#SAO Abridged Parody

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

DAVE: listen i dont doubt your skills but maybe you and your goon squad should go home, take a nap, and leave all the fighting to the real asskickers around here

VRISKA: Nonsense! My Prospitian 8rigade does not know the meaning of the word “surrender”!

TAVROS: bUT WE’RE WILLING TO LEARN,,,

[teleportationmagic]

To SAOA:

What the fuck. what the everliving fuck. I am literally sobbing I cannot stop this - this was the funny series! You can't do this to me!

Like just ughhhhhhhh - Suguha and Kazuto becoming unaligned for just a moment, just a second of him going faster, farther than her - and her sticking in out! Trying so hard to reach out! And him not doing the same because he doesn't even notice, and that abandonment twisting under years and years and years, of feeling unwanted and unloved, and feeling safer when she's unbearable, because she cannot afford that vulnerability again. And then Kirito coming back, older and wiser and more willing to spend time on the people he loves because of SAO where he got so close to losing them, and her not being able to fix these two versions of him together because they aren't! They aren't the same person! But he can't tell her, can't show her how he's changed because she cannot let either one of them be soft around one another.

And from Kirito's side, all he sees is his relationship with his baby sister grow strained under the weight of years, of her slowly turning into something awful that he thinks hates him, because what else could there be? Literally what else?

And her still dragging him to the kendo mat years later, despite the fact that he hates it. That being literally the first scene of them together.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[jade-kyo]

Hey SAO abridged what the FUCK was THAT

[shsl-panic-at-the-everywhere]

I love that sao abridged is still a thing. I watched the most recent one and now i’ve just been going back and rewatching the whole thing over and over again. I have problems??

[projectcaramel]

Obey Me! Random Headcanon #7

The Brothers' Favorite Anime

Lucifer

Well-Known - SPY X FAMILY; he thinks it's cute and appreciates the sentiment of being able to live in a happy family despite the secrets hidden away. For obvious reasons, he relates to Loid the most.

More Obscure - THE CASE STUDY OF VANITAS; he likes the portrayal of vampires and likes to compare it to Bram Stoker's Dracula. His favorite character is Dominique de Sade, whom he refers to as "tragic and feisty."

Mammon

Well-Known - ONE PIECE; he's just one of those people that loves to scream "THE ONE PIECE IS REAAAALLLL" and likes the treasure-hunting aspect combined with the camaraderie.

More Obscure - BLUE EXORCIST; funny, right? He used to mock Satan every time his name popped up until the couch was destroyed. He thinks Rin is cool and argues with Lucifer all the time that he's better than Yukio.

Leviathan

Well-Known - SWORD ART ONLINE; Levi likes the concept more than the characters if he's honest, but he thinks Heathcliff is a total boss.

More Obscure - THE EMINENCE IN SHADOW; like many people who watch Isekai, Levi thinks the tropes start to get a little too copy-and-paste after a while, and he appreciates the parody. He loves Cid and goes into great detail to explain why the anime is genius.

Honorable mention - SAO ABRIDGED because Levi also loves it 10x more than the original even if it's fan-made.

Satan

Well-known - BLACK BUTLER; A revenge plot mixed up with detective stories and a cruel demon butler that loves cats? He vibes with Sebastian and would like him *just a little more* if Levi hadn't pointed out that he looks like Lucifer.

More Obscure - MORIARTY THE PATRIOT; it's Sherlock but anime; what more could he ask for? When asked who his favorite character is, he usually can't decide between the Moriarty's because he likes all of them for different reasons and usually says William by default.

Asmodeus

Well-Known - INUYASHA; Loves it for the romance and thinks Inuyasha and Kagome make a great couple. He even likes the "Inuyasha... Kagome... Inuyasha! ... Kagome!" moments.

More Obscure - KAGUYA-SAMA LOVE IS WAR; Wants to kiss half of the cast because they're beautiful and will sometimes yell at the screen when Shinomiya and Shirogane misunderstand each other (he ships it hard).

Beelzebub

Well-Known - VIOLET EVERGARDEN; he cries every single time, but he loves it because Violet reminds him of Lilith, and he likes how it has a hopeful ending.

More Obscure - FOOD WARS!; It's literally a cooking show, and he couldn't be happier. The fanservice often goes over his head until one of his brothers mumbles something about it, at which point he might feel embarrassed.

Belphegor

Well-Known - JUJUTSU KAISEN; he likes it because it's more on the dark side; his favorite character is Mahito and has remarked at least once that he thinks it would be fun to carry humans in his pocket like that (he said this specifically to scare you).

More Obscure - MAOU-JOU DE OYASUMI; he loves this series because it's all about his favorite past-time. He often writes down what Princess Suyaris says, muttering "wow, I never thought about doing that..."

