo seeks to unite the entire world through conquest, yet seeks only the takeover of the city he lives in, since it poses a lesser risk. When he calls for a purge of comic books from his New Order, he sends Excel out to kill a single cartoonist, (Koshi Rikdo), an empty gesture at best. Chris attempted to demonize the manager of the Fashion Square Mall by recreating him as "[[ScotPalazzo]]", but this is ineffective, as Il Palazzo is less a villain than a mere parody of one. This would be equivalent to combining Scot from Fashion Square Mall with Colonel Klink from "Hogan's Heroes", or Dark Helmet from the movie "Spaceballs".

*Nabeshin. Self-insertion of series director Watanabe Shinichi. His appearance in his own anime is probably intended to be a parody of other directors who insert themselves in their own animes, and so he appears as a colorful man of action and mystery, often portrayed as more important and critical to the plot than the characters adapted from the original manga. In general, Chris probably draws justification for his own self-insertion into Sonichu because Shinichi did it first, ignoring the fact that the Nabeshin character manages to be ironic and badass at the same time.

*Excel. Hyperactive protagonist. Fanatically devoted to Il Palazzo's contradictory ideals, Excel blathers on endlessly throughout the series, with mixed comedic results. While the character "[[Mypoe]]" is named for Pretty Pretty Poemy, another anime Shinichi Watanabe directed, she looks much more like Excel than anything else.

*Menchi A small, white dog. In many ways, the mascot of the show. Chris owns a plushie of Menchi, which can be seen in the background of a many of his videos.

===Episode 2===
Sci-fi parody. Nabeshin senses his old master, the Space Butler, has been abducted by the Martian Puuchus, en route to invade the Earth. Excel destroys the Martian battleship in a manic fit, and the Martian's "Princess"--Hyatt--ends up in ACROSS headquarters, where Il Palazzo assumes her to be a new recruit.

Influences on Chris:

*Explaining the story: After the opening credits Excel apologizes that the story from the first episode makes no sense at all. So she then tells us what the story is about, a few of the characters, and the setting as well. Being that Sonichu's story also makes no sense at all Chris would copy this in [[Sonichu 0]].

*Puuchu: If backed into a rhetorical corner, Chris would probably argue that his own blatant usage of Pikachu is legitimized by Excel Saga's Puuchus, cuddly yellow creatures clearly indented to resemble the popular Pokemon character. The difference, of course, being that Puuchu's offer a humorous twist on Pikachu, in that not only their cuteness belies their hostile nature, but they also put a definitely not cute face on when hurt or serious.
** In addition, [[Sonee]]s and [[Rosey]]s certainly resemble Puchuus more than, say, Pichus.

===Episode 3===
B-Movie Action Film. Il Palazzo tasks Hyatt with finding Excel, who was captured by mercenaries in the previous episode. Instead, Excel is rescued by Nabeshin, who infiltrates the mercenary camp to save his beloved Tetsuko. Nabeshin blows up a bunch of shit and Excel returns to Japan, where she meets the sickly Hyatt, who has barely even begun her first mission.

Influences on Chris

*Director as the main character: While Nabeshin had been aggressively inserted into the story before, the action movie format necessitated him in a bigger role, and here he pretty much moves the entire storyline forward. Much of this episode, from Nabeshin's fruitless quest to save his love, to Nabeshin's impossible victory over an entire army, would be reflected in the [[Sub-Episodes]].

*Prolonged speeches: This is a staple in Excel Saga, but it's worth noting here because this is the first time Il Palazzo really gets to preach on about what's wrong with the world. Similarly, most of Excel's dialogue in the anime comes in the form of rapid-fire babbling, which she does a lot of here, since she's in mortal danger for most of the episode. Chris may have interpreted this to mean that long-winded speeches are funny in general, regardless of topic or context. And so, Excel Saga may have inspired all those walls of text Chris writes into his stories, especially the ones where he lectures the villains for daring to oppose him. It should be noted, however, that while Excel and Il Palazzo are no less chatty in the Excel Saga manga, the author is much more conservative about writing every single friggin' word they say, since the gag wouldn't work as well in print.

*Bumping into each other: The entirety of the episode when Excel's side of the story is being told is shown in wide screen. Near the end of the episode Hyatt <strike>resumes</strike> begins her mission to look for Excel; Hyatt's and everyone else's story has been told in a normal screen throughout this episode. We then see Excel, which Menchi strapped to her chest, skipping happily down the street; overzealous with the joy of escaping. We then see Hyatt, walking down the street rather slowly, contemplating on where she should begin her mission. It switches between Excel and Hyatt a few more times; until the two happen to meet with Excel's side of the screen still in wide screen, and Hyatt's in full. Rosechu and Amy Rose would copy this in the epilogue of Sonichu 6, resulting in something that just doesn't make sense. Also if we consider that Rosechu was in wide screen mode, that means that she answers only to the all mighty ScotPalazzo.

===Episode 4===
Romantic Comedy. The girls' next door neighbor, Toru Watanabe (not to be confused with Nabeshin) asks Hyatt out on a date, but the matter is soon complicated to the point of absurdity by the antics of their respective roommates.

*Dating game simulators: This episode uses the concept brilliantly, depicting a real-life date between (Hyatt and Watanabe), parallel to Lord Il Palazzo, who plays a video game featuring Hyatt as the girl he's trying to win. The idea of the game is to respond to romantic situations with one of three options. Throughout this episode, option 3 is often simply "Put it in". As these dating simulator games never caught on in the United States, it's highly likely that this episode was what gave Chris the big idea to use "[[Sprung]]" to further his "[[Dating education]]". This is further evidence that nearly all of the jokes in Excel Saga are way over Chris's head. The whole point of this episode is that these games are childish and unrealistic, and Chris simply assumes the writers are trying to give him tips on how to score.
[[Image: Pedro3.jpg|thumb|200px|Pedro, upon viewing the [[Kimmi|Chris-Chan Sex Tape]]]]
*Doll humping: Excel rolls around on the floor with a life-size wooden figure dressed up to resemble Il Palazzo. Again, this is an example of Chris's warped behavior which might be attributed to him watching this show and thinking it's somehow acceptable in real life.

*Simple white background characters: These nondescript bystanders appear during Hyatt's date with Watanabe, a parody of "Digi Charat". Naturally, Chris took their use as implicit permission to slack off in his own drawings of large crowds. You can spot this in almost any issue of ''Sonichu''.

*NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!: Before there was Darth Vader, there was Pedro. After dying in the first episode, Pedro's ghost endures a series of emotional trials throughout the series, as his wife immediately forgets about him and finds a new man (something Chris himself would later do when after a day he forgot about [[PandaHalo]] and moved on to [[Julie]]). Forced to watch the charming Gomez take over his family, Pedro can only watch in tears and scream his beloved catchphrase, which Chris would later repeat in [[Charlottesville Fashion Square]].

===Episode 5===
Drama about Social Issues. Excel and Hyatt infiltrate a government building to undermine the highest ranking city officials. Concurrently, Watanabe and his roommates, Iwata and Sumiyoshi, get jobs as civil servants working for the Department of City Security, a pet project run by the mysterious and influential Dr. Kabapu.

Influences on Chris

*[[Red String of Fate]]: When Watanabe whines about having to work alongside his odious roommates, Iwata suggests they're bound by the red string of fate. Watanabe angrily retorts that the Red String is only supposed to be for destined lovers, not just any two people. Watanabe then meets Hyatt, posing as a refreshments vendor, and decides that the Red String of Fate binds the two of them. This could be where Chris first learned of the concept, since it's not like he would have found out about it from Dragon Ball Z or Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

*Drool Waterfalls: Tears streaming like waterfalls is an often-used effect in Excel Saga, particularly seen on the longsuffering Pedro. However, in this episode, many of the government workers are sickened after consuming Hyatt's refreshments, and begin roaming the building in zombie-like fashion, green drool pouring from their mouths. A very similar visual appeared in [[Sonichu 4|Sonichu #4]], when [[Crystal Weston Chandler (sister)|Crystal]] managed to paralyze the [[Jerkops]] in lust at a bowling alley.

===Episode 6===
Survival Drama. Excel and Hyatt are sent to install a powerful weapon on a mountaintop and use it to destroy the city. Coincidentally, Kabapu's Department of City Security agents undergo training with laser pistols, and Iwata unwittingly foils ACROSS's plot when his weapon misfires.

Influences on Chris

*Misaki Matsuya's Character Notes: The introduction of Matsuya was treated as a big deal in the anime, with a pause to display text on the screen describing the character's age, gender, hobbies, and personality traits. Chris would emulate this several times when introducing new characters, including [[Wes Iseli]], [[Sarah Hammer]], [[Allison Amber]], [[Simonla Rosechu]], and [[Zapina Rosechu]].

*Ha-chan, Eh-Chan, Will-Chan, etc.: The suffix "-chan" is ubiquitous in anime, but most English dubs don't carry it over into the translation. Even if Chris had heard it before watching Excel Saga, the sheer abundance of "-chan" combined with the first syllable of a character's name in the series is probably what led Chris to dub himself "Chris-Chan". This would also explain Chris's [[fail|failure]] to realize the context of -chan. While the honorific is used for children, girls, and young women, Excel Saga uses it so gratuitously that a viewer might never notice the pattern, especially in this episode. Nevertheless, the suffix "-chan" could be seen as working for Chris in a unique way, since it effectively puns off of his last name: "Chandler". The suffix is further validated by the fact that in many ways, Chris really is a child.

===Episode 7===
[[Image: Kabapu.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Fun Fact: Chris faps to this anime.]]Horror film. Kabapu sends the DCS team into the sewers, not far from the underground lair of ACROSS. Excel and Hyatt activate defense systems at random, causing a flood. Both groups run afoul of the Puuchus, led by the hideous Puuchu Queen, until Nabeshin triggers a second flood which saves the cast and destroys the monsters.

Influences on Chris:

*Ms. Momochi: Kabapu's secretary, who walks in on Kabapu while he's in between changing clothes in his office. While bearing no physical resemblance, the character may well have been the inspiration for Miss [[Allison Amber]], Chris's mayoral aide and girl Friday.

===Episode 8===
Pretty girl anime. In a shameless bid to increase ratings, all male characters are stricken from the storyboards, appearing only as off-screen voices, shadows, or hands. The DCS team take a vacation day to visit the City Pool, while Excel and Hyatt coincidentally do the same. Hyatt befriends a young girl named Cosette Sara, who turns out to be a cunning assassin. In a strange twist of fate, Cosette is transported to the world of the dead, where she sees her mother's ghost once more, but Pedro warns that she cannot cross the Sanzu River to join her, for it would mean she would die as well. Taking pity on Cosette, the Great Will of the Macrocosm retcons Cosette's life so that her mother never died and her dark life as a child assassin never happened. The other male characters later confront Pedro for violating the "no-men" rule of the episode.

Influences on Chris: Nothing really obvious. This episode was primarily a tongue-in-cheek exercise in gratuitous fanservice, and Chris may have been too busy fapping away to notice anything else. He may have gotten the idea to do the Spring Break story in [[Sonichu 8|Sonichu #8]] from this episode, but other than the all-Rosechu cover, it seems like a rather thin connection.

===Episode 9===
Sports anime. Considering athletics to be the universal language of the masses, Il Palazzo sends Hyatt and Excel to research ways to exploit sports for the purpose of world domination. This leads the duo to part-time jobs in a bowling alley, which is soon overrun by the terrorist/bowling organization "Stick and Balls", who plot to use the alley to spread their pro-bowling propaganda and return the "sport of kings" to its former glory. Excel flees to the women's restroom, where Nabeshin agrees to train her in the art of bowling to defeat the Stick and Balls' ringleader. Excel kicks everyone's ass and saves the day.

Influences on Chris

*"I'm much, much saltier": When Excel confronts the terrorists, he mocks her for having run away earlier. Excel's response:

"But I'm not the sweet little girl I was a few minutes ago! I'm much, much saltier now!"

Compare to Chris's line from Sub-Episode 6 of [[Sonichu 4|Sonichu#4]], as he describes his showdown with the Jerkops at a bowling alley:

"Ah, but I am not the weak person they think I am; I am much, much saltier!"

Chris has also used this phrase in private e-mails, to describe himself in the present compared to the naivete of his youth. Note that by omitting the word "sweet", he completely loses the pun.

*Bowling: The course of the battle in Sub-Episode 6 really doesn't match up well with Excel's bowling adventure, aside from the single hero challenging an entire squad of goons in a bowling alley and defeating them with superhuman bowling moves. It's possible Chris may be channeling some other cartoon in addition, but given the "much, much saltier" line, it's clear that Excel Saga gave Chris the bright idea to do a comic set in a bowling alley.

===Episode 10===
Animal anime. Menchi, Excel's pet dog/emergency food supply, escapes their apartment and tries to seek out a kindly old man who once took care of her. She soon befriends a pack of fellow strays, led by the charismatic Wolf. Wolf's pack agree to help Menchi find the old man, but soon run afoul of the Animal Control Department, a squad of dogs who serve as dog catchers. After great heartache and betrayal, Wolf and the others sacrifice themselves so that Menchi can escape. Perhaps favoring Excel's long-term threats to the immediate dangers of the outside world, she returns to Excel's apartment.
Influences on Chris:

*Anthropomorphic dogs: While Menchi can't talk, and in fact seems to look and sound more like a cat than a dog, the other dogs in this episode can speak, and on occasion assume humanoid postures. It appears that Chris ripped off this imagery when he reincarnated his own dog, Patti, as [[Patti-Chan]]. Patti doesn't quite resemble any of the dogs in this episode (her design actually having been stolen from a picture by Megan), although her face does look sort of like a cross between Menchi's and Kyoko. Her body seems to more closely resemble Wolf's when he's standing upright, and it may be that Chris had to combine their designs in order to approximate Patti's breed.

