I really gotta say I love and appreciate the content y’all create on this channel to the point that this has become my favorite channel on TH-cam well for anime and I look forward to you guys folding in gaming into your content......HOLY SHIT do a collab video with Maximilian dood that would be awesome
Its just crazy when I was a teenager you were a fucking nerd watching these shows, now at 30 I can talk about Samurai Champloo, Cowboy Bebop, and DBZ and not get to many second looks. Everybody was a secret fucking nerd.
Happy Anniversary!! Are you guys going to do an episode on the old Saturday night Adult Swim block that had Inuyasha, Ghost In The Shell, Big O, Cowboy Bebop, FLCL, and Trigun, etc etc? I kind of think that this video is a good jumping off point to get into that and how it introduced a lot of people to anime. I mean, yeah, a lot of what can be said about Toonami can be said about Saturday night Adult Swim. I fucking treasure the time that I had back then, though. Me and my sister would always stay up late watching that and when the Cowboy Bebop intro came on at like 3 or 4 in the morning sometimes we would have to rush up to the old ass NEC TV and manually turn it down so our mom wouldn't wake up. Anyway, thanks for the nostalgia.
SO TRUUEEEE. First time I've really thought about it. It wasn't until years later with a new set of friends that I found out they were hardcore geeking out over it. When it aired nobody I knew was into it so I felt like I was part of a secret club of only a handful of people that were counting down the minutes and seconds until Tom showed up on screen every day. Hearing that voice again after so many years legit gives me goosebumps.
Toonami was the best program block of all time that Sean Akins, and Jason DeMarco ever created. I grew up with Toonami during my childhood years with Dragon Ball, Sailor Moon, Yu Yu Hakusho, Naruto, and more. Even though I started watching anime on television back in September 11, 1995 with Sailor Moon on US television syndication when I was a toddler. It was too girly, and I need something manly. That is where my young brother introduced to me into Dragon Ball Z on syndication (and then moved to Toonami in the year of 1998; alongside with Sailor Moon) in the late 1990s. Alongside with Pokémon (aired on syndication in the fall of '98, and move to Kids' WB on the following year in 1999 and onwards until 2006) and Digimon (excepted Tamers....because I do not want to deal with my worst nightmare/my true fear from the last saga...that creepy terrifying female human monster) (aired on FOX Kids in the late 1990s and early 2000s). Those still and were my first four anime titles that I started with and grew up from. As for Toonami, I was excited as my young brother and I was hooked on watching Dragon Ball (Z, the original Dragon Ball, and GT), Naruto, and the others (even though we flipped channels after Dragon Ball Z came off in the early 2000s). When Toonami moved to Saturday primetime at nights (2004-2008) away from weekday afternoons (1997-2004), I started to watch more shows on Toonami on Cartoon Network including Teen Titans (2003 on Kids' WB, and then in 2004-2006 on Cartoon Network), Yu Yu Hakusho (2003-2004), and Rouroni Kenshin (2003). It was amazing that I grew up watching the block from my childhood years from the late 1990s up to my teenager years in the mid 2000s. But when Toonami shutdown on September 20, 2008, which I didn't even knew that the block got shutdown because I stopped watching Toonami on Cartoon Network in around the summer of 2008. Cartoon Network went downhill at that time, and there was no good cartoons (except Adventure Time, Regular Show, Total Drama Island/Action) at that time, just live action in the late 2000s and early 2010s. But when Toonami came back on Cartoon Network, now airing on Adult Swim (replacing Adult Swim Action (2001-2012; which I grew up watching Inuyasha during my late childhood years up to my teenager years)). I was getting excited again, like my childhood inside of me is getting reborn watching the program block again just like good old times, even though I am in my adulthood years right now. But giving the chance watching new shows that I didn't watch including, Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood, Cowboy Bebop, IGPX, One Piece (which I didn't get the chance to watch in the mid 2000s, because of the 4Kids dub; while it was airing on 4KidsTV children's program block (formerly known as FOX Kids/FOX Box) in 2004 until FUNimation picked it up the license to produced and dub the show properly like its Japanese counterpart) and Ghost in a Shell. I also watched new anime titles including Casshern Sins, Deadman Wonderland, Eureka Seven, Samurai 7, and more. But all in all, Toonami grew up on me, and I am proud that I had a great time with.
it felt like nerds were running it...people like us...the way they gave us kenshin hakusho dragonball gundam naruto and a few others proved they were anime fans
Toonami wasn't created for anime, it was for us kids to watch action cartoons, like they could have put Swat Kats or Pirates of Dark Water on there if they wanted to. That's why in the early days they played shows like Thundercats and Jonny Quest into the ground. Once they blew up with Sailor Moon and early DBZ, they got the money and green light from Cartoon Network to get expensive stuff like Gundam Wing from Bandai and get Funimation to finish dubbing DBZ, that's how it became so Japanese dominant in the early 2000s.
