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Tales of the Abyss: The Abridged Series is an abridgement in progress of the Animated Adaptation of the video game Tales of the Abyss, written by SWardVA and edited by a number of YouTube fandubbers, including LuminAbyss, Beatblox and ShockySparky. It's notably unique in that its characters accept the fact that it takes place in an Alternate Universe, although like many others it also does away with the fourth wall and ridicules much of the game's silly moments. It currently consists mainly of promo skits and a few episodes, and can be found here.


This show provides examples of:

  • A God Am I: During Penguin Rapture, Johnny Yong Penguin declared himself the "Penguin God".
  • Alternate Universe: The series so far seems to accept that it is one, given that the cheagles have given the real Sorcerer's Ring to "the real cast". The fourth wall isn't exactly durable, either. Guy more or less blows it wide open in Episode Two.
  • Always Chaotic Evil: As weird as it seems, the Cheagles seem to be heading in this direction. They all-too willingly offer one of their own up to be eaten by Luke & co. before tossing an Evil Knockoff of the Sorcerer's Ring on him. Why? Because they could. Contrasts quite a lot with the Liger Queen, who's actually shown to be pretty okay.
  • Artistic License – Physics: Ridiculed with Guy's super-jump in Episode 3.
  • Berserk Button: If the events of the promo carry over into future episodes, then Mieu's will be calling him cute.
  • Bestiality Is Depraved: The Malkuth soldiers got turned on by being assaulted and maimed by wolves.
  • Blah, Blah, Blah: In Episode 3, when Tear is recounting the previous two episodes to Jade, this is all he hears as he's focusing on her boobs.
  • Buffy Speak: The extras tend to employ this. Might possibly be Fridge Brilliance since, let's face it, when do NPC's ever say anything specific and/or useful?
  • It's All About Me: Luke could very well be the poster boy of this trope.
    Luke: "You can't even see my face from here! C'mon, get back to ME!"
    Luke: "When the camera's on me, you should only hear me!"
    Luke: "Hey, bitch! Stop stealing my screen time!"
  • Jerkass: Luke is one (even more so than his game counterpart), but Jade seems to be giving him a run for his money with his utterly awful puns.
  • Jekyll & Hyde: In the fourth promo, Mieu shows shades of this. Subverted in that the "Jekyll" side seemed to be just an act.

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