We owe it all to Toonami. While anime spent decades arriving on western shores in irregular stages — and often with new titles, like Astro Boy, Speed Racer and Battle of the Planets, which scrubbed ...

There are so many anime series in the U.S. that it’s sometimes easy to forget that these Japanese imports weren’t always ubiquitous. Some classic titles like Astro Boy, Speed Racer, Robotech, Mazinger ...

Ritwik is a passionate gamer who has a soft spot for JRPGs. He's been writing about all things gaming for six years and counting. Toonami began in 1997. The afternoon weekday block of anime and ...

Toonami has been a part of Cartoon Network since the action-packed programming block first arrived on the cable network in 1997. Over the decades, the platform has seen many changes with regard to ...

The Toonami programming block’s been a staple in action-oriented animation since 1997, when Space Ghost: Coast to Coast co-star Moltar (R.I.P.) hosted the late afternoon segment on Cartoon Network and ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook A major classic anime series is officially returning to Adult Swim’s Toonami block after being ...

The end of 2024 will also mean the end of Toonami Rewind, as Cartoon Network will cease airing the classic anime block in January. The anime nostalgia block began airing in March 2024 and ran on ...

Adult Swim may have already given Toonami two new seasons of the beloved FLCL anime and an original horror series called Housing Complex C, but I think the programming block deserves a little more ...

Adult Swim is "going back in time" as it is set to launch a new Toonami Rewind block on May 31, 2024, that will feature such classic anime as Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z Kai, and Naruto. Toonami shared ...