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''Fruits Basket Abridged'' is an AbridgedSeries of the overwhelmingly popular {{shojo}} series ''Manga/FruitsBasket''. It's the brain child of Da Games Elite, written, directed, and edited by him. The characters are all voiced by his friends and associates, having premiered on New Years Eve, 2011. While the first fifteen episodes have been made, has since become an OrphanedSeries, as there have been no new uploads since 2012. Several episodes have been taken down from [=YouTube=] since then, and the series ''was'' being uploaded to a now-defunct video sharing site called Blip.tv, making this a case of partially LostMedia.

The remaining episodes can be watched [[https://www.youtube.com/user/Omegadge3 here]].

Like most abridged series, it's an AffectionateParody, but at many points, it employs some dramatic elements, and even, by WordOfGod, elements of Deconstruction.

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!! ''Fruits Basket Abridged'' Includes the Following Tropes:

%% * AffectionateParody: Isn't it obvious?
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: {{Invoked}}, naturally, but not as prominently as in other abridged series.
** Tohru is ditzier, and, at times, even a little more devious due to her stealing food from poor [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji...]]
** Kyo is a HotBlooded shonen hero, complete with announcing the names of his attacks.
** Shigure is a pure pervert, wanting only sex.
** Hana is some sort of dark arts practicing monster.
** Momiji is a complete pervert.
* AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle: Used explicitly in Episode 4, complete with ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'' logo.
* AuthorAppeal: There are several references to ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' throughout the series, along with ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' and ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', mainly because they're a few of Da Games Elite's favorite anime.
* AxeCrazy: Kagura has a few issues, like cutting messages on the wings of carrier pigeons...
* BadassBoast: Kyo often makes these, but usually is either ignored or beaten up shortly after.
* BrainBleach:
** Tohru wants some after imagining Yuki and Kyo falling in love with one another...
** Almost weaponized in Episode 2, where they almost erase Tohru's memory.
* CallingYourAttacks:
** Kyo does this frequently. He even Lampshades this in Episode 3.
--> '''Kyo''' Mental note: don't announce the names of your attacks out loud. Leaves you open for attack.
** In Episode 9, Haru ends up doing the same thing, and even calls Kyo out when the attack he calls out doesn't match with his actions.
%% * CharacterExaggeration: The entire series is this.
%% * CloudCuckoolander: Tohru.
* CovertPervert: Possibly Momiji, though it borders on outright sexual harassment from time to time.
%% * CreepyMonotone: Hana, entirely.
* CreepyPhysical: In Episode 7, Hatori orders Yuki to strip naked for a physical... in front of his fangirls. Later in the episode, Tohru is told to join Hatori alone for a conversation. She's under the belief something like this would happen.
* CrossoverGag: Aside from the numerous Eva clips, during Hana's flashback in Episode 6, a clip from Legend of the Overfiend is played.
* CurbStompBattle: All of Kyo and Yuki's fights. Kyo is always crushed.
* DeadpanSnarker: Yuki is this trope, and Uo has shades of it.
%% * DeusExMachina: Lampshaded in Episode 4.
* DevilInPlainSight: Hana, right down to "[[Film/TheOmen1976 Ave Satani]]" playing when she appears.
* DudeShesLikeInAComa: In the very first episode, Shigure almost takes advantage of Tohru. Yuki even compares it to the [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion End of Evangelion]].
%% * GrumpyOldMan: Don't take Grandpa's Fun Time Socks...
%% * HandsomeLech: Shigure might be handsome, but he's sure as hell a lech.
* HotBlooded:
** Kyo is a hot blooded shonen stereotype personified, and often engages in Kamina level [[BadassBoast Badass Boasts]].
** Black Haru is so hot blooded it makes Kyo look like a pacified baby in comparison.
* IntercontinuityCrossover: Tohru steals frequently from [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji Ikari]]...
%% * JerkAss: Debatably Kagura, but definitely Tohru's cousin.
%% * LargeHam: Shigure and Tohru's Grandfather, full stop. Especially Grandpa, who sounds like Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger for no apparent reason...
%% * LampshadeHanging: Yuki IS this trope.
* LarynxDissonance: Also averted. The guys play guys, and the girls play girls. The only exception is Yuki.
* LesYay: {{Invoked}}. Uo and Hana unabashedly ask Tohru for lesbian sex in Episode 6.
* LovableSexManiac: Subverted in that Shigure has all the qualities, but all the characters, save for Tohru, want to kill him.
* MoodWhiplash: Episode 8 goes from jokes about sex and humorous blackmail to [[TearJerker a depressing montage showing Hatori erasing his lover's memories.]]
* NoodleIncident: In Episode 6, Hana references the reason why she was kicked out of her ordinary school.
-->'''Hana:''' I was found opening a vortex to hell. To open it, I required the blood of a hundred virgin girls. I ended up gutting a thousand girls before I found my hundred, mainly because my demons of the night refused to leave a sperm wasted.
%% * OnlySaneMan: So far, Yuki and possibly Uo.
* RousingSpeech: Attempted in Episode 7. Tohru starts to give her famous "Rice Ball" speech, only for Kyo to shoot her down in seconds.
* ShoutOut:
** Several of Kyo's lines consists of some shonen or mecha reference, most notably either ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', or ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam.''
** Tohru has a habit of stealing food from [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji Ikari]]...
** ''Film/MenInBlack'''s "flashy thing" is compared to Hatori's mind erasing power.
** There's an entire gag about {{Shout Out}}s in Episode 2.
** Apparently, Haru keeps mistaking Kyo for some guy named Kakarot.
%% * StalkerWithACrush:
%% ** Yuki thinks that Tohru is one of these initially, not to mention the entire Prince Yuki Fan Club IS this trope.
%% ** Also, Kagura, seeing as how she stalks Kyo obsessively too.
%% * {{Yandere}}: Kagura is a mild form of this, even in the Abridged universe.
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