Yup, nothing like Dragon Ball starting all over right in the middle of the Namek Saga over, and over, and over again. I became an expert of the Sayajin Saga.
That was the only problem with Toonami on weekdays- Reruns, as Moltar explained to us kids, and it became more glaring later on with the short, 26 episode type shows. That was so satisfying when the new episodes finally came and Goku washed Recoome and Captain Ginyu and we got to see Vegeta and the Z Fighters try to take out Frieza. Those episodes were all built up hype to see if Vegeta could really get strong enough to go Super Saiyan and beat Frieza.
Really the only reason I hate Frieza so much.... get to Goku becoming Super Sayian than boom back to the beginning of the saga again. Damn I wish the internet was better back then.
I remember every day after school I'd make sure all my homework n house chores was done by 7pm so I could watch Toonami. The line up used to be Hamtaro, Ronin Warriors, Sailor Moon, Dragonball Z, Tenchi Muyo, Gundam Wing etc. Wish I could go back to those days
I forgot that they'd aired Tenchi... What's great about that reminder for me is that in the last month I've revisited Universe and the OVA, and as I got into it I kept scratching my head when I asked myself how I'd gotten into the franchise as a kid and could remember at all. But if it was on Toonami, that's almost definitely the answer
Just Some Guy with a Mustache I wonder how many kids today watch the programming block though. especially since anime is so prevalent online through streaming services and...piracy
CN and Adult Swim are two different networks within Turner Broadcasting, and are treated separately in the Nielsen Ratings. As long as Adult Swim is around, Toonami will be around. But who watches TV anymore, amirite? 😂
As much as I love toonami, I feel like a lot of people tend to leave out another important piece in bringing anime to the west, adult swim! Toonami for the most part had to stay kid friendly, but adult swim was able to remove those chains and show that anime wasn't just for kids! Also lets not forget that when toonami ended, adult swim was for a few years the only place where you could watch anime on TV! Until, of course, ironically enough, they ended up bringing back toonami.
Toonami's Midnight Run established the timeslot for more adult cartoons late at night. However, yeah Adult Swim eventually took over and brought us so many more shows. I do remember when adult swim started showing up I was pissed off because it took some of my anime time for "Home Movies" or "Tim and Eric?... While I started to be ok with Home Movies, Tim and Eric still annoys me that it took a half hour of my anime time....
Because of Toonami's imager breaks (the compilations of anime clips, set to hip hop beats, with a message), I listen to chill hop. Because of Toonami, I marathoned G4TV through high school for all the video game reviews, tips and tricks, as well as "nerd culture." Toonami hooked me into Anime throughout middle school and high school. Even now, I daydream of being a kid coming home from school to watch Toonami's block in the afternoon. I daydream of the years I would sneak in the middle of the night to watch adult swim (the original real adult swim, with the adverts of old people swimming).
Never got Toonami in Canada but got YTV. Sailor Moon and Samurai Pizza Cats started a love for anime. But I know how important Toonami was to the North American market.
If you’re covering everything that ever aired in Toonami I’m beyond hyped to finally have someone talk about Zoids: Chaotic Century. The dub was a little weird, but that show is the reason I still hold love for mech in my heart today.
OMG my dad had a super tiny tv about 14in CRT style in the garage and I was able to get a cheap VCR recorder and recorded shows on that tv because my parents always wanted to watch wheel of torture and jepardy or similarly we would have dinner. Flood of memories and the dedication I had to watching my favorite anime shows!!! Thanks love your videos! Keep up the amazing work!
I miss those days so much. Toonami was awesome and gave me something to look forward to every week. You could argue that it's better now because you can watch literally anything at any time, but that's just it. The anticipation of waiting on the next episode of your favorite show made it feel special. It's like drinking - fun every now and then, but becomes not so fun if you do it all the time.
