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Welcome to the Dragon Ball Z Abridged- oh no it isn't.
-Is that Kroze? Krooooze!- Noo- I'm not Kroze...
He isn't here yet- -No not yet...-
Kroze is not here now, he's gonna be here very soon.
-No its Kirbopher!- He is currently stay-
-We don't know why he's important he just has a funny name and people like to
shout it.- I'm sorry, Kroze is currently down stairs
at the t-shirts place selling t-shirts, go figure. Uhh...
He'll be coming up soon He'll be coming up very soon.
Your stuck with us until then. There we go.
How are you-all doing? [*weak* Whoooo!]
Whooo is not the correct response to the question, that doesn't make any sense.
-It is here- "How are you?" "Whooo."
[Laughter/Yelling: AWESOME!] Thats better.
That- thats better. -Friggin Sweet!-
Friggin Sweet! There we go-
-Brooklin Rage!- Exactly, thats so friggin rad Ishizu!
Sorry everyone- [Laugh] This is the "How I got Started: Yu-Gi-Oh:
Abridged - Panel," Which is- interesting because- it's hard to
explain how I started in Yu-Gi-Oh: Abridged I started getting interested in
editing after I watched a film called The Blair Witch Project-
[Laughter] Why does that inspire laughter in all of
you? "That film wasn't EDITED. Ahahah!"
I really, I looked at that film and when I saw that, that was the first time in film or any
kind of visual medium that sort of inspired, sort of interesting how you can
actually take something, an already established concept, and edit it and
re-arrange it to tell a completely different story.
Cause, originally, if you do any research into The Blair Witch Project, the
stuff they filmed, it was a very different, from the point of, as far as the characters
were concerned it was a really different story.
And I just thought "Wow, you can just take something thats as," you know, as, "real
as that and just change it if you just have," if you see the right pieces that fit
in the right places, and that just inspired my interest in film and editing.
Then and as far as Yu-Gi-Oh is concerned I started watching that when I was actually
supposed to be watching Pokémon- "Supposed to be watching
Pokémon..." Yea and I, the first actual experience I had with Yu-Gi-Oh
was this movie poster in the theater and I just thought, "That just looks like to
me, like the stupidest thing I've ever seen, like, why would anybody spend money to
watch something like that." *Smile* -booo-
[Laughter] Yea and I saw it on a Monday morning at
6'oclock in the morning just before Pokémon came on and there was like the
tail end of the episode when Marik watches Ishizu lose to Kaiba and turns
into Yami Marik is like, "Now you will face the rath of Blah blah blah my trading
cards!" "Oww my face hurts."
Yea, "OWW my face!" Yea, why, I was watching it and I was thinking
like, "Why are they making such a huge fuss out of this card game."
And I thought,
"Is there some sort of Pokémon thing? It doesn't look that impressive," and then I
actually thought, "As a laugh, I'm gonna sit and watch one of these episodes."
And it was, like, the Yami Bakura Vs Yami Marik duel, I was actually like, "Wait why
are these guys fighting?" Its not like Ash Ketchum going, "I wanna be the best!"
Its, "I'm going to kill you." [Laughter]
But instead were going to send you to the shadow realm because we can't say that
on KidsWB. "Right."
We didn't have KidsWB, we had SkyTelevision which had all the most
popular cartoons and T.V. shows. And basically I watched it and
I was like, "That was interesting." And I remember I got hooked because of
the characters more than anything because I started watching at that point
and then they went into the whole, "Noah."
