GAS 01 Commentary

[SourJovis]

The intro by Kaiser is perfect. Haven't seen anyone else put so much effort in it. Editing lip flaps when the camera is zooming or moving is a bitch. Personally I think it's more annoying when the camera is swaying around than when the lips don't move correctly, but there's really no right way to do it.

[RueDN]

I find myself nodding along with interest, then realize anime isn't actually filmed, so cameras can't move and roam. There are no cameras. I feel like my world is crumbling around me

[UnnoticedKIN]

SwedishKuriboh is the username of a guy who dubbed Yugioh Abridged into swedish. He also made a list of his 15 favourite abridged series, your Gantz Abridged was third on his list, beaten only by DBZ Abridged and Yugioh Abridgded. He was also impressed by the fact that you completed three series and never gave up on any of them. And so am I, good job ^_^

[SwedishKuriboh]

@UnnoticedKIN While seven months later, I thank you very much for the free promotion, UnnoticedKIN! Thanks for that! ^^

[MiradaSharingan]

whe is the original video with out you voice?

[Freakyanimefan181]

I just thought of something the reason gantz has the whole lag thing is because he is in the middle of buffering lol

[shadowUrufu]

hum... I don't usually watch commentary, but it still seemed pretty interesting...

[Tycaper13]

what`s the name of the song?

[milesballew]

kato all the way i always hated kei

[rutger5000]

Question!: You really made a awesome abridged series. So why make a commmentary version roughly as large.

[drake2398]

YAY! so your actually doing Gantz filler chronicles?

[AnakinSolo27ABY]

But Cherry Pie is just such a perfect song for that moment...

[Okamipug0]

Umm... do you think you could possibly re upload episode one? Because it got flagged and your under-18 fans can't watch it.

[TheNerdNinja]

Kaiser (and you) made a good choice with Violent Pornography. It sums the series up pretty well.

[zalaabar]

i agree with

tinygreyalien13

[felineshadow0221]

i saw the blue haired kid lol i was like ...."well i'll be damned it is the psycho bum hunter who should be murdered in his sleep for killing innocent hobos will ya look at that" its nice to play spot the filler characters isnt it

[jason45022]

Man! I can't believe I missed those filler characters in the back of kurono and katou! 2:11 - 2:15.

[zrg48]

36 seconds yay side boob

[PistolKiss]

I love the intro, the song was a great choice.

[Jaz1m]

the manga is really fucking depressing... there's like only one happy part in the whole series... And even that part is really sad too... i still love Gantz though.

[BanjoThreeies]

How much more depressing is Manga for Gantz than the anime? I mean everyone freaking dies in the anime.

[bajan13k]

yeah, but, the Manga has points where everyone dies multiple times, then gets eaten by vampires, and then, the whole country is destroyed in a nuclear fallout.

Or something like that.

[BanjoThreeies]

Hmmm, well, getting nuked and eaten by vampires is pretty sad....

[tinygreyalien13]

you're right that is the greatest intro ever!!!!!!

[exiaedges]

nice intro really suits the anime.

I really think when he die and his head was flying out was kind of silly, actually from the anime itself.

[housecup1]

Dude, I said it before, I'll say it again, you and your crew are COMEDIC GENIUSES!! This is by far my favorite abridged series! Berserk Abridged is a close second, though. Keep it up! (0^-')b

[lanny109]

For some reason I just love the old lady in this. It's unexpected and hilarious.

[GodDog1835]

My leet haxor skillz are over 9000

[childrenofthegrave1]

u use hax! lulz

[CeilingSpirit]

i just noticed. Gantz abridged series spells gas.

[jeffhellraiser2]

Gasp! No way!

[cheftoniFTW]

Something I didn't get the in the actual anime...why is the schoolgirl mentionning Kurono's boner? Seriously...who cares?

But yes...this opening is by far my favorite!

[redvaldez1990]

how did she even notice it?

[jeffhellraiser2]

Why? Because it's Japan

[BigBortherTv]

*sigh* No, ma'am. Just enough for the girls."

