How Toonami Changed Anime Forever: Creating a New Generation of Anime Fans

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For a lot of us, Toonami brought anime to mainstream with it's block of shows on Cartoon Network. It introduced shows like Dragon Ball Z, Sailor Moon, Yu Yu Hakusho, Gundam Wing and so many more to a new generation, who quickly became fans. But just how big of an impact did Toonami have on anime and media in the US and even around the world?
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@GetInTheRobot 5 жыл бұрын

We're curious... what was the first anime you remember seeing? Was it through Toonami? Coming soon to Get in the Robot ✨ • My Hero Academia Pro Support Items Explained 🔧 • An all new "Why? Anime" ❓ • SSSS. Gridman 🤖 + Even more anime in 2019

@XFry333X 5 жыл бұрын

Sailor Moon and DBZ. I remember I had to explain to my aunt why the Sailor Moon transformation sequence wasn't adult content lmao. She was old school Catholic and threatened to tell my mom. I had to beg my way out of it and could never watch Toonami after that in the living room. I'd have to sneak off into my room and pretend to "study" with the volume real low to watch it! Sailor Moon still my shit and DBZ the goat ofc.

@klein8697 5 жыл бұрын

I didn't have CN in my region but I do remember staying up late for Naruto when I was really young. Particularly the entrance exam and a some of the fights, but I couldn't actually follow the plot with all of the episodes I missed.

@anthrowolf1328 5 жыл бұрын

Inuyasha; At about 6 I couldn't sleep so I turned on the TV, my mind was blown. From then I watched adult swim until the shows turned to garbage.

@leonardojasmin830 5 жыл бұрын

Inuyasha

@Gersheyz 5 жыл бұрын

I'm a pre-toonami era guy. Dragonball and Tenchi Muyo, then Dragonball Z. I discovered the IFC, International Film Channel was on the Android saga in full japanese - no subtitles, while we were just landing on Namek in the Frieza saga.

@RonieDoll 5 жыл бұрын

"Face was a Face.....Tom was a friend" Classic

@jackib5369 5 жыл бұрын

Remember the Time Toonami aired all those Studio Ghibli movies I would have never seen them otherwise they are truly beautiful my favorite one is nausicaa and the Valley of the Wind.

@grandmofftarkin1516 5 жыл бұрын

Jacki B I do.

@JuriAmari 4 жыл бұрын

They also aired films that never even got a US release (at least at the time) such as Only Yesterday. That was a great marathon. ^_^

@rushpatriot2866 4 жыл бұрын

Spirited away

@mookiestewart3776 3 жыл бұрын

Nausica is the best don’t let them tell you otherwise , a lot of people say totoro.....that’s wrong

@Nerd_Drummer92 5 жыл бұрын

Been a Toonami faithful since 97 and Im still watching it every Saturday night

@qtippz 5 жыл бұрын

Same! Can't believe it's been over 20 years tho. We are old AF!

@Nerd_Drummer92 5 жыл бұрын

@@qtippz right?! I hope Toonami continues for awhile. Stay gold Toonami Faithful

@jordanatack 5 жыл бұрын

I loved as a kid coming from school to catch toonami. Now kids today can watch online even without the commercial.

@Nerd_Drummer92 5 жыл бұрын

@@jordanatack that was me as well. Come home, finish my homework in time before Toonami started.

@samt3412 5 жыл бұрын

It sucks that for some reason, Toonami starts at midnight now, even though they run reruns of DBZ and DBS at nine.

@SnowAnayathatweirdgirl 5 жыл бұрын

Both me and my brother would watch Dragon Ball, Gundam and Sailor Moon (Yeah my brother loved Sailor Moon. He won't admit that now, but he was trying to fight evil by moonlight like I was.) I remember Yu Yu Hakasho and the start of adult swim and seeing Cowboy Bebop and Trigun for the first time. Then came Inuyasha and holy shit they played the shit out of Inuyasha lol.

