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{{quote|''"Beating a dead horse with another dead horse."''|'''Berserk Abridged in hbi2k's own words'''}}

''Berserk Abridged'' is an [[Affectionate Parody]] of the ''[[~~Berserk (Manga)|~~Berserk]]'' anime series that was created by [[~~Hbi 2 k~~]]. The series was supposedly canceled after Episode 17, but this was revealed to be a hoax, and eventually all 25 episodes of the anime received the abridged treatment. The series chronicles Guts' recruitment by Griffith on his way to Comic Con and the resulting insanity up until the final episodes where the series goes in a drastically different direction than the original anime. The series is noteworthy for its use of Zodd and the Snake Baron, AKA Phil, of the first episode as a [[Greek Chorus]]. It's also worth noting that this is one of the first Abridged series to actually finish, but then again, a lot of other [[Abridged Series]] are based on [[Long Runners]].

''Berserk Abridged'' is an [[Affectionate Parody]] of the ''[[Berserk]]'' anime series that was created by [[Hbi2k]]. The series was supposedly canceled after Episode 17, but this was revealed to be a hoax, and eventually all 25 episodes of the anime received the abridged treatment. The series chronicles Guts' recruitment by Griffith on his way to Comic Con and the resulting insanity up until the final episodes where the series goes in a drastically different direction than the original anime. The series is noteworthy for its use of Zodd and the Snake Baron, AKA Phil, of the first episode as a [[Greek Chorus]]. It's also worth noting that this is one of the first Abridged series to actually finish, but then again, a lot of other [[Abridged Series]] are based on [[Long Runners]].

On January 9, 2011 hbi2k's youtube channel was terminated for copyright infringement and all Berserk Abridged episodes were taken down. The claim came from [[wikipedia:VAP (company)|VAP Inc.]], one of the Japanese producers of Berserk. Hbi2k filed a counterclaim, and on January 27th, his channel was reinstated. All his videos are viewable again with the exception of a couple of Berserk Abridged episodes.

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* [[The Abridged Series]]: Obviously.

** The author, as well as doing [[Gantz Abridged]] has made some gag teasers for fake Abridged series, such as "[[Batman: The Animated Series ~~(Animation)~~|Batman: The Abridgimated Series]]" consisting of the Berserk Abridged characters doing Batman and tried to do an episode of [[Hellsing]] Abridged before Zodd beat him into continuing the actual series.)

** The author, as well as doing [[Gantz Abridged]] has made some gag teasers for fake Abridged series, such as "[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman: The Abridgimated Series]]" consisting of the Berserk Abridged characters doing Batman and tried to do an episode of [[Hellsing]] Abridged before Zodd beat him into continuing the actual series.)

** Not to mention that the God Hand were all voiced by other Abridged creators. ([[Lanipator]] of [[Yu Yu Hakusho Abridged]], Frolegend of Saiyuki Reload Abridged, and the duo of MasakoX & Vegeta3986 of [[Naruto the Abridged Series]])

* [[Affectionate Parody]]: hbi2k clearly loves the hell out of this series. That doesn't stop him from making fun of it in every way possible.

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* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: In the first episode Guts calls the Baron a "filler freak," even though he was actually in the anime. hbi2k has acknowledged this mistake.

* [[Does Not Understand Sarcasm]]:

{{quote| '''Guts''': "Note to self: [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|Casca does not not understand sarcasm.]]"}}

{{quote| '''Guts''': "Note to self: [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Casca does not not understand sarcasm.]]"}}

* [[Don't Explain the Joke]]: (Referring to the Dragon Slayer, Guts' '''huge''' sword.)

{{quote| '''Patron''': "Do you think he's compensating for something?<br />

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** More disturbing than that: '''[[Horny Devils|Slan]]''' thinks his dirty thoughts are disgusting. Yeah. [[Fridge Horror|Think about that for a moment.]]

* [[Even Nerds Have Standards]]: Final Fantasy cosplayer Guts finds the nobles [[Naruto|Akatsuki]] LARP a little too nerdy even for him. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by Rickert.

* [[Everything's Better ~~With~~ Plushies]]: Guts and Griffith plushies were trying to make plans for fighting [[The War of the Abridged Series Creators]], when a [[Final Fantasy|Tonberry plushie]] took them out.

* [[Everything's Better with Plushies]]: Guts and Griffith plushies were trying to make plans for fighting [[The War of the Abridged Series Creators]], when a [[Final Fantasy|Tonberry plushie]] took them out.

* [[Everything's Better ~~With~~ Princesses]]: Charlotte's status as [[Royally Screwed-Up]] subverts this.

* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]: Charlotte's status as [[Royally Screwed-Up]] subverts this.

* [[Evil Plan]]: The "Diet Pill Pyramid Scheme".

{{quote| '''Demon spirits''': Hey meester, how about some diet pills? Yes, buy our diet pills! Why exercise and diet to lose weight, when cheap effective weight loss solutions can be yours?}}

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* [[Foreshadowing]]: {{spoiler|Zodd nonchalantly telling Guts that Guts will eventually get to bang Casca; also about Griffith turning into "some kind of freaky lipstick monster" (which ''really'' happens in the actual series). The diet pills mentioned off-hand also come in relevant towards the end.}}

** Not to mention all the references to {{spoiler|the Eclipse}}.

** An unintentional one is during Episode 13, where some [[Mooks]] call out their commander for thinking of raping Casca, saying that rape is never funny. {{spoiler|This is one of the reasons why [[~~Hbi 2 k~~]] chose to do a happy ending for the series.}}

** An unintentional one is during Episode 13, where some [[Mooks]] call out their commander for thinking of raping Casca, saying that rape is never funny. {{spoiler|This is one of the reasons why [[Hbi2k]] chose to do a happy ending for the series.}}

* [[Fourth Wall Mail Slot]]: Zodd and the Baron answer questions from various users for an episode.

* [[Freud Was Right]]:

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* [[Genre Savvy]]: Zodd's line after the series ended, as follows: {{spoiler|"but it's like the only time in the history of anime that the demons win. Every other show ends with the [[Big Damn Heroes|Ancient Hero of Bullshit]] showing up at the last minute, wielding the legendary [[Sword of Plot Advancement|Sword]] of [[Deus Ex Machina]] and slicing the hell out of us. Well not this time! This time, WE WIN! Griffith turns evil. Everyone gets raped or eaten or killed. Fuck you. THE END!"}}<ref>Although what he's saying is technically incorrect. Devilman, a manga that inspired Miura, ends pretty much the same way, only with more [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]] hermaphrodites. Though he did specifically mention ''anime'' history, and Devilman's anime didn't quite end with the Demons winning.</ref>

* [[Good People Have Good Sex]]: After {{spoiler|making love}} Casca remarks on how someone in the series has ''finally'' had positive sexual experience.... [[Double Subversion|until Guts]] fills her in about his, er, [[Erotic Asphyxiation|choking fetish]].

* [[Grievous Harm ~~With~~ a Body]]: Zodd using his severed arm to beat the crap out of Guts and Griffith, which Guts thinks is ''hardcore''.

* [[Grievous Harm with a Body]]: Zodd using his severed arm to beat the crap out of Guts and Griffith, which Guts thinks is ''hardcore''.

* [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath]]: Guts in the series is gleefully psychotic. So is Corkus. Though that's not much of a change.

** Corkus changing his rants about entering high society and living the good life to murder, murder being like a fine wine, and '''more freaking murder''' is, though.

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* [[Kneel Before Zod]]: Zodd says the line at the end of one episode.

** And again whilst [[Rage Against the Author|beating up the abridger]] for nearly cancelling the show.

** And once more while [[It Makes Sense in Context|singing]] [[Aladdin (Disney)|A Whole New World]] [[It Makes Sense in Context|with the Skull Knight.]]

** And once more while [[It Makes Sense in Context|singing]] [[Aladdin (Disney film)|A Whole New World]] [[It Makes Sense in Context|with the Skull Knight.]]

* [[Knight Templar]]: Guts, during his stint as a mall Santa.

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: And how! (it wouldn't be an Abridged Series if it didn't)

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* [[No Fourth Wall]]: Interesting in that, as the commentary points out, there's actually two levels of fourth wall breakage: human characters think that they're in a [[Gorn|gorny]] [[Seinen]] show, while demons know that they're actually in an abridged series of a [[Gorn|gorny]] [[Seinen]] show.

* [[Oh God, Did She Just Hear That?]]: "Oh God, they can hear my thoughts! Don't think about sex! Don't think about sex! * sings the Meow Mix song in his head* "

* [[Oh God, ~~With~~ the Verbing!]]

* [[Oh God, with the Verbing!]]

* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]] - Guts points out Zodd's human form as this trope: "So...you're actually a ten-foot tall demon-thing who disguises himself as an ''eight-foot'' tall ogre-thing...?"

* [[Pastel-Chalked Freeze-Frame]]: "Holy crap, what happened to the animation budget?!"

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* [[Rage Against the Author]]: Zodd versus BA's creator. Zodd usually ''wins''.

