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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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#7951: Oct 3rd 2014 at 1:04:26 PM

I wonder if Little Kuriboh regularly did any abridged series before he was Frieza...
The joke is that Yugioh Abridged was never regular.

KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#7952: Oct 3rd 2014 at 1:05:54 PM

[up] You're kidding, right?

edited 3rd Oct '14 1:07:01 PM by KarkatTheDalek

Oh God! Natural light!
wanderlustwarrior Role Model from Where Gods Belong Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
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#7953: Oct 3rd 2014 at 1:07:22 PM

[up]I can't believe someone fell for that so quickly.

KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#7954: Oct 3rd 2014 at 1:09:11 PM

[up] Well, I didn't entirely fall for it...tongue

edited 3rd Oct '14 1:09:20 PM by KarkatTheDalek

Oh God! Natural light!
SonOfSharknado Love is Love is Love Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
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#7955: Oct 3rd 2014 at 1:13:42 PM

To be fair, he did say regularly. wink

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KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#7956: Oct 3rd 2014 at 1:19:31 PM

It's not my fault, I missed the white text! Forgive me, wander-san!

Oh God! Natural light!
TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#7957: Oct 3rd 2014 at 1:54:20 PM

I read the white text in the same tone of voice as, "The hammer is my penis."

edited 3rd Oct '14 1:55:01 PM by TobiasDrake

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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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#7958: Oct 3rd 2014 at 2:08:53 PM

[up][up]It's alright, hopefully you'll get the next one.

Nikkolas from Texas Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#7959: Oct 3rd 2014 at 2:25:58 PM

@ Wryte

Yep, I first learned of hbi2k from Berserk Abridged. It was good and got me into the real series but I liked Gantz more because he had a bit more technical know-how. Berserk Abridged was great because hbi2k has an amazing sense of humor but you can tell he was just learning about editing and all that kinda stuff.

And oh man...Naruto Abridged. It was fairly popular for its day but I think a lot of people look back on it rather poorly.

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#7960: Oct 4th 2014 at 8:36:49 AM

And oh man...Naruto Abridged. It was fairly popular for its day but I think a lot of people look back on it rather poorly.

The ultimate Reality Subtext. I like it.evil grin

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minespatch Since: Sep, 2009
#7961: Oct 4th 2014 at 1:21:09 PM

I used to watch Naruto abridged but it doesn't hold up to Yugioh abridged. Maybe it has to do with that Vegeta guy's writing. Masako was fine.

Nikkolas from Texas Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#7962: Oct 4th 2014 at 2:58:47 PM

I liked Vegeta well enough but I don't watch abridged series as much as I used to. i only watch TFS and Gantz or Berserk Abridged. There was this really cool lady, Cassius614, who used to do a "Best Abridged Countdown" thing way the fuck long ago. She also provided the female voices in hbi2k's Gantz Abridged since he recognized his female voices were...lacking. But anyway, back then, I used to watch a ton of abridged series because, while YGO and Naruto Abridged were the "kings", they had inspired so many others. New abridged series popped up all the time.

But since then, TFS has eclipsed pretty much all of them. Or maybe I just don't pay attention anymore. Cassius stopped doing her countdowns.

Ninjaxenomorph The best and the worst. from Texas, Texas, Texas Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
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#7963: Oct 4th 2014 at 3:02:33 PM

I watch SAO Abridged, they do a fun take on the original. And, Takahata101 voices the villain. And while I liked Berserk Abridged, I had trouble getting into it. Perhaps because what the original dubbers did for outtakes was so hilarious.

edited 4th Oct '14 3:04:23 PM by Ninjaxenomorph

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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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#7964: Oct 4th 2014 at 5:22:08 PM

Only abridged series I watched back in the day was Yugioh. Then I eventually started watching this one, and this is practically my only one now, especially since Yugioh Abridged rarely updates.