@nobodyimportant2470 5 жыл бұрын

Most guys watched Sailor Moon back in the 90s. Lets face it those were the dark ages before streaming existed and if your family had internet is was 56K on a PC that was used by everyone. Sailor Moon was among the best spank bait a teen could find without being home alone for a few hours so you could sneak into where an older relative kept their stash of physical media porn.

@vietlee4290 5 жыл бұрын

Ugh you again? Just marry me already.

@Slideyslide 5 жыл бұрын

I’m a 30 year old man and I loved Sailor Moon 🌙

@SpydersByte 5 жыл бұрын

Hell yes, Cowboy Bebop and Trigun were two of my very first entries into anime via Toonami and they're still at the top of my favorites. And yea, they played the living shit out of Inuyasha. I wasn't as hugely impressed by that show but the fact that they played it so often eventually gave it such a familiar feel that it was good to have on anyway.

@TJKIDD30 5 жыл бұрын

Holy shit u just described wat me n my older bro did after school everyday. N he also loved sailor moon lol tbh it was a good anime.

@TSLAYER34 5 жыл бұрын

Don’t forget Tom voice actor was spiked from cowboy bebop

@yedoye 5 жыл бұрын

Also Krillin at one point

@SirBlackReeds 5 жыл бұрын

@@yedoye Krillin was first, to be exact.

@utsu0024 5 жыл бұрын

what about all those motivational speeches tom woould give and well as the mash ups make one point

@Murillos1 5 жыл бұрын

He still does.

@Luinta 5 жыл бұрын

This! this is something I enjoy now more than ever. Toonami wasn't jsut good shows and a good block with a good host, it was a really positive force that figured "If we have peoples' attention, lets do something good with it" and to this day I still think back on some of those, old and new.

@Murillos1 5 жыл бұрын

@@Luinta Just replace "was" with "is"😅

@Luinta 5 жыл бұрын

@@Murillos1 Well, I was talking in the past tense, so "Was" is the appropriate word. I commented on what WAS happening. My intention was the begin with the past tense, and thus, "was", as I was speaking of the effects it had on me as a kid, in the past, while comparing it to how I still enjoy those messages now.

@Murillos1 5 жыл бұрын

@@Luinta Gotcha👍

@kingdonnyj2745 5 жыл бұрын

Naruto back in 05 and 06 when it first took off in America, as a kid I didn’t know I was watching anime but fell in love with it. Which later transitioned into DBZ and Japanese Influenced shows like Avatar: The Last Airbender. Until I finally broke out of my shell and started watching anime outside of Toonami and NickToons

@BrandonJohnsonGameStation 4 жыл бұрын

@duragsenpai9598 5 жыл бұрын

I was just thinking about this. I was watching Toonami last saturday and remembered how it opened up the world of anime to me and my friends. And now some kid, somewhere tunes in every saturday ready to watch and grow with characters they'll love for the rest of their life. Thanks Toonami for everything.

@mojonoahgamer5647 5 жыл бұрын

Stand User: TOM Stand Name: Video Killed the Radio Star

@tremainepittman 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for not forgetting Moltar!!

@yedoye 5 жыл бұрын

A true OG

@Krescentwolf 5 жыл бұрын

God i miss the Space Ghost Coast to Coast segments....I remember the day that Toonami launched from it...Now i feel old.

@mattlarsen7187 5 жыл бұрын

I'm gonna watch that stand up, I hope it's as good as advertised

@anthonyfn 5 жыл бұрын

It's worth it!

@faithbaldwin3060 5 жыл бұрын

Can we have more of this series talking about old school anime blocks? Like Fox Box and WB Kids and how some of their non anime choices were anime influenced TV shows? (Xiaolin Showdown comes to mind even if it is also Chinese Culture/Asian culture influenced)

@Amber-tk8hd 5 жыл бұрын

Faith Baldwin OKG I LOVED XIAOLIN SHOWDOWN

@ShadowGirlie 5 жыл бұрын

CW4Kids was lit!