*A kind old man: Towards both the start and the ending of the episode Menchi has memories of the kind old man that took care of her before she met Excel. Once her memories are near completed, circles with memories of the old man fall slowly down the screen. Chris would copy this for the cover of Sonicu 7.

*Menchi's silent adventures: Until Menchi meets the other dogs, her speechless journey through the city bears a strong resemblance to the Sonichu Babies segments from [[Sonichu 3|Sonichu #3]]. In particular, a band of cruel children start throwing rocks and boulders at Menchi, not unlike a certain Whale we all know and love.

*"I shall show you the power of the well-read dog!": Defiant last words of "The Professor", a Scottish terrier in Wolf's pack, as he sacrifices himself on Menchi's behalf. Chris alters the line into "Behold the power of the well-trusted dog!" when Patti-Chan appears in [[CWCville]] to save [[Crystal]] from [[Mary Lee Walsh]].

At this point, the folly of Chris's plagiarism should be clear. He steals ideas and clever lines, but dismisses the concepts that made them worthwhile in the first place. Patti-Chan's storyline in Sonichu is basically this episode in reverse, with a dead dog coming back to life and saving her friends, whereas the whole appeal to "Menchi's Great Adventure" is the absurd pathos of a Scottish Terrier with glasses and cartoon bombs being a suicide bomber.

===Episode 11===
Youth Drama. Excel and Hyatt take temp jobs as teachers, and quickly get saddled with the responsibility of training the school's delinquent baseball team for the big championship game. They lose, as is a common trope in sports anime, to reinforce the greater importance of sportsmanship and teamwork.

Influence on Chris: None, apparently. Chalk this up to his apparent disinterest in sports, and the male-heavy cast of this particular episode.

===Episode 12===
Detective Anime. Hyatt gets taken hostage by a pair of burglars, who panic and ultimately kill themselves when she dies and they fear they've murdered her. Meanwhile, the Department of City Security agents train under Purin, an impertinent young woman possessed by the ghost of her hardboiled gumshoe father.

Influence on Chris: None, again.

===Episode 13===
Review show. Excel and Hyatt compete in a game show-style contest assembling short films using recycled clips from the previous episodes.

Influence on Chris: None. Good going, Chris.

===Episodes 14 & 15===
[[Image:Mom_am_pig.JPG|thumb|Excel responds to Chris after reading the Sonichu comics.]]
Dr. Kabapu commissions the pederast cyberneticist Dr. Shioji to build Ropponmatsu, a female android to serve under the Department of City Security. Iwata immediately falls for the shapely robot, until she is destroyed while disarming an ACROSS bomb, and rebuilt as an obnoxious prepubescent girl.

Escalating the conflict, ACROSS deploys a robot to deliver a second bomb, which battles the second Ropponmatsu to a standstill. Shioji delivers a reconstructed Model One Ropponmatsu to assist, but ultimately both are destroyed by the bomb... only to be rebuilt again...

Influences on Chris: Ropponmatsu II may have inspired Zapina Rosechu in some way, but that would require corroboration.

===Episode 16===
Desperate for story ideas, the writers use both Ropponmatsus in the same story. By mistake, the rebuilt androids end up living with Excel and Hyatt, and imprint upon them to an almost romantic degree. After stealing food and money to support the ACROSS Agents, the Ropponmatsus eventually sacrifice themselves so that Hyatt and Excel can escape the wrath of the city police.

Influences on Chris

*Ropponmatsu II's "death" scene: This is played out as an over-the-top parody of sentimental self-sacrifice scenes in anime, and as Ropponmatsu II begins to break apart, a drop of fluid leaks from her eye socket like a tear, and is depicted as splashing into a darkened pool of water. This would be repeated in Episode 23 when Excel gets shot. Chris would imitate this in [[Sonichu 4|Sonichu #4]], using blood instead of tears, and Chris's impotent rage instead of the sadness of loss.

===Episode 17===
"American Japanimation." Il Palazzo sends Excel and Hyatt to the United States on a reconnaissance mission. There, they meet Pedro's son Sandora, who dreams of becoming a rich and famous animator in Japan, where he believes cartoonists are highly respected. Sandora makes a living selling animation sheets of later succesor ''Puni Puni Poemy'' to a suspicious-looking man, and is later horrified to discover that his artwork is being traded as bootleg anime cels. Excel rescues Sandora from the criminals by employing various "rules" of both American and Japanese animation.

Influences on Chris

This was Chris' favorite episode.

*Sailor Moon: Long before Chris met Megan and got into the Sailor Moon series itself, Chris had used Sailor Moon's trademark poses and variants on her catchphrase for his alter ego, [[Chris-Chan Sonichu]]. The Excel connection here is that Excel does the same routine in this episode, and a gunsel recognizes the reference, and notes that it's a really old cartoon. Compare to Chris's battle with Mary Lee Walsh in "Witch Confront", where Mary mocks Chris's poses and slogan as being "so old".

===Episode 18===
Kabapu forces his DCS team to wear the power suits of Municipal Force Daitenzin, and use them to battle injustice in the city. Furious at being trapped in the sentai costumes, the team agrees to just combat litterbugs, jaywalkers, and other minor scofflaws until the suits finally deactivate. Ironically, the awesome powers of the Daitenzin, coupled with their self-absorbed motives, cause far more damage to the city than any mere crime wave.

Influences on Chris:

*[[Bagget]], Jerkop Daitenzen (sic): Perhaps wanting a more powerful role for Bagget than a mere Jerkop, Chris put him in a brown Power Ranger suit and history was made in [[Sonichu 4|Sonichu #4]]. Strangely, Bagget never makes use of any of the Daitenzin's special attacks or weapons.

*The boy and girl on the bench who look like a character from Battle Athletes and Ash Ketchum.. In Excel, these two characters are attacked by one of the Daitenzin for public displays of affection, when in fact the girl was refusing the boy's advances. Chris used the girl in a similar scene in [[Sonichu 5|Sonichu #5]], only they were a more romantic couple, and it was the Jerkops who intervened.

*Man and woman in coffee shop assaulted by Daitenzin: In the original version, the couple were discussing when the man would leave his wife, as the woman was pregnant with their child. Chris sanitizes the moment into a "love confession" interrupted by a Jerkop, who punches out the man just as Sumiyoshi does in Excel.

===Episode 19===
Animal Anime again. Menchi ends up joining a young heiress on a journey around the world, but their trip is cut short by a common enemy.

Influences on Chris: Chris said this was the episode with Key, but he's wrong. Way to suck, Chris.

*Old Man Cyborg: The punchline of this episode ends up being that the assassin determined to kill the heiress turns out to be the kindly old man who once took care of Menchi, before he turned evil and Menchi shot him in Epsiode 10. He returns here with a powerful robot body, eager to take revenge. While he doesn't look much like any of Chris's characters, the connection to [[Merried Seinor Comic]] is apparent, and this character may have inspired the other Manajerks Chris depicted as cyborgs.

===Episode 20===
Review show again. This episode recaps the Pedro subplot that's been going on since the show began. In short, Pedro learns that the author of all his miseries is a cosmic Yakuza-type known only as "That Man". Pedro is helpless against his awesome power, until Nabeshin unleashes the secret powers within both Pedro and his son Sandora. Now sporting afros of their own, Pedro and Sandora join Nabeshin to confront That Man, until he escapes with the Will of the Macrocosm.

Influences on Chris

*Sub-Episodes: While the segments of the Pedro recap aren't titled this way, they are numbered independently of the episodes of the main series. This "saga within a saga" format probably inspired Chris to depict his own adventures as separate from Sonichu's. Also, combining Pedro's adventures into a single all-Pedro episode is probably how Chris decided to rehash his existing Sub-Episodes in [[Sonichu #4|Sonichu 4]], with additional Sub-Episodes to provide some closure to the storyline.

*Pedro in Limbo: The common theme of Pedro's adventures is that he has been mostly powerless against the forces that affect his life. As a ghost, he could only look on in horror as his family abandoned him, and strange cosmic forces manipulated him for sex and lulz. Similarly, Chris has been describing a similar experience for himself in the [[Sonichu (comic)|Sonichu]] comics since he got marooned in the time void.

===Episode 21===
Rock anime. Il Palazzo's superiors send him a message via Key, an oversexed rock musician who insists on delivering the message through song, yet refuses to sing until he feels the proper artistic inspiration. To that end, Excel and Hyatt attempt to cultivate Key's creativity, but Excel finds herself becoming attracted to Key's untamed sexuality.

Influences on Chris:

*Key: Chris admitted that he adapted Key's revealing outfit to design the costume of his evil gay twin [[Reldnahc Notsew Naitsirhc]]. The only significant differences are the change from red leather straps to green, and torn blue jeans in place of Key's ass-less chaps. Also, while Key merely displayed an ambiguous sexuality in keeping with his role as a bishonen rock hero, Naitsirhc is a hardcore gay guy, living out Chris's fantasy life of ejaculating whenever and wherever he pleases.

===Episode 22===
[[Image:Cwcexcel.jpg|thumb|right|By Dean Walsh's order! For the glory of dean Walsh! BECAUSE DEAN WALSH DEMANDS!]]
Koshi Rikdo grants permission for ACROSS to actually conquer the city. The matter becomes academic, however, when a Puuchu warlord leads an invasion force to Earth to avenge their past defeats. Excel joins forces with Puuchu rebels to defeat the invaders, but the city is destroyed when debris from the battle collides with the Earth.

*Nabeshin as martial arts master: As the series approached the end, Nabeshin teamed up with Pedro and Sandora to battle That Man, and the three of them would go to a special training ground to hone their powers for the final battle. Based on this, Chris recast Nabeshin in Sonichu as G.D.W. Shinabe, a martial arts sensei who teaches his students how to edit film with karate chops. Shinabe would adopt [[Punchy Sonichu]] into his dojo.

===Episode 23===
Post-apocalyptic anime. Cut off from ACROSS, Excel wanders the ruins of what was once F Prefecture, defending the survivors from gangs and warlords. Horrified to learn that the villains are working for ACROSS, and that she has been targeted for execution, Excel confronts Il Palazzo to learn the truth. He shoots her in the chest without a word.

Influences on Chris
*Time-delay attack: Mostly, this episode parodies Fist of the North Star, which features a powerful fighter kicking ass in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Since Excel is in the role of the hero, she uses a variation of the anime's titular attack, which involves punching your opponent a billion times. The thing about the Fist of the North Star is that it takes three seconds to have any effect, after which the opponent explodes like a water balloon filled with blood, then becomes a pastiche of Dejiko from ''Digi Charat''. When dubious villains question the attack's power, the hero would famously reply "But you're already dead", right before they die. Chris adapted this idea when he first used the Curse-ye-ha-me-ha in [[Sonichu 0|Sonichu #0]]. The Jerkhief didn't feel a thing at first, and then his life began to unravel from the curse.

===Episode 24===
Koshi Rikdo strips the series of all gags. Excel is rescued by Municipal Force Daitenzin, but after recovering from the gunshot, she has amnesia. ACROSS has conquered the region, but Il Palazzo begins to teeter on the brink of madness. The only hope left for resistance are Kabapu's promise of a secret weapon, and Nabeshin, who sacrifices himself to defeat That Man, one of the Il Palazzo's superiors in ACROSS.

Influences on Chris: Make your own "joke-free comedy" joke here. Seriously, though, Chris probably never stole anything from this episode because he couldn't wrap his brain around the irony.

===Episode 25===
As Kapabu and Municipal Force Daitenzin stage a desperate attack on ACROSS's mobile fortress, Excel sneaks into the base to confront Il Palazzo, whom she vaguely recalls as the key to regaining her memories. Il Palazzo makes short work of Kabapu's forces, but when Excel arrives and confronts his madness, he regains his sanity and they escape the fortress together as it explodes. Meanwhile, Pedro and Sandora discover That Man has survived, and defeat him for good with their ultimate attack, the Nabehameha Wave.

Influences on Chris:
*"One Shot is all we get!" This line is said in unison by both Pedro and That Man before they engage in their Dragon Ball style beam struggle. Chris blatantly stole it for his epic showdown with Mary Lee Walsh, depicted in [[Sonichu 2|Sonichu #2]]

*Nabehameha: Obviously, a parody of the Kamehameha attack from Dragon Ball, renamed for Nabeshin, who invented it and taught it to Pedro off-screen. While Chris had watched Dragon Ball Z, it was undoubtedly the Nabehameha that gave him the bright idea to customize his own version of the Kamehameha and pretend it was original. Thus, the "Curseyehameha", which he later changed to "Shinyehameha". As Chris has diluted every other idea he stole from Excel Saga, he does so again here, since he failed to utilize the part of the Nabehameha that was so awesome: the afro.

*Those things always have weak knees!: Kabapu uses a giant robot to attack ACROSS's mobile fortress. When the defending troops counterattack, this is the strategy they offer. The way the idea is discussed, weak knees in giant robots may be some cliche in giant robot anime lore, but in any case, Chris stole the line for his battle against the Count Graduon's Golem in [[Sonichu 2|Sonichu #2]]

*"[[Honest content|Honest-to-Goodness]]": Near the end of the episode, Excel fights Ilpalazzo's inner demons that are the reason behind his sudden outburst of megalomaniac actions. After punching them out, they fall back and take full control of him, and when they do so, Ilpalazzo says ''"Now, I'm the honest-to-goodness Ilpalazzo!".'' Judging by the climactic delivery of this line, it is very likely it got burned into Chris's subconscious, to end up being used every time he claims to be [[Honest content|True and Honest]]; an example is his [[User:ChrisChanSonichu profile|Wikipedia page]], which starts with "The One, The Only, from his Own ''Honest-to-God'' Words".

