Abridged Series

Abridged series are videos online where people take clips from famous Japanese anime shows and reedit them to make a new series for purely comedic reasons. Usually the person creating the abridged series would usually make fun of what is going on in the actual story or would make references to well known pop-culture. There are a few abridged series of well known anime that are hysterical. Many others are not that well edited and not that funny.

The first abridged series I have been familiar with is Yu-gi-oh: The Abridged Series done by LittleKuriboh. Many find his series funny and a few do not. It depends on your own opinion.If you like British humor you might like this one because LittleKuriboh has a British accent in real life as well as for one of the characters he voices.

There is also Yu Yu Hakusho Abridged. It is also very funny. I am a little surprised that someone started to make this because this one was always more of a fan favorite for anime viewers. Though I guess there were still things in the show to make fun of.

Naruto Abridged is also very funny and was created by two people, MasakoX and Vegeta3986. Like Yu Yu Hakusho Abridged, the creators of this series have not been able to produce new episodes for a while. They maybe collaborating with the other Abridged series creators I have mentioned to work on what I have listed below.

Team Four Star's Dragon Ball Z Abridged is the funniest abridged series there is. It is most likely because Team Four Star is composed of numerous people who had been working on other abridged series beforehand. Therefore, the work is able to be spread out instead of all on one person.

There are other abridged series out there made by less experienced people, but they are hardly worth mentioning. I believe this is able to be done because of how the mouths are animated in anime. It is very simple to voice over animation when the mouths only open and close. There is no difference in syllables with most anime shows. It maybe because of animation budgets, but it can give us opportunities like this...