@JadenAlexis 4 жыл бұрын

+Faith Baldwin Fox Box?!!! I’m just gonna assume you meant to say Fox Kids! :l

@CFood0 3 жыл бұрын

@@JadenAlexis FoxBox is correct. Fox Kids was western cartoons and that block got sold to Disney in 2001, leaving Saturday Morning open to whoever wanted it, when 4kids would come in during 2002 and make themselves known as the FoxBox until 2005 when they rebranded and went by 4kids

@dreamingskys6250 5 жыл бұрын

Me and my brother used to watch Dragon Ball Z on toonami every Saturday night back in the good old days

@Myron90 5 жыл бұрын

Those really were the good ole days.

@XFry333X 5 жыл бұрын

So happy to see such in-depth appreciation for Toonami in video format. This was a blessing. Thank you!

@GetInTheRobot 5 жыл бұрын

🙏

@longregrets6184 5 жыл бұрын

Glad to see moltar mentioned,alot people forget he was the original host since most people only started watching Toonami when Tom showed up.

@ScuzoidMelee 5 жыл бұрын

Toonami gave me an animation that clearly wasn't for kids. The first couple of episodes of Cowboy Bebop were amazing and proved to me anime was a thing I should take seriously. Then 9/11 happened, and the couple of following episodes I saw before enlisting in the military hit me so much harder than any anime since largely because of the time period. But yeah, Boondocks is fucking awesome.

@ant3 5 жыл бұрын

Well done. This video hits all the important points as to how important Toonami has been with the history of anime in the US.

@Dkmo94 5 жыл бұрын

the fact that ace became the bass player for Gorillaz... nice to know someone made it out of townsville

@Afrokami765 5 жыл бұрын

I didnt remember moltar hosting Toonami til just now thanks for the memory refresh

@Luinta 5 жыл бұрын

Aside from the awesome show promos and misc promos, what I remember are the PSAs that T.O.M. narrated, which still appear in the Toonami revival. Get knocked down 7 times, get up 8. It wasn't jsut a block of good anime, it was a positive force of it's own, and that stuck with me, and sometimes it's good to replay those videos when I need a reminder today.

@destructodude 5 жыл бұрын

I think what got me into Anime was the Sci-Fi Channel in the mid-90s(?) when they aired Demon City Shinjuku and Iria: Zeiram the Animation and other films on Saturday mornings.

@valdenay7264 5 жыл бұрын

I swear we had this video already. I watched anime before toonami (saber rider & the star sheriffs, Speed Racer, Akira, DB/DBZ, Sailor Moon) but I will say that it was great to have a block that catered to it and definitely helped the push for where we are.

@Kendalon 5 жыл бұрын

Props for admitting a love for the ORIGINAL Speed Racer. Still one of my favorites from my childhood. All though it has aged very poorly. I am old enough to remember Moltar in the original Toonami. Probably the one reason I have fond memories of Thunder cats and Voltron. But yeah, this video is much appreciated by the fans of anime and Toonami.

@Myron90 5 жыл бұрын

I never realized speed racer was anime until now. I loved that show when i was little

@Bluemilk92 5 жыл бұрын

Dude! Hearing a cartoon character say "hell" was like seeing Christmas Town for the first time. "What's this? What's this?!" I actually remember being worried, because my adult sister was in the room. I remember a split second thinking, "Is this okay? What's going to happen now?" as if it changed _everything._

@yedoye 5 жыл бұрын

I'm glad someone related to that

@pandorarose3 5 жыл бұрын

It gave Sailor Moon a solid home in my time. Before this, I seriously had to scour the TV Guide to see if and when it would be on. When this block came I bowed down to it. I remember Tom walking out for the first time.

@ivorylloyd4248 5 жыл бұрын

I'm a lil mad at you Mom for the Pikachu thing lol thanks for the video, a lot of nostalgia and new info 👍

@whimsytoonz5777 5 жыл бұрын

i miss the old toonami lowkey

@Murillos1 5 жыл бұрын

Why? Besides the shows themselves of course.

@DuonDRaven 5 жыл бұрын

When an AI rises to take over humanity it will choose the appearance of TOM to get us to drop our guard.