===Episode 26===
Sort of a bonus episode full of material too graphic for Japanese TV. Cosette Sara from Episode 8 returns as the newest member of ACROSS, who somehow causes Excel and Hyatt to switch bodies. After a lot of nudity and violence, Nabeshin kills the rest of the ACROSS Six and Hyatt floods the world in blood.

Influences on Chris: Chris was probably too busy fapping to anime noods to copy anything. The final scene is Nabeshin's wedding to some broad who kept trying to serve him soup throughout the series, and Chris probably plans to end Sonichu with [[Wedding Comic|his own wedding]], but Real Life has made this impossible.

===Puni Puni Poemy===
[[Wikipedia:Puni Puni Poemy|Puni Puni Poemy]] is something of an Excel Saga spinoff, starring Nabeshin's daughter Poemi Watanabe as she struggles to become a voice actress while fighting aliens with the assistance of the seven Aasu Sisters. The show's relation to Excel Saga is tenuous, with only Nabeshin and Kumi Kumi present (Though a news anchor bears a resemblance to Koshi Rikdo), and some reused background music from the series.

Influences on Chris:
[[Image: GDW.jpg|thumb|200px|Unlike Chris, this man is a TRUE and HONEST great director.]]
Chris has more than once referred to himself as "Great Director Chandler", <s>as an homage to</s> shamelessly ripping off Nabeshin's declaration that he is the "Great Director Watanabe."

==Gallery of plagiarism==
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<gallery>
Image:Beforebreakfast.jpg|Compare this...
Image:Sonichustrip1.jpg|to this
Image:Fqx.jpg|Chris would steal this logo, only without the searchlights, or the font, or anything else, really.
Image:graveyard.jpg|This is probably the only reason Chris considers the mall an ideal dating locale, instead of sitting in a cemetery all day.
Image:Coffeeshop.jpg|Actually, the coffee shop was [[Hanna]]'s idea, although Chris probably would have suggested it himself, based on this.
Image:Putitin4.jpg|Chris always picks option 3
Image:Stalkher.jpg|Option 1 is [[Megan|fine too]].
Image:Putitin2.jpg|Chris's SOP for how to interact with women.
Image:Red-string.jpg|"I have a NEW idea that I am sure will [[Fail|REEL]] in a girlfriend on a FATEFUL [[Red String of Fate|RED STRING]]."
Image:Nabeshin1.jpg|Character Chris identifies with.
Image:Sumiyoshi.jpg|Character Chris should identify with.
Image:Excel-julay.jpg|JULAAAAYYYY!
Image:Pedro1.jpg|Compare this...
Image:RainbowChris.jpg|to this
Image:scotpalazzo1.jpg|Better One?
Image:ilpalazzo.jpg|Or better Two?
Image:drool1.jpg|Typical reaction to reading ''[[Sonichu (comic)|Sonichu]]''
Image: drool2.jpg|The Jerkop version
Image: Chris3days.jpg|Only three days...
Image: only3days.jpg|... since I skipped my last deadline.
Image: Title.JPG|The title is Excel Saga!
Image: Title2.JPG|...or maybe it's Sonichu...I can't remember.
Image: Hail.jpg|When you see it...
Image: Hailwrodents.jpg|...you'll have numerous pairs of [[Dirty_crapped_briefs|dirty, crapped briefs]]
Image: Bystanders.jpg|Even lazy shortcuts like this aren't original.
Image: Bystanders2.jpg|See?
Image: Pedro2.jpg|Pedro in Limbo
Image: Timevoid.jpg|Chris in the Time Void
Image: Bowling1.jpg|I'm not the same person I was just a moment ago...
Image: Saltier.jpg|I'm much, much saltier!
Image: Bowling.jpg|Chris defeats the bad guys with bowling power.
Image: Bowling2.jpg|And the original version.
Image: Rikdo-shit.jpg|Stereotypical depiction of a manga artist's room.
Image: More-rikdo-shit.jpg|Possible inspiration for Chris's interior decoration.
Image:0825-EP12-5P6-8.jpg|Compare to Chris's room.
Image:0821-EP12-5P6-5.jpg|The eerie similarities.
Image: Simonla-notes.jpg|Chris's useless character notes.
Image: Matsuya-notes.jpg|And their possible inspiration.
Image: BloodTear.jpg|The Passion of...
Image: Exceltear.jpg|...the Chris?
</gallery>
</center>

==Sauces==
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==See also==
*[[Parody]]

==External links==
*[[Wikipedia:Excel Saga|Wikipedia article on Excel Saga]]

[[Category:Things Chris has ripped off]]

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2010-02-05T20:45:34Z

Turbam:

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2010-02-05T20:44:16Z

Turbam:

User:Turbam

2010-02-04T07:50:14Z

Turbam:

Hello, Turbam here

Well I'm a''n'' <s>big fan of</s> Excel Saga fag, so I'll most likely only lurk on that page.

I am also a teribel speelr so you'll have to cleen up after mee most likly.

Animal Crossing Documentary

2010-01-22T06:56:50Z

Turbam: /* Transcription */ I'm the worst speller of all time! Of all time.

[[Chris]]’s hour-long "'''''[[Animal Crossing]]'' Documentary'''" offers tours of two different towns saved on two different memory cards. The town of [[Cwcville]] is home to [[Sonichu]], who wears a Sonichu outfit. The town of Cwc City is home to [[Crystal]], who wears a [[Rosechu]] outfit.

==Watch==

<center>{{Infobox/video
| name = Animal Crossing Documentary
| image = {{#ev:googlevideo|-4734277862198455846}}
| Stardate = 22nd [[November 2003]]
| Maker = [[Christian Weston Chandler]]
| Subject Matter = {{Video games}}[[Video games]]; {{Website}}Website
| Other = {{Direct Feed}}Machinima; {{Leaked}}[[DVD|Leaked]]
| previous = [[The City of Cwicville Tour!#Watch]]
| next = [[The 24th Wedding Anniversary Special#Part 1]]
}}</center>

===Outline===

{| class="wikitable"
| 00:01-01:24 || Introduction
|-
| 01:25-19:39 || Tour of Cwcville (part 1 of 2)
|-
| 19:40-25:19 || Trip to Cwcville Island
|-
| 25:20-35:24 || Tour of Cwcville (part 2 of 2)
|-
| 35:25-36:44 || Interlude
|-
| 36:45-52:39 || Tour of Cwc City
|-
| 52:40-53:39 || Interlude
|-
| 53:40-55:54 || Conclusion
|}

==Transcription==

'''Introduction'''

[Gamecube startup screen with Chris singing along]

[Nintendo screen with Chris saying "Nintendo"]

[00:24]

Hello Nintendo! Welcome to my Animal Crossing for Nintendo GameCube. I am your host. My name is Christian Weston chandler. I live in Ruckersville, Virginia and I is [''sic''] 21 years old and I play because I am young at heart. So any way we are going to take a tour of my city...in Animal Crossing.

[''Goes to main menu'']

[00:48]

The city's name is CWCville. See, those are my initials CWC. That's why it is spelled that way.

[''Picking menu options'']

[01:01]

And my character's name is Sonichu. You may remember him from ahh previous letters I have sent to you guys in the past.

[01:10]

[''Game starts to load town'']

Anyway we are going to get set up now. [''Chris starts singing'']

[''Game is done loading'']

We usually do have a good time.

 [1:25] 

So anyway, stepping out is my character [[Sonichu]]. He's wearing the [[Chris and fashion|clothes]] with the character on it. Like I said you might remember his face. And there's his actual face.

[''Shows a sign with the face of Sonichu on it'']

You remember the rest of his body you see the whole picture.

And before we get to the daily routines I'm goin' let you...I'm goin' to take you on a tour of my house as well as uh, as well as you know, uh, a daily routine. We'll take a tour of the town, but first the house. You see this logo here, that is the logo to my website on the internet. If you would like to visit, here is the address. I'm going to leave it up for a few seconds.

[''Shows the address to his website for a few seconds'']

 [2:02] 

Alright, that's enough.

Now were gonna take a tour of my house.

Turn on the light so you can see better. This is my first floor obviously. I keep things well organized. I got enough room to walk around in; I can even do a dance, wanna see me do I bit?

[Chris begins to sing]

[[Yellow_Is_A_Mellow_Color|Yellow is a mellow color]] 
Yes it is a mellow color 
Sonichu zaps a lightning 
EEEEEHHHHH mellow color 

[Chris stops singing]

Yeah. Course...a...when I...a... do a dance. I usually like to have my uh...audience.

[Chris puts a wallpaper up on his house, resembling wrestling fans who just witnessed a Stone Cold Stunner.]

Dodedododododoo. But since it's getting close to [[Christmas]], I have the snowflakes on the wall instead. And I keep it in this closet. So anyway here's a fun thing. This snowman he teach me how to play piano. And by the way just to let you know in case...a...you can hear the...a...music in the background.

[Chris appears to be playing [[So_Need_A_Cute_Girl|So Need A Cute Girl]]]

Those are my karaoke numbers that I actually ma...that I actually made up lyrics too, and I have played and uh sang my voice over the originals. So let me give you an example; may I Mister Snowman? "Please go right ahead!" Alright.

[Chris begins to sing again while Sonichu bangs on the piano]

[[Dirty_crapped_briefs|Tell me why]] 
I'm stuck as a 
Virgin with Rage? 
[[Semen#Recycling|Tell me why]] 
I so need a 
Cute Girl my age 
[[Medallions_of_Fail|Tell me why]] 
I never wanna 
Hear you say 
I have a boyfriend! 

[Chris stops singing]

And that was inspired by a [[Love Quest|real thing]]. By the way that's your website...that is your website isn't it? Nintendo.com, it's a nice place to visit; but we cannot live there. Which brings us up to our next subject.

[A calendar of November appears on the screen]

The diary, you guys did a good job of it going back and forth within a 12 month radius. By the way, this is my birthday, right here my actual birthday, I was born in 1982. You guys...in case you want to take a note there. OK, that's long enough. So anyway uh, it does make a...not only does it work for a calendar, but it makes for a good monthly journal. As for a monthly journal entry here in November.

[Chris begins to scroll up and down his journal entry]
Yeah I tried to get a girlfriend because, I don't have a girlfriend. But I have made up a poem, let you guys read it.

My dreams of getting a girlfriend was crushed by the medeling [''sic''] [[Mary_Lee_Walsh|"Mary Lee Walsh."]] 
Christian Chandler. 
November 4, 2003 
Saddest Heart in the World 
Lonesome and sad, lonesome and sad, the "Mastermind" is very bad. In efforts of getting a Boyfriend-Free gal, that female dog took my only idea for a fall. Heart-broken, sad and very lonely, I'll never remove my virginity. And with Backstreet Boys' tune, I sing my lonesome croon: "Tell me why I'm stuck as a virgin with rage. Tell me why, I so need a...

All right. Scroll down a little bit as we go along.

...cute girl my age. Tell me why, I ain't ever wanna hear you say 'I have a boyfriend.'" And so, deep in dreary thought, a girl was what I sought. A stitch in time, will never remove my...

It's a very good pro...poem, because I am an artist, as well as a poet. I make a rhyme every time.

...crying rhyme. I may be destined for loneliness forever, fate is to blame...whatever. I conclude this cry, to say that as long as there are no matching girls, my happiness well runs dry.

Anyway that's my poem, but in case...a you didn't notice here. Look right here "Tell me why, I'm stuck as a virgin with rage". I put my song lyric in here because it was inspired; because I do not have a girlfriend. You know why, cause I have a [[Noviophobia|phobia]] that every girl I talk to she already has a boyfriend.

Right. So anyway moving on with the tour of my house. As you can see I've got I'm collecting the NES games. I've got most of them down here, and I've got a couple upstairs. One of em's fake you know which one I'm talking about, does April 1st strike a bell? So my favorite game is right here.

["Would you like to play 
[[Fail|DK Jr MATH?]]"]

I like it because...a it really challenges the mind in the math area and gets your memory fresh there. And by the way notice the two logos here?

[Chris is making a notion towards the GameCube and N64 logos]

It's a good way to welcome the guests, that come into your house. Ol' Nintendo 64 on the left, and GameCube on the right, caught them before an after deal. Oh and look at this, a good little south feng shui here. Of course makes for a good welcome mat. Speaking of feng shui, I've got my red items against the east side. And helps of getting more NES games; specially that Wario's Woods. By the way, how the heck do you get that game anyway? I mean all you tell us do to is to go to Animal Island. And then what do we do? You should have given us more details, back in the previous issue of uh The Crossing Garden.

Speaking of which I've been a long time subscriber. So therefore I've got all their previous issues. And I time travel back and forth when I start Animal Crossing to collect a few items, but in respect to uh...time traveling back to collect a few items I made a new character named "Tim Timetale" and uh he time-traveled back and got the remaining items, give them to me, as well as the other character I made up, and uh the uh the other city in Slot B, which uh I'll tell you about that later.

[6:45]

[Character walks up stairs to the second floor of house]

Anyway, we're going upstairs. This is my [[Chris's room|bedroom]]. It's a lot of fun, isn't it, because I like to make things fun since, you know, I'm young at heart. And here's a fun joke. Turn on the TV sit down and watch TV while I wait t-to get on the internet. It's a good way to kill time anyway. Anyway, here's the fake [''brings up caption for the April Fool's NES game, Super Tortimer'']. Sound familiar? Right [''[[sigh|sighs]]'']. Anyway, this is my bed. The harvest bed. Nice choice, isn't it? I'm going to take a quick nap.