Everyone here is older right? I'm 33 and I remember this like it was yesterday. I was in 7th grade in 99....time sure does fly, enjoy it guys before you know it you will be on youtube watching videos about shit that happened to you in 7th grade. Good times.
Tom has been a trusted friend of mine since high school. I have always looked forward to hearing from him. He always had something positive to say and made me feel at home out there in space.
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It's thanks to Toonami it saved my life from killing myself, without it, I've never would have been here. So... thank you. Being at home was hell, but Toonami was my real home and it still is, from to this day! I've been with Toonami from the very beginning! And I remember very Anime and cartoon that ever aired on TV.
Captain Planet,Freakazoid(Dexter Douglas),Darkwing Duck,Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventure,Batman The animated series, Spider-Man The animated series and X-men The animated series were my favorite along with Gargoyles!
Thank you so much for this trip down memory lane. Toonami is truly something special, I can't imagine any future generation having something so quirky and unique. And big congrats on 2 years of kickass anime vids. Here's to many more!
I used to LOVE watching yuyu hakusho and Inuyasha on adult swim at night. I can still remember those chill eastern-style bumpers that played during the commercials.
I was there at the beginning until around 2007. Coming home from school, telling mom I don't have any homework, snack, sitting in front of the TV, toonami, dinner, bed....almost everyday as a child and preteen...it was my childhood. Weekends were for other things...
Just watched two of your videos. Great work. Toonami was the bees knees as a kid. Staying up late at night just to catch YuYu Hakusho and Cowboy Bebop was the highlight of my childhood. I would be so upset when I accidentally fell asleep and wake up right at the end of the credits with the "real folks blues" playing at 2am. Zoids will come on extremely late like 5am. I would catch it right before school. Such nostalgia...
You are the best content creator on this platform, relatable, humble, and genuinely kind. It must be a true honor to be your friend, and I will be patrioning soon. I wish you a long life Mike, I'm glad that your story worked out. It sounds like you deserve every bit of it.
Mike, I'm so glad to be able to watch the content of a really radical punk rock dude a decade or two younger than myself that shares my same love of anime and video games. Keep building on that golden foundation my shaggy no pants dude.
You know, I'm a little worried bout the other guys behind the bonsai pop and Treesicle with all this Corona virus business, seems like they haven't been seen in a while.
Heavy nostalgia in this I remember so many days during middle school in the 2000s watching dbz and sailor moon. Then staying up late on the weekends to watch yu yu hakusho and Inuyasha those were the days. From there I developed a massively addictive habit of buying anime and manga from long forgotten bookstores like Walden books and then borders. Anime is so important to me and I'm so grateful to the Japanese community for creating these amazing shows that we get to experience and enjoy. Thanks so much man for making these amazing videos that really gives these shows and the history of how they got here their due justice man. Always looking forward to a Saturday upload from you guys.
Much like you, I know I would not be who I am today without Toonami. I watched everything I could on Toonami and I still miss today the feeling of getting home from school and sitting right in front of the TV to watch my favorite shows. Toonami and Anime taught me who I am, I just wish I could enjoy Toonami like I did when I was a kid. I still think about watching Yu Yu Hakusho every day. Now I am old and tired with a kid of my own and I struggle to stay up on Saturday nights past 11. Although Toonami has returned to us it will never be the revolution it was back in the late 90s and early 00s. I love anime, but like you said, there is so much out there now and I can't keep up like I did when I was a kid, I find myself just going back to my childhood favorites instead of expanding my horizons. Thank you again for the wonderful video.
I'm just now getting back into anime again. Toonami was the beginning of my anime journey, then life happened. 70 hour work-weeks. Back in the day it was DBZ, Gundam, and Cowboy Bebop, now I'm discovering stuff like One Punch Man and Sword Art Online. It's cool to be back.