@ridemyicicle7424 5 жыл бұрын

I saw glimpses of Toonami, and I suppose Midnight Run, as a child I was too young to watch and understand, but it’s still cool that I saw it when it was relatively young I later went on to watch it fairly regularly, back when Toonami was a nightly fixture I think my first anime was Inuyasha, back when I first started trying to watch the block regularly and would rush to get ready for school to ensure I could watch all thirty minutes of the episode before regular programming began airing What a good show

@the-NightStar 5 жыл бұрын

I always find it curious and a little weird watching the perceptions and recollections of people who grew up with Toonami as their first experience with anime. As mine predates the block. I mean I WATCHED the block on CN, but my original exposure to anime came first... in the form of Speed Racer and Voltron re-runs and with the first show that changed my outlook on animated media on television: Robotech. Or as i'd later come to know it: Macross. Those were the first shows I ever saw before knowing what anime was. The first anime I ever watched specifically knowing what anime was and seeking it out, were VHS tapes of Ranma 1/2, and Project A-Ko. It's those series that first introduced me to this "strange form of animation that resembled all the Nintendo and Super Nintendo video games" that I grew up with. Also seeing various anime advertised in the back of various gaming magazines as well, intrigued me more. By the time of Toonami, I already knew what all this stuff was, and was just hungry for more, so I gladly took it. But it's still surreal to me seeing so many people who only saw this first.

@TheNonameHousehold 5 жыл бұрын

i wish i could meet TOM

@TheMTwinny 5 жыл бұрын

Jason Demarco caught notice of this, congrats!

@Caterfree10 5 жыл бұрын

Ah Toonami. My childhood. 💜 ...even if Rurouni Kenshin is a little painful now ever since the manga-ka got arrested for kiddie porn possession. :

@scarslikereminders 5 жыл бұрын

That's seriously messed up.

@Wrathful2000 4 жыл бұрын

Well I mean. I didn't know this. Now the whole show is tainted. Why have you done this? :(

@Soooooooooooonicable 5 жыл бұрын

Lets not forget the late-night toonami bumpers that that used to air in the late 90s- early 2000s. There was something particularly magical about those.

@taylenjones6786 5 жыл бұрын

Man I had no idea Toonami had such a rich history, you just earned a sub keep up the good work👍

@conucoctss 5 жыл бұрын

Sailor Moon and DBZ, it was on a national channel, I didn't have CN when I first started watching those shows, but Toonami made anime a thing for me. Inuyasha, samurai x, the DBZ OVAs and Ghibli films omg so many memories. I love this channel, u guys are killing it 👍🏻

@tatsukinomiya 5 жыл бұрын

This was an amazing and nostalgic video and agree with every single word in the video. A lot of flashbacks occurred as I watched this and my appreciation for Toonami still remains unwavered. I still go on Toonami Aftermath just to keep the vibe of the show due to not owning cable tv.

@msmsmsmsmsmsmsmsmsmsm 5 жыл бұрын

great video, dont forget the parts when the toonami robot would say something like "we'll be right back heros" when I was watching My Hero Academia, little things like that make me feel thought of.

@CocoHutzpah 5 жыл бұрын

I watched Toonami back in the day after school. I can only remember a few images and the excitement of watching Dragonball Z, but it's one of those early memories that sticks. I lost my way, but I rejoined the Faithful in 2014 with Space Dandy and I've been watching every Saturday since.

@525Lines 5 жыл бұрын

Harmony Gold, that imported a lot of early anime into the US, was headed by Middle Eastern guys, btw.

@varnlestoff 5 жыл бұрын

Tom was like a father figure to me. A major part of who I am today is because of Toonami, and that's not exaggeration.

@doomsday519 5 жыл бұрын

I remember as a kid watching those Daft Punk and Gorillaz videos. Legendary

@perrovazquezrascon 5 жыл бұрын

Such a good channel! You deserve a ton more subscribers.

@juneberrysaint 5 жыл бұрын

Your stand-up was actually pretty good.

@yedoye 5 жыл бұрын

I said it would be!

