Martin Billany

Martin Billany (commonly known by his onscreen names Little Kuriboh, CardGamesFTW and Ninjabridge) is a British internet comedian and creator of Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series. His work on Yu-Gi-Oh!: TAS has caused an internet wide phenomenon, commonly referred to as the Abridging Community.

Yu-Gi-Oh: Abridged
In 2006 Martin Billany under his original screen name, Little Kuriboh released Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series Episode 1. A much condensed version of the first episode the of Yu-Gi-Oh! Anime. The conception of this episode was to introduce many more people on the internet to Yu-Gi-Oh!. Administrators at YouTube took down the video due to copyright claims from 4Kids Entertainment. However the video was replaced with one of Billany dressed in a Seto Kaiba cosplay with the same dialogue as the original episode. Eventually the episode was reinstated and Little Kuriboh has promised to "abridge" all episodes of the original Yu-Gi-Oh Anime. Initially, all voices of the characters were done by Martin, including the female ones, with the exception of Rebbeca Hawkins, who was voiced by his now ex-wife Abigale, also known by her screen name Safty. More recently in Season 3, guest stars have included Kirbopher as Noah Kaiba, and the members of TeamFourStar as the Big 5 (aka Team 4Kids).

Season 1
Little Kuriboh completed the story arc for Season One of Yu-gi-Oh: The Abridged Series on June 18, 2007 with the episode, "Shine on, You Crazy Devlin." The title itself a play on the Pink Floyd song Shine On You Crazy Diamond. The episode introduced the character Duke Devlin and held the entire Dungeon Dice Monsters arc, which in the actual series lasts 4 full length episodes. There were 22 Episodes in Season 1.

Season 2
On August 5, 2008 Little Kuriboh started season 2 of Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series. This season lasts 24 episodes and includes the entire Battle City Arc and the Battle City Semi-Finals. It is revealed in this season that the main antagonist of the Abridged Series is Team4Kids. This season ended on January 6, 2010 in the episode Melvin'd, the episode reveals that Melvin Ishtar, Marik Ishtar's evil alter ego, it actually an agent of Team4Kids, and the cancellation of the series at the end of a duel between Melvin and Florence (Yami Bakura).

Season 3
On May 25, 2010 Little Kuriboh started season 3 of Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series. This season is currently ongoing and is up to its 9th Episode. The story arc for this series is that of the Virtual World of Noah and the Big 5. Noah is voiced by Kirbopher, and the Big 5 are each voiced by members of Team Four Star; hb12k as Gansley, KaiserNeko as Johnson, MasakoX as Nesbitt, Lanipator as Lector and Takahata101 as Crump.

Naruto: The Abridged Comedy Fandub Spoof Series Show
Naruto: The Abridged Comedy Fandub Spoof Series Show is a parody of MasakoX's Naruto: The Abridged Series uploaded on Martin's second channel, Ninjabridge. The series generally pokes fun at the anime series Naruto and MasakoX's series, with recurring jokes including Naruto's extreme smoking habit and sexual attraction towards Sasuke, Sasuke being completely emo and expressing no emotion at all, Sakura being irrationally hated by everyone, and Kakashi frequently being believed to be David Bowie, who he frequently denies and claims that he is. Unlike his other work, where harsh profanity is bleeped out, this series is uncensored.

TeamFourStar Abridged
Little Kuriboh, after initially auditioning for the role of Captain Ginyu in TeamFourStar's DragonBall Z: Abridged series, was given the role of Frieza from episodes 13 onwards. He also voices the Narrator.

TOME: Terrain of Magical Expertise
Martin Billany plays a major role as Nylocke in Chris "Kirbopher" Niosi's original animated webseries, TOME: Terrain of Magical Expertise.

Other Works
Martin Billany also appears in many different Abridged Series as a "celebrity cameo" due to his fame on the internet. He has appeared in Vegeta3986's Naruto: The Abridged Series (of which he has made his own spoof), ShadyVox's Sonic X Abridged, Psyguy's Sonic X Bastardized, 1KidsEntertainment's Death Note Abridged and Pokemon 'Bridged, Antfish's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Abridged, MasakoX's Kampfer Abridged, Megami33's Sailor Moon Abridged and purpleeyeswtf's None Piece. Billany also cameoed in the Nostalgia Critic 200th Episode review of Ponyo, where he beats the Critic with a bat while citing his reasons for liking the movie, as well as Linkara's review of Bimbos in Time as Yugi shouting "Why is Everybody in this comic a f***ing Bimbo?!", and as Bandit Keith in Spoony's review of DOA: Dead or Alive, where he reprimeanded Spoony for making fun of Tina Armstrong.

Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Movie
Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Movie is a half hour condensed version of Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light. Released in four parts the video has been taken down from YouTube many times and has been reinstated.

Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Other Abridged Movie
Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Other Abridged Movie is a 10 minute running of a movie based on the original Yu-Gi-Oh! Series commonly referred to as Season Zero.

Yu-Gi-Oh!: Bonds Beyond Time Abridged
Yu-Gi-Oh!: Bonds Beyond Time Abridged is a 30 minute condensed version of the Yu-Gi-Oh! 3D: Bonds Beyond Time movie. This movie was a collaborative effort of Little Kuriboh, ShadyVox and The Azure Crow. This movie is based on the premise of card games on motorcycles traveling through time. The three main Yu-Gi-Oh protagonists try to defeat the villain Paradox, who is trying to save the world from being inexplicably destroyed by a single generic card game.

Naruto: The Abridged Comedy Spoof Series Movie
Naruto: The Abridged Comedy Spoof Series Movie is a 30 minute condensed version of Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow. This movie was created as a reference to the fact that after promising to create this movie, the creators of Naruto: The Abridged Series had spent several weeks and the release of 5 episodes with no mention to the upcoming movie.