Fruits Basket Abridged is an Abridged Series of the overwhelmingly popular Shōjo series Fruits Basket. It's the brain child of Da Games Elite, written, directed, and edited by him. The characters are all voiced by his friends and associates, having premiered on New Years Eve, 2011. While the first fifteen episodes have been made, has since become an Orphaned Series, as there have been no new uploads since 2012. Several episodes have been taken down from YouTube since then, and the series was being uploaded to a now-defunct video sharing site called Blip.tv, making this a case of partially Lost Media.
The remaining episodes can be watched here
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Like most abridged series, it's an Affectionate Parody, but at many points, it employs some dramatic elements, and even, by Word of God, elements of Deconstruction.
Fruits Basket Abridged Includes the Following Tropes:
- Alternate Character Interpretation: Invoked, naturally, but not as prominently as in other abridged series.
- Tohru is ditzier, and, at times, even a little more devious due to her stealing food from poor Shinji...
- Kyo is a Hot-Blooded shonen hero, complete with announcing the names of his attacks.
- Shigure is a pure pervert, wanting only sex.
- Hana is some sort of dark arts practicing monster.
- Momiji is a complete pervert.
- And Knowing Is Half the Battle: Used explicitly in Episode 4, complete with G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero logo.
- Author Appeal: There are several references to Neon Genesis Evangelion throughout the series, along with Dragon Ball Z and Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, mainly because they're a few of Da Games Elite's favorite anime.
- Axe-Crazy: Kagura has a few issues, like cutting messages on the wings of carrier pigeons...
- Badass Boast: Kyo often makes these, but usually is either ignored or beaten up shortly after.
- Brain Bleach:
- Tohru wants some after imagining Yuki and Kyo falling in love with one another...
- Almost weaponized in Episode 2, where they almost erase Tohru's memory.
- Calling Your Attacks:
- Kyo does this frequently. He even Lampshades this in Episode 3.
Kyo Mental note: don't announce the names of your attacks out loud. Leaves you open for attack.- In Episode 9, Haru ends up doing the same thing, and even calls Kyo out when the attack he calls out doesn't match with his actions.
- Covert Pervert: Possibly Momiji, though it borders on outright sexual harassment from time to time.
- Creepy Physical: In Episode 7, Hatori orders Yuki to strip naked for a physical... in front of his fangirls. Later in the episode, Tohru is told to join Hatori alone for a conversation. She's under the belief something like this would happen.
- Crossover Gag: Aside from the numerous Eva clips, during Hana's flashback in Episode 6, a clip from Legend of the Overfiend is played.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: All of Kyo and Yuki's fights. Kyo is always crushed.
- Deadpan Snarker: Yuki is this trope, and Uo has shades of it.
- Devil in Plain Sight: Hana, right down to "Ave Satani" playing when she appears.
- Dude, She's Like in a Coma: In the very first episode, Shigure almost takes advantage of Tohru. Yuki even compares it to the End of Evangelion.
- Hot-Blooded:
- Kyo is a hot blooded shonen stereotype personified, and often engages in Kamina level Badass Boasts.
- Black Haru is so hot blooded it makes Kyo look like a pacified baby in comparison.
- Intercontinuity Crossover: Tohru steals frequently from Shinji Ikari...
- Larynx Dissonance: Also averted. The guys play guys, and the girls play girls. The only exception is Yuki.
- Les Yay: Invoked. Uo and Hana unabashedly ask Tohru for lesbian sex in Episode 6.
- Lovable Sex Maniac: Subverted in that Shigure has all the qualities, but all the characters, save for Tohru, want to kill him.
- Mood Whiplash: Episode 8 goes from jokes about sex and humorous blackmail to
a depressing montage showing Hatori erasing his lover's memories. - Noodle Incident: In Episode 6, Hana references the reason why she was kicked out of her ordinary school.Hana: I was found opening a vortex to hell. To open it, I required the blood of a hundred virgin girls. I ended up gutting a thousand girls before I found my hundred, mainly because my demons of the night refused to leave a sperm wasted.
- Rousing Speech: Attempted in Episode 7. Tohru starts to give her famous "Rice Ball" speech, only for Kyo to shoot her down in seconds.
- Shout-Out:
- Several of Kyo's lines consists of some shonen or mecha reference, most notably either Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Dragon Ball Z, or Mobile Fighter G Gundam.
- Tohru has a habit of stealing food from Shinji Ikari...
- Men in Black's "flashy thing" is compared to Hatori's mind erasing power.
- There's an entire gag about Shout Outs in Episode 2.
- Apparently, Haru keeps mistaking Kyo for some guy named Kakarot.