@lj8566 5 жыл бұрын

Best channel

@araknair9605 4 жыл бұрын

Super cool that adult swim kept so much of that spirit alive, they were even able to bring back the line up; complete with good ol' Spike Spiegel voicing TOM

@Afrokami765 5 жыл бұрын

I remember when Tech tv had Animidnight back in the early 2000s

@rustecohle591 5 жыл бұрын

Mate you are 1000000% right

@Saiyagurl 5 жыл бұрын

Toonami is such a stable of my generation and I love it for what it has done for my childhood to adulthood. To this day whenever I hear a Gorillaz song I think of when I first saw/heard them on Toonami. I remember Midnight Run and watching Wolf's Rain and Inuyasha. I remember rushing to get home from school to watch Sailor Moon, DBZ, and Rurouni Kenshin. HECK even Hamtaro! You're right about that trust we have with T.O.M. because I wasn't there only for the shows, I was there for him and S.A.R.A too (I still like Face though lol). I love this video! The humor, content, and energy you provide is amazing! Keep doing what you're doing!

@AGRudeboy16 4 жыл бұрын

Zoids, DBZ, Big O, Gundam, Sailor Moon, Yu Yu Hakusho, after school in 2002-2004 used to be great I miss it ❤️

@Ppky2 5 жыл бұрын

Funny set last night, fun working with you.

@MrDbest109 5 жыл бұрын

My first anime: Ninja scroll, then Ronin Warriors. I was 6. Parents rented it for me thinking that it was some knock off of ninja turtles.....Yep lol.

@cassash9412 5 жыл бұрын

I didn't know Kimba was an anime! Apparently it was my favourite show as a really little kid. I also loved Astro Boy which came from my Dad.

@dustybarfield 4 жыл бұрын

I'm working on getting a petition started to get TOONAMI it's own personal TV channel.

@n-riv8101 4 жыл бұрын

I'm that weird guy who still watches Toonami today, and am actually a bigger fan of it now than I was during its peak. I don't watch subs so one of the things I love is how certain companies like Viz and Aniplex have been able to get dubs for their respective shows out much quicker than they usually would. I was SHOCKED when Promised Neverland started airing literally 2 weeks after the sub had finished. Now I'm watching and enjoying the hell out of Demon Slayer. I also love that it's given me the opportunity to rewatch and get back into Food Wars which has been something I've wanted to do for a while since it's been such a long wait between Season 2 and 3's dubs. Here's hoping the dub for Season 3 starts on Toonami right after Season 2

@katyhaulbrook1835 5 жыл бұрын

DUDE I HAD COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN ABOUT MOLTAR!!! I remember now! My sibs and I watched Space Ghost CTC all the time and suddenly Moltar started showing anime and we were like "??? Okay let's see how this goes" but that memory would have stayed in the dirt without you!!! Thank you!!!

@surfmorworkless 5 жыл бұрын

I started watching Toonami back in the Moltar days. Good ol days. Toonami's prime was during my middle school and early high school days. Now 32 married and mortgage. How times change.

@theNickRYG 5 жыл бұрын

Toonami also changed my relation to Gaming forever when Tom reviewed Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind.

@tremainepittman 5 жыл бұрын

Can’t wait for the video on music!!

@KryxtianBlack 5 жыл бұрын

So glad you put your stand up in the description ! You are so personable, quirky and funny dude !

@vinloc3854 5 жыл бұрын

I'm really proud to have been a part of that late 90's early 2000's anime wave. Long live Toonami!

@ryanstott5182 5 жыл бұрын

His stand up is pretty good.

@SaberToothPortilla 5 жыл бұрын

You know when you think about it in the grand scheme of things, if Toonami hadn't existed exactly when it did, it wouldn't have had nearly as much of an impact. It was just at the time when traditional media was fairly diverse but still somewhat centrailized (not literally thousands of channels but basic cable had a few dozen), and new media wasn't yet a norm, especially for younger people. If it were any earlier, it never would have made it to air, and if it were much later it either would've had a substantially smaller audience or just died. Of course, that's exactly what started happening around 2007 when the internet was really started to break ground as a media outlet.