-- Caramel: I have watched a lot of anime. It was difficult to narrow down a list of more than 80 to 14, but I hope you enjoyed! --

[eerna]

SAO abridged sibling duo! U will always be famous to me

Genuinely can't believe they did that to me. Why did they write Kirito and Suguha like that. That level of misunderstanding and misinterpretation between siblings who used to be best friends. They absofrigginlutely hate each other and are so damn horrible to each other every minute they share onscreen. But then they meet under anonymous identities and it turns out that they CAN still have fun and work together once they are no longer burdened with the weight of their history. So now she is split between "Wow, my brother actually IS capable of love, it must mean that I'm simply unloveable!" and "Wow, my brother actually IS capable of love, it must mean he is a horrible person who chose to leave me alone to get traumatized back when we were kids!" and the line between herself and the persona she puts on gets thinner and thinner until she accidentally reveals her identity and breaks the spell AND HIS FIRST REACTION???? "Hey did you do this to mess with me? Is this just a joke to you?" In a stupid 2000s gamer humor anime parody!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[transboykirito]

god i could write a whole essay about sao abridged and why it became such a cultural phenomenon and why it’s held its relevancy compared to other abridged parodies from the same time and also why the shift in internet culture has completely warped what sao abridged originally was and

[princess-of-the-corner]

SAO Abridged compensated for Kirito's canon Gary Stu status by making him be an absolute LOSER in the real world, to the point that GETTING TRAPPED IN A DEATH GAME is referred to as the best thing to ever happen to him, with Season 2 exploring what kind of home life he'd need to actually LONG for the death game he escaped from as much as his canon counterpart apparently did (I've not watched it).

Also, instead of his skills in the game translating to skills in the real world, his muscles have realistically atrophied over the two years he spent with his mind in the VR world, meaning his younger sister wipes the floor with him when they spar in the real world.

And abridged!Kirito himself is a pretty big jerk in Season 1, because the parody series ALSO asks "What kind of person would ENJOY being trapped in a death game?" and gave us someone who is like a reverse harem protagonist. Whenever they adapt an episode where one of his auxillary love interests falls for him, the episode is about them STARTING OUT having superficial attraction to him, only to fall out of love after getting to know the real him.

(Oh yeah, SAO canon gave Kirito a harem for some reason.)

Honestly that makes sense.

[susie-dreemurr]

By the way “Enjoy this while you can, it’s the deepest you’ll ever be in a woman” being your final words after you got stabbed in the throat is honestly the best way to go. SAO Abridged Parody Rosalia, my beloved.

[luminouslumity]

Watch "SAO Abridged Parody: Episode 17" on YouTube

[heyyallitsbeth]

Because i've been posting SAO gameplay videos, Ive been getting a lot of recommended videos for reactions to the anime and oh my gosh its so nice to see people online unashamedly enjoying it. like, people arent cringing and hating on it the entire time, theyre just like "damn this is peak, the internet was lying".

AND ITS TRUE! IT IS PEAK! THE INTERNET IS LYING!

STOP LISTENING TO PEOPLE NAMED JIMMYANIMEBOY478 ON YOUTUBE SAYING "well acthually ive studied japanese on rosetta stone and visited japan last year and i think every anime that people like sucks"

STOP LISTENING TO THE BANDWAGON

MAKE YOUR OWN OPINIONS

people hated on Spider-Man 3 and the Amazing Spider-Man movies for years and years because people told them to hate them, and now that there's a potential for them to come back in some form, everyone goes back to those movies and goes "hey what the heck these are super fun!".

STOP LISTENING TO THE MOB-

IT LIES TO YOU, THE MOB IS FULL OF CONTRARIANS THAT JUST DONT LIKE POPULAR THINGS!

and since im ranting dont fuckin take abridged series versions of characters as the canon- they exist for parody and comedic purposes, theyre intentionally flanderized, thats the joke. so many people's perspectives of Kirito and Goku are permanently damaged by people just trying to be funny with a webseries...

(obv no shade to DBZA and SAO:A- they existed to be funny humorous parodies of the source material. it is not their fault that people took those parodies and decided "yup this is a completely true and actual interpretation of this character. i hate them")

[best-youtube-video-battle]

Round one

[toacaldoric]

oh my GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD you are annoying. gigantic L for buying checkmarks too

...that sure is your opinion, and you're totally entitled to it. I don't understand how you've come to the conclusion that I'm "annoying" tho, but hey, if you don't like people, this platform has this amazing new feature called "blocking other users". Maybe try using it? Here, let me demonstrate.

[anurarana]

I'm still a little mad at this sorry and my head is killing me but I hate that the last two shows I've watched was a psychological thriller take on the magical girl genre with an interesting discussion on societal traumas that young girls face, and catching up with the fucking sao abridged series, and somehow the youtube parody has tighter narrative arcs and story telling

[evajellion]

Do it! I'm not brave to interact with that part of the series! Also, SAO sucks, so I just recommend the Abridged series to make fun of it. The people parodying it cut out all the filler and bullshit (The incest thing is called out and replaced with family drama). If anything, some of those jokes can transfer to a "Take That" at Pokemon SV! That poor wiglett being the butt of the joke...

Yeah, I've heard that like–

Okay, so I have a hot take, and it's that isekai is actually a good, fun genre.

… it's just that shit like SAO has ruined it. So when Pokémon Legends Arceus and the Mario Movie were revealed to be "isekai", everyone started whining. It was ridiculous. It's not the fault of the genre that it's full of crap like SAO and lord knows what else.

Spirited Away is an isekai too… and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon. People seem to forget.