Menchi

"Menchi" is the name given to a small, stray female dog that Excel finds in the street in episode 1 of the anime and decides to bring home with her as an "emergency food supply". Menchi spends most of the series trying to escape from both Excel and Hyatt (who despite her personality, also sees Menchi as only food rations) and even succeeds on a few occasions, but always manages to cross paths with Excel later on and ends up recaptured. While Menchi can't speak aloud, she is shown to understand human language and is absolutely terrified of both Excel and Hyatt, for obvious reasons. Similar to Sumiyoshi, Menchi's thoughts and feelings will occasionally be expressed through text effects on the screen. Episodes 10 and 19 in particular are focused almost exclusively on Menchi, both episodes being modeled after children's stories about talking or otherwise extraordinary animals. The earliest…