@yedoye 5 жыл бұрын

I meant to write this exact angle and I forgot 😢

@MrAjacks100 5 жыл бұрын

That jacket is dope

@ejr87r 5 жыл бұрын

Man I was with Toonami from the beginning, I'm talking Moltar from Space Ghost was the host. It truly helped popularize Anime in America, it didn't introduce it, but definitely popularized it. The reason I watch anime now is because of it.

@EasterlyArt 5 жыл бұрын

2:32 FUN FACTS: 1972 brought us Mazinger Z, 1974 gave us Getter Robo, 1979 birthed Mobile Suit Gundam, and Macross (aka Robotech) didn't come out until a decade after this boom of Giant Robo had already begun with it's release in 1982. The genre entered the silver/bronze age with the 80s. The more you know.

@EasterlyArt 5 жыл бұрын

And just to count, there were roughly 29 giant robo series in the 70s. It's undeniable that the genre of mecha and scifi got it's stride in the 80s, but the impact of scifi and giant robots was a near constant in the 70s that was a huge influence on the series yet to come. Much like Naruto on Boondocks.

@Sma11-might 5 жыл бұрын

Toonami got me hooked on anime so big respect. The show that got me was SAO of all things

@nightmarefanatic1819 5 жыл бұрын

Dude, if you thought hearing Heero say "Hell" was an eye opener, you can imagine being 12-year-old me and one of the first DVDs she ever watched on her new player was a copy of Ninja Scroll she borrowed from a dude who lived down the road.

@marissamoore6007 5 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad you mentioned the impact it had on African American culture. I was definitely waiting for the Boondocks clip.

@links5957 5 жыл бұрын

Been around since the start with Toonami with moltar in 1997, here we are in the present day with Netflix, HULU, Crunchyroll and HIDIVE. Now I can watch these classics in Funimation NOW like DBZ, Outlaw Star, Tenchi Muyo!, Yu Yu Hakusho or late night Adult Swim from 2001 to 2006 like Cowboy bebop, Samurai Champloo and Eureka 7, have these shows on DVD and Blu Ray now. Happy I was growing up being there since the start. And the time Adult Swim did that April Fools in 2012 being that ONE NIGHT ONLY Being a Kid again. It will be part of me for the Rest of my Life. Awesome Review

@AlexCastro1 5 жыл бұрын

Sometimes i watched dragon ball z with the old toonami intro, promo and bumpers for that nostalgic feel

@logandolloff1360 3 жыл бұрын

Tom wasn't just a friend growing up, he gave advice and encouragement. Tom was a Bro'. Still is.

@rowanhawklan9707 4 жыл бұрын

I'm British (and old) so didn't have this, but I found my way to the Anime promised land through films like Akira (on VHS in Japanese with English subtitles and a making of in a double boxed set import) and SyFy/fantasy RPGs + groups like Gorillas and 90 Japanese city pop electro. So I welcome you all my brother's and sisters!

@Jonathan-gm2fh 5 жыл бұрын

True true. I got back into anime when they started showing MHA

@GetInTheRobot 5 жыл бұрын

you know an anime has gone total mainstream when it hits toonami.

@user-ri9vi9bk6o 5 жыл бұрын

It was basically the Hulu of anime back then for cable TV, commericals, and whatever's new and still classic

@525Lines 5 жыл бұрын

Toonami was the first anime block on TV I can think of. Before, it was just one title here or there. Anime fandom it tough to track. I swear I saw a very fancy UK anime magazine with early 80s dates. I've never been able to find it.

@MetalMonkey1453 5 жыл бұрын

OG Dragonball, Z, Yu Yu Hakusho, Inuyasha and Tenchi Muyo...a young adolescent me just couldn't contain himself. Then when I saw Trigun and later Samurai Champloo for the first time, I was hooked.