There are no better outtakes than Samurai Deeper Kyo.

johnnysasaki Since: Jun, 2012
#7965: Oct 6th 2014 at 7:15:39 AM

if you guys feel confused about how time travelling worked in DBZ,you guys should play Yu-No,which uses a similar concept of time travelling,where you end up creating new timelines/alternate universes instead of erasing them if you change something in the past.The plot gets pretty confusing as it progress to the mind screw levels,but it is one of the best visual novels of all time

purplefishman Misanthrope Supreme from Ganzir Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
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#7966: Oct 6th 2014 at 9:09:57 AM

I'd like to say that asides from DBZ Abridged I'm following Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Abridged, but it hasn't updated in... What, seven months now ?

BTW, doesn't Antfish sometimes work with TFS ?

edited 6th Oct '14 9:10:19 AM by purplefishman

lionheart0 Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
#7967: Oct 6th 2014 at 9:35:54 AM

I used to watch Naruto abridged but it doesn't hold up to Yugioh abridged. Maybe it has to do with that Vegeta guy's writing. Masako was fine.

I think so as well. DBZ Abridged Season 1 has a lot of rough edges as well, so it's not a coincidence.

wanderlustwarrior Role Model from Where Gods Belong Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#7969: Oct 8th 2014 at 1:07:28 AM

Yu-Gi-Oh! Abridged, Yu Yu Hakusho Abridged, Naruto Abridged, Berserk Abridged, Gundam Wing Abridged, G Gundam Abridged, Yu-Gi-oh! 5D's abridged, and Now Dragon Ball Z abridged. Those are all the ones I've watched and kept up with.

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#7970: Oct 8th 2014 at 7:58:40 AM

Technically, my first Abridged Series was The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged, but that's a stage performance, not a You Tube show. Overall, I never really got into the Abridged Series craze. I tried a few, but too many punchlines were, "Man, this show is utter horseshit!"

I liked Yu Yu Hakusho Abridged at first, but when Lani transitioned from exaggerating personalities for the purpose of making jokes to straight-up inventing new ones with the Four Saint Beasts, it lost its appeal for me.

What I really like about Dragon Ball Abridged is that it's affectionate. Few of the jokes rely on the show being awful; they highlight some of the weaker and sillier elements, but there is a clear sense of appreciation for its existence inherent in the work. It doesn't feel as mean-spirited as other Abridged Series do.

edited 8th Oct '14 7:59:27 AM by TobiasDrake

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Bloodsquirrel Since: May, 2011
#7972: Oct 8th 2014 at 2:21:17 PM

I've never gotten into any other than DBZ abridged and Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged. Well, and Hellsing abridged, but that's only a few episodes.

Parody is almost always sharpest when coming from a fan. Someone intimately familiar with the material who knows where the real absurdity in the series rests. People who are just trying to mock something they think sucks are usually going to go for the most obvious surface elements, and a lot of times they wind up with something that has little resemblance to what they're mocking. Non-DBZ fans are going to make a few jokes about how long the characters stand around screaming if you're lucky. If not, you're going be seeing a parody of the few bits of Sailor Moon and Speed Racer that the author can remember seeing in commercials with Goku pasted over it. Real fans give us stuff like riffing on how awful a father Goku is, or how bad Yamcha sucks. "Oh no, Yamcha's been Yamcha'd!" is something you'll never get from someone trying to get a cheap laugh saying that the show sucks.

Hell, Toriyama wrote a better parody of DBZ with Trunks and Goten than most others I've seen.

edited 8th Oct '14 2:22:29 PM by Bloodsquirrel

Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#7973: Oct 8th 2014 at 2:33:06 PM

While that's true, it's a bit of a misleading argument to put forth in this context; most abridged series are written by fans of the original.

GethKnight Since: Apr, 2010
#7974: Oct 8th 2014 at 9:08:10 PM

What Trunks and Goten parody?

Kayeka (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#7975: Oct 8th 2014 at 9:17:03 PM

[up]Pretty much their entire fight against Buu?


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