[Flameshady2]

=) Awesome...

[Axen901]

All hail the master editer.

Cool how much thought you ut into planning this.

[itachifan275]

yeah it's my favorite abridged op

[ElfenLied619]

I agree. Best abridged intro just because the song fits perfectly.

[imphic]

All the great abridged openings I can think of are by KaiserNeko: Gantz, Lupin III, and TeamFourStars.

[SethGuy27]

Borinyukami's new Cowboy Bebop Abridged intro is a close second.

[spanishmix314]

"Eh-uh he's just so exasperated all the time" lol

[deoxy360]

I think the main gantz filler is the old lady and the cut aways to the gantz sphere showing the remaining time and text's that gantz does.

[DrPepperPro]

Berserk abridged has the best opening.

[Bunjithewolf]

the sleek black screen with that awesome music known as forces?

[YorkJonhson]

lol I never noticed the filler characters in the station.

[zrg48]

I love the intro it never gets old but I thought that if you ever made a new intro then it would have a song by Insane Clown Posse.

[vegetasasuke0]

did you use the pink floyd font to write abridged

[benayounyossi]

The fact that Kaiser knocked up that intro so quick is all kinds of badass. As if the intro itself wasn't already.

I thought the text-to-speech thing was sort of recycled from a Berserk Abridged gag?

[Sennenryu1]

I don't think so. None of the Berserk Abridged characters had text-to-speech voices, they were all HBI2K's or, in the case of the finale and the Hellsing, his friends.

[Anonomius0]

Good filler?  BLASPHEMY! Lol.

[Kujirudo]

I really agree about the intro, it is pure awesome. It fits so well with the song too, pure win.

[playpus]

Oh come now! Rick Roll never gets old! xDD

[Valnaught]

I laughed my ass off the first time I heard the opening.

[MarkERoth]

Yes that is the blue hair "Bum Hunter" in the subway station. I wanted to scream watching the end of the anime series when you are forced to realize that all the "Gantz Fighters" and everyone else Kurono meets after his inital death are all the people seen in the first episode in the subway station/ tv/ school/ ect...

[riader0]

really.... thats awesom!

[jenskeroro]

I agree. that opening iis amzing

[Jagjaxon]

GO KAISER KITTY

[teamDN]

Awesome commentary...and I know what you mean about looping footage. I always hated having to resort to something like that...but I applaud you for doing Gantz...that camera's all over the place lol

[raze667]

Ack! It's been a long time since I read Gantz, but since I want to be able to talk intelligently about it without doing so out my arse, I'm getting the urge to go read it again.

Good work as always hbi2k. I also thought that the introduction was supremely fitting and well done given the show it is for. "Violent pornography" indeed.

[Katfish4Life]

I am glad you made this series it makes me actually want to try an episode of Berserk since I only saw a few clips from Cassius and i've always said i would watch it.

[mammoth321]

hbi2k do you have the other short lived abridged Gantz link any where?

[NocandNC]

I was also very, very happy with how the Gantz voice came out XD

[im2not2cory]

HAAAAAA nice

[deal0rtruth]

I never really paid attention to the opening before(I typically don't unless its just some awesome song or w/e) but now that you've pointed it out, it just looks f-ing amazing.

That's Kaiser for you.

[xeoriffic]

u give so much attention to detail...

i bow before ur superior skills hib2k

[boldantpro]

Dude you are a freaking genius. Better then even little kuriboh.

[Eman100000]

Dude when are the gantz abridged filler episodes coming out?

[kiwigummies]

Kaiser did that?! Wow I just thought you made it yourself and thought 'Wow he's getting better at this' well I think I might've read it though and gone 'oh that makes sense it's really good' though

[DenarianLord]

Hey, hbi, why did you decide to use Gantz as your next project after Berserk, as opposed to God knows how many other possible choices?

