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Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#24101: Jan 20th 2017 at 11:35:09 AM

Dr. Raichi is cool, but I prefer his much hairier cousin Dr. Ranbuutan.

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#24102: Jan 20th 2017 at 1:05:19 PM

wild mass guess Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans will be the 3 million subscriber special. wild mass guess

Cortex should take a 12-step plan off a 10-step pier
Thebrawlbro Since: Aug, 2013
AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
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#24104: Jan 20th 2017 at 1:15:33 PM

Huh, glad I was binging Yu Yu Hakusho Abridged the other day.

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Lionheart0 Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
#24105: Jan 20th 2017 at 1:51:24 PM

I hope they do a couple of more of these.

AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
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#24106: Jan 20th 2017 at 1:53:36 PM

Perhaps bringing in some other old abridged series characters?

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TheMageofFire Since: May, 2012
#24107: Jan 20th 2017 at 1:54:13 PM

I wonder if this is just a one-off thing or if it'll be included in the next episode.

Either way, I forgot that Lani's natural voice works well for Yusuke.

VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#24108: Jan 20th 2017 at 1:55:32 PM

That was neat, fun stuff. I liked how they edited Yusuke and Kwabara into everything.

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
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#24110: Jan 20th 2017 at 2:27:23 PM

OK, so I went to look up the other abridged series that Kaiser and Taka used to do before TFS. Kaiser did a Lupin the Third abridged that was actually kinda good (if a bit too into referencing different animes), and Taka collaborated with a friend named Cheesemanjoe for G Gundam Abridged. Watching the first episode of it, it wasn't really good. I don't know if it picked up any, but I couldn't make it through the first episode.

Also, interesting tidbits I learned from the first season of DBZ Abridged: The original voice of Chiaotzu in Episode 6 was Fro Legend, who also went by the name Whiteash. She apparently used to do Saiyuki Reload Abridged, which was one of the other earlier abridged shows from right after Little Kuriboh and Masako X started getting attention. TFS intended to have her voice Chi-Chi and Android 18, but she departed before they could do that (something about her getting a job in South Korea), leading to Chi-Chi's original voice (before Hnilmik) being Kris Rix from Sailor Moon Abridged (which in retrospect was kind of fitting, since the line about "castrating the messenger with a carving knife" is the kind of comedy Kris Rix was known for in Sailor Moon Abridged).

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Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#24111: Jan 20th 2017 at 3:05:18 PM

...yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees.

Yeh-hahahahaha-hes!

I can't believe they remember!

That was a treat.

edited 20th Jan '17 3:06:37 PM by Soble

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Weirdguy149 Former King from Lumiose City Since: Jul, 2014 Relationship Status: I'd jump in front of a train for ya!
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#24112: Jan 20th 2017 at 8:42:32 PM

...I kinda want to have Kaiba from Yugioh Abridged do this sort of thing, I'm not gonna lie.

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#24113: Jan 20th 2017 at 9:28:28 PM

Maybe get Purple Eyes WTF to voice Luffy or Lelouch. Or both. Seriously, imagine Cell trying to play off of any of Purple Eyes WTF's characters.

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KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#24114: Jan 20th 2017 at 9:52:50 PM

I loved Yusuke's nonchalant noping out of fighting Cell, and they way Cell indifferently just let them go all chill.

Yu Yu Hakusho's weightclasses are a bit below Cell's it's true. I don't think anyone in that series gets past Nappa.

edited 20th Jan '17 9:56:32 PM by KnownUnknown

TheMageofFire Since: May, 2012
#24115: Jan 20th 2017 at 9:59:38 PM

Here's a crazy idea.

Alucard going to fight Cell. Then we can just have Taka playing off himself.

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#24116: Jan 20th 2017 at 10:00:18 PM

There are a lot of crossover battle fans that rate YYH up to late Saiyan or early Namek arc levels of power, but those type of forums tend to do lots of really wonky analyses due to the inherent difficulty of comparing completely different series.

VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#24117: Jan 20th 2017 at 10:00:44 PM

Yep. No one in Yu Yu Hakusho gets past Nappa. The only ones who differently are fans that take Sensui's statements at face value.

edited 20th Jan '17 10:01:46 PM by VeryMelon

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#24118: Jan 20th 2017 at 10:01:26 PM

What about Sailor Moon? Last I'd heard, Sailor Moon herself, at her most powerful form, was probably planet burster status or something.

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#24119: Jan 20th 2017 at 10:03:28 PM

My general rule of thumb is that if no-one is at a level where they could destroy the moon, they're not even at Roshi's level.

edited 20th Jan '17 10:04:58 PM by PushoverMediaCritic

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#24120: Jan 20th 2017 at 10:07:00 PM

I could buy Yomi, and thus the late-game protagonists (all of whom are explicitly weaker than Yomi iirc), fighting Nappa and not dying immediately. I might even consider the idea that a good fight might be had out of it, if I heard a decent argument for it.

There's no way in hell anyone in YYH gets close to matching Vegeta. Let alone beaiing him.

"Planet busters" in YYH Hakusho are weird, in that it's one of those supernatrual elements that got blended into the Shounen tropes rather than phased out entirely as the series went on. Strong-enough demons and being with spirit power (S-Rank, like the video mentions) have power that's so impressively otherworldly that the mortal realm can't take it, and thus the Earth will (eventually) fall apart from pressure alone. That doesn't mean they have the power to actually destroy the planet, let alone any planet they choose, at will.

I've never been involved in conversations like that, but I assume that's where a lot of the attempts to justify them being stronger than they are come from.

edited 20th Jan '17 10:17:33 PM by KnownUnknown

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#24121: Jan 20th 2017 at 10:07:09 PM

Sailor Cosmos kicks Beerus' ass.

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Moth13 Since: Sep, 2010
#24122: Jan 20th 2017 at 10:22:26 PM

My general rule of thumb is that if no-one is at a level where they could destroy the moon, they're not even at Roshi's level.

Eh, I could buy that since that was back when the manga was less serious, and that technique was enough of an outlier, that someone could be unable to blow up the moon and still be way better than Roshi at being fast and punching good.

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#24123: Jan 20th 2017 at 10:26:33 PM

As far as anime and manga above Dragon Ball, Gurren Lagann and comparitively similar Super Robot Genre series are above most of Z, though with Super, There's a fine line there.

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TheMageofFire Since: May, 2012
#24124: Jan 20th 2017 at 10:31:11 PM

The Tengan Toppen Gurren Lagann and Super Tengan Toppen Gurren Lagann could still probably take out everything introduced in Super. The STTGL MIGHT have trouble with Zeno, but eh.

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#24125: Jan 20th 2017 at 10:39:03 PM

Roshi's moonbusting is definitely an outlier, given that city wide or island wide destruction is meant to be impressive for stronger characters to do.


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