Nostalgia for real man. Also, don't forget Trigun :-)

And The Big O

same it was our childhood man

GOOD TIMES

Mr. Vengeance like damn dude your list just took me fucking forever back lol....hmm i guess was somewhat awesome to be a kid... lol..toonami brought anime to life in America...wow this shit just takes me back... WOW IM LIKE SO IN AH!!! LOL what a time bruh.😁 and I also remember booking home...from the school bus... to watch these awesome classical Anime's!!!

joebeast15

Yup best promos ever.

joebeast15 very true

Sure did they even made powerpuff girls seem like it would be an epic show just from intros and promos

esp compared to the official promos for the DVD release of the series those SUCKED

Yeah, like Hamtaro and Naruto.

Yep. Never gets old.

"Time to roll the dice."

And this is why we love Skrillex!

@@The__Creeper boo kiddie animes this was for men

i did and i did not get raise tho :(

@@briancarpenter6413 Ah ha, you just playin, or did you actually work on those back in the day?

@@Naughty_Ram I decided how to chop scenes without revealing too much

Bonus points for asking Optimus Prime for the voice over!

@@briancarpenter6413 wow dude if you really did thank you ❤

oh how i miss those D:

I'm getting teary eyed now, damn

Toonami midnight run on the weekends was the original adult swim for anime

I do. Those were some of Toonmai’s finest moments.

Dude, when they did the midnight run of the music videos, I stayed up and recorded it on VHS then made a fucking mix tape with the tracks, haha my age is showing

agreed

The golden years

It’s the promos with Optimus Prime that made even the most basic anime super hyped. They made Hamtoro sound life changing lol Amazing promos

+NYCParkourAddict You got that right!

One little problem: If they're not associated with adult swim, we'd have no choice but to watch anime dubs aimed at children. It wouldn't be too bad but if you were given the choice to choose the toned down version or the almost unedited version, I'm sure you'd want the near untouched version

Good news, Outlaw Star is back!

it's the uncensored version, YAY!!!

Yes with the same guy narrating.

Omg bro that amount of feels we share is 1500% :'(

It's OVER 9000!!!!!!!!

Stevon Barrett

Harry Hernandez

i remember when i saw the first Transformers movie, i thinking 'he sounds vaguely familiar.' I few weeks later i watched an old toonami promo for my first anime: Gundam Wing. And the rest is history.

You should watch "Monster" it was like the complete opposite of this, but on the sci fi channel(not toonami) around the same time period... one of the most unknown but amazing animes of it's time.. It completely nailed the anticipation factor.

i just finished this anime. it sucks. big time. it started off strong then just dies out. the character designs are great but they arent very deep characters... anyways yea. like a 6/10 anime

What were the flaws ?

@@robertrogers074 mainly that it left me wanting more. The writer Takehiko had a lot more material to put in, but apparently Toonami wouldn't sponsor past a third season, and so many plot threads were rushed to be closed suddenly. Kinda messes with the climax since we don't get much screen time with Hasanko (the main bad guy). Shimi and Hanmio got episodes and they were amazing, but the rest of the anten Seven were unceremoniously crammed into the final episodes. They and Hasanko deserved to be fleshed out a bit more. Edit: Suzuka and Hitoriga for example were supposed to have an episode or two of their own, discovering Suzukas past and why she hates pirates. But in the finale they just showed up and fought each other while reciting the plot points of their past. Could have been cooler, but I'm still happy with what we got.

@@samriver3677 don't you me mean past season 1 ?

agreed bro

Same

for sure

100%

That's back when they made quality shows and profit wasn't their #1 concern. They had the best promos, the best show line ups, the best commentary. Now these shows that have no quality concept at all get aired because they're cheaply made and easy bids.

Tyyhyhhjfhmtjk

I've been coming back to these old toonami promos nearly every day for the past few years. I associate so many good feelings with toonami and it may seem trivial to some but it's really a treat to relive some of the best days of your youth in 1-2 minute clips. The late 90s to 2004 were some great years!

@@x-ra3849 Toonami never made any shows. They just aired whatever they got from Japan. Cheaply made or not. Alot of good with a lot Of bad. Nostalgia has distorted your mind. It was a “throw whatever at the wall and see what sticks” effect. Profit was always the number one concern but you were a child and didn’t no any better

You got me hyped gonna watch it right now

Outlaw Star is one of my favorites of all time

Same here

I’m watching it for the first time I have no idea how I never knew it existed but episode 2 the monologue about boys turning to men and dreaming is one of the best quotes of all anime

true!

"The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone." - Alan Lightman, Einstein's Dreams

@@NeoJiNeTiK I blame Bolshevism/Marxism.

dada bubz given how the last movie has gone over, I'd agree. I needed this to heal my soul

Correction, this what starwars used to be. Under Disney, not so much.

Well...Outlaw star is like a combination of sci fi movies in one. Star wars is one of those influences

Don't be ridiculous the original Star Wars is untouchable

Mandalorian!

same!

Jeremy Fields *Gene

NO!! YOU'LL GET JOHN CENA VS SHEAMUS DAMMIT!!ACHOO

did you help create this? :o

@@iblickyi yes we at the studio made this promo. We had the soundtrack and overlayed it with scenes from the show. We called Peter in to read the script. Only took a day.

@@briancarpenter6413very awesome. Thanks for making my childhood great.

@@briancarpenter6413 that’s actually so cool, it’s pretty cool to talk to someone who got to make this

@@iblickyi i loved the story and we cut certain scenes to match the track. Peter Cullen has always been a SUPER voice actor

My thoughts exactly too short!

Agreed. Who would you cast if you could be the director? It would be hard for me to cast the kid due to age 'volatility' (it should be a real 11 year old and who knows who'd be cast since children grow rapidly?) but for Gene I'd cast someone like Chris Pratt (maybe Chris Pine). Pratt would be too busy with Marvel to do a movie but I feel it'd have to be a comical actor who plays the ladies' man but often gets in over his head in setting his priorities. Lucy Liu for Suzuka, and Olivia Thirlby for Melfina.

Watch firefly, has many parallels shall we say.

dndrequiem fanfilm What about Aisha?

Literally same it makes no sense to me that always felt like I’ve had really good memory there must be a gap in my past or something

Me too

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Re-watched the series on Hulu recently in glorious film-like HD, and caught the episodes I missed /because/ of karate practice, lol. Sure is a different experience 19 years later, but the battles are awesome as ever.