Princess Tutu Abridged (TutuOnAbridger)

Once upon a time, there was a man who died.

(Of course, he was important to the plot, so that didn't stop him for long.)

The man's job was the writing and telling of stories...so it should be no surprise to anyone that the story he didn't finish came back to bite everyone in the ass. His characters escaped from the book and out into the real world, where the hero cut out his own heart to seal the villain away. This caused the story to screech to a halt, which made the undead author frustrated and bored.

Once upon a time, a duck fell in love with a heartless prince. Finding this a fascinating plot twist, the author gleefully offered her the chance to help her crush. The duck agreed, and the author used his powers to turn her into a girl. Now, the former-waterfowl must become a Magical Ballerina Princess to recover the pieces of the prince's heart...assuming the abridging team doesn't get bored first.

Princess Tutu Abridged
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Produced By	TutuOnAbridger
# of Episodes	18
Channel	http://www.youtube.com/user/TutuOnAbridger

History

Although it was the third abridged series for Princess Tutu to release an episode, TutuOnAbridger's series is the only one ever to make more than two. Currently there are 19 live episodes and there are written scripts for the entire series; the current plan is for all 26 to be released by the end of 2010. A more complete history can be found on the team's page.

Production

Writing by Elf

Co-writing by Blade

Voice Acting: Elf, Blade, Walker, Runen, Doodle, Taslin, Ekul

Editing by Blade

Editing Suggestions/Error Catching by Taslin

Openings and Ending Themes

Opening Theme: "I Don't Feel Like Dancing" by the Scissor Sisters

Episode 4 Guest Opening Theme: "Baby, Get Up and Dance" by AB

Episode 17 Guest Opening Theme: "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" by Whitney Houston

Ending Theme: "Caramelldansen (Speedycake Remix)" by Caramell

Common or Recurring Jokes

Alternate Character Interpretation

Major Characters

• Duck: A waterfowl-turned-fangirl who occasionally turns into the Magical Ballerina Therapist: Princess Tutu! Her job is to restore Mytho's lost emotions, but really, she spends all her time trying to get into his pants (assuming he's wearing them at the time). Doomed to be unrequited in love because she'll turn into a speck of light and vanish from existence if she ever confesses her feelings.

• Mytho: The fairytale prince from Drosselmeyer's story who has lost his heart...and his common sense. Has some trouble with the concept of wearing clothes. Also known as Encyclopedia!Mytho, he's always ready with a random fact (a habit he picked up from watching too much Jeopardy). He regained the feeling of Plot at the end of Season 1 and became important, but because Kraehe had soaked it in liquid evil first, he's turning into a villain and trying to steal the hearts of innocent young girls.

• Rue: Mytho's controlling girlfriend, who develops a supreme dislike of Princess Tutu because of the way she's messing with Mytho's personality (or lack thereof). Transforms into the Dark Magical Ballerina Princess Kraehe in order to stop heart shards from returning and generally ruin our heroine's day. Revealed to be the Raven's daughter in Season 2.

• Fakir: Mytho's ex-Nazi roommate, who inflicts general abuse on anyone who gets too close. "MORON!" is his catchphrase. Appears to be strangely aware of the narrative conventions that surround them. It has been revealed that Fakir is a diagnosed schizophrenic, due to no one believing his claims that he's a character in a fairytale. He has stopped taking his medication, and was suspended from school because of it, only to return several episodes later.

• Edel: A mysterious and helpful prostitute who gives Duck cryptic advice once an episode and then disappears into the mist. Actually a puppet/robot created by Drosselmeyer, she burns herself alive after he removes her sex drive at the end of Season 1.

• Drosselmeyer: A pedophile ghost-writer who lives in a clock and works to make his fairytale the perfect story. Picks Duck to be Princess Tutu because she's the only one who fits in the costume.

• The Raven: The titular Raven from Drosselmeyer's story and Mytho's archnemesis, he was sealed away when the Prince removed his heart. Now he languishes in his prison until someone can find a way to get him out. Fond of abusing his daughter Kraehe and of the television show "That's So Raven."

• Uzura: Edel's inner child, who somehow magically survived being burned and now lives at the schmied with Fakir and Charon. She is the cause of many awkward moments between Fakir and Duck.