[j0hnnycash]

Yea this is the best opening in my opinion

[gokudabomb1]

lol

it's been about a full year since the episode itself

great timing!

joe salaryman is by far my favorite abridged character you have created

maybe the best in the history of abridging

[Guardianangelzelos]

Gotta agree, Kaiser's opening for this series is pretty kick ass.

[DarkRune]

I loved this show, picked it up because of your abridging. The show is lovely placed on the basic ideas of 6 degrees of separation (You mentioned at 2:45 with the blue haired guy.) There's a lady behind Korono(2:14), who is the one hes carrying at the end of the show. There's a lot of returning characters. Reminds me of fight club with how you have yo watch it again for a lot of it to make sense

[RebornZombie]

Are you gonna do Berserk Commentaries once your done with Escaflowne?

:V

[daf867]

He already did...

[RebornZombie]

Exactly.

:V

[Konataproduction]

You mean the one he's already done?

[RebornZombie]

XD

I was joking...

[edmard09]

I watched your abridged series before I watched the actual Gantz anime, and I will admist, I was quite disappointed when I learned that Gantz actually didn't speak in the anime.

Love your dubs. Awesome.

[DarkPhoenixMishima]

I interviewed him on that!

[BMneko]

Hah, I reference that 1-2-3-4-5-6-sex joke almost every day.

I like how you put so much thought into your abridged series. This is really what sets the gold apart from the crap.

[yourfacehere111]

when if ever are you going to do filler chronicles

[tula168]

when ever the hell he fells like it :P

[jthecrimson]

hey Hb2k r u really going to make the filler chronicles or was tht just a joke?

[DarkPhoenixMishima]

hbi2k's focus is most likey going into Escaflowne, Filler Chronicles is most likely something we will see when hbi2k gets bored.

[DrTXBooks]

i think your right, the Filler Chronicles will more likely be just some random stuff that shows up when he wants a break from Escaflowne

[derpdragon]

GAS is by far the best abridged series, everything works out great even in the first episode. when i went to watch the anime again i had watched GAS abridged for so long that when it started i was thinking "wait what the hell is wrong with everyone's voice?" but of course it hit me that i was thinking "oh yeah thats the abridged" i mean its really so good that i mistook it for the original.

[Oblivion124]

Awesome, glad to see your next batch of commentaries begin.

Out of curiosity, was that girl really animated with dark face yet normal toned skin? That seems a bit... off.

[godlessfather]

Yeah, she was actually like that in the anime...

[Xer0sama]

Yes, and there actually are girls like that in japan.

[Llandner]

GAS opening rapes all other openings

[DarkPhoenixMishima]

Yeah, it seems that this opening has the most thought and time put into it.

But four hours... Kaiser must have been eager to do it.

[Stallion386]

Hmmm, his voice IS a little different

[Vilppum]

I'm glad you pointed out the change in Kurono's voice; it sounded fairly low-key in the beginning. For me it got a lot more animated around episode 3.

Bitchin' start to another commentary series!

[AshariaOfSand]

xD Yeah. That intro was my definite favorite of all time.

[ZomBoy18]

Gantz is a pretty active character now...in the manga.

[HaruGlory68]

Lulwut double entendre

Was that intentional?

It was pretty witty.

[lilurameshi]

That's awesome Hbi2k I loved your Gantz series and you were the one if I am not mistaken to get me into Gantz to begin with. I saw the first 3 episode of your series and then I watched the entire series and have read the manga.

[Gingerkyd]

no really kaiser did a great job with the intro, best one ive seen

[lordthenightknight]

Great, as usual. I just love hearing about the creative process, and knowing it's not just me always having to change my mind with story details.

[torentX904]

GAS was great. after the first ten seconds I started watching the anime one episode at a time comparing it. Mabey it was an accident but I liked that the mic you used on berserk made it sound as old as it looked. then it was an upgrade to a more graphic anime.

 PS. thanks for introducing me to two new animes

[kirbamon]

That was kind of a cool trick the animators did with the filler characters. I can't believe I never noticed them before =)

[kuroroL2]

Both bum hunter are there along with a lot of the other filler characters.