[7:17]

[Character lays down on bed while Chris makes snoring noises too close to the microphone]

OK. Nap's over. All right. You want to see my music collection? [''Brings up music menu''] It's all good. I got them all courtesy of K.K. Slider. Well, of course, the first one was a freebie from the e-reader card. "Swipe, Swipe, Swipe". Anyway, here's the fan and the Mario Brothers stuff. Oh, and uh you notice what time it is? It's 1:15. Good time to start. In the afternoon.

[7:48]

[Character walks down stairs to first floor of house]

Anyway, now we're going down to the basement.

[Character walks down stairs to the basement of house]

Let me just turn on the lights. I keep my models down here. It's a nice little aero fa [sic] models, and I leave enough room for me to walk around in. Well. That's a cute joke.

''"Hey. Stop. You're under arrest."'' 
''"What for?"'' 
''"For uh being in the black market, you red fox.''" 
''"Ah, geez."'' ''

And I got both houses. Yeah, I scored that high with the HRA. Notice this train? I wonder where it's headed to. It's probably headed over to the memory card in Slot B. I'll tell you about that city later. Anyway. This is where I do my cooking. If uh if you can ever do your cooking in Animal Crossing for Nintendo GameCube. I have that DVD. And this is the fridge. I could store my food in there, but I can't. What? Does it have a padlock on it or something? Oh, look. Here's my phone. Let's make a quick phone call. [''Pulls up phone menu, calling the Dial-a-Psychic''] Hello? Thank you. Good advice. Hey. Let's have a seat on this thing. I like this thing. Listen to this. [''Character sits on the couch and it makes a fart noise'']. Let me do that again. [''Character again jumps on the couch as it makes a fart noise''] One more time. [''Character again jumps on couch with predictable results''] OK. That's enough. Too much fun and you'll die laughing.

[9:04]

[Character walks up stairs to first floor of house]

So anyway. That's my house. Let me just turn off the lights before I leave.

[Character walks out the front door of house]

Alright, now where going to go through my daily routines. As well as a tour of the town.

[Pause menu pops up]

You notice I've got an empty inventory. And by the way, here's a good rule of thumb. Keeping my shovel, net, pole, axe, and letters here on the bottom row. You know why? I'll tell you bout that when we get to the next shop. Anyway, I usually check my mail; what do you know I got three presents. Lets see what this one is though. [[Bob]].

How ARE you, Sonichu? 
 
Well now, I bet your bottom Bell you didn't expect me to cut out and split town, huh? Nope, I shocked the world! I'm turning over a new leaf- see you on the flip side!
 
Laters, Bob

Oh I guess he moved out, oh well.

[Sonichu proceeds to throw out poor Bob's letter. Then collect his gift from the remaining]

Anyway, lets see what we got from the uh, probably from the museum; because I did up those fossils and uh...I sell them. Makes a nice profit.

[Sonichu throws away all three letters]

I just quickly uh read through them and then throw them away. You know like...junk mail! You could also say pop-ups if they had "x's" on em.

[Sonichu begins to open his gifts]

See what we got here, A dinosaur track, a Tricera tail, and a dinosaur egg. Well they'll make a nice profit. By the way, in case you missed it the first time I'll put it up again.

[Once again shows the address to his website]

Ok you got it, alright now. Before we head to Nook's shop which will be the last stop on the tour; we're gonna take the rest of the tour here. Alright lets see. Well this is the train station. But I travel to the other city which I'll tell you about now. The name of the city is CWCcity. Spelled C-W-C-c-i-t-y, we'll visit there latter, but not by train of course. It'll be a hou-It'll be a run by the uh character named [[Crystal_Weston_Chandler_(sister)|Crystal]], C-r-y-s-t-a-l, when we get there.

[Left off at 10:50]

{{transcription}}

End of video spoiler: "HFA" stands for "High-Functionally [[Autism]]". Apparently, this is Chris's autistic way of saying "High-''Functioning'' Autism".

==Nintendo Power's Article==

''[[Nintendo Power]]''’s May 2004 article on Chris’s documentary covers only Sonichu’s life in Cwcville. The way that the article speaks of Sonichu’s actions, most casual readers would be led to believe that “Sonichu” is the real name of the person who submitted the documentary.

[[Image:CWCSchuCross.jpg|thumb|center]]

===Transcript===

{{quotenews|'''Sonichu’s Cwcville Documentary'''

Simply amazing. There’s no other way to describe what we received from Sonichu of Cwcville—a full video documentary that walked us through his daily life. His opulent manor contained every manner of furniture. Cwcville’s landscape was filled to the bursting point with all the animals who’d moved to his well-tended town. And Sonichu has customized everything about his town—even many villagers have followed his bold trends, wearing the patterns he has created!

''(Image captions:)''

Sonichu has packed the museum with his fads—its bug collection is hopping.

He often visits Sonichu Island to bring its high-value coconuts to town.

And he uses the spare hut on the island to store his huge collection of oddities.

Cwcville is brimming with Sonichu’s patterns, including the popular Poké Ball.}}

==PVCC's News Report==

The 26 April 2004 issue of [[Piedmont Virginia Community College|PVCC's]] school newspaper, ''The Forum'', included a news report on the "accomplishments" of then-student Christian Chandler. The first half of the article discusses Chris's OFFICIAL and ORIGINIAL creation, Sonichu, while the second half covers Chris's Animal Crossing Documentary, going so far as to quote ''[[Nintendo Power]]'''s own coverage. Everyone can draw their conclusions of how slow news day it was at the PVCC by comparing how big the ''Nintendo Power'' article was, and how big this article was.

===Transcript===

[[File:391-SchuPVCCArticle.jpg|thumb|center|Meet Sonichu]]

{{quotenews|'''Meet Sonichu''' ''Student featured in "Nintendo Power"''

By Kari Mitchell ''The Forum assistant editor''

Most everyone has a hobby. It may be hard to find free time in between classes, especially with exam week quickly approaching, but PVCC student Christian Chandler, has dedicated many hours to his past time. He is the creator of Sonichu, the Electric Hedgehog Pokémon.

Like Sonic, Sonichu can run at high speeds. "During Super Sonic's battle against the [[Perfect Chaos Monster|Perfect Chaos monster]] (''Sonic Adventure DX'' for Gamecube), Super Sonic was spat out by the monster, and colldied with a by-standing Pikachu," Chandler explained. According to his story, the power from the Chaos Emeralds transformed Pikachu into Sonichu.

The idea for the character came from a project Chandler was assigned his senior year of high school. He was enrolled in a computer graphics class that required him to design a CD cover. His original idea was to put Sonic and Pikachu on the cover, however, both characters are copyrighted. Instead he decided to combine the characters into something all his own. Thus, on March 17, 2000, Sonichu was born.

Over time, Chandler began to mold and expand the life of Sonichu, giving him stories, homemade trading cards, clay figures, a board game, and a [[Sonichu medallion]] with charms, among other things.

Chandler and the world he created for Sonichu were featured in the May 2004 issue of ''Nintendo Power.'' The place was called Cwcville (The "Cwc" prefix are his initials, Christian Weston Chandler). Nintendo Power was apparently impressed with Chandler's work. "Simply amazing. There's no other way to describe what we received from Sonichu of Cwcville - a full video documentary that walked us through his daily life." The documentary, running about an hour, was taped from the Nintendo Gamecube title, ''Animal Crossing''. He dubbed his voice over the sound through a microphone and audio input in his VCR. In the documentary, Chandler covers "basically how I do things in ''Animal Crossing'' as the boy character, Sonichu, in the city of Cwcville." Some of the tasks include using the journal as a monthly diary, making money, customizing the city, and conversing with another ''Animal Crossing'' city. For now, Sonichu remains a hobby in the future, Chandler would like to see Sonichu and his friends as real Pokémon, even having their own Nintendo Gamecube video game title. "I am not really sure what to do in order to do all that," Chandler said, "but for now, Sonichu and I, Christian C., are in Nintedo Power Magazine!"}}

{{succession|label=[[List of videos|Chris's videos]]|prevlink=[[The City of Cwicville Tour!]]|nextlink=[[The 24th Wedding Anniversary Special]]|}}
{{CWC on TV}}

Animal Crossing Documentary

2010-01-22T06:48:01Z

Turbam: /* Transcription */

[[Chris]]’s hour-long "'''''[[Animal Crossing]]'' Documentary'''" offers tours of two different towns saved on two different memory cards. The town of [[Cwcville]] is home to [[Sonichu]], who wears a Sonichu outfit. The town of Cwc City is home to [[Crystal]], who wears a [[Rosechu]] outfit.

==Watch==

<center>{{Infobox/video
| name = Animal Crossing Documentary
| image = {{#ev:googlevideo|-4734277862198455846}}
| Stardate = 22nd [[November 2003]]
| Maker = [[Christian Weston Chandler]]
| Subject Matter = {{Video games}}[[Video games]]; {{Website}}Website
| Other = {{Direct Feed}}Machinima; {{Leaked}}[[DVD|Leaked]]
| previous = [[The City of Cwicville Tour!#Watch]]
| next = [[The 24th Wedding Anniversary Special#Part 1]]
}}</center>

===Outline===

{| class="wikitable"
| 00:01-01:24 || Introduction
|-
| 01:25-19:39 || Tour of Cwcville (part 1 of 2)
|-
| 19:40-25:19 || Trip to Cwcville Island
|-
| 25:20-35:24 || Tour of Cwcville (part 2 of 2)
|-
| 35:25-36:44 || Interlude
|-
| 36:45-52:39 || Tour of Cwc City
|-
| 52:40-53:39 || Interlude
|-
| 53:40-55:54 || Conclusion
|}

==Transcription==

'''Introduction'''

[Gamecube startup screen with Chris singing along]

[Nintendo screen with Chris saying "Nintendo"]

[00:24]

Hello Nintendo! Welcome to my Animal Crossing for Nintendo GameCube. I am your host. My name is Christian Weston chandler. I live in Ruckersville, Virginia and I is [''sic''] 21 years old and I play because I am young at heart. So any way we are going to take a tour of my city...in Animal Crossing.

[''Goes to main menu'']

[00:48]

The city's name is CWCville. See, those are my initials CWC. That's why it is spelled that way.

[''Picking menu options'']

[01:01]

And my character's name is Sonichu. You may remember him from ahh previous letters I have sent to you guys in the past.

[01:10]

[''Game starts to load town'']

Anyway we are going to get set up now. [''Chris starts singing'']

[''Game is done loading'']

We usually do have a good time.

 [1:25] 

So anyway, stepping out is my character [[Sonichu]]. He's wearing the [[Chris and fashion|clothes]] with the character on it. Like I said you might remember his face. And there's his actual face.

[''Shows a sign with the face of Sonichu on it'']

You remember the rest of his body you see the whole picture.

And before we get to the daily routines I'm goin' let you...I'm goin' to take you on a tour of my house as well as uh, as well as you know, uh, a daily routine. We'll take a tour of the town, but first the house. You see this logo here, that is the logo to my website on the internet. If you would like to visit, here is the address. I'm going to leave it up for a few seconds.

[''Shows the address to his website for a few seconds'']

 [2:02] 

Alright, that's enough.

Now were gonna take a tour of my house.

Turn on the light so you can see better. This is my first floor obviously. I keep things well organized. I got enough room to walk around in; I can even do a dance, wanna see me do I bit?

[Chris begins to sing]

[[Yellow_Is_A_Mellow_Color|Yellow is a mellow color]] 
Yes it is a mellow color 
Sonichu zaps a lightning 
EEEEEHHHHH mellow color 

[Chris stops singing]

Yeah. Course...a...when I...a... do a dance. I usually like to have my uh...audience.

[Chris puts a wallpaper up on his house, resembling wrestling fans who just witnessed a Stone Cold Stunner.]

Dodedododododoo. But since it's getting close to [[Christmas]], I have the snowflakes on the wall instead. And I keep it in this closet. So anyway here's a fun thing. This snowman he teach me how to play piano. And by the way just to let you know in case...a...you can hear the...a...music in the background.

[Chris appears to be playing [[So_Need_A_Cute_Girl|So Need A Cute Girl]]]

Those are my karaoke numbers that I actually ma...that I actually made up lyrics too, and I have played and uh sang my voice over the originals. So let me give you an example; may I Mister Snowman? "Please go right ahead!" Alright.

[Chris begins to sing again while Sonichu bangs on the piano]

[[Dirty_crapped_briefs|Tell me why]] 
I'm stuck as a 
Virgin with Rage? 
[[Semen#Recycling|Tell me why]] 
I so need a 
Cute Girl my age 
[[Medallions_of_Fail|Tell me why]] 
I never wanna 
Hear you say 
I have a boyfriend! 

[Chris stops singing]

And that was inspired by a [[Love Quest|real thing]]. By the way that's your website...that is your website isn't it? Nintendo.com, it's a nice place to visit; but we cannot live there. Which brings us up to our next subject.

[A calendar of November appears on the screen]

The diary, you guys did a good job of it going back and forth within a 12 month radius. By the way, this is my birthday, right here my actual birthday, I was born in 1982. You guys...in case you want to take a note there. OK, that's long enough. So anyway uh, it does make a...not only does it work for a calendar, but it makes for a good monthly journal. As for a monthly journal entry here in November.

[Chris begins to scroll up and down his journal entry]
Yeah I tried to get a girlfriend because, I don't have a girlfriend. But I have made up a poem, let you guys read it.

My dreams of getting a girlfriend was crushed by the medeling [''sic''] [[Mary_Lee_Walsh|"Mary Lee Walsh."]] 
Christian Chandler. 
November 4, 2003 
Saddest Heart in the World 
Lonesome and sad, lonesome and sad, the "Mastermind" is very bad. In efforts of getting a Boyfriend-Free gal, that female dog took my only idea for a fall. Heart-broken, sad and very lonely, I'll never remove my virginity. And with Backstreet Boys' tune, I sing my lonesome croon: "Tell me why I'm stuck as a virgin with rage. Tell me why, I so need a...

