Web Animation / ABOMI~NYA~TION

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ABOMI~NYA~TION is a Fanime series on Youtube which began in 2024, and the best way to describe it is that it’s a combination between the anime parodying and intentionally crude style of Nyan~ Neko Sugar Girls plus the surreal humor and mixed-media animation of many [adult swim] shows. It was created by Toni Gremlin (who animates the show and does some of the writing) and Laundrygirl (who is the primary writer).

Savy and Gravy are best friends who are starting a new year at Gay High, but little do their classmates know that despite the name of the school they attend, Savy and Gravy are in fact… straight, and both of them fall head over heels for the bulky new student, Asho-chan. However, their snide classmate Boilyboop has made it his mission to scheme ways to cause trouble for the trio after Asho-chan humiliated him for making fun of Gravy’s fursona drawing. There is also a bizarre chimeric bird/human/dog creature called Hawkdogulous the eagle man who follows the gang around and basically becomes their Team Pet.

Go ahead and disregard the plot of the above paragraph except for the characters, because this series quickly becomes a Random Events Plot where every episode finds the cast in bizarre scenarios like going on a food quest (i.e. driving) to multiple cursed fast-food joints or attending a concert at the school festival where the lead singer is a sentient foot. It makes Nyan~ Neko Sugar Girls look downright grounded in comparison and it’s not meant to be taken seriously at all.

Check out the first episode here.

ABOMI~NYA~TION contains the following tropes:

• Author Avatar: The live-action segment in episode four shows that Savy and Gravy, who are voiced by the two creators, are caricatures of Laundrygirl and Toni Gremlin, respectively.
• The Big Guy: Asho-chan looks like an early JoJo's Bizarre Adventure character drawn from memory, having the torso of a brick on thin legs, and he’s strong enough to toss Boilyboop around like a ragdoll.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall:
  • At the beginning of episode 5, Gravy says that she doesn’t like camping, but Savy tells her to pretend like she does for the episode.
  • Later that same episode, while the characters are playing around, a caricature of Toni Gremlin is seen with text sarcastically saying that she loves animating.
• Cliffhanger: Episode 5 suddenly ends with the gang being flooded by water while playing chicken in the lake, followed by text saying To Be Continued.
• Deranged Animation: Absolutely. Prepare for characters switching art styles on a dime, mixed-media like live-action puppets and edited photographs, and funny-looking walk cycles.
• Eaten Alive: If Princess Dandelion didn’t die from exhaustion because of carrying around four humans, then she died from Hawkdogulous eating her in one bite.
• Everyone Has Standards: Savy intentionally orders the freakiest food she can from a disgusting place called “little freak family restaurant and drive thru” where the food is handed out on a little green thing’s tongue, but even she’s horrified when Asho-chan orders a pear from a meat-covered joint called “mAsTEr MEatWAds ScHlOP” that seems to come out of a literal asshole on the side of the building.
• Extreme Omnivore: Craving munches on a dodgeball during the game, and apparently, he ate the glass of the test tubes he and Scurvy were in, much to Boilyboop’s horror.
• Fake Band: At the school festival, Savy and Gravy are excited to see the band Computer Toe, named after their lead singer, who is a photograph of a foot with a face on it who speaks in a digital voice. Boilyboop hijacks the show to sing terribly on stage.
• Freak Out: Princess Dandelion has one after regretting carrying around Savy, Gravy, and the others where she hallucinates Savy and Gravy mocking her while a cover of “Aishite” by Kikuo plays in the background.
• Genki Girl: Most of the time, Savy is overly optimistic and cheerful, and she’s the one to reach out to Boilyboop to go on the food quest with them, but even she has her limits. There’s hints that she may be a Stepford Smiler, such as her ignoring Gravy’s concern about her car.
• Gilligan Cut: When Asho-chan asks the tiny fairy Princess Dandelion if she’s sure she wants to carry him and the rest of the gang to the lake, Dandelion swoops in to take them with her. Cut to Dandelion’s pained expression as she struggles to keep all four of the others on her back at once.
• Hiding Behind Your Bangs: Asho-chan’s bangs cast a shadow that obscures his eyes.
• I Will Only Slow You Down: During the race between Savy and Gravy versus Scurvy and Craving, Savy falls down and can’t get up. Gravy refuses to leave her behind, but Savy implores her to win the race without her. It’s Played for Laughs like everything else is and Savy is fine afterward.
• Large Ham: Several characters. Boilyboop acts like a Dastardly Whiplash character without the mustache while the gym teacher from episode 2 shouts all his lines at the top of his lungs ("TODAY. WE. ARE PLAYING. SPOOOOOORRRRRTS!!!')
• Little Bit Beastly: Gravy is some kind of dog girl, having dog ears and paws for back feet, and she sometimes barks, snarls, and bites. There hasn’t been an explanation for this yet, but in a world where there’s little homunculus minions and Hawkdogulous running around, she’s hardly the weirdest one in this setting.
• Mushroom Samba: In episode 4, Boilyboop gives Savy and Gravy a suspicious burger to eat, which causes them to see each other, Asho-chan, and Boilyboop as live-action people for a minute.
• Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: Asho-chan is friendly to Savy and Gravy and seems like a good guy, but he comes across as a little strange, what with his unnaturally deep voice, occasionally creepy facial expressions, and love for the nausea-inducing master meatwads schlop fast food restaurant.
• Not So Stoic: Gravy is generally the straight man to Savy’s enthusiasm (relatively speaking considering the weirdness that permeates everything), but she’s not above fawning over Asho-chan or excitedly trying to order 50 million cheese sticks at Cheesy Cheese Cheeseria before reluctantly lowering her order to just 24 of them.
• Opposite-Sex Clone: Boilyboop’s first scheme to get back at Savy and Gravy is to create male clones named Scurvy and Craving. His minions lampshade how there was no reason for him to do that and they ask where he got the resources from.
• The Rival: Boilyboop tries to be this to Savy, Gravy, and Asho-chan, but even though he’s messed with them multiple times, they invite him to go on a food quest and later go on a camping trip with them.
• Shout-Out:
  • Boilyboop’s design is a combination of Bakugo and Geto but with a rat-tail.
  • The fursona drawing that Boilyboop calls cringe is a still from the infamous Brazilian animation of Sonic and Mario making out with each other. The scene is also a reference to the "is that your fucking fursona? that's cringe" meme.
  • Mr. Frog can briefly be seen in the background in episode 4.
• Stylistic Suck: Naturally for a comedic Fanime, although it switches out the usual Microsoft Paint-looking style common to these types of series for something more modern-looking, though still usually very crude. Also, the dialogue is put through an 8-bit filter to intentionally make it sound a little muffled.
• Supervillain Lair: Boilyboop has one beneath the sewers of Gay High, which he enters by going through a toilet.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: The text introducing Savy’s car (which has feet for wheels and eyes for headlights) describes it as “savys awesome car that definitely ISNT her estranged brother). When Gravy, terrified, asks what’s up with the car, Savy changes the subject.
• Team Pet: At first, Savy and Gravy are creeped out by Hawkdogulous when they first encounter him on their way to school, but they accept him as part of the group afterwards, though he’s alternatively helpful and unhelpful to them and the others.