Abridged Shenanigans

@Li3n

@Li3n

Bones said:
i feel like ending on cell is fair, they want to have business relations with these companies, its to bad that the TOEI overlords couldnt see to let them see it to an end, but they also seem to say they really are done with it all so meh
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The real boss move would be to just do the rest on the dl, and just release them all at once.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Aaand a year later, here's Goblin Slayer Abridged episode 6.



... it kinda feels like it's trying to hard, now.
 
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ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy



I've been watching TeamFourStar's HFIL series. After the finished Dragonball Z Abridged, I actually unsubscribed from them, mostly because I wasn't interested in their top 10s, reviews, podcasts, etc. Some of their DBZ shorts were...okay.

And honestly that's about where I feel about HFIL, too. I can't put my finger on what it is, exactly. The computer animation isn't bad for an amateur studio. The voice acting is top notch as always. But while there are some zingers, I find the overall pacing just isn't as good as DBZA. For all the talent they have, I guess I expected something original to be better than this? I can't put my finger on what exactly is wrong with it. It's not BAD, necessarily. It's just kinda dull.
 
chris

chris

ThatNickGuy said:


I've been watching TeamFourStar's HFIL series. After the finished Dragonball Z Abridged, I actually unsubscribed from them, mostly because I wasn't interested in their top 10s, reviews, podcasts, etc. Some of their DBZ shorts were...okay.

And honestly that's about where I feel about HFIL, too. I can't put my finger on what it is, exactly. The computer animation isn't bad for an amateur studio. The voice acting is top notch as always. But while there are some zingers, I find the overall pacing just isn't as good as DBZA. For all the talent they have, I guess I expected something original to be better than this? I can't put my finger on what exactly is wrong with it. It's not BAD, necessarily. It's just kinda dull.
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If you want to feel better about it, it's not just you. I haven't watched their stuff in a while. I'm honestly surprised that they can make stuff with Dragonball without getting flagged on YouTube.
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

chris said:
If you want to feel better about it, it's not just you. I haven't watched their stuff in a while. I'm honestly surprised that they can make stuff with Dragonball without getting flagged on YouTube.
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It likely has to do with not using the original animation. For these shorts, they've been using their own animation, which probably helps shirk at least automated copyright claims.
 
@Li3n

@Li3n

Also, it's a parody, which is protected, and without the animation it's likely way easily defended in a shorter time, so the right owners won't bother spending the money on the lawyers.
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

@Li3n said:
Also, it's a parody, which is protected, and without the animation it's likely way easily defended in a shorter time, so the right owners won't bother spending the money on the lawyers.
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You would think so, but that didn't stop Toei Animation from constantly attempting to tank TeamFourStar's channel.
 
@Li3n

@Li3n

Copyright abuse is almost never punished, so why would they.

What i was saying is that without the animation it's likely that Toei's own lawyers probably told them it's a waste of their time, since they'd not even have anything to argue about in front of a judge.
 
GasBandit

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Half the battle here is that by using their own CGI animation, they avoid YouTube's automatic copyright triggers, which is half the battle. Google hates to do anything that requires a person to actually perform an action, so if you put the onus on proving the copyright violation happened instead of proving your use of digitally cataloged footage is legitimate, it can go a long way.

Ironically this falls more into the category of derivative work than parody, because it is reusing existing characters and established settings to tell a new story, so it may not actually be as protected as straight up parody. It's just that Google hasn't set YouTube up to automatically catch derivative works because that's not something you can automate right now.
 
@Li3n

@Li3n

GasBandit said:
it is reusing existing characters and established settings to tell a new story, so it may not actually be as protected as straight up parody.
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The "new" story still relies on making established characters more ridiculous, so i wouldn't agree with that myself.


GasBandit said:
they avoid YouTube's automatic copyright triggers, which is half the battle.
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Yeah, i was not disagreeing with that.

But, it was on this forum that i recall learning that the 4Star peeps where also getting industry roles during their last season of DBZA, and how that probably influenced them not doing the Buu Saga.
 
figmentPez

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My Hero Academia Season 2 in 8 minutes



I've never seen this show, the 8 minute version makes it seem like it's just a reskinned Naruto.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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figmentPez said:
I've never seen this show, the 8 minute version makes it seem like it's just a reskinned Naruto.
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It pretty much is.

I stopped watching it at some point, I forget where, but yeah. The constant jokes of calling the protagonist "Green Naruto" were right on the mark.

But hey, there's a formula for maximum profitability in Shonen works, and so that's what they went with.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

I still watch MHA... the quality's still there. The manga is supposedly approaching it's end, so the show has maybe... 3 seasons left before they'll need to adapt Vigilantes or one of the other side projects.

One mark in MHA's favor? It's not afraid to address the elephant in the room in regards to supremacy (though it's "powered" supremacy and not "white" supremacy for obvious reasons) and it's society destroying power.
 
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