Recurring Minor Characters

• Pike and Liliae: Duck's so-called 'friends' at Goldcrown Academy; in reality, they spend most of their time physically and mentally abusing her. Pike is slightly nicer, Liliae is a full-blown sadist. Virtually unchanged from the original series, only exaggerated. Pike receives an episode in the limelight when she caught Evil!Mytho's wandering eye and briefly becomes a main character, to Liliae's dismay.

• Mr. Cat: The anthropomorphic cat who teaches ballet at Goldcrown, constantly holding an unspecified threat over his student's heads. Has a fondness for fanfiction and has recently developed a debilitating allergy to hotness. Season 2 reveals that he once harbored ambitions of becoming a LOLcat and even got to meet Ceiling Cat in person, but that his overproficiency with grammar forced him to abandon his dream.
• Raven1: A snarky raven who has been assigned to Kraehe by his boss, serving as her minion and (essentially) babysitter. He is proud of his raven heritage and becomes extremely put out when people mistake him for a crow.
• Autor: A guy who keeps showing up in the background, usually in the library. According to him, he is a major character and therefore does not belong on this list, but whether he's right or not remains to be seen.

Abridged Series Side Plots

Fakir and Rue's Affair: Fakir and Rue begin dating behind Mytho's back, but eventually break up after Rue refuses to break it off with Mytho. Now their relationship is charged with the resentment befitting a pair of exes.

The Shipping Bridge: Duck used the Shipping Bridge in Episode 7 to pray the Gods of Fanfiction to grant her a new love interest. So far, nothing appears to have changed--though Fakir has been getting more characterization lately... As of Season 2, Duck is in serious denial, though even her friends can see that she's got it bad for Fakir.

The Ballerina Mafia: Pike and Liliae formed the Ballerina Mafia, intent on dominating the criminal underbelly of ballet. Duck is unwillingly recruited. Their first objective was to assassinate their ballet teacher and take over Goldcrown Academy, which resulted in lots of near misses. With Pike's brief sojourn into major character-hood and all the new drama between Fakir and Mytho, the Mafia seems to have disbanded in Episode 15.

Breaking the Fourth Wall: Near the end of Season 1, Kraehe initiates a direct conversation with Drosselmeyer that damages the Fourth Wall beyond repair. Some ominous voices express their pleasure at this turn of events...

Systematic Changes

The Opening Stories:

• The Three Brothers (Tales of Beetle the Bard)
• The Story of Davy Jones (Pirates of the Caribbean)
• The Ballad of Sweeny Todd (Sweeny Todd)
• Corpse Bride (Modified Version)
• The Brave Little Toaster (Modified Version)
• High School Musical (Modified Version)
• Curious George (Modified Version)
• Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare)
• The Wizard of Oz (Movie)
• Labyrinth (Modified Version)
• The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
• Enchanted (Disney)
• Brer Rabbit (Modified Version)
• A Separate Peace (John Knowles)
• The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)
• Little Shop of Horrors (Howard Ashman & Alan Menken)
• Zeus and Europa (Greek Mythology)
• Revenge of the Sith (George Lucas)
• Madeline (Ludwig Bemelmans)

The Transformation Music:

• Horror Show (The Birthday Massacre)
• Russian Lullabye (Toybox)
• Overture (Sweeny Todd)
• Supermassive Black Hole (Twilight OST)
• Inspire (Ayumi Hamasaki)
• Godot's Theme ~ The Fragrance of Dark Coffee (Trials and Tribulations OST)
• The Chicken Dance (Arr. Bobby Morganstern)
• Love^2 Sugar (DDR Mix)
• Kanto Pokérap (Arr. John Siegler)
• Hand of Sorrow (Within Temptation)
• Unfaithful (Rihanna)
• Magical Ballerina Princess with a Nice Ass (Original Song)
• Miracle (Cascada)
• Wannabe (The Spice Girls)
• Nursery Rhyme 2 (Okami OST)
• Stoning (Big O OST)
• The Lusty Month of May (Camelot)
• La Marseillaise (French national anthem)
• My Freeze Ray (Dr. Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog)

Mytho's Heart Shards:

• Hunger
• Paranoia
• Emo
• Sarcasm
• Sissiness
• Incredibly Annoying
• Creeper (or Obsession)
• Skepticism
• Plot
• Conscience

Running Verbal Gags

Shiny?: A common reaction when Tutu is involved.