@ReneeNalani 4 жыл бұрын

Oh, man! I loved this! I **totally** forgot that Moltar would host a block of anime shows before there was TOM and Toonami! That brings me back! I remember, as a kid and a fan of Space Ghost Coast to Coast, I was disappointed to see Moltar gone, but I gave TOM a chance. And boy...! Toonami definitely grew on me. Thanks for this video. It was a nice nostalgia trip! OH! And yes! I totally agree with the career boosts for Gorillaz and Daft Punk! If Toonami hadn't exposed their audience to Gorillaz or Daft Punk, they probably wouldn't have had such a strong following. I remember after seeing those videos, I got Daft Punk's Discovery album, and my sister got Gorillaz' 19-2000 that same year. Been a fan of both artists ever since all thanks to Toonami.

@GJPGAMESvideos 3 жыл бұрын

I would run home from middle school to sit in front of my tv and watch the classic anime shows. As much as my parents saying that violent shows makes me violent, I still watch all the shows!

@SirBlackReeds 5 жыл бұрын

Many have talked about how 4Kids introduced Japanese anime to a whole generation (or more), but it was truly Toonami that did that work, and they did it better.

@dwainsimmons3447 Жыл бұрын

If people don’t have cable

@dwainsimmons3447 7 ай бұрын

Toonami got real anime

@jackib5369 5 жыл бұрын

Eighties Voltron will always have a special place in my heart along with my favorite meme that meme is there is nothing gayer than 80s Keith.

@whimsicalhamster88 4 жыл бұрын

Me and my dad totally bonded over Cowboy Bebop. One of the best TV shows ever.

@asimplehuman6079 5 жыл бұрын

In Latin America there was a channel that was like Toonami called LOCOMOTION it was a blown to the mind!

@Robert-dt3is 5 жыл бұрын

I discovered Yu Yu Hakusho because of Toonami. So grateful for that.

@jennyo. 5 жыл бұрын

I remember running to get home to see the music video special omfg I can watch daft punk interstellar 555 over and over! This is such a nostalgic trip! I love it! Also all the early amv they would do was great!

@coronbrown9238 5 жыл бұрын

Til this day I’ll never forget discovering Daft Punk through toonami. Classic Memories.

@arbitor117 2 жыл бұрын

I love Gigantor growing up. 😍😎💪👍

@TheRealAlpha2 5 жыл бұрын

Starblazers was my introduction to anime, later I'd find myself watching Speedracer and then Voltron, Robotech, and then I moved on to fansubs... to a lesser extent there was also the realization that shows produced by DIC who was a french company producing cartoons for the US market had all their stuff animated by the Japanese, which kinda paved the way for Mighty Orbots and other Japanese anime style animation direction/production even before toonami.

@Lobodescuridad 5 жыл бұрын

The feels from this is great

@christopherwood4430 5 жыл бұрын

Toonami was so important. At some point though yall need to speak on the various Toku series, how the westernized Power Rangers; its originator Super Sentai, and similar shows had an effect on anime viewership in America.

@ribbitribbit0 5 жыл бұрын

I remember watching the Astro boy remake 50 times when I was super little, and I just started watching it again on Netflix a minute ago because I was reminded of the fond memories I had when I was little of watching the movie , and the intro music is so eerily familiar after 20 ish years.

@gamemaniac22 5 жыл бұрын

Bro, when you dropped Face's name...OG right there. Bur bur burrr

@TheVelvetUnderdog 5 жыл бұрын

I used to stay up late to watch Outlaw star and then, after midnight, hope to catch one of those insanely violent movies they would sometimes air (in the UK they did this, I don't know about the US). One night I got the double hit of AD Police: The Man Who Bites His Tongue, and then Genocyber. I have, no joke, talked to my therapist as an adult about these animes because of how much fear, dread, and full body anxiety they plagued me with...ah, memories.

@god214 5 жыл бұрын

Bro Honesty love your content your facts are on point and your just like me in the era of (All regular Americans are started to really view anime, thats not apart of the 90's kids) but for real though your content is great and, respect for giving respect to Toonami.. me you and everyone else thats likes us wouldn't be the children/adults we are today without Toonami, thanks man ... I would really want to work with you one day to listen and collab with liked minds. Thanks man.