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It's for kids, but the storyline is fresh, unlike twenty someodd year old episodes of Naruto.

I've never been a fan of Bleach. The original didn't impress me, not at all what they hyped it up to be. I would like to see them take off the kiddy stuff like Naruto and One Piece and play double episodes of Blue Exorcist S1 since I missed most of the episodes when they first showed it, but I...

I couldn't make it through 1.5 episodes. What is this?

The only things I watch on Toonami are Dragon Ball Daima and Blue Exorcist. The others aren't very good. I've been out of the loop since Lycoris Recoil ended.

Sci-Fi outbidded Adult Swim for Gundam 00, Adult Swim outbidded Toonami for Bleach, and then there's information disseminated from Pre-Flight in recent years with streaming services outbidding Toonami for Sailor Moon (Viz dub, remaster) and other series such as Made in Abyss.

When the black & white [adult swim] bumper era started in 2003. Just like how the original Toonami's first era ended when TOM and the Absolution were created. To me, a programming block or network's eras end when they create a new interface that's entirely different from what came before it...

Toonami died the moment it was taken off weekdays on Cartoon Network. It's been moribund since being relegated to a once a week broadcast. The only reason it was "revived" after its initial cancelation was because it was easy to just rebrand Adult Swim Action as Toonami, given the internet...

MHA is kinda losing me. I remain unconvinced that this isn't a kids show.

Neither tbh

Agreed. Nobody will give ground on either side of the discussion because of completely different ideas for what Toonami should be and continuing the convo will only lead to badly hurt feelings and aggressively defensive behavior (neither on my part though, I'm chillin). :donald:

The hilarious thing is I'm not even talking about "obscure, niche" anime. I'm talking about anime that would objectively qualify as top tier and among the best and of the highest quality. There's no way anything on Toonami fits that bill. You act like I'm talking about putting some unknown...

Those are mature shonen? In Hunter's case, I stopped watching because it shouldn't take 40+ episodes for a series to heat up, the kid protagonist is a nuisance, and I was never interested in JoJo, so I can't say much about it other than it seemed wacky, talky, and nonsensical in its 1st season...

I'm not gonna quote all that, wjbraden, but my point is that Toonami's revival is now reflecting a much weaker era of anime on television. Nobody in his or her right mind buys that Dragon Ball Super is a TV-14 anime. I honestly want a competitor to come into to the game and air actual, quality...

I don't like to say it, but I can't lie to myself. I hate what Toonami has become, and if they get canceled they have only themselves to blame. And of course I hated what Toonani at various points in its history. You really think I was rocking with talky Gundam Wing or the mindless Android and...

Toonami on Adult Swim pails in comparison to ASA imo, and I'm even saying the ASA that played Trinity Blood and later Kekkaishi. I honestly thought Ani-Monday was pretty amazing minus the annoying bumpers that tried to emulate Japan, because they showed the action, scifi, and horror programming...

Wow.... where do I even begin...

Dude, if you're referring to me, just know I hate Casshern Sins. That and Deadman had to have been emergency acquisitions just to get Toonami back because I know they didn't have much money or support with the revival might as well have been a Kickstarter revival, and I don't even think they...

We all know that only happened because that was when a lot of people were turning away from TV and watching anime on the internet. If it had aired on Adult Swim in the early 2000s (yeah I know DN didn't exist, we're talking hypothetically), it would have been a huge success because it would have...

Yeah and that kinda frustrates me too because the Toonami I was introduced to as a kid had American shows, and now it's moving toward pure anime, which is something that was Adult Swim Action's identity, but I know I'd rather watch something like Clone Wars or Beware the Batman over all the...

The problem with that theory is that the Toonami crew acceded through Pre-Flight that they only watch a few episodes of most of the series they acquire. They were trying to get the Viz dub of Sailor Moon before they were outbidded for it, without ever having seen it! Oh and so much for "no...

I do the same thing. Oh I only really watch MHA, Megalo, SAO, and Attack on Titan atm. Everything else is swiftly ignored. But this isn't posting with a condescending tone, it's just stating factual information, and the truth does hurt people. If Toonami were to get canceled, people would make...

