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HailMuffins Since: May, 2016 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#35076: Jun 3rd 2019 at 5:58:52 PM

@Melon: Well, when the guy who supposedly watched described it like that, you'll forgive me if I don't feel very encouraged to give the show a chance.

And I even like innapropriate humour, but a linne must be drawn somewhere.

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#35077: Jun 3rd 2019 at 6:00:17 PM

The description makes it sound less like inappropriate humor and more grossness for the sake of it.

I can't comment on how accurate or not that actually is though

VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#35078: Jun 3rd 2019 at 6:08:16 PM

I am fully prepared to be the only person in this thread that likes Joyride Entertainment at all. It doesn't bother me if people don't like something I do, but as someone who saw all 22 episodes of the series I felt like I had to say something in its defense due to the circumstances here.

It is not a dumb gross-out show. Far from it.

Edited by VeryMelon on Jun 3rd 2019 at 6:09:18 AM

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#35079: Jun 3rd 2019 at 6:12:02 PM

Well, then maybe they should have showed that off in the first few episodes, 'cause not all of us have the time to spend on a series on a promise of it getting better after a pretty darn bad first impression.

VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#35080: Jun 3rd 2019 at 6:16:41 PM

Fine. I'm not going to take up anymore of this thread with this discussion.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#35081: Jun 3rd 2019 at 6:18:42 PM

I just feel like I'm not much into abridged series in general. Even when they're good (which is rare, I'd say), lack of footage means most of them can't actually go very far.

DBZ Abridged and SAO Abridged are pretty unique in that regard, I think.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#35082: Jun 3rd 2019 at 6:56:41 PM

[up][up][up]Bad first impressions weed out unwanted viewership...

That's funny.

It's not intentional.

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JRads47 Since: Nov, 2014
#35083: Jun 3rd 2019 at 7:45:30 PM

[up][up]The only other abridged series I like is Antfish's Jojo Abridged, and that's been dead for years.

HailMuffins Since: May, 2016 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#35084: Jun 3rd 2019 at 7:48:38 PM

UBW Abridged shows potential, but has yet to live up to it.

JRads47 Since: Nov, 2014
#35085: Jun 3rd 2019 at 7:52:47 PM

My only gripe with it so far is that Shirou sounds like Bryce Papenbrook after od'ing on helium. And I really don't like Papenbrook's voice in general, so there's that.

Larkmarn Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Hello, I love you
#35086: Jun 4th 2019 at 6:17:16 AM

You know, despite being the one who started the hatefest, I don't hate Joy Ride's MHA Abridged. I don't even dislike it. I was just pointing out it's incredibly divergent.

And yeah, it's got a lot of super edgy low-brow jokes (all the points I made earlier are true. The entire joke of Iida is that he's incredibly stupid... he's basically a horny version of Caboose from Red Vs Blue. And I'm not going to go into what they did with Uraraka's Ron the Death Eater-ness), but it's not poorly done. Like the original animation they've done is solid, the voice acting is great, there's serious pathos in a lot of scenes that were already done well in the original but are completely recontextualized in the abridgement. And it's a dumb ass joke but I fucking love the Levity Chicken. Bawk bawk.

It's just super divergent. I gave it quite a bit before I dropped it because at that point it had diverged so much that I felt like I was watching animated fanfiction which I simply had no interest in.

To get this back to DBZA (since this conversation has gone on so long I legit thought it was the "Abridged series in General" thread), DBZA does some major character exaggeration but almost none of the main characters are shifted too much and the story beats are basically identical. DBZA is kinda nothing without familiarity with the source material. I mean, it's still a lot of great jokes but without knowing DBZ and DBZ memes, you miss at least 50% of the humor. Joyride's MHAA might actually be a better stand-alone series in that regard.

Edited by Larkmarn on Jun 4th 2019 at 9:38:54 AM

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#35087: Jun 4th 2019 at 7:06:50 AM

See, there are three-ish abridged series that go on different tangents to their original story that I consider shining examples for what an abridged series is supposed to be like. Notably, it's the characters that do the most changing rather than the story itself in most instances.

One, SAO Abridged. The source work is widely considered awful and unsatisfying, so it's rewritten and characters change to reflect this. Completely separated from the original work.

Two, Yugioh Abridged. The show is faithful to the source material, but is lampooned at every step and the characters are just going along with it because why the hell not. 50/50 on closeness to the original work. Would include Hellsing Ultimate Abridged's first half (1-4).

Three, DBZA. The original work is beloved, and thus its plot points are not changed, and its characters are exaggerated but faithful as well. As close to the original work as possible, just with jokes. Also included, Hellsing Ultimate Abridged's back half (5-10) and FF 7 Machinabridged.

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VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#35088: Jun 4th 2019 at 7:15:37 AM

I do admit that Joyride's show is pretty different in terms of plotting and characterization. I got so caught up in Sharknado's eariler post that I brainfarted and said something dumb. Which then lead to a bunch of unpleasantness that I should have honestly expected.

Now hopefully that's the last of this tangent.

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#35089: Jun 4th 2019 at 9:29:26 AM

One, SAO Abridged. The source work is widely considered awful and unsatisfying, so it's rewritten and characters change to reflect this. Completely separated from the original work.
I've always described SAO Abridged as "Sword Art Online if it was populated by the kind of people you actually meet on the internet."

HailMuffins Since: May, 2016 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
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SpookyMask Since: Jan, 2011
#35092: Jun 4th 2019 at 10:33:11 AM

*looks at the linked trope* Well you shouldn't be at least tongue

Edited by SpookyMask on Jun 4th 2019 at 8:33:32 PM

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#35093: Jun 6th 2019 at 3:32:09 PM

The problem with a lot of other Abridged series is that most of them were trying to hop onto the craze when it first took off, and thus were mostly just copying what was most memetic about DBZ Abridged. Off color jokes about "adult" things, memes, drastic OOC for humors sake, attempts to create memes, etc and so on.

Team Four Star then went onto have their actual writing and approach to the series grow and mature (giving it more longevity, among other things) while still keeping the parody and humor angle, where everyone else is stayed with the same irreverent jokes and focus on memes and such.

Also, one thing TFS has always been great at that lots of other Abridged series aren't is character humor and dialogue. Even back when the joke was that X character was built out of fanjokes and memes, they could still write those characters in a smart, funny way. Not always, but again they got better at it.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Jun 6th 2019 at 3:32:54 AM

JRads47 Since: Nov, 2014
#35094: Jun 6th 2019 at 3:34:04 PM

mostly just copying what was most memetic about DBZ Abridged

Wasn't YGOTAS the first big abridged series?

HailMuffins Since: May, 2016 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#35095: Jun 6th 2019 at 3:54:15 PM

[up]Yep, and it defined the Abridged formula until DBZA came and elevated the whole genre with seasons 2 and 3.

qwigly Since: Mar, 2016
#35096: Jun 7th 2019 at 4:50:09 PM

And the entire genre was never meant to go beyond a single episode. Yu Gi Oh Abridged was, literally, the cliffs notes of the entire series - Transformations, friendship speeches, childrens card games, Screw The Rules, pulling the right card out of your butt, and you've basically summed up every single episode of that show. Yu Gi Oh is just that stupid, simple and formulaic.

VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#35097: Jun 7th 2019 at 5:03:31 PM

I doubt you have the insight to say it was just going to be one episode.

slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
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#35099: Jun 7th 2019 at 6:34:21 PM

[up][up][up] So basically you haven't actually watched the shows.

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