Ayanami Rei's Journal: Hanako "Excel" Dosuki

And of course, this show must have a continuation. But I don't think ACROSS is welcome in F City, F Prefecture any longer. No, they need to strike somewhere they can rise to power virtually undetected, where police will give their antics and exploits nary a second glance.

Rio, St. Petersburg, and New York City. I'd say NYC, because if you run out of jokes, you can flip to Fox and steal them out of an old Seinfeld episode.

I don't know how many people "got" Excel Saga, but Across was supposed to be an abstraction of Western ideological movements, and how they attempt to eat away at the foundations of an otherwise rigid Japanese culture (which ultimately defeats them... they can never beat the "system" which sort of pays homage to it, even if Rikido didn't intend to). Excel is loud, rude and blonde. I kept thinking they were trying to peg her as some kind of loud-mouthed activist/valley girl. And as independant and self-willed as she believes she is, she is just a pawn in Ilpalazzo's scheme (policy toting, politically correct western bureaucrat, looking to extend his influence) And we have Pedro's struggle against "The Man". I'm sure that was a hard one to figure out... :-)

Why do a new season based in foreign city?
The tables become turned. Excel and her organization is now the Eastern influence trying to worm its way into a culture which doesn't try to keep it away, but could care less. While they are supposed to be outsiders, to American audiences ACROSS [the Japanese portrayal of (our) infringement on their culture] is just as foreign to us, as they were to them. Thus in this context, they are as Japanese to us as they were alien to Nippon in the original.
They don't have to become "more eastern" to set up the same culture clash in a new setting.

The challenge of ACROSS (and the writers of the show) becomes: can she worm her way into our hearts, and get us to "join Across"? Could we even work the culture clash/satire with enough tenacity to successfully syndicate back to the Japanese?

It's a challenge. I think it could work.