1997-2008. Bang.

[exanimo]

Toonami has done a lot of good things... RIP.

[KarthXLR]

Megas XLR

Only part that matters.

I frickin' love that show

[HeK]

They should have followed Canada's TeleToon lead and show anime with subtitles and the original voice work. (Teletoon later flip-flopped to follow Toonami)
Dubs (and especially American-market edits) bastardize the shows and ruin the plot, character development and so on.


Otherwise I have no complaint with their lineup, rather that it was not aired in Canada.

[A. Crow]

Tom 1.0 > Toms 2.0-4.0

[Evil Cheese]

To paraphrase a comment I read on Japanator about the topic which I think sums things up nicely. In the late '90's/early '00's a lot of people were still on dial-up, and streaming or downloading anime took forever. People who were kids during that time could really only turn to TV or rentals to be introduced to anime. That's where Toonami found its niche. Introducing really good, age-appropriate anime (even if it was edited a lot) to kids. These days, with broadband accessible to almost everyone, kids are introduced to anime through  the Internet by word of mouth (so to speak) and video streaming sites like YouTube and Veoh. Sadly, Toonami lost its niche and couldn't really keep up with the fan subbers.

Although purists might not have liked the editing Toonami did to the shows (not near as bad as 4kids or some of the other "kid" programming blocks around these days), looking back now I'm glad they did. The Internet has a lot of freedom and requires a lot of attention from parents. It's very easy for a kid to go from looking for latest releases of Naruto to finding something that is quite mature like Elfen Lied or even to hentai (i.e. the chans). At least Toonami was a controlled space, parents had an idea of what to expect from those shows.

[Surf314]

Death Note is now on Hulu btw.  Hulu kicks ass.

[chronomaster]

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Also, I enjoyed it when Toonami did that show with animation videos like Daft Punk and that one with the claymation dude selling his own soul to make magic happy goggles.

What the fuck Toonami played music videos by Kenna?

Its like first four or five years were good when it played stuff like Macross, its alright, I see adult swim as sort of like its successor, and it continues to please

Except it isn't. AS just cut its anime block two weeks ago. Now they play 12 oz. Mouse. *shudder*

[Lode]

To paraphrase a comment I read on Japanator about the topic which I think sums things up nicely. In the late '90's/early '00's a lot of people were still on dial-up, and streaming or downloading anime took forever. People who were kids during that time could really only turn to TV or rentals to be introduced to anime. That's where Toonami found its niche. Introducing really good, age-appropriate anime (even if it was edited a lot) to kids. These days, with broadband accessible to almost everyone, kids are introduced to anime through  the Internet by word of mouth (so to speak) and video streaming sites like YouTube and Veoh. Sadly, Toonami lost its niche and couldn't really keep up with the fan subbers.

Although purists might not have liked the editing Toonami did to the shows (not near as bad as 4kids or some of the other "kid" programming blocks around these days), looking back now I'm glad they did. The Internet has a lot of freedom and requires a lot of attention from parents. It's very easy for a kid to go from looking for latest releases of Naruto to finding something that is quite mature like Elfen Lied or even to hentai (i.e. the chans). At least Toonami was a controlled space, parents had an idea of what to expect from those shows.

The problem with Toonami, it wasn't all about the anime.  It was a blend of Eastern and Western cartoons.
The original premise was just action cartoons.

[Dave]

ultimate muscle

apart from the homosexual undertones that shit wasnt half bad.

[NiceGuy]

Now that you don't have Toonami to waste your time on, maybe you can get back to your commentator Sunday duties BoBo?? I demand it so make it so!

[MrGrey]

DBZ on toonami was fucking TORTURE...

week 1 "5 mins left till the world explodes..."

week 2 "just 5 mins left till the world ENDZ"

week 3 "5 MINS LEFT HAHAHAAHAHAHA WERLD GUNA 3ND"

week 4 "i really mean it this time.. you have 5 mins left"

week 5 "Frieza dont destroy the world in 5 mins!!"

week 6 "GOKU IM DESTROYING THE WORLD IN 5 MINS!!"

week 7 "OH NO Gohan.. frieza is gona destroy evrythingz!!  stfu krillian"

week 8 "5 mins left till the world ends, i swear"

week 9 "4 mins left now....."

week 10 "HAH.. nice moves goku but it will do you no good... 5 mins left now..."

...............................

[jorge]

It hurteds so good though.

[Fail Medic]

DBZ on toonami was fucking TORTURE...

"Oh, are they still on Namek?"

[MrGrey]

ahhaahha exactly

[CaffeinePowered]

DBZ is torture in any language, seriously fuck that show, at least dragonball was somewhat funny

[BoBoTheBum]

Now that you don't have Toonami to waste your time on, maybe you can get back to your commentator Sunday duties BoBo?? I demand it so make it so!

I'm busy as shit lately due to school.

I'd fucking love to do commentator sunday again if I had time.

[Surf314]

DBZ is torture in any language, seriously fuck that show, at least dragonball was somewhat funny

I haven't seen much Dragonball but I liked DBZ until I realized the shows creators were bat-shit insane.  From what someone who was a fan of the original told me Dragonball was based on the legend of the monkey king and was much better.  But then they decided to do some just complete garbage.

[Dave]

dragonball z:

Vegeta:AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Goku: KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Vegeta:NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Gohan: *pathetic "ah" thing*
Goku:KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Vegeta: *pathetic "ah" thing* THIS CANNOT BE!!!
Dave(sat at home) just move out of the way of that huge fucking beam then,dickface.
Goku: HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA


screaming and flashing lights follow.

[Wedge]

It was nice when I was a kid.  Rewatching Yu Yu Hakusho uncut right now actually.

[Geoff]

Dragon ball Z:

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHIHAVENOPARENTSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Which was proceeded by flashing lights, more screaming, and rapid hair growth.

IT WAS THE BEST