Hyatt (Excel Saga)

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Hyatt is a fictional character in the Excel Saga anime, and the manga upon which it is based. Her most notable trait is her tendency of dying and then reviving over short periods of time, much to the shock of medical professionals. While her constant illness and ability to revive despite apparently being dead are not explained in either the anime or the manga, it should be noted that in the manga Hyatt takes often large amounts of prescription drugs, whereas in the anime (although her drugs are shown at least once) Hyatt may indeed be from another world. She is noticeably Ilpalazzo's favorite agent, receiving much more praise and much less punishment than Excel or Elgala, even to the point being promoted above her senior coworker. Ilpalazzo also has some romantic interest in her, although this might be more in Excel's imagination than in reality.

Hyatt is a rather innocent, naive and sensible woman, often serving as the agent that thinks things through more as opposed to Excel who seems to act on impulse. Although she is rather oblivious to Il Palazzo's mild romantic interest in her, she is well aware of the more rampant romantic intent of their neighbour, Watanabe, who knows her by her alias of "Miss Ayasugi". Hyatt is very weak in both the anime and the manga: professing to be anemic, she often needs assistance in walking, or needing to be rescued from the Puchuus or Daitenzin by Excel (and later in the manga Elgala). These aspects of her character parody a tradition of wan, consumptive, attractive heroines with weak constitutions and unachievablely thin frames who more often than not faint at the slightest display of emotion. (Compare these attributes, her voice, and her appearance with those of Mutsumi Otohime from Love Hina.)

[edit] Hyatt in the anime

Hyatt's origins are suggested to be a princess from Mars, due to the name of the Episode she debuted in, Episode 2: The Princess from Mars. However, there has been no evidence to suggest this, but she first appears in stasis aboard the Puchuu spaceship, and various flashbacks throughout the series suggest she has some prior connection with Il Palazzo, Nabeshin, Space Butler, and the Puchuu overlord. Treated as a princess by the Puchuu, The Puchuu ship is destroyed during a fight with Nabeshin and Hyatt inadvertently awakens from stasis in Il Palazzo's secret lair. He then lables her an official agent of his ideological organization ACROSS.

In addition to her frequent symptom of dying and then mysteriously reviving, a notable characteristic is that she frequently coughs up blood—the classic sign of tuberculosis; this blood is extremely toxic and can cause gruesome side effects, both in open air and when ingested, as happened in at least two episodes.

[edit] Hyatt in the manga

Hyatt's original manga incarnation is essentially the same as her anime character, but she comes to ACROSS in response to an advertisement placed by Lord Il Palazzo looking for new members. Several of her more severe aspects in the anime are less noticeable in the original manga: She still coughs up blood, and still dies inexplicably, but has no "touch of death" (except a possible occurrence where she becomes so cold that she nearly sucks the warmth out of Menchi).

Also, a recent manga volume begins to hint towards precisely why Hyatt has her little "dying" problem—in Volume 9, when Il Palazzo finally becomes aware that Hyatt dies regularly (unaware of it as a result of his multiple personality disorder), he takes her to a laboratory deeper in the ACROSS complex, and places her in a stasis tube, commenting to himself that the "genetic substrate" he implanted within her must be deficient. Quite what this substrate is or what purpose is serves, or when he placed it, however, remains to be revealed.

Excel Saga
Major Characters: Excel | Hyatt | Ilpalazzo | Kabapu | Nabeshin | Shiouji | That Man
Information: Characters | Media
Related: Municipal Force Daitenzin | Puni Puni Poemy | Rikdo Koshi