The Abridging of Haruhi Suzumiya, by FullmetalChao, is an Abridged Series of the Haruhi Suzumiya anime. Much of the humor in this abridged series consists of mercilessly hanging a lampshade on all the tropes in the show, which is effective since the original anime was pretty Troperiffic to begin with. It also includes some clever reinterpretations of the characters, such as making Yuki a Scary Black Man, and Itsuki a pedophile.

Kyon, in this series, first meets Haruhi when she introduces herself to the class and announces that she aims to create the best abridged series ever. She then drags him along with her and forces him to help her with her project, starting by grouping together some other students to do voice work. Thus the SOS Brig-er, Evil Cookies Club is born.

In April 2015, FullmetalChao took down the entirety of the series for reasons explained in links that were themselves taken down later on. He didn't have the original video files, as they were lost in a dead hard drive years ago, effectively making this series unavailable... until a fan provided backups of the episodes to the creator in late May 2016.[1] The official channel hosting these videos can be found here.

  • AcCENT Upon the Wrong SylLABle: The first three or so episodes has characters refer to Haruhi and Mikuru as "HaRUhi" and "MiKUru".
    • The latter is normal in English speech (the real dub does it despite pretty good pronunciations on every other name in the series), the former is not. Although, since Japanese accents with change in pitch rather than emphasis, any English accenting would be a necessary error of pragmatic translation.
  • Actor Allusion: One in episodes 9 and 10 (it's rather poor though), and one in episode 11.
  • Ambiguously Gay - Itsuki was this in the original series; the abridged series takes the "ambiguously" part out.
    • Also:
  • Blah Blah Blah - From episode three, when Yuki and Mikuru tell Kyon their backstories, and also in episode four.
    • And in the last episode, Haruhi declares that she had broken through the fourth wall when Kyon notices that the umbrella belongs to...
    • Itsuki's "Lulz".
      • "Go to hell, Itsuki."
    • Kyon's "I hate you all."
      • Also, in response to Itsuki's personal space invasion, "Restraining orderrr..."
  • Chainsaw Good: Episode 3. Twice.
    • Morning...
    • And At the Library...
  • Expy - Most of the characters in FullmetalChao's 07-Ghost Abridged (Abridged) video are expies of the Haruhi Abridged characters.
  • Flanderization - Mikuru's high-pitched voice is deliberately exaggerated to the point where it's almost impossible to understand what she's saying half the time.
  • Hello Male Nurse
  • It's All About Me: Tsuruya's a main character. Treat her like a god.
  • Kick the Dog - Haruhi deliberately aims at Mikuru's head when practicing baseball, trying to "decapitate" her, in episode seven.
  • Lolicon: Itsuki
    • When Haruhi accepts the computer club's challenge in episode 12, Yuki decides she would rather go home and play Mabinogi.
  • Oh God With the Troping - "Oh sweet God with the running!"
  • Overly Long Gag - The ECC's logo is shit.
  • Scary Black Man - Yuki. And how.
  • Shout-Out - Among other things, there are lots of references to Teen Titans Abridged.
    • Not to mention that it practically shares a universe with K-On! The Abridged Series (for which Fullmetalchao does writing/voices as well).
      • The main characters of said abridged series are apparently members of Itsuki's group of Loli Scouts.
      • In fact, Full Metal Chao voices Yui's Les Paul, Gitah... as a child molester....[2]
    • "Tiny miniskirts!"
    • "Itsuki, I swear to god, if you tell me to do a barrel roll, I will cut you."
  • Talking to Himself - The abridged "Remote Island Syndrome" episodes lampshade the fact that abridged Itsuki and Yukata have the same voice actor and sound almost exactly alike. The characters even refer to him as Itsuki's clone until he's revealed to be .
    • Three days later, when Episode 8 came out:
  • Verbal Tic - Much of Yuki's dialog is saying "bitch", often with nothing else (and too much to be the other trope).
    • Averted in Episodes five and six. Aversion Justified:
  • Yes-Man - As Itsuki pointed out, he has no opinion of his own.
  • Yaoi Fangirl - Haruhi writes yaoi crossovers on her fanfiction.net account.
  1. ↑ Comments regarding the fact can be seen on this video.
  2. ↑ a role he absolutely ABHORS
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