All right. Scroll down a little bit as we go along.

...cute girl my age. Tell me why, I ain't ever wanna hear you say 'I have a boyfriend.'" And so, deep in dreary thought, a girl was what I sought. A stitch in time, will never remove my...

It's a very good pro...poem, because I am an artist, as well as a poet. I make a rhyme every time.

...crying rhyme. I may be destined for loneliness forever, fate is to blame...whatever. I conclude this cry, to say that as long as there are no matching girls, my happiness well runs dry.

Anyway that's my poem, but in case...a you didn't notice here. Look right here "Tell me why, I'm stuck as a virgin with rage". I put my song lyric in here because it was inspired; because I do not have a girlfriend. You know why, cause I have a [[Noviophobia|phobia]] that every girl I talk to she already has a boyfriend.

Right. So anyway moving on with the tour of my house. As you can see I've got I'm collecting the NES games. I've got most of them down here, and I've got a couple upstairs. One of em's fake you know which one I'm talking about, does April 1st strike a bell? So my favorite game is right here.

["Would you like to play 
[[Fail|DK Jr MATH?]]"]

I like it because...a it really challenges the mind in the math area and gets your memory fresh there. And by the way notice the two logos here?

[Chris is making a notion towards the GameCube and N64 logos]

It's a good way to welcome the guests, that come into your house. Ol' Nintendo 64 on the left, and GameCube on the right, caught them before an after deal. Oh and look at this, a good little south feng shui here. Of course makes for a good welcome mat. Speaking of feng shui, I've got my red items against the east side. And helps of getting more NES games; specially that Wario's Woods. By the way, how the heck do you get that game anyway? I mean all you tell us do to is to go to Animal Island. And then what do we do? You should have given us more details, back in the previous issue of uh The Crossing Garden.

Speaking of which I've been a long time subscriber. So therefore I've got all their previous issues. And I time travel back and forth when I start Animal Crossing to collect a few items, but in respect to uh...time traveling back to collect a few items I made a new character named "Tim Timetale" and uh he time-traveled back and got the remaining items, give them to me, as well as the other character I made up, and uh the uh the other city in Slot B, which uh I'll tell you about that later.

[6:45]

[Character walks up stairs to the second floor of house]

Anyway, we're going upstairs. This is my [[Chris's room|bedroom]]. It's a lot of fun, isn't it, because I like to make things fun since, you know, I'm young at heart. And here's a fun joke. Turn on the TV sit down and watch TV while I wait t-to get on the internet. It's a good way to kill time anyway. Anyway, here's the fake [''brings up caption for the April Fool's NES game, Super Tortimer'']. Sound familiar? Right [''[[sigh|sighs]]'']. Anyway, this is my bed. The harvest bed. Nice choice, isn't it? I'm going to take a quick nap.

[7:17]

[Character lays down on bed while Chris makes snoring noises too close to the microphone]

OK. Nap's over. All right. You want to see my music collection? [''Brings up music menu''] It's all good. I got them all courtesy of K.K. Slider. Well, of course, the first one was a freebie from the e-reader card. "Swipe, Swipe, Swipe". Anyway, here's the fan and the Mario Brothers stuff. Oh, and uh you notice what time it is? It's 1:15. Good time to start. In the afternoon.

[7:48]

[Character walks down stairs to first floor of house]

Anyway, now we're going down to the basement.

[Character walks down stairs to the basement of house]

Let me just turn on the lights. I keep my models down here. It's a nice little aero fa [sic] models, and I leave enough room for me to walk around in. Well. That's a cute joke.

''"Hey. Stop. You're under arrest."'' 
''"What for?"'' 
''"For uh being in the black market, you red fox.''" 
''"Ah, geez."'' ''

And I got both houses. Yeah, I scored that high with the HRA. Notice this train? I wonder where it's headed to. It's probably headed over to the memory card in Slot B. I'll tell you about that city later. Anyway. This is where I do my cooking. If uh if you can ever do your cooking in Animal Crossing for Nintendo GameCube. I have that DVD. And this is the fridge. I could store my food in there, but I can't. What? Does it have a padlock on it or something? Oh, look. Here's my phone. Let's make a quick phone call. [''Pulls up phone menu, calling the Dial-a-Psychic''] Hello? Thank you. Good advice. Hey. Let's have a seat on this thing. I like this thing. Listen to this. [''Character sits on the couch and it makes a fart noise'']. Let me do that again. [''Character again jumps on the couch as it makes a fart noise''] One more time. [''Character again jumps on couch with predictable results''] OK. That's enough. Too much fun and you'll die laughing.

[9:04]

[Character walks up stairs to first floor of house]

So anyway. That's my house. Let me just turn off the lights before I leave.

[Character walks out the front door of house]

Alright, now where going to go through my daily routines. As well as a tour of the town.

[Pause menu pops up]

You notice I've got an empty inventory. And by the way, here's a good rule of thumb. Keeping my shovel, net, pole, axe, and letters here on the bottom row. You know why? I'll tell you bout that when we get to the next shop. Anyway, I usually check my mail; what do you know I got three presents. Lets see what this one is though. [[Bob]].

How ARE you, Sonichu? 
 
Well now, I bet your bottom Bell you didn't expect me to cut out and split town, huh? Nope, I shocked the world! I'm turning over a new leaf- see you on the flip side!
 
Laters, Bob

Oh I guess he moved out, oh well.

[Sonichu proceeds to through out poor Bob's letter. Then collect his gift from the remaining]

Anyway, lets see what we got from the uh, probably from the museum; because I did up those fossils and uh...I sell them. Makes a nice profit.

[Sonichu throws away all three letters]

I just quickly uh read through them and then throw them away. You know like...junk mail! You could also say pop-ups if they had "x's" on em.

[Sonichu begins to open his gifts]

See what we got here, A dinosaur track, a Tricera tail, and a dinosaur egg. Well they'll make a nice profit. By the way, in case you missed it the first time I'll put it up again.

[Once again shows the address to his website]

Ok you got it, alright now. Before we head to Nook's shop which will be the last stop on the tour; we're gonna take the rest of the tour here. Alright lets see. Well this is the train station. But I travel to the other city which I'll tell you about now. The name of the city is CWCcity. Spelled C-W-C-c-i-t-y, we'll visit there latter, but not by train of course. It'll be a hou-It'll be a run by the uh character named [[Crystal_Weston_Chandler_(sister)|Crystal]], C-r-y-s-t-a-l, when we get there.

[Left off at 10:50]

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End of video spoiler: "HFA" stands for "High-Functionally [[Autism]]". Apparently, this is Chris's autistic way of saying "High-''Functioning'' Autism".

==Nintendo Power's Article==

''[[Nintendo Power]]''’s May 2004 article on Chris’s documentary covers only Sonichu’s life in Cwcville. The way that the article speaks of Sonichu’s actions, most casual readers would be led to believe that “Sonichu” is the real name of the person who submitted the documentary.

[[Image:CWCSchuCross.jpg|thumb|center]]

===Transcript===

{{quotenews|'''Sonichu’s Cwcville Documentary'''

Simply amazing. There’s no other way to describe what we received from Sonichu of Cwcville—a full video documentary that walked us through his daily life. His opulent manor contained every manner of furniture. Cwcville’s landscape was filled to the bursting point with all the animals who’d moved to his well-tended town. And Sonichu has customized everything about his town—even many villagers have followed his bold trends, wearing the patterns he has created!

''(Image captions:)''

Sonichu has packed the museum with his fads—its bug collection is hopping.

He often visits Sonichu Island to bring its high-value coconuts to town.

And he uses the spare hut on the island to store his huge collection of oddities.

Cwcville is brimming with Sonichu’s patterns, including the popular Poké Ball.}}

==PVCC's News Report==

The 26 April 2004 issue of [[Piedmont Virginia Community College|PVCC's]] school newspaper, ''The Forum'', included a news report on the "accomplishments" of then-student Christian Chandler. The first half of the article discusses Chris's OFFICIAL and ORIGINIAL creation, Sonichu, while the second half covers Chris's Animal Crossing Documentary, going so far as to quote ''[[Nintendo Power]]'''s own coverage. Everyone can draw their conclusions of how slow news day it was at the PVCC by comparing how big the ''Nintendo Power'' article was, and how big this article was.

===Transcript===

[[File:391-SchuPVCCArticle.jpg|thumb|center|Meet Sonichu]]

{{quotenews|'''Meet Sonichu''' ''Student featured in "Nintendo Power"''

By Kari Mitchell ''The Forum assistant editor''

Most everyone has a hobby. It may be hard to find free time in between classes, especially with exam week quickly approaching, but PVCC student Christian Chandler, has dedicated many hours to his past time. He is the creator of Sonichu, the Electric Hedgehog Pokémon.

Like Sonic, Sonichu can run at high speeds. "During Super Sonic's battle against the [[Perfect Chaos Monster|Perfect Chaos monster]] (''Sonic Adventure DX'' for Gamecube), Super Sonic was spat out by the monster, and colldied with a by-standing Pikachu," Chandler explained. According to his story, the power from the Chaos Emeralds transformed Pikachu into Sonichu.

The idea for the character came from a project Chandler was assigned his senior year of high school. He was enrolled in a computer graphics class that required him to design a CD cover. His original idea was to put Sonic and Pikachu on the cover, however, both characters are copyrighted. Instead he decided to combine the characters into something all his own. Thus, on March 17, 2000, Sonichu was born.

Over time, Chandler began to mold and expand the life of Sonichu, giving him stories, homemade trading cards, clay figures, a board game, and a [[Sonichu medallion]] with charms, among other things.

Chandler and the world he created for Sonichu were featured in the May 2004 issue of ''Nintendo Power.'' The place was called Cwcville (The "Cwc" prefix are his initials, Christian Weston Chandler). Nintendo Power was apparently impressed with Chandler's work. "Simply amazing. There's no other way to describe what we received from Sonichu of Cwcville - a full video documentary that walked us through his daily life." The documentary, running about an hour, was taped from the Nintendo Gamecube title, ''Animal Crossing''. He dubbed his voice over the sound through a microphone and audio input in his VCR. In the documentary, Chandler covers "basically how I do things in ''Animal Crossing'' as the boy character, Sonichu, in the city of Cwcville." Some of the tasks include using the journal as a monthly diary, making money, customizing the city, and conversing with another ''Animal Crossing'' city. For now, Sonichu remains a hobby in the future, Chandler would like to see Sonichu and his friends as real Pokémon, even having their own Nintendo Gamecube video game title. "I am not really sure what to do in order to do all that," Chandler said, "but for now, Sonichu and I, Christian C., are in Nintedo Power Magazine!"}}

{{succession|label=[[List of videos|Chris's videos]]|prevlink=[[The City of Cwicville Tour!]]|nextlink=[[The 24th Wedding Anniversary Special]]|}}
{{CWC on TV}}

Chris and death

2010-01-20T16:47:50Z

Turbam: /* BILLY MAYS (1958-2009) */

[[Image:PattiLuv.jpg|thumb|right|Rest in peace?]]
'''Death''' stalks [[Chris]] at every turn, and as a result he is really poor when it comes to understanding and/or coping with death, be it the death of a human or an [[Patti Chandler|animal]].

His poor reactions to death most likely come from Chris's lack of empathy, and his incredibly underdeveloped mind. Kids often don't understand death until they're quite old, around 10-12 years; before that, they just think it's "like sleeping forever" or "just leaving." Chris, being a
<s>7-year-old kid</s> 2-year-old toddler inside, can only resort to these clumsy analogies to sort of understand death; he even has a habit of appealing to dead people to "come back."<ref>[[I Am The TRUE, Original Christopher Christian Weston Chandler; No Ifs, Ands Or Buts#A history (6:02 to 9:34)]]: "Patti, I miss you. Come home."</ref><ref>[[:Image:SchuComic9P31.jpg]]: "Dedicated to Mr. Billy Mays II; Please Come Back Soon."</ref>

It could be that the only shows that Chris watched that dealt with death in any way had plot devices to facilitate the return of the departed. Chris, who is unable to connect cause with effect and considers behaviors from fiction to be interchangeable with reality, may simply assume that the dead can come back whenever they want.

Here are the departed souls, in order from earliest to latest:

==Deaths==
===Every single victim of the World Trade Center attacks (-2001)===
In the [[Twin Falling Towers]] video of the first of [[November 2009]], Chris makes fun of [[Clyde]] and says that he is as weak as the Twin Towers. He then shows the mouse cursor crashing into the buildings, complete with sound effects. This has shocked many, including somebody who lost a loved one in the attacks<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCDjrjr3b7M]</ref> and this could possibly be the lowest that Chris has ever gone.

===[[Patti Chandler]] (1988-2006)===
Patti was Chris's dog, and she died in June 2006. Chris [http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/User:AZT-13/Chris-chan_Emails_Part_IV apparently drew a picture of a crying Sonichu face] on the signature confirming the euthanasia process. As seen in the image used in this article, [[Patti-Chan|Patti also appeared in the comic, immortalized as an anthro]]. This is particularly disturbing in that Chris has apparently decided to deny his dog the afterlife that he presumably believes in, in favor of locking her in his own personal hell, in which she will only exist when he can be bothered to draw her. Effectively, he's stolen and erased her soul.

To Chris, her death is the greatest tragedy of his life, which he often compares to the deaths of other peoples' family members and loved ones. Not surprisingly, every single person he has said this to has become horribly offended, yet he continues to use this example.

Oddly enough, Patti may have been the only being Chris ever cared about. Supporting this is a report that Chris periodically broke down in tears for as many as six months after her death.{{cite}} By comparison, the "death" of any [[Troll|Sweetheart]] will result in a day of mourning if they are lucky.