• First appears: Episode 1- 3:33

Is that Ghost Music?: Edel's entrance cue.

• First appears: Episode 1- 2:16

Mytho's Varying States of Undress: "Put some pants on!"

• First appears: Episode 1 - 1:23, 7:50

Oh Snap!: Identity crisis!

• First appears: Episode 1- 9:14

Anachronisms: That hasn't been invented yet.

• First appears: Episode 1- 2:08, 6:24

Why is Everything in German?: Come on! We're an English Dub of a Japanese TV show.

• First appears: Episode 3- 5:38

Duck's Perfect Ass: It's Perfect!

• First appears: Episode 1- 5:07, 6:48

Tutu On!: Magical Girl Catch Phrase!

• First appears: Episode 1- 8:28

Tutu Telepathy: "Is she composing poetry in her head?"

• First appears: Episode 2- 9:04

Give me your beautiful body parts: "Heart, Mytho!"

• First appears: Episode 15- 7:45

Also See

Episode List:

1. Princess Tutu Abridged: Episode 1: In which we are introduced to our protagonist, Princess Tutu saves Mytho from falling to his certain death, and an ominous figure has an eye on our heroine's perfect ass.
2. Princess Tutu Abridged: Episode 2: In which Drosselmeyer explains the plot, Duck discovers her Tutu powers, and a shard of Mytho's heart is recovered from a hungry anteater.
3. Princess Tutu Abridged: Episode 3: In which there are many Sweeny Todd allusions, Fakir and Rue begin their passionate affair, and Duck discovers exactly why it sucks to be her.
4. Princess Tutu Abridged: Episode 4: In which Piano Penguin Man saves the day, Duck and Rue learn the true meaning of Christmas, and a plot is artificially inserted into a filler episode.
5. Princess Tutu Abridged: Episode 5: In which Duck learns of Mr. Cat's secret passion, Mytho gets kidnapped by a snarky lamp, and everybody goes to RenFest '09.
6. Princess Tutu Abridged: Episode 6: In which a traveling ballet troupe comes to Goldcrown Town, Duck and Fakir do the Telepathy Tango, and Mytho becomes a total loser.
7. Princess Tutu Abridged: Episode 7: In which Fakir and Mytho hide out in Anne Frank's house, Duck puts in a request for a new love interest, and a mysterious (and sexy) rival appears.
8. Princess Tutu Abridged: Episode 8: In which Fakir perhaps actually has a soul, Pike and Liliae form the Ballerina Mafia, and there is a quasi-climactic showdown.
9. Princess Tutu Abridged: Episode 9: In which The Ballerina Mafia reveal their agenda, Fakir struggles with his new foreign impulse to be nice, and Rue decides to do something about Princess Manthief.
10. Princess Tutu Abridged: Episode 10: In which Duck gets more in touch with her feathery side, Fakir stops taking his medication, and Mytho and Kraehe (almost) get hitched.
11. Princess Tutu Abridged: Episode 11: In which Edel returns, Fakir actually does ballet, and there is a struggle over a Deus ex Machina.
12. Princess Tutu Abridged: Episode 12: In which the Fourth Wall is broken, Fakir and Duck form an unlikely alliance, and the climactic season finale begins.
13. Princess Tutu Abridged: Episode 13: In which Fakir gets distracted by a fight sequence, the season climaxes, and there is both a satisfying conclusion and a terrible cliffhanger.
14. Princess Tutu Abridged: Episode 14: In which Duck experiences déjà vu, the plot takes a turn for the dark, and nothing is really explained.
15. Princess Tutu Abridged: Episode 15: In which Pike becomes a main character, Kraehe finally gets to give her spiel, and the Ballerina Mafia begins to collapse.
16. Princess Tutu Abridged: Episode 16: In which Mytho needs anatomy lessons, Fakir conceals a flashback, and there is a good deal of pollen.
17. Princess Tutu Abridged: Episode 17: In which Duck and Fakir talk about their days, Rue fails to seduce a man-slut, and three gods of anime are invoked.
18. Princess Tutu Abridged: Episode 18: In which a coup de théâtre shocks the world, Fakir has a brush with the avant-garde, and subtitles provide a certain je ne sais quoi.
19. Princess Tutu Abridged: Episode 19: In which Drosselmeyer knows something you don't know, Mytho gets his fan-mail, and the jokes hit rock-BOTTOM.