[LaughingManRa]

The GAS intro is one of the coolest intros to an Abridged Series I've seen.

[thrdthu]

Oh wow, I always thought that you were making Joe Salaryman as a reference to Rick Morannis. The voice sounded like him in Ghostbuster and he looks a lot like Rick. I was like "OH he is acting like Lewis from Ghostbusters. Rick Morranis is an obscure but awesome reference." But now I know I saw something that wasn't there XD

[gahooly]

Hehe! You're so excited about the OP. It is pretty cool. Though I've never seen Gantz, only your series. So I wasn't sure what was originally there in the OP and what wasn't. Nice commentary, hbi2k!

[elliott954]

i never saw that while watching that scene with the shopkeeper and the kick ass guy but that shopkeeper kept in the backgorund and kept saying friendship speeches that pissed that crap out of me and the the yellow haired guy forgot hs name but probably best filler character ever best quotes and best death

[CGPIncorporated]

yay haha- i saw the anime- very good- kinda weird how all of them were in the subway- yay filler chronicles

[DrakeDarkHunter]

I've always loved your commentaries and how they stay relevant to what's on screen yet also give in-depth information regarding the making of the show.

also did the text to voice generator you used have any means to which you could change pitch or tone? I say this because I've watched the show to the point where I swear I can hear emotion in his voice.

[hbi2k]

It does have a pitch control, but I never used it. (-:  The most I ever did was play with the punctuation a little bit (putting things like commas and ellipses in places they didn't actually belong grammatically) so as to change where the program would pause, making it sound a little bit more natural.

And sometimes I'd have to spell certain words kind of creatively to get it to pronounce them right (ex: "animay" instead of "anime.")

[straightlikethat09]

who won the contest

[TwilightMirror]

So saw this coming...

Yay

[xerxes333]

Around 2:30, the phrase you're looking for is hackneyed.

[Zhyard]

First of all, it's great that you've gotten around to doing the GAS commentary.

That opening is indeed the best looking AS opening that comes to mind. Really liked DNAS opening aswell.

"1,2,3,4,5,6. Sex!" Is the most memorable quote from GAS and while on the topic Joe Saleryman is the most memorable character.

Rick Roll didn't get old because it fits Gantz personality so well.

[ZoidsBN]

Hbi you should do a stream of consciousness. I think people would listen.

[biohazardcel]

nice, i've been waiting for this

[xcomixmovie2]

When is the filler chronicles coming out?

[AcidDude1232]

yay GAS commentary!! honestly this is the first time I've seen episode 1 (frickin child blocks. I know they're there for a reason, but still). Things do seem to go smoothly with Gantz being able to talk rather than via text. That was a smart move on your part.

[Jjkaybomb]

Gah! You're just dangling the good stuff in front of us to distract from your contest! I WILL NOT BE DISTRACTED!!! *watches the video* haha, the throwaway jokes like your salarymans always are the best in the end...

[abridgeduploader]

Wait, there's actually gonna be a Filler Chronicles?

I thought that was just a set up for Gantz (forgot) Gantz?

[KitsuneShugo]

Nice, I was waiting patiently for this

Nice commentary, hbi

[Nightmare1366]

Great video and I apperciate how much you put alot of thought into your series.

I bet that's the key reason for your success. Keep up thegood work.

[WatanukiProductions]

Yay, Good Commentary... and so it begins.

[NanaOneesan]

Thank u so much. I`m glad u decided on making Gantz active throughout the series.

Cant wait for the next commentary.

Do u still plan on doing filler chronicles?

Also, have u thought of making a video where the characters question how they enter the nightmare?

[aaronquigleyaq]

5/5

[Kamina445]

I have to agree, that is one of the best abridged openings.

[dunsedog]

The first time I saw it I thought it must be some secret clip made for the T.V (by the real production scene). Then I read "made by KaiserNeko" and I went "holy s***".

[DarkProject]

finaly, i was actually WAITING for this one, i did enjoy the BAS commentary, as to why i wanted to see my fav abridged series commentary xd