===RocketFox's Dad (1966-2008)===
RocketFox's Dad used to be an [[alcohol]]ic, but recovered and stayed sober for ten years. However, his liver failed and he passed away in mid-October 2008. When RocketFox asked Chris for advice on how to cope, Chris considered it an "accident" and went on a spiel about how bad alcohol was.<ref>[[IRC (16 October 2008)]]</ref> This is actually the first death during the [[troll]]ing, and it was mentioned to Chris to see how he would react to such news, and as mentioned, Chris did so poorly. [[Ryan]]'s death and Chris's reaction cemented this. About eight months later, Chris [[Chris's Big Night Out|became a huge hypocrite]]...

===[[Sarah Jackson]] (1981-2008)===
A former [[Sweetheart|heartsweet]] of Chris (and Decepticon) who was killed in a <strike>car crash</strike> carefully executed plan by [[Optimus Prime]]. SPOILERS: A [[troll]]. Sarah Jackson, like Patti, was used in his comic for a while as "Ms. Jackaras" in [[Sonichu 9]]. Unlike Patti, Ms. Jackaras gets the same fate as her non-comic counterpart, and is replaced by her sister, who continues the lesson anyway. None of the Sonichu characters mourn the loss of their professor. Sound like [[Chris|someone]]?

===[[Ryan Cash]] (1996-2008)===
Ryan was [[Clyde Cash|Clyde]]'s brother who was a huge fan of [[Sonichu]]. After the [[Sonichu (comic)|comics]] were delayed over and over, Ryan fell into a depression and committed suicide. [[Captain's Log, Stardate December 28th, 2008|Chris, of course, reacted to this in an inconsiderate manner, telling Clyde and his family to "just move on."]]

===[[PandaHalo]]===
Despite her being thousands of kilometers away from the brushfires, Chris assumed PandaHalo was dead. She is actually alive and kicking but Chris still doesn't know this. Two days after her "death," he went to find another [[sweetheart]] to [[Mass debating|mass debate]] to. This flagrant disrespect <s>baffles trolls to this day, as the death of a partner can take years of recovery, and a long time before one would even consider dating again</s> shouldn't surprise anyone because Chris is a self-centered asshole. This saga ''further'' proved that Chris has no sense of empathy or respect for the dead.

Nine months later, [[Sonichu 9]] featured a special "memorial" to PandaHalo and a sequence in which she dies (off-screen) in a building fire after saving her "Pokemon", [[Chloe Rosechu]] and [[BlazeBob Sonichu]], so they wouldn't "burn with" her. Apparently, Chris didn't feel like he needed to honor the life of his beloved [[sweetheart]] and instead depicted her horrible, fiery death. He also has to mention that she "burned," which shows how he doesn't realize how painful and awful it would be to die in a fire. It's also not a term that anyone would use to describe the death of a loved one, providing more evidence of how little he actually cared about her. Because it took nine months to "honor" her death, he most likely decided he needed more god-awful characters for his shitty comic, was too lazy to create a new recolor and chose to use Chloe and BlazeBob, thus reminding him of PandaHalo, who he had likely forgotten, and made him decide to feature a memorial to her.

===[[Sarah May]]===
After being called "[[Julie]]" multiple times, Sarah May [[Troll|attempted suicide]] over [[Mumble_8|Mumble]]. Immediately after she went offline, rather than express any concern or try to find a way to stop her, Chris told Julie (who was also in the chat), "I still have you," with a completely emotionless "oh well" attitude. Julie was playing along with Chris, and did not react to Sarah's suicide attempt in any human-like fashion either; yet, it did not occur to Chris that Julie's behavior was ''in any way'' unnatural. Chris then made an [[CWC Shout Out to Sarah May|immature shout-out to her on a YouTube video]], with tears faker than all his [[sweetheart]]s combined. His reason for her to hold on? Because he'd be so sad without her. While mentioning the feelings of friends and families despair is typical in suicide prevention, Chris did it in such a selfish way, only thinking of how ''he'd'' feel, not how ''her'' family and friends would feel, that it was just full of [[fail]] and narcissism.

===[[Aunt Corrina]] (1936-2009)===
Chris's aunt Corrina had her funeral on Chris's birthday, which was also Shrove Tuesday, a Christian holiday that involves eating pancakes.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrove_Tuesday</ref> Needless to say, Chris cared more about the pancakes than the funeral of his own aunt. Patti was also obtained from her (see the e-mail link above).

When the "I know how to be sad because my dog died" excuse fails, Chris usually follows up with an offhand mention of his Aunt Corrina. If that fails the deaths of his many sweethearts tends to follow, although any normal human would bring those up first and the dog would be lucky to get a mention at all.

===[[Clyde Cash]] (1976-<s>2009</s>)===
In early 2009, Christian once seemed to be aware that Clyde Cash was supposedly dead, but casted a slight bit of doubt over the idea. Regardless, he [[curse-ye-ha-me-ha|cursed]] Clyde in [[Captain's Log, Stardate August 18th, 2009]], just in case. He's back.

===[[BILLY MAYS]] (1958-2009)===
In the video [[Captain's Log, Stardate July 1st, 2009]], Chris only seems to be upset over people blaming him for Mays' death, and loudly denies that he was ever the mayor of [[Cwcville]]. He doesn't even offer his condolences to Mays' family. Down the line, Chris selfishly adopts the idea that Mays was in fact his bodyguard and he died protecting Chris. He goes even further by stating that he was also his identical body double and "without the beard we'd look the same". At least he's admitting that he's overweight.

In [[Sonichu 9]], Chris slaps in a one-page intro with Billy saying that he was never was the mayor, but was part of Chris's group. At the bottom was a message from Chris, asking him to "come back soon". Ninety pages later, we find out that Billy had seemed to die falling down an elevator shaft, attempting to free Ivy from HER gruesome death. The next issue, however, had him appear alive and well, trapped like [[Patti-Chan|Patti Chan]] in his own personal Hell of CWCville.

===[[Ivy]] (1992-2009)===
Former [[troll|sweetheart]] Ivy committed suicide after not being allowed to see Chris. Chris uploaded the [[CWC "Boyfriend"]] video as a memorial. Yes, a poorly sung remake of Avril Lavigne's happy, bouncy pop/punk song, with lyrics changed to be about how much Chris would like women to date him. Unless the original was somehow Ivy's favorite song, this is just short of "Another One Bites the Dust" as one of the worst possible songs one can dedicate to a recently deceased loved one. Chris included pictures of several past sweethearts in the video, making it less of a tribute to Ivy and more of a monument to Chris's [[fail]].

Furthermore, as is unquestionably appropriate, Ivy's tragic demise was incorporated into [[Sonichu 9|Issue 9]] of the comic. Rather than admit to having a hand in her suicide, Chris conjures up a magnificently gruesome accidental death, which involved having gotten her neck broken with elevator wires after falling through the elevator floor. Although this is a particularly troubling manipulation of what really happened, Chris more than makes up for it with gravitas; he gracefully, albeit belatedly, offers a tiny orange box in memory to Ivy 'O'Niel', taking pride of place underneath a backshot of Slaweel and some weird faux-Tranformers actions. All of the above shows the leaps and bounds Chris has made in his appropriate handling of tragic deaths.

When confronted about this insanity in the [[Mailbag]], Chris got quite indignant, demanding to know what the questioner thought he should have done, since Ivy had died in real life and could no longer serve as Chris's [[GodJesus|God-given sweetheart]]. Why he felt the need to make her death in the series gruesomely similar to her real-life suicide is a question for the ages. It's not clear whether it had ever crossed Chris's mind to keep this horrific death out of the pages of what is supposedly a comic aimed at children, or to let Ivy's character live on in CWCville like he had done for [[Patti Chan]] and [[BILLY MAYS]].

===[[Bob|Bob Chandler]] and [[Barbara Chandler]]===
Coming soon... Both are well into their "Silver Years" and suffering from many heath issues, compounded by their age. It doesn't help that they're [[Tour of Chris's House|living in a landfill]].

==="Mary Jo"===

In a [[mailbag 27| recent mailbag]], Chris was asked by a troubled [[troll|fan]] what he should do after the death of his beloved Mary Jo.

{{quote|Mary Jo is gone (I feel for you), but you should move on and try to find another woman who will treat you about as good, or possibly better than, her. Suck it up, and move on like a Man would. I tell you as a Man who had to do the same thing a few times in the past too.| Chris, being super-sensitive.}}

Chris clearly states how he believes a death should be approached by a man (which includes finding another [[sweetheart|woman]] right away and a specific lack of grieving), and tells the traumatized fan that he should simply move onto a better woman since his girlfriend's death, not only being completely asinine, but also outlining that he believes women to be [[women's rights|replaceable and possibly interchangeable]].

==See also==
*[[Autism]]
*[[White_knight#Chris_lacks_empathy_himself|Lack of empathy]]
*[[Death threats]]

==References==
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Sonichu 10

2010-01-19T17:38:07Z

Turbam: /* Episode 21: Christian Chandler in Director Amenities */

[[Image:Issue 10 Cover.jpg|thumb|Finalized issue cover, from [[July 2009]].]]

[[Sonichu 10]] is the eleventh issue of the [[Sonichu (comic)|''Sonichu'' comic]]. Chris submitted the first page to the [[CWCipedia]] on 8 [[December 2009]], shortly after finishing [[Sonichu 9|issue 9]].

==Background==
Throughout the early fall of 2008, the idea of obtaining and destroying Chris's [[Medallion of Fail]] had captured the imaginations of [[trolls]] across the world. Ultimately, a group of trolls posing as Chris's sweetheart [[Blanca]], convinced Chris to send her the Medallion.

For a time, it was unclear what had happened. Chris would attempt to set the record straight in his [[Captain's Log, Stardate October 9th, 2008|October 9, 2008 video]], where he confirmed that he had sent the Medallion to Blanca, and that trolls briefly intercepted it. However, Chris would go on to insist that Blanca herself was not a troll, and that she somehow retrieved the Medallion and returned it to Chris unharmed.

In fact, Chris had simply constructed a new Medallion, claiming to have upgraded the original to explain its differences from the first. He also began to show off his [[High School Ring]] implying its greater importance.

To further spin the theft of the Medallion, Chris drew a special Sonichu comic meant to be an excerpt from issue #10. This was uploaded circa October 14, 2008. In it, Chris fictionalizes the trolls attempts to steal his Medallion, and emphasizes the Medallion's safety and Blanca's loyalty to him. Additionally, Chris retcons the [[Anchuent Prophecy]], establishing that the Medallion's powers actually come from the Amnyfest High School Ring.

===Continuity===
At the time, Chris had not yet completed the second half of [[Sonichu 8|Sonichu #8]], and indeed would not complete that issue until 1 January 2009. Most likely, Chris's rationale for skipping ahead was that he wanted to acknowledge the Medallion incident in his comics, but needed to have himself appear in the story to do this. As Chris's character has been marooned in the "time void" since the end of [[Sonichu 7|Sonichu #7]], and not scheduled to return until after #8, Chris's only solution was to flash forward in the storyline, to a point where he had returned to Earth and was able to confront the trolls personally.

Ironically, far more has transpired in Chris's life than he could have possibly imagined. Even as Chris struggled to begin [[Sonichu 9|Sonichu #9]], Blanca had long since been revealed as a troll, and Chris has subsequently been romanced and heart-shattered by several other trolls. By the time Sonichu #10 had officially begun, the theft of the Medallion and Blanca's role in the incident were ancient history. In fact, the comic version of Blanca had been abruptly written out of the story two issues ago, and Chris's comic counterpart was already seeing his future wife, ensuring that the "trusted sweetheart Blanca" line makes absolutely no sense without any knowledge of the events leading up to the preview pages.

Furthermore, Chris promised at the end of Sonichu 9 that he would remove himself from the comics and that he'd focus solely on Sonichu and Rosechu. If he intends to use the material he's already published, he'll be breaking his promise within the first page.

Another continuity error in the comic is that Chris is wearing an orange shirt, even though he was wearing the classic red and blue-striped shirt when he entered the Time Void.

===Cover art===
[[Image:SonichuCover10.jpg|thumb|**The Cover Art for Comic #10 was Wisely Picked by myself, C.W.C., and Generously Contrubed by Sonichu Fan, PandaHalo.**]]

Despite his continued support of Blanca, Chris was also embroiled in an online relationship with [[PandaHalo]], and he used her fan-art of Chris-Chan Sonichu as the cover of #10.

==Episode 21: Christian Chandler in Director Amenities==

{{Ongoing}}
The comic begins by recapping [[Wild]] and [[Magi-Chan]]'s effort to rescue Chris from the [[Time Void]]. However there is a bit more dialogue than the the [[Sonichu 9]] version, including Chris stating that he now has a new future wife named Lovely Weather. Chris then goes on to reveal that he tricked his future wife into thinking he was his future self, and then fucked his future wife while his future self was at work.

He proceeds to textwall again, revealing that, in the future, scientists have almost discovered the cure for homosexuality, but require pure, heterosexual blood to complete the formula. Chris volunteers for this procedure, apparently because there are no 100% heterosexuals 6 years in the future. Keep in mind that Chris himself still exists at this time, yet it seems they can't use Future Chris's blood for [[Homos#Evidence that Chris is a homo|some reason]]. After receiving the cure and finding out it worked, he grabbed two of the syringes, planning to use one to turn Reldnahc back into Naitsirhc, whose one true love, [[Kel]] (?!) is worried sick about. He entrusts Magi-Chan with one of the <s>Sonichu Balls</s> Chaotic Crystals and a mission: go back to 2015, grab one of the crates containing the cure and return to the present with them, putting them with their stockpiles of today (thus causing a time paradox and, even worse for him, restoring his virginity!) Using the boosted Magi-Chan, he calls out to a number of people to begin the mission of correcting the usage of his real-life problems today: He calls out to Allison Amber and BILLY MAYS (apparently the couple here) to load up [[Son-Chu]] with his PS3, [[Guitar Hero]] and the instruments and head for the 4-Cent Garbage HQ; he tells [[Patti-chan]] that Sonichu's coming to pick up the other 5 Chaotic Crystals and to move the still-trapped [[Crystal]] over to his office near his desk; he tells Sonichu to get said Crystals and meet him at 4-Cent Garbage's HQ by 2:30; and finally, he tells Blake and Punchy to also head for the HQ. Chris also lets Wild in on the action. With everything set up, Chris transforms in Chris-Chan Sonichu and we're at where we left off from [[Sonichu 9]].