** Guts is implied to have beaten up his own character designer (and creator), Kentaro Miura.

* [[Raging Stiffie]]: Guts had one just before he realized Casca was a girl. [[Sweet On Polly Oliver|It was a huge relief to him.]]

* [[Raging Stiffie]]: Guts had one just before he realized Casca was a girl. [[Sweet on Polly Oliver|It was a huge relief to him.]]

* [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil]]: The Tudor soldiers who corner Casca during Guts's battle against a hundred of them show no opposition to killing her... but are absolutely appalled at the idea of raping her. An interesting change in world where [[All Men Are Perverts]].

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Zodd directly compares Guts and Griffith to [[Naruto]] and Sasuke respectively, though Griffith thinks it's more the other way around.

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Frank: "You said no Johnny Cash. This is Billy Joel!" }}

** Not to mention he was the {{spoiler|DJ at the Queen's funeral and fooled around with the music during the service}}.

* [[Surrounded By Idiots]]: Foss, among the circle of nobles trying to bump off Griffith.

* [[Surrounded by Idiots]]: Foss, among the circle of nobles trying to bump off Griffith.

{{quote| "Am I the only person in this conspiracy who's not ''clinically retarded?!'' Throw me a fricken ''bone'' here, people!"}}

* [[Talking Is a Free Action]]: Zod points out that he could kill Guts three times over just in the time it takes for him to talk about it!

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* [[Those Two Guys]]: Zodd and "Phil".

* [[Thoroughly Mistaken Identity]]: The King of Midland is frequently mistaken for the Burger King by demons and humans.

* [[Throw the Dog A Bone]]: Really every member of the Hawks, given that this avoids the actual series' [[Downer Ending]], particular mention should go to [[Nice Guy]] Judeau as described in the [[Where Are They Now]] sequence {{spoiler|He ends up marrying Charlotte and becoming King of Midland}}.

* [[Throw the Dog a Bone]]: Really every member of the Hawks, given that this avoids the actual series' [[Downer Ending]], particular mention should go to [[Nice Guy]] Judeau as described in the [[Where Are They Now]] sequence {{spoiler|He ends up marrying Charlotte and becoming King of Midland}}.

* [[Training Montage]]: Parodied, naturally.

* [[Tsundere]]: Casca's hatred of Guts is something that's never-ending in its ill-humor.

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* [[What Could Have Been]]: One of the things that Hbi2k was gonna do was make the final episodes in the style of [[AMV Hell]]. He doesn't go through it because he felt like it's not [[Grand Finale]] material, however you can see where he was going for his [[AMV Hell]] style in bits and pieces, like Slan's entrance to the song of ''She's A Lady'' with Corkus singing along.

** Speaking of Slan's entrance, each member of the God Hand was gonna have their own theme. However, this only went that way for Slan (and if you interpret it as such) Femto, (which by the way is ''The Hawkman Cometh''). Void, Conrad, and Ubik get their entrances set to ''He Has The Whole World In His Hands''.

* [[What Would X Do]]: It's time for another exciting episode of What Would [[Lupin the Third]] Have Done?

* [[What Would X Do?]]: It's time for another exciting episode of What Would [[Lupin the Third]] Have Done?

* [[Word of God]]: By name no less in the final commentary, hbi2k says that the [[Downer Ending]] happened, and that the other, happier ending was partly for his own amusement and partly due to the fact he couldn't find a way to parody the actual ending [[Squick|without feeling EXTREMELY uncomfortable]].

** To paraphrase: he couldn't find a way to show {{spoiler|[[Rape As Drama|Casca being raped]]}} [[Dude, Not Funny|and make it funny]].

** To paraphrase: he couldn't find a way to show {{spoiler|[[Rape as Drama|Casca being raped]]}} [[Dude, Not Funny|and make it funny]].

** A wise move on his part. From what he said in the (non-commentary) opening of the 24th episode, a lot of fans emailed him telling him that he shouldn't parody the ending, and he added that in a way, he agreed with them, since it's a hugely emotional moment. The Downer-est [[Downer Ending]] of all time. No fan of the show would want the end of that parodied, and hbi2k is on that list. And he did what any fan would've done; the Mega Happy Ending. And then follows up with an amv montage of all the bad things that happen jammed into a couple minutes when Zodd rebels. Literally the only way that he could have left the majority of the abridged show's fanbase feeling happy.

** This would be considered [[Double Standard]] since he showed a rather graphic scene from the manga, of {{spoiler|Guts' rape}}, in rather vivid detail and without apparent ill effects.