Favorite Abridged Series and Reccomendations

jaredstar

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#28
poor asuna you havent even met the one who is your biggest threat
 

Leidolf

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#29
Hard to see who could be her biggest competition. What scares me is that if she does this to someone she considers a friend, what would she do to someone else?
 

Glimmervoid

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#30
Really liked SAO Abridged. Never read/watched the original but still funny.
 

TC_Hazard

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#31
Glimmervoid said:
Really liked SAO Abridged. Never read/watched the original but still funny.
It's seriously good.

I mean, beyond the jokes, Kirito's character arc is interesting to watch.
 

jaredstar

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#32
Leidolf said:
Hard to see who could be her biggest competition. What scares me is that if she does this to someone she considers a friend, what would she do to someone else?

give you a hint her in game measurements are 85-61-88.
 

grant

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#33
Well Yugioh Abridged is back with a new episode. It's... honestly, okay. It doesn't really have me laughing uncontrollably, but it's not really bad.
 

Leidolf

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#34
Have a like and a link to a Danmachi abridged where you immediately regret being able to sleep with a harem:
[video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq6B9-_9h08[/video]
 

AJ_Katon

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#35
Leidolf said:
Have a like and a link to a Danmachi abridged where you immediately regret being able to sleep with a harem:
[video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq6B9-_9h08[/video]
I subscribed.
 

AJ_Katon

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#37
Leidolf said:
[video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WGbqh3ftP4[/video]
Yer 2 for 3 Lei. Good job.
 

seitora

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#38
man, this thread keeps making me sad that Sailor Moon Abridged managed to get through the first season and then died, while there are so many Death Note abridged series, each one wicked in their own way, and only one ever managed to actually get completed.
 

TC_Hazard

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#39
I'm going to recommenced DCAbridged Universe:
https://www.youtube.com/user/DCAbridgedUniverse/videos

The guy is using Young Justice as a spine and creating his own abridged universe using a bunch of DC animated movies. Currently, he has done Catwoman, Under the Hood, Justice League War, and Assault on Arkham.

Batman freaking out over Superman running for president is hilarious.
 

grant

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#40
seitora said:
man, this thread keeps making me sad that Sailor Moon Abridged managed to get through the first season and then died, while there are so many Death Note abridged series, each one wicked in their own way, and only one ever managed to actually get completed.
It takes a lot of effort to make an abridged series, let alone a good one.

You need to have someone who can do any video editing, or at least get video and audio to play right.
Then you need the equipment to record yourself and filter out background noise.
Then you have to figure out an entertaining script for each episode.
Then you need to do the actual voice acting, which really isn't easy. And if you aren't doing it all by yourself then you need to keep the team on board, because it's easy for people to drift away from internet projects.
Then you have to endure all the times that bots take your videos down and sometimes even your channel, which sites like YouTube usually do jack to stop.
And of course all of this is in addition to your daily life since you're not going to be able to turn abridging into a career.

Take all that and it's easy to see why most never get past maybe episode 5 at best. Of course that's often for the best since most abridged series, quite frankly, suck. TeamFourStar, CardGamesFTW, SMA etc. are really exceptions to the rule.

Even more sad though, is when the series just disappears. I'm pretty sure there were at least a couple that I just can't remember now that showed promise but got taken down in the early days of abridging.
 

Stormfury

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#42
I watched the first two episodes when they came out, and the tropes they were pushing for the characters annoyed me more then anything else. Barret was the only funny character- Tifa and Cloud just made me cringe. I see there are 5 episodes out now, so I'll give em a try and see if they got funnier later.
 

Watashiwa

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#43
Relies too much on stereotypes about the characters from the fandom and not from the game. There are two gags that I've liked beyond Barret: the name selections and Zack feeding Cloud lines. Everything else makes for good BGM.

That said it is TFS so I'm going to being listening/watching for a long time. Plus the most recent episode was pretty good, so I'm hopeful.
 

MnemoD

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#44
Anyone got news on if TFS is doing Hellsing Abridged 4?
 

ragnarok1337

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#45
Eh, I'd disagree about following stereotypes/fanon religiously. If that were true, Cloud would be emo and Tifa would not be a manipulative bitch.

Question: should you enjoy an abridged series even if you haven't watched the actual show? Because I still haven't played FF7 to this day, I barely got past 5 episodes of SAO, my DBZ knowledge comes from the various games, etc. I think the only show I've actually fully watched that was Abridged is YuGiOh. And not GX or the other spinoffs.

Also, you can't really Abridge a comedy series. I've seen attempts at Abridging Lucky Star, Azumanga Daioh and Devil is a Part-Timer. The jokes always fell flat compared to the originals.
 

grant

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#46
IWhoWouldLoveHerForever said:
Anyone got news on if TFS is doing Hellsing Abridged 4?
If you mean Hellsing Ultimate Abridged, that's mostly Takahata101*, not TeamFourStar. And it depends. I think he does them for some con, and even if he is it might not be put up until early November. No trailer this time, so might not be (sad).

Also, you can't really Abridge a comedy series. I've seen attempts at Abridging Lucky Star, Azumanga Daioh and Devil is a Part-Timer. The jokes always fell flat compared to the originals.
The best ones are usually the ones that take themselves too seriously, though serious ones can be done as well (see MS Gundam Abridged).

*https://www.youtube.com/user/takahata101/videos
 

Stormfury

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#47
Episodes 3-5 of the FF7 abridged were better then 1-2. Aeris>Tifa's character by far.
 

grant

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#50
Leidolf said:
And Goten gets wiped out of the time line courtesy of the newest Team Four Star video.
Senzu implied to have fixed that. Anyway despite there not being much to the original work, it makes for a very fun abridged video probably because it's Dragonball at its most basic. Fight scenes, weird opponents and Goku winning (you have to wonder why no one else tries to learn the spirit bomb) and everyone else just distracts the bad guy. Add TFS funniness and it's nice to watch and relax to.
 
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