Toonami is Back.

https://twitter.com/#!/adultswim/status/202866436597743616

Sorce

What started out as a simple April Fool's joke turned into a massive wave of protest to bring the beloved Toonami back to Cartoon Network. Support has been phenomenal and it appears Cartoon Network was listening. In a recent tweet made by Adult Swim they stated the following.

"Attention Toonami Faithful: We heard you. On 05.26.12 #ToonamiisBackBitches"

This is awesome news for 90's kids around the world and May 26, 2012 is sure to be a day that will live in infamy. Welcome back Toonami... we've missed you.

holy shit

holy shit

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

YESSSSSSSSSSSS

i will watch all of the animes

so no exact time yet?

Santeco wrote:so no exact time yet?

Not yet but will post time when it's revealed.

So excited to see the return of toonami

"Update: Adult Swim's entire anime schedule for early morning May 27 is as follows:

12:00 a.m. - Bleach
12:30 a.m. - Deadman Wonderland
1:00 a.m. - Casshern Sins
1:30 a.m. - Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
2:00 a.m. - Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG
2:30 a.m. - Cowboy Bebop "

"DeMarco added that Toonami will not be showing Naruto, Dragon Ball Z, and similar titles since "the rights to those shows are owned by our competition or are out of our price range." He continued, "Something you should know about THIS Toonami: We have very, very little $$. This experiment will need ratings success to receive more funding for new shows, more [mascot character] Tom animation, etc. I'm thankful for the $$ we've gotten, but it isn't a lot."

DeMarco also clarified Adult Swim's May 16 press release, which said that the network is developing "new original anime programming" for Toonami's return. Toonami will not have original titles created specifically for the programming block, "just new acquisitions." DeMarco said that he personally "love[s] One Piece and would love to see it on CN again" along with Gundam Wing. Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, Fairy Tail, and Inuyasha: Final Act are some of the "many shows we've been looking at" or discussed.

DeMarco confirmed that Steven Blum will reprise his role of Tom, which "will be an updated hi-res version of Tom 3.0" aboard a slightly different but almost identical version of the spaceship Absolution. However, the character Sara will not appear for now ("costs too much to make"), and Peter Cullen will not be the voice of the block's promos due to his busy work schedule. The anime titles will keep their theme songs, and Toonami "will make our own 'pre' intros.""

Sorce

So anime fans if you have cartoon network and can join in, please set your tv to toonami even if you aren't watching it just so they can get the ratings. Reviving toonami could lead to more anime being brought over if it manages to make anime popular again.

It's been what 4 years since one piece has been on the air in NA, so maybe if toonami lives long enough for it to get on the air again we could see One Piece bring about a second age of anime like DBZ/Pokemon brought the first since they wouldn't be airing 4kid's horrible version of it lol.

One Piece & Fairy Tail!!!

I hope they bring back One Piece, then i'll stay up to watch it.

i will watch if and only if they have good animes, i'm glad they're not doing fuckin naruto DATTEBAYO BELIEVE IT

I'll try and remember to tune in on Saturday.

Watching it now. My first time watching Bleach, actually.

So... a kid with orange hair is sword-fighting some human Gilda look-alike. Hmm.

GasmaskGamer wrote:Watching it now. My first time watching Bleach, actually.

So... a kid with orange hair is sword-fighting some human Gilda look-alike. Hmm.

wow, it's almost as if anime is really fucking stupid??

fun fact, bleach is my go-to anime whenever i need to make fun of anime

I'm more interested to see Casshern Sins.

This new one is kinda neat. Some kid is getting sent to the chair and there's a girl with white hair in a tron suit or something waiting for him to arrive at the prison-turned-theme park in Tokyo?

Casshern Sins is interesting, Casshern just wakes up in a apocalyptic world and everyone and thing wants him dead and he doesn't know why.

I fell asleep right after Deadman Wonderland and woke up near the end of Casshern Sins. I figured there was no way I was going to be able to stay up to watch the rest and just turned off my stuff and went to bed. I should probably DVR it next time.

I really miss when they had it on it's old timeslot, back when I could actually watch the entire thing without staying up too late.

Same here, hopefully they do give them back their old time slot when they see how popular toonami is.

Almost forgot that Toonami will be back on tonight.

Hopefully I won't fall asleep so early tonight. I'd at least like to see the next episode of Deadman Wonderland so I have at least one new series I can follow.

Toonami's on again tonight.