[[Image:DevilTrolls.JPG|thumb|Devil trolls, in all their disgusting glory.]]
[[Image:DevilTroll.jpg|thumb|Artist's depiction]]
Chris, first, makes a stop a building where he keeps all his Sonichu-related gear (it says it was hosted by Tripod, one of the original websites where he hosted his stuff). He enters to find his stuff safe and sound... until the Devil Trolls emerge, resembling winged, evil Troll dolls. Chris goes on the attack, swatting many of them away. The troll's flesh-colored tails look suspiciously like [[pickle|penises]], especially when Chris [[homos#Evidence that Chris is a homo|grabs one by the tail]], sending a pleasurable wave of electricity through the creature, causing its tail to become stiff and erect.

Chris manages to defeat all the devil trolls and proceeds to go on a lengthy, pointless rant/ad for the videogame "Fairytale Fights." He then explains, [[fail|as best he can]], the ESRB rating system, such as "M" being for "Moof" and how one shouldn't "be a Moof or aloof" and "keep it "E" or "T" for your children". He clarifies that, even though he wants others to stick to E or T-rated games, he admits that he has played and enjoyed [[Brutal Legend]], though it's not clear whether he now considers himself a Moof, or perhaps even aloof. He than proceeds to Teleport his useless Sonichu-related crap into his Mayoral office. After that, he creates a Lightning Bomb, performs <s>Chaos</s> Chaotic Control to teleport away from the building (Why?!), erects a barrier around the building and blows it up! He, then, claims that Tripod didn't have good security and had no support for Flash programs. A message in Japanese characters listed as a "controversial statement!" is seen to the right.

Chris, then burns down the bridge to Tripod (as he claims), then proceeds to do a set of tasks, including setting up his fated first date with Lovely, whose revealed to be a busty, brown-haired girl, then to set up everything for the [[CWCipedia]] before talking to his Board of Directors, whom he literally towers over before heading on to Tennessee. [[Chris-Chan Sonichu]] rapidly advances on the [[4-cent_garbage.com]] Building in Clarksville, Tennessee. Observing Chris on an HD-TV hooked up to a [[Hex Bawx]], the evil [[Jason Kendrick Howell]] prepares to spring a trap for the autistic furfag.

Apropos of nothing, a large sign hanging from the monitor informs the reader that Chris endorses Blu-Ray discs, apparently unaware that the HD format war ended prior to this comic's creation.

Chris also includes a plug for ''[[LittleBigPlanet]]'' ([[gay|yay!]]), delivered by the game's mascot, Sackboy. Sackboy commands the readers to purchase the game and play Chris's Sonichu level, even if they have to buy a [[PlayStation 3]] to do so. He further warns gamers against using illegal copies of LittleBigPlanet for Wii or Xbox360, as if these even existed.

Chris arrives at the front door to the building and waits for [[Sonichu (character)|Sonichu]] to arrive with Chris's Autobot, Son-Chu, his PS3, and his Guitar Hero guitar. Somehow convinced all this shit will help him wage war against the building, Chris waits patiently, which makes you wonder why he bothered showing up early in the first place.

Inside, Jason uses an illegal Xbox copy of ''LittleBigPlanet'' to create a cage over Chris, and drops it on his head. Chris-Chan attempts to spin-dash his way out with his Sonichu powers, but the cage is too strong.

With Chris-Chan's hedgehog speed neutralized, Jason's lackey, [[Beel]] uses a red tractor beam of some kind to target Chris's transformation spot, reverting him to his human form of [[Christian Weston Chandler]]. This causes his [[Medallion]] to re-materialize, and Beel's beam drags it away from Chris's body and into his waiting hand. Beel absorbs the Medallion into his hand, but feels no increase in his own power.

Inside the cage, Chris notices his [[High School Ring]] sparking with energy. Sprouting [[fangs]] of confidence, Chris putts on his [[glasses]] and aims his ring at Beel, teleporting the Sonichu Medallion to his trusted [[Sweetheart]], [[Blanca]] (which is hilarious, especially after the additions).

Chris explains that his high school ring was the source of his powers all along, and he uses it to transform back into Chris-Chan Sonichu. With a Hyper Beam attack, he blasts through the cage, blowing Beel into the 4-cent_garbage building.

The final page of the preview shows a photo of [[Jimmy Hill]], who is also struck by the Hyper Beam. His teeth are destroyed in the attack, and [[Bugs Bunny]] appears to scold him. Sonichu makes his lone appearance to shake his clenched fist and growl "Jimmy!!" Also, a hedgehog or something says "Dinsdale", which probably causes [[Monty Python]] fags to cream their jeans or something.

Chris closes with a warning not to buy any merchandise from Jimmy Hill.

While waiting for the rest to show up, Chris-Chan Sonichu meditates, not knowing that [[Naitsirhc]] is sneaking up behind him, planning to smack him with a plank. Chris-Chan suddenly develops Newtype abilities, senses the attack and blocks it. Naitsirhc decides that it's time to end everything and plans to turn Christian evil and [[homo|gay]]. Christian, on the other hand, says the reverse, that it's the end of evil and homosexuality. The two Sonichus fight it out until the two of them hit each other in their weak spots, and both are flung to the pavement. Naitsirhc manages to get up and prepare a finishing move, as Chris surreptitiously prepares a hypodermic needle while feigning unconsciousness. Naitsirhc asks Chris if he has any last words. Chris, pretending to be a badass, says "Only three words..."

He then rises up and with great fury stabs Naitsirhc, not in the heart, but straight in his Black Sonichu Medallion. With a big "NOOOOO!", Naitsirhc transforms back into the totally straight Reldnahc Giovanni, while Chris says the [[lies|completely non homoerotic]] phrase, '''"Drink My [[semen|Blood!]]"''' As he teleports Reldnahc to [[Kel]]'s waiting bedside, he laments that Naitsirhc never [[Sonichu 6|never wore a shirt]], but is glad the evil homo is gone. He also comments that Kel is looking very nice these days, but he never actually draws her into the strip because she's a [[women's rights|lowly woman]] and he has to save screentime for [[Chris and his ego|himself]] and his army of [[Sonichu (species)|recolors]]. At the same time, [[Son-Chu]], Sonichu, [[Blake]] and Wild arrive. As they set up their [[Guitar Hero]] gear, Sonichu notices something on Chris's guitar - the [[PaRappa the Rapper]] cap. Sonichu puts it on and turns 2D. When Chris grabs his guitar, his [[Amnyfest Ring|ring]] reacts, turning back to his real life self to talk about laundry and [[lie]] about a [[sweetheart|relationship]] he doesn't get then quickly dismiss it. Another Son-Chu transformation (its page ''reused'' from Episode 20), and it seems that Chris has gathered the [[Christian and the Hedgehog Boys COMEBACK!|Hedgehog Boys]] to rock out... and Chris's legs seem to deform at the knees as well. The next page is a doctored picture of Chris because he's too lazy to draw anything else at the moment. Chris looks particularly bored in this picture, really distracting from the intended drama of the moment.
[[Image:ClydeJackGay.JPG|thumb|Artist's depiction of Clyde and Jack's final moments.]]
The song they start to play is [[Power Rangers|"Revive Zordon"]], a particularly horrible song to the tune of "Cat Scratch Fever" extolling the superiority of the original Power Rangers over the later iterations. As Chris [[fail|rocks out]], Beel (who's suddenly alive), [[Clyde Cash]] (who's making his first official appearance in the comics) and [[Jack Thaddeus]] (who's making his first appearance here) warn [[Jason Kendrick Howell]] that the building can't take this kind of rock and say they must escape. <strike>Chris, portraying</strike> Jason tells the three that, yes, he is escaping and retiring to a two-story house in the suburbs. He, then, tells them that he's STRAIGHT and that he doesn't want to be involved in the slandering and mockery anymore. As he escapes, <strike>Chris portraying</strike> Beel decides to abandon those two for being homosexual and for slandering and mocking an innocent man. With no choice left, and in perhaps the only remotely touching moment in ''Sonichu'', Jack and Clyde hold hands like true <s>Americ</s>an heroes as <strike>Chris portrays them</strike> they express their deep remorse for slandering Chris and making [[homos]] look even worse than they already are, before leaping down the 72 story elevator shaft as Chris and the crew proceed with their plan to murder every single living thing in the building. For someone who has dealt with [[Ivy|suicide]] personally, Chris is awfully supportive of it as a means of eliminating his greatest enemies without getting his hands dirty.

As the building fell, it is said that there were about 1500 [[trolls|people]] in the building during the collapse. Those closest to the ground got out scot-free. 250 trolls got out safely when Chris and his crew went to save them. 250 other trolls were too drunk to get out. Of those 125 trolls were either injured or dead, along with another 125 sober. Of the remaining 500, 250 were safe, 150 injured and 100 dead. [[fail|Note that although Chris states that there were 1500 people in the building, this only adds up to 1375.]] A memorial would be put up in the ruins and Encyclopedia Dramatica and 4-Cent Garbage would lose its data and "never return", despite the fact that they ''probably'' had back ups. [[Twin Falling Towers|This is not the first time one of Chris's anti-troll diatribes has twisted the imagery of a collapsing building that killed hundreds of people to his own selfish purposes.]]

[[Image:NoMoreHomos.jpg|thumb|left|Depiction of Mayor Chandler's success in ''poisoning'' the city's water supply. Wait, what?]]Ignoring this little bit to put the spotlight back on him, Chris laments on how those there wasted their talents for trolling, comparing them to ''[[Wikipedia:TMZ|TMZ]]''. It quickly goes into a non sequitur, where it shows cameras focusing on [[Women's rights|Rosechu on the toilet inserting a tampon]], Rosechu and Sonichu in the middle of some bondage deal and filming Robbie talking about [[Random-access humor|how he pissed on a lizard]]. Before it goes any further, Magi-Chan returns from screwing with the timestream and [[Mailbag 31|being Big Brother]]. Upon returning, Magi-Chan declares that testing on the vaccine is a success and that he brought the crates to the present and are sending them across on trucks. It is said that one Feburary 24th, 2009, homosexuality will be eradicated and the day will be called [[Chris and his Ego|"Christian Love Day"]]. He also says that Silvana will eventually be returned to a TRUE and [[HONEST]] female from [[GodJesus]] and [[Fail|fall in love with Magi-Chan]].

All of a sudden, [[Family Guy|Meg Griffin]] shows up and says that she's a [[fail|fan of the comic series]]. As they talk, a guy walks up and taunts Meg, calling her a 'sir' - which is common for Meg. Chris stands up for her and the guy insults Chris instead. Chris flips his lid and [[Chris and anger|sucker punches the guy]]. Meg thanks him by kissing Chris, cheating on his future wife AGAIN. As they leave, it's revealed that Meg was actually [[Silvana]] in disguise, commenting on how easy it was to troll him. Yes, Chris did just depict himself making out with someone who has a penis, why do you ask?

After taking the time to grovel at his fans for the past comic and begging them not to abandon him, he and Sonichu take the Sonichu Ball Crystal things and transform into [[Collosal Chan]] and [[Ultra Sonichu]]. After transforming, Chris decides to go back to CWCVille, but tells Ultra Sonichu to head for RuleCWC with Darkbind Sonichu before heading for [[Asperchu|Minnesota]] and wait for him. Back in CWCVille, Chris enters the [[Dark Mirror Hole]] and rescues Crystal from the mirror with all the fanfare of picking up a bag of groceries. As Crystal comes to, Allison says that she's called the paramedics to look after her. For some reason Crystal refers to Christian as "Christopher", though it's not clear if this is meant to be some kind of sign between the siblings, or if Chris just forgot about his [[The Bear|name change]].

Meanwhile in RuleCWC, Darkbind Sonichu is kneeling by Zelina Rosechu when Ultra Sonichu arrives, striking the same pose as Jesus Christ on the Cross. In "Da Cave", a stone breaks open and someone, possibly Clawdorf, realizes the Chaotic Crystals freed him... then asks how long he was out. That's right: the act of Chris and Sonichu activating their super forms allows a vaguely defined evil force to escape imprisonment. It's not like Chris and Sonichu ''needed'' to transform, either. The greatest threat to CWCville at the moment is Chris himself as he [[Twin Falling Towers|destroys various buildings]] with the power of [[fail|rock]]. Sonichu uses his power to revive Zelina, who acts like the rest of the vapid Rosechus over what Darkbind did for her. This rescue complete, Ultra Sonichu races out, but not before he "coles" the window hatch.

