No April Fool’s Joke This Time, Folks — Toonami Is Coming Back to Adult Swim

As someone who grew up with Toonami as part of an after school ritual, all I can say is EPIC WIN!! :D

That’s the thing, Adult Swim is still playing those shows so I never saw a need for a campaign to bring back Toonami. But hey I love Steve Blum’s voice so I’m not gonna complain

Nitpick: I don’t think FMA or Cowboy Bebop were ever part of a Toonami block. Toonami originally began as an afternoon action block on Cartoon Network with some anime (DBZ, Sailor Moon) and some compatible US shows (WB Batman and Superman, Real Adventures of Jonny Quest), and later added a “Midnight Run” block with less-censored anime (Gundam Wing, DBZ again).

The Midnight Run was a sort of precursor to [adult swim] — at least it proved there was an overnight audience for something other than “Flintsones” burn-offs from the Turner vault. When [as] began its mix of comedy and action, it included Cowboy Bebop, and added FMA a few years later. So those shows have only run as part of [as], not under the “Toonami” banner.

Of course, now that “Toonami” will effectively be a block within the [as] pseudo-network… oh good luck anyone keeping this stuff straight.

I was a child of the Disney afternoon block, I didn’t see Toonami until I started Collage, but I enjoyed it at that time.  Anything that brings [AS] back to it’s cartoon roots rather than the direction it has been going is hopefully a good thing though.  Cartoon Network/[AS] are quickly becoming to cartoons what MTV is to music videos.

This made my day. Toonami was one of my favorite blocks when I was a little girl. being able to watch Sailor Moon was a big deal for me because my family was always big on superheroes, but they’re mostly male. So an all female crime fighting group was a really big deal. I hope that they continue to show it if possible, because seeing women superheroes is a big deal for girls.

 sad but true, I’ve spent a lot of time away from AS as of late, they just hurt me too much too often, even the return of toonami seems too little late.
in my experience using nostalgia to drive viewership is a last ditch effort for an audience not a cute throw back to all those folks who grew up with it.
Just think had the internet existed in the form it does now back then toonami would never have never succeeded  let alone the heights and it’s peak of popularity.

yes, not only does MTV own CN but like them they have completely lost the spark that was there in the 90′s, as soon as AS started showing live action shows I knew
there was something horribly wrong.

MTV is part of Viacom. CN and [as] are part of Time Warner. MTV and CN/[as] are not affiliated; if anything, they’re competitors.

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 I would have sworn that Cowboy Bebop was part of the Toonami midnight run line-up. Then again, that was ten years ago, so I could be completely making that up.

Nitpick: in his first incarnation Tom was voiced by Sonny Strait, who played Krillen on the good dub of DBZ

 No I don’t remember those two or FLCL either I will admit though YuYu Hakusho started as late night and ended up on Toonami later though

OMG toonami is back!!!!!!

what’s going to happen to the animes for adult swim?

Bebop was definitely in Toonami, it ran late at night, around 10 I believe, Toonami would play the teasers(forgot what you would call their anime mashup commericals) during the late afternoon. This was near the time [AS] started to come into action so it switched over to Adult Swim soon after. 

So many errors in this post.

No, kids. Cowboy Bebop was never, ever a part of Toonami. Toonami was never associated with Adult Swim, either. It was purely Cartoon Network’s block. Toonami did run a “Midnight Run” block for some time, though, but Cowboy Bebop was never a part of it. Yu Yu Hakusho, as noted, started on Adult Swim and was eventually censored and moved to Toonami. That’s about it.

When toonami first aired Moltar was the host.. lmfao

I can finally die happy…

So glad Toonami is back! I remember when I was 10 years old, I was trying to rush home from school to catch an episode of Dragonball Z and I remember being stuck in traffic telling my mom to hurry up..  When I got home, I missed the episode and I cried my eyes out lol.  Memories!

OMG….. faith in humanity is restored.

Just looked through my tv guid and it looks like they will have Boondocks (Not sure if it’s considered toonami or not), Bleach, Deadman Wonderland, Casshern Sins, Full Metal Alchemist, Ghost in the Shell, Cowboy Bebop, and repeats that patter right after it.

 if u support toonami help spread and watch this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgo9vLp1UkA

 if u support toonami help spread and watch this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgo9vLp1UkA

I’m pretty sure Cowboy Bebop was part of the midnight run on toonami.

Those who are saying Cowboy Bebop was part of the midnight run may be thinking of Outlaw Star. I know it was a part of Toonami.

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No one seemes to remember the original line up. It had DBZ, Gundam Wing, Ronin Warriors. Zoids and Thunder Cats and even Tenchi Muyo. And it expanded on that With G Gundam and Outlaw Star

i wish toonami come with naruto shippuden and fairy tail one peice