I don't know if anyone or how many of you have actually watched during the
series but they go into the series where Noah Kaiba shows up and they go into this
whole backstory on Seto Kaiba and its like, "These characters aren't just sort of
doing things because the script says so, they're doing things because they
actually have, like, back story and motivation," and theres something
interesting going on with these characters and then towards the end of that season
it goes into battle city finals and then I learn, "Ok its also marketing a trading card
game." "I didn't realise." [Laughter]
And then I kept watching it and they had like the first two episodes online for free
to watch, and I watched those two and ya know I thought I better start collecting
this and I'm gonna stick with it and I'm gonna see what happens and I played though the
first two seasons on DVD and I was into it and I still am, I'm into it now but I'm not quite
as you know like, "Wow this is exciting!" ,or anything, but umm. Yea I wanted to
get involved with the Yu-Gi-Oh fandom, so I thought, "Well you know I have an
interest in editing and video making and I kinda do these crazy voices," because I
when I was in school I used to make fun of the teachers that I would take for latin class
I had one teacher who would [Gasping Stutter] "Ihp-Ihp-Ihp-Ihp- I can please-"
Things like that and it was just I imitate these voices to make people laugh more
than anything I wasn't, like I wasn't, I didn't hate the classes or the teachers
I just wanted, it got a reaction from people and thats theres something I've always been
really really fascinated by is the reaction that especially as far as humor goes
that, "I wanted to do something that would make people laugh that would involve video
editing," and it got me into the Yu-Gi-Oh fandom. So I though, "I have all these
Yu-Gi-Oh DVDs lying around why don't I just dub over it and edit it to the point
where I start telling my version in a sense, but telling the exact same story and telling it
in a way thats entertaining to other people who may have never even seen it or know
what it is." So yea- -By the way, did you, sorry to cut you off but,
there was somebody you think could be given the credit for the movie that got you into
Yu-Gi-Oh specifically? Or something- -Yea somebody called ?"Myibo"?
she didn't get me into Yu-Gi-Oh specifically but she got me into the Yu-Gi-Oh fandom because
they, she's a mother of three and she's more into Yu-Gi-Oh than her kids are.
[Laughter] And she was really really nice and
supportive person, she's been friends with me all four years since I've been doing
this and she was into it before it was even a "big deal."
And, yea its just, I posted the first episode of Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged, thinking,
"It'll be cool if maybe 12 people watch it." [Laughter]
And then a couple weeks later I realised, "People still actually want me to keep making,
this, I'll make another one." And I made the first episode in maybe
the space of two hours and these days I agonise over them over the course of
like weeks and maybe even months. And yea it really, it picked up.
It got to the point where, you know, I had "A Thousand Subscribers. Ahhhhh.." [Laughter]
And- "A Thousand Subscribers. Ahhhhh. [Laughter].." But, it was a big deal to me to even,
people cared that I was doing something. cause I tried several times online to make
to create something that people would care about, like you, you've seen some
examples of that, some of the art that I've done with various different comics.
And there was a period on the internet where everybody had a web-comic and I had five.
And nobody read them. -Wait five? I thought you only had two?
I had five web comics going at once. There was one called, "The Tongue,"
another called, "The Fairer Sex," there was one called, ?"Herthern Hero,"?
There were loads of them to the point where I really couldn't keep track of it.
And nobody cared for them, I think it got to the point, where ya know what, it was
no big deal, I was gonna stop and then I just stumbled upon Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged
and I wasn't trying to do anything that was significant, and people really responded
to it and its really blown me away that just doing something that, I do for fun
and something that, I really wanted to do no because everyone else was doing it.
It picked up because people sort of, it registered with them, that kind of thing
I was going for and, the humor seemed to, it struck people and it was really amazing
to watch it all happen. When I saw people posting Yu-Gi-Oh:Abridged on the
Penny Arcade Forums, even though they where saying, "This is the most retarded,
thing I've ever seen." I was like, "They're talking about me!"
[Laughter] ?(I can't really hear what hes saying.)?
Yea, thats essentially how I even got started. With season one it was pretty much
from start to finish. It was a really really big deal to people and I remember the
first time I faked/changed the opening theme tune where I did like,
in Episode Ten I did the Evangelion opening and, just a kind of fake out,
that every ten episodes I should change the opening, just to be funny, it would
be a running joke. But I got like million messages saying,
"WHY DID YOU CHANGE!?" [Laughter]
"WHY!? CHANGE DIFFERENT!" [Laughter]
And I was like, "Why is one different!?" "OPENING MAKE BETTER NOW GOOD."
[Laughter]
People like that opening theme tune, and its interesting because its from the
original Season Zero- -Which isn't even out over here.
Nobody really knows about that, well some people know abou it, I know about it.
I haven't seen it, I've seen a couple of episodes and I've seen, I've read the manga,
that its sort of based on and its interesting to see, its a very different take on Yu-Gi-Oh.
Its sort of like, its like dark and- -Well Its darker- Yea its a much darker...
-He kills people- He kills people.
-People die.- People die.
[Laughter] People die in Yu-Gi-Oh? Get OUT.