Now listen up, kiddies. To me, Monster is the best anime I've ever seen. You can complain about the pacing and maybe some of the stuff is a little over your head, but that's nitpicking at something that is way stronger than you realize, and Viz didn't even release the entire series on DVD, which...

This is the era of monetizing off of generic shonen series and slapping a label on anything new that comes out of Japan with strong fanfare and marketing it to the viewers. Back in Toonami and Adult Swim's heydays, the quality was better because they had so many series to work with from 30 years...

Mob Psycho 100 is horrendous to me and, Megalobox, although a cliche ripoff of Cowboy Bebop except with boxing as the premise, is certainly better than just about everything else they play. Toonami is getting canceled if they keep making dumb decisions and picking up shows that are popular...

Not a fan of Gundam Wing, but I found that commercial on YouTube that they used to run all the time on Cartoon Network with the kids building the gundam models and bragging about what types they were and how long it took them to make them. It gave me a solid chuckle. :murphy:

I get the feeling that for a long time CN/AS haven't been thrilled to have violent programming on the air. It just never made sense to have a bunch of long running shonen on once a week, and yet Toonami's been doing it for a long time, going back to the Saturday CN days obviously. I thought CN...

The thing is that when Adult Swim revived Toonami, I was expecting a lot more series of the Hellsing, Unicorn, Parasyte ilk, and for the shonen to be more mature along the lines of Death Note or Attack on Titan. Whose pulling the strings over there? And people say "seinen" and mature cartoons...

Put it back on weekdays on Cartoon Network. There's no point in it being on late on Saturdays if those are the types of shows they're going to play. They're just going to end up getting canned. Everything is tame, and would be well received by children. Pop Team Epic was great. MHA is ok, but...

They have only themselves to blame if they get Toonami canceled because their show selection has been atrocious, for the most part, but I don't mind Family Guy. :robin:

DBZ Kai, My Hero Academia, Megalobox, Pop Team Epic, Attack on Titan, and Samurai Jack. Almost none of those belong on Adult Swim, but I can't stomach the other stuff that's on. Seems Toonami is really about to be canceled thanks to a lack of variety and the prevalence of streaming services.

Mickey Mouse used to listen to radio talkies and attend sporting events in a suit and coat.

Honestly though, that didn't feel weird at all now that I think back on it. It really just felt like new shows that were following their modern anime Toonami predecessors such as Gundam Wing, Dragon Ball Z, and the like. I personally hated Wing and was on summer vacation when MSG started and...

Attack on Titan would be much better if it had been a 12 episode survival horror story instead of a long running shonen. I find the long, drawn out, talky aspects of this to be a turnoff.

Probably the next game I'm buying... well after I would shell out for Octopath Traveler and The World Ends with You: Final Remix. Good thing I have my Sonic mastery down to an exact science. :daffy:

I suppose you're talking about the early 2000s era Toonami with Outlaw Star, Blue Sub No. 6, MSG The 08th MS Team, and the like being on weekday Toonami. I honestly didn't really pick up on Toonami editing until I was introduced to Adult Swim Action through their marathons of Yu Yu Hakusho and...

Well that's what Toonami gets for not having any variety.

Voltron ran on Toonami for a while, even though it was never like Thundercats, which if you guys recall, was put on regular Cartoon Network after it was removed from the Toonami lineup around the time of Gundam Wing. I was just saying that I liked what little I saw of G.I. Joe on the Midnight...

The Tom 4 revamp was cool because of the fresh look, and I never did like Sara, she's a serious buzzkill.

G.I. Joe was the best thing about SVES (which replaced the original ASA). I remember catching 4 or 5 episodes during Christmas break '02 when it was on Toonami Midnight Run, it was back to back with G Gundam, which was on during the day. I really liked it, it was like an old school Toonami type...

I was only upset insofar as the last vestige of the original Cartoon Network was gone. As far as Toonami itself, I still watched it, but it was merely a shell of the weekday Moltar and original Tom block that I grew up with. By Tom 2's time, I had discovered Adult Swim, and Saturday night Adult...