Rather than just making fun at the original series, other elements have been added throughout time to the parody.Īll episodes would end with a scene from the anime juxtaposed with audio from another source. The humor of the series has constantly varied and expanded from its original premise. There are also jokes that break the ' fourth wall'. It also lampoons the changes made to the series in the English dub, and greatly exaggerates the characters' personalities from that version, to comic effect. This leads to frequent commentaries about the role of the game in the series and the plot of such. The series is focused on making fun of the eccentricities of the series, most prominently the fact that Duel Monsters is a children's card game, yet is played by teens and adults with unfaltering seriousness and unreal consequences. However, the Season 3 villains were voiced by a number of other YouTube voice actors, mainly from the group Team Four Star.

A notable exception of this were the characters of Rebecca Hawkins in the regular series and Gary Stu in the Other Abridged Movie, which were voiced by LittleKuriboh's now ex-wife, Abigail, mostly referred to by her screen-name Safty. During the first two seasons, all characters in the series were voiced by LittleKuriboh, even the female ones, adding to the comical effect of the parody. This includes episodes in two or more parts.

2.2 Copyright infringement charges on YouTubeĪs the name suggests, Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series is a dramatically shortened down version of the original series, cutting each episode down from its original twenty minutes and parodying them.

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