In Minnesota, Collosal Chan and Ultra Sonichu hover over the house of Alec Benson Leary, and break in. Discovering Alec's computer (which is revealed to be a [[Hex_bawx|HEX BAWX]], Chris jams his finger into the internet connection socket and concentrates then rips off ''Shadow the Hedgehog'' by placing himself inside the computer. Once inside, Chris proceeds to delete all files within the Asperpedia, ban Mao, Sean, [[Evan]] and Alec, the delete their accounts. He, then, steals a "better dating simulator" with the intention to modify it for PS3 use and escapes, planting another Lightning Bomb to blow up the HEX BAWX. While Chris was doing this, Ultra Sonichu enters Alec's room. While investigating the dirty room, Sonichu overhears people talking and, upon leaving, discovers Asperchu and his variation of the Chaotic Combo, whom are tired of his world's mall. The Sonichu and Rosechu, then, start going off into a nearly god-like praise for the [[Honest Content|TRUE and HONEST]] Sonichu. The malformed beasts then proceed to tell Ultra Sonichu how Alec infected them all with Asperger's and pushed homosexuality on them and that they had real names before Alec gave them the names of the Chaotic Combo. Ultra Sonichu, then, uses his powers to cure them of Asperger's, transforming them into Michael, Bobby, Kitty, Trisha, Whisp and Swift (all of whom will never appear again). Asperchu, then, turns into a muscle-bound Sonichu known as Mitch. As thanks, Sonichu tells them not to listen to Alec and his group and just live free. As he does, Chris blows up the HEX BAWX

===Reaction===

As Chris became increasingly determined to convince the public that his Medallion had never been successfully stolen, the trolls posing as Blanca responded with photos and videos to support their claims. Finally, the medallion was destroyed on a video uploaded to [[YouTube]] on 20 October 2008.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-TP2wCucZo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-TP2wCucZo]</ref>

==See also==
*[[Blanca]]
*[[Medallion of Fail]]
*[[Amnyfest Ring]]

==Sauces==
<references/>

==External links==
*[http://cogsdev.110mb.com/sonichu/SchuComic10Preview.htm Sonichu #10]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgLZjhsmgpY Audiobook (erroneously referred to as a preview of #9]
*[http://www.youtube.com/user/Ickeriss69 Youtube profile containing three videos proving the fate of the original Sonichu Medallions] 

{{Sonichu}}

[[Category:Sonichu comic book issues]]

Animal Crossing Documentary

2010-01-18T04:30:11Z

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[[Chris]]’s hour-long "'''''[[Animal Crossing]]'' Documentary'''" offers tours of two different towns saved on two different memory cards. The town of [[Cwcville]] is home to [[Sonichu]], who wears a Sonichu outfit. The town of Cwc City is home to [[Crystal]], who wears a [[Rosechu]] outfit.

==Watch==

<center>{{Infobox/video
| name = Animal Crossing Documentary
| image = {{#ev:googlevideo|-4734277862198455846}}
| Stardate = 12th [[July 2001]]
| Maker = [[Christian Weston Chandler]]
| Subject Matter = {{Video games}}[[Video games]]; {{Website}}Website
| Other = {{Direct Feed}}Machinima; {{Leaked}}[[DVD|Leaked]]
| previous = [[The City of Cwicville Tour!#Watch]]
| next = [[The 24th Wedding Anniversary Special#Part 1]]
}}</center>

===Outline===

{| class="wikitable"
| 00:01-01:24 || Introduction
|-
| 01:25-19:39 || Tour of Cwcville (part 1 of 2)
|-
| 19:40-25:19 || Trip to Cwcville Island
|-
| 25:20-35:24 || Tour of Cwcville (part 2 of 2)
|-
| 35:25-36:44 || Interlude
|-
| 36:45-52:39 || Tour of Cwc City
|-
| 52:40-53:39 || Interlude
|-
| 53:40-55:54 || Conclusion
|}

==Transcription==

'''Introduction'''

[Gamecube startup screen with Chris singing along]

[Nintendo screen with Chris saying "Nintendo"]

[00:24]

Hello Nintendo! Welcome to my Animal Crossing for Nintendo Gamecube. I am your host. My name is Christian Weston chandler. I live in Ruckersville, Virginia and I is 21 years old and I play because I am young at heart. So any way we are going to take a tour of my city...in Animal Crossing.

''(Goes to main menu)''

[00:48]

The city's name is CWCville. See, those are my initials CWC. That's why it is spelled that way.

''(Picking menu options)''

[01:01]

And my character's name is Sonichu. You may remember him from ahh previous letters I have sent to you guys in the past.

[01:10]

''(Game starts to load town)''

Anyway we are going to get set up now. (Chris starts singing)

''(Game is done Loading)''

We usually do have a good time.

 [1:25] 

So anyway, stepping out is my character Sonichu. He's wearing the clothes with the character on it. Like I said you might remember his face. And there's his actual face.

''(Shows a sign with the face of Sonichu on it)''

You remember the rest of his body you see the whole picture.

And before we get to the daily routines I'm goin let you...I'm goin to take you on a tour of my house as well as uh, as well as you know, uh, a daily routine. We'll take a tour of the town, but first the house. You see this logo here, that is the logo to my website on the internet. If you would like to visit, here is the address. I'm going to leave it up for a few seconds.

''(Shows the address to his website for a few seconds)''

 [2:02] 

Alright, that's enough.

Now were gonna take a tour of my house.

Turn on the lite so you can see better. This is my first floor obviously. I keep things well organized. I got enough room to walk around in; I can even do a dance, wanna see me do I bit?

[Chris begins to sing]

[[Yellow_Is_A_Mellow_Color|Yellow is a mellow color]] 
Yes it is a mellow color 
Sonichu zaps a lightning 
EEEEEHHHHH mellow color 

[Chris stops singing]

Yeah. Course...a...when I...a... do a dance. I usually like to have my uh...audience.

[Chris puts a wallpaper up on his house, resembling wrestling fans who just witnessed a Stone Cold Stunner.]

Dodedododododoo. But since it's getting close to Christmas, I have the snowflakes on the wall instead. And I keep it in this closet. So anyway here's a fun thing. This snowman he teach me how to play piano. And by the way just to let you know in case...a...you can hear the...a...music in the backround.

[Chris apears to be playing [[So_Need_A_Cute_Girl|So Need A Cute Girl]]]

Those are my karaoke numbers that I actually ma...that I actually made up lyrics too, and I have played and uh sang my voice over the originals. So let me give you an example; may I Mister Snowman? "Please go right ahead!" Alright.

[Chris begins to sing again while Sonichu bangs on the piano]

[[Dirty_crapped_briefs|Tell me why]] 
I'm stuck as a 
Virgin with Rage? 
[[Semen#Recycling|Tell me why]] 
I so need a 
Cute Girl my age 
[[Medallions_of_Fail|Tell me why]] 
I never wanna 
Hear you say 
I have a boyfriend! 

[Chris stops singing]

And that was inspired by a real thing. By the way that's your website...that is your website isn't it? Nintendo.com, it's a nice place to visit; but we cannot live there. Which brings us up to our next subject.

[A calendar of November appears on the screen]

The diary, you guys did a good job of it going back and forth within a 12 month radius. By the way, this is my birthday, right here my actual birthday, I was born in 1982. You guys...in case you want to take a note there. Ok thats long enough, so anyway uh, it does make a...not only does it work for a calendar; but it makes for a good monthly journal. As for a monthly journal entry here in November.

[Chris begins to scroll up and down his journal entry]
Yeah I tried to get a girlfriend because, I don't have a girlfriend. But I have made up a poem, let you guys read it.

My dreams of getting a girlfriend was crushed by the medeling [[Mary_Lee_Walsh|"Mary Lee Walsh."]] 
Christian Chandler. 
November 4, 2003 
Saddest Heart in the World 
Lonesome and sad, lonesome and sad, the Mastermind" is very bad. In efforts of getting a Boyfriend-Free gal, that female dog took my only idea for a fall. Heart-broken, sad and very lonely, I'll never remove my virginity. And with Backsteet Boys' tune, I sing my lonesome croon: "Tell me why I'm stuck as a virgin with rage. Tell me why, I so need a

Alright scroll down a little bit as we go along.

cute girl my age. Tell me why, I ain't ever wanna hear you say 'I have a boyfriend.'" And so, deep in dreary thought, a girl was what I sought. A stitch in time, will never remove my

It's a very good pro...poem, because I am an artist, as well as a poet. I make a rhyme every time.

crying rhyme. I may be destined for lonliness forever, fate is to blame...whatever. I conclude this cry, to say that as long as there are no matching girls, my happiness well runs dry.

Anyway that's my poem, but in case...a you didn't notice here. Look right here "Tell me why, I'm stuck as a virgin with rage". I put my song lyric in here because it was inspired; because I do not have a girlfriend. You know why, cause I have a [[Noviophobia|phobia]] that every girl I talk to she already has a boyfriend.

Right. So anyway moving on with the tour of my house. As you can see I've got I'm collecting the NES games. I've got most of them down here, and I've got a couple upstairs. One of em's fake you know which one I'm talking about, April 1st strike avail. So my favorite game, is right here

["Would you like to play 
[[Fail|DK Jr MATH?]]"]

I like it because...a it really challenges the mind in the math area and gets your memory fresh there. And by the way notice the two logos here?

[Chris is making a notion towards the GameCube and N64 logos]

It's a good way to welcome the guests, that come into your house. Ol' Nintendo 64 on the left, and GameCube on the right, caught them before an afterdeal. Oh and look at this, a good little South fung shwea here. Course makes for a good welcome mat. Speaking of fung shwea I've got my red items against the East side. And helps of getting more NES games; specially that Wario's Woods. By the way, how the heck do you get that game anyway? I mean all you tell us do to is to go to Animal Island. And then what do we do? You should have given us more details, back in the previous issuse of uh The Crossing Garden.

Speaking of which I've been a long time subscriber. So therefore I've got all their previous issues. And I time travel back and forth when I start Animal Crossing. To collect a few items; but in respect to uh...time traveling back to collect a few items I made a new character named "Tim Timetale".

{{transcription}}

End of video spoiler: "HFA" stands for "High-Functionally [[Autism]]". Apparently, this is Chris's autistic way of saying "High-''Functioning'' Autism".

==Nintendo Power's Article==

''[[Nintendo Power]]''’s May 2004 article on Chris’s documentary covers only Sonichu’s life in Cwcville. The way that the article speaks of Sonichu’s actions, most casual readers would be led to believe that “Sonichu” is the real name of the person who submitted the documentary.

[[Image:CWCSchuCross.jpg|thumb|center]]

===Transcript===

{{quotenews|'''Sonichu’s Cwcville Documentary'''

Simply amazing. There’s no other way to describe what we received from Sonichu of Cwcville—a full video documentary that walked us through his daily life. His opulent manor contained every manner of furniture. Cwcville’s landscape was filled to the bursting point with all the animals who’d moved to his well-tended town. And Sonichu has customized everything about his town—even many villagers have followed his bold trends, wearing the patterns he has created!

''(Image captions:)''

Sonichu has packed the museum with his fads—its bug collection is hopping.

He often visits Sonichu Island to bring its high-value coconuts to town.

And he uses the spare hut on the island to store his huge collection of oddities.

Cwcville is brimming with Sonichu’s patterns, including the popular Poké Ball.}}

==PVCC's News Report==

The 26 April 2004 issue of [[Piedmont Virginia Community College|PVCC's]] school newspaper, ''The Forum'', included a news report on the "accomplishments" of then-student Christian Chandler. The first half of the article discusses Chris's OFFICIAL and ORIGINIAL creation, Sonichu, while the second half covers Chris's Animal Crossing Documentary, going so far as to quote ''[[Nintendo Power]]'''s own coverage. Everyone can draw their conclusions of how slow news day it was at the PVCC by comparing how big the ''Nintendo Power'' article was, and how big this article was.

===Transcript===

[[File:391-SchuPVCCArticle.jpg|thumb|center|Meet Sonichu]]

{{quotenews|'''Meet Sonichu''' ''Student featured in "Nintendo Power"''

By Kari Mitchell ''The Forum assistant editor''

Most everyone has a hobby. It may be hard to find free time in between classes, especially with exam week quickly approaching, but PVCC student Christian Chandler, has dedicated many hours to his past time. He is the creator of Sonichu, the Electric Hedgehog Pokémon.

Like Sonic, Sonichu can run at high speeds. "During Super Sonic's battle against the [[Perfect Chaos Monster|Perfect Chaos monster]] (''Sonic Adventure DX'' for Gamecube), Super Sonic was spat out by the monster, and colldied with a by-standing Pikachu," Chandler explained. According to his story, the power from the Chaos Emeralds transformed Pikachu into Sonichu.

The idea for the character came from a project Chandler was assigned his senior year of high school. He was enrolled in a computer graphics class that required him to design a CD cover. His original idea was to put Sonic and Pikachu on the cover, however, both characters are copyrighted. Instead he decided to combine the characters into something all his own. Thus, on March 17, 2000, Sonichu was born.

Over time, Chandler began to mold and expand the life of Sonichu, giving him stories, homemade trading cards, clay figures, a board game, and a [[Sonichu medallion]] with charms, among other things.

Chandler and the world he created for Sonichu were featured in the May 2004 issue of ''Nintendo Power.'' The place was called Cwcville (The "Cwc" prefix are his initials, Christian Weston Chandler). Nintendo Power was apparently impressed with Chandler's work. "Simply amazing. There's no other way to describe what we received from Sonichu of Cwcville - a full video documentary that walked us through his daily life." The documentary, running about an hour, was taped from the Nintendo Gamecube title, ''Animal Crossing''. He dubbed his voice over the sound through a microphone and audio input in his VCR. In the documentary, Chandler covers "basically how I do things in ''Animal Crossing'' as the boy character, Sonichu, in the city of Cwcville." Some of the tasks include using the journal as a monthly diary, making money, customizing the city, and conversing with another ''Animal Crossing'' city. For now, Sonichu remains a hobby in the future, Chandler would like to see Sonichu and his friends as real Pokémon, even having their own Nintendo Gamecube video game title. "I am not really sure what to do in order to do all that," Chandler said, "but for now, Sonichu and I, Christian C., are in Nintedo Power Magazine!"}}

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