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Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#5926: Feb 19th 2014 at 9:37:25 PM

It's probably to avoid copyright issues in the video titles.

"TFS Abridged" is less likely to hit flags than "Dragonball Z Abridged".

Anyway, I have a question. In Revenge of Cooler Abridged, why is the ending credits song ("Always Someone Cooler than You") attributed to Funimation/Toei?

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FOFD Since: Apr, 2013
#5927: Feb 19th 2014 at 10:13:58 PM

Then it would seem Youtube cares less about the rest of the abridged series that parody their original titles. I've only seen Sword Art Abridged get taken down for whatever bs reason.

As for the song, I did a Google Search and found nothing on it except for another person asking the same question on Kanzenshuu. Has to be a typo.

edited 19th Feb '14 10:14:54 PM by FOFD

Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#5928: Feb 19th 2014 at 10:18:51 PM

I'd imagine so.

Unless Funimation beat us to the "Cooler" joke.

You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!
minespatch Since: Sep, 2009
#5930: Feb 20th 2014 at 4:54:51 PM

TFS should really work with funimation. I like how they get the edits right(as seen in the video).

BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#5932: Feb 22nd 2014 at 9:38:40 PM

Hah, I just had bacon today for the first time in a month.

I finally get to use that video.:)

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Lionheart0 Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
#5933: Feb 23rd 2014 at 4:48:11 PM

[up][up][up][up]My respect level for abridgers just went up another notch. All the behind the scenes work to make an episode good is impressive. Really wish people didn't badger them to hurry up with new episodes, because clearly that shit ain't easy.

TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#5934: Feb 24th 2014 at 10:43:11 AM

There will always be people badgering, because fans today are entitled prats who think you owe them your art.

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Pucker Since: Feb, 2014
#5935: Feb 24th 2014 at 11:51:01 AM

Also, if you don't badger, you get shit like the Yu Gi Oh Abridged schedule, where we're lucky if we get three episodes a year.

Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#5936: Feb 24th 2014 at 12:00:43 PM

…Are you suggesting that happened because people weren't badgering him enough?

Because I'm pretty certain that's nonsense.

TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#5937: Feb 24th 2014 at 12:01:13 PM

No, you get that when you badger too, because artists get sick of being badgered and decide they want nothing more to do with the whole thing because of the stress. Nobody likes hearing that shit from ungrateful fans.

Artists are people too. Art takes time to create, and there's only so much, "When's it gonna be done? Why isn't it done yet? Tell meeee!" a person can take before you just want to go do something else.

edited 24th Feb '14 12:02:26 PM by TobiasDrake

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Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
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#5938: Feb 24th 2014 at 8:11:53 PM

I'm pretty sure the badgering hasn't even slowed for YGOTAS, has it?

Anyway, I do feel the quality per episode of YGOTAS is higher than it was when we got one a month.

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wanderlustwarrior Role Model from Where Gods Belong Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
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#5939: Feb 24th 2014 at 8:15:40 PM

When was the last episode of YGOTAS, anyway?

I kinda feel bad for hoping that TFS's abridged work output would have rubbed off on Littlekuriboh.

nomuru2d Gamer-turning-maker from Port Saint Lucie, FL Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Longing for Dulcinea
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#5940: Feb 24th 2014 at 8:17:33 PM

Hey, be fair. LK's been trying to become a professional VA in between this and YGOTAS.

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wanderlustwarrior Role Model from Where Gods Belong Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
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#5941: Feb 24th 2014 at 8:20:36 PM

Huh. Didn't know that.

Ninjaxenomorph The best and the worst. from Texas, Texas, Texas Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
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#5942: Feb 24th 2014 at 9:03:09 PM

[up][up] He's been doing pretty well, too.

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Lionheart0 Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
#5943: Feb 24th 2014 at 9:09:20 PM

Didn't he start stage acting as well?

Dude got aspirations outside of abridging, can't blame him that, and it's easy to forget that most of these guys do these as a hobby.

On a side note, I finally watched Attack On Titan Abridged. That may be the best pilot for an abridged series I've ever seen.

Watchtower Since: Jul, 2010
#5944: Feb 24th 2014 at 10:02:10 PM

I was a long-time fan of Super Mario Bros Z. Knew about it since it got popular enough to get a little ad-space on a gaming mag (not sure if it was EGM). It made me the internet dweller I am today. And the creator of that series got so fed up with all the fans annoying him that he freaked out, admitted that he couldn't handle the pressure anymore, and shut the series down in a heartbeat. Talented sprite artist, writer, and comedian went AWOL and never looked back.

So.....long story short, we're lucky these guys seem to love this stuff enough to stick around.

edited 24th Feb '14 10:02:38 PM by Watchtower

stingerbrg Since: Jun, 2009
#5945: Feb 24th 2014 at 10:08:10 PM

Probably helps that it's a group effort.

SamuelPhantom The Naive New Guy from The One Place They'd Never Know Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#5947: Mar 3rd 2014 at 9:00:12 AM

A couple of friends of mine mentioned this a few times, so I decided to give it a try.

After Ep. 10 I can safely say it's gonna be a long and arduous journey into hilarity. There's something hilarious in Vegeta getting a short end of the stick all the time. His VA did a splendid job.

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wanderlustwarrior Role Model from Where Gods Belong Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
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#5948: Mar 3rd 2014 at 9:36:23 AM

Just wanted to point out that Episode 40 and the new website are supposed to go up any day now.

Man, these guys move at a really impressive rate.

Pucker Since: Feb, 2014
#5949: Mar 3rd 2014 at 11:34:01 PM

Collaboration tends to do that.

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#5950: Mar 4th 2014 at 12:35:53 AM

This is random, but after rewatching the series and seeing them mercilessly lampoon dub inconsistencies (I'm still surprised they didn't rip "next dimension" a new one, though they did have a lot of fun with HFIL), I wonder if we're going to get a joke about how the dub made it really unclear that 17 was still alive.

I mean, I love the first Funimation dub (prefer it to Kai, in fact), but damn was that confusing. IIRC they kept bouncing back and forth between generally implying he was dead and the occasional statement implying he was still alive - and it didn't help that 16 was without a doubt gone for good.

In any case, I really like how they're doing 17 and 18's characters so far. As always, they really captured the best bits of their characters while still parodying them - especially 17 as a drifter-type who just does whatever he feels like because he doesn't have any other purpose to follow.

I really liked Gero, too. This series has always been really good at making characters we know are going to die really soon really fun and endearing to watch anyway - Gero was such a Chew Toy... not that he didn't deserve it, of course.

No, you get that when you badger too, because artists get sick of being badgered and decide they want nothing more to do with the whole thing because of the stress. Nobody likes hearing that shit from ungrateful fans.

In fact, one of my favorite web-series ever was cut off in the prime of life thanks to the creator reaching his tolerance limit for fans bugging him about it.

edited 4th Mar '14 12:44:59 AM by KnownUnknown


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