Bonsai Pop is for sure carrying the torch. Toonami was a force that changed our lives, Tom’s evolution has been so dope. There was nothing like discovering YYH, Kenshin, G Gundam, Beast Wars (all the gundams and Zoids) so many classics. I remember the ocean dub of DBZ even being on on WB50. Kids WB also kinda changed the game with Yugioh, Jackie Chan adventures, and Shaolin Monks, etc. I’m rambling, point is, keep doing what you’re doing guys this TH-cam channel is a gem. You have my support 💯
I’ve made more friends gathering around to watch toonami then when I would be in public just trying to get by. There was something about crowding around the tv with a bunch of people after school watching things like dragon ball Z and rooting for your favorite character to do something incredible. The debt I owe to toonami for all the good times I’ve had might never be repaid but hell if I won’t try by continuing to suggest more anime to more friends in hope of sharing what toonami shared with me.
There needs to be a Toonami streaming service. A one stop shop for anime where all the studios come together. I know it'll never happen but a guy can DREAM.
Just finished listening to you on the Yi Yi Hakusho episode of Wizard and the Bruiser and came to this episode first. Toonami was absolutely a staple of my childhood and adolescence. I absolutely miss the vibe and everything it was so much. I look forward to catching up on the years worth in content on here! 😄
You guys are the best. I love the themes you go over, aside from anime. The fact that we should be able to enjoy Saturday morning cartoons as an adult, sitting down and watching a bonsai pop video while I work brings me some of that childhood joy that’s so hard to come by nowadays
Toonami was a staple of my childhood. Steve Blum’s voice was synonymous with anime (before I saw Cowboy Bebop) for me. It was way more than a block; it showed me an entirely new paradigm and artistic medium.
Toonami will always have a place in my heart I always took time to watch the anime that came on it nowadays I can't watch it all the time because of work but best believe when I get weekends off and 10:30 rolls around I am in my living room watching anime on toonami late into the night once again
Toonami was a priceless influence. Sailor Moon, Tenchi Muyo, and Reboot were my essentials in my first taste of creative expansion. Amazing to hear about it again.
Man way to bring me back. Toonamie introduced me to one of my favorite anime Gundam wing. My sister and I were ready for this everyday after school. I miss the 90s 😭
I love your video so much! I got thrown back to the time where I watched Toonami on Saturday nights as a young girl falling in love with anime. I realize how lucky we were to watch all these animes on TV. Anime on Toonami alongside anime on Adult Swim truly defines my childhood: a golden time full of nostalgia. Thank you for your wonderful videos and reminding me of the special nostalgia that will never go away. Keep it up!
Toonami is weirdly one of those things that really defined millions of kids ,if you watched it once for every night ,it just stuck with you.Almost like finding you're individual purpose in life.
Toonami will always have a special place in my heart. A lot of people don't recognize the significance of what Toonami did in bringing anime to the West. I remember coming how from school sneaking in my dad's room to watch Gundam Wing and DBZ. I remember when Tenchi Muyo first came on and Tom's memorable phrase 'love stints'. I remember tearing up when I first heard the 1st ending song of OutLaw Star. I remember waiting until my parents went to bed on Saturday nights to catch the ending of Toonami with Ghost in the Shell and segway into Adult Swim to watch Inuyasha. I would love to see your take on Wolf's Rain or Darker than Black
Been following you guys for a while now and I love seeing all the diversity in your videos. You guys are absolutely top notch. That being said, I would love to see you guys cover Kenichi: History's Strongest Disciple. One of the most underrated series of all time in my own opinion and worth an extensive dive into. Stay frosty gentlemen!
One thing I appreciate now (that I didn't think about much when I was a kid) was that Toonami would show anime every day (at first) Unlike today where you're pretty much to wait a week in between episodes (unless it's Netflix) Of course a lot of series would repeat when they ran out of episodes, but just having it on everyday made it easier for me to fall in love with. That and when adult swim came along and adopted shows like Inuyasha and Cowboy Bebop every night... Man. Even with cable dying, I still wish we could get a network that would just play a block of anime every day. One thing I really appreciated back then were the promos. You touched on them a bit by saying they were narrated by some legendary people. But then there were the promos they aired that were almost like AMVs, where they used a particular piece of music and spliced together a bunch of clips of their popular shows. The one I remember the most was called Mad Rhetoric, but there was a couple others too
Thank you for this trip down memory lane Mike. I personally hope see lots of those hidden gems you spoke of in the future, I love finding shows tucked away in the past that I would have otherwise missed. That being said, I've seen a looooot of anime, so I'm curious what you can come up with!
I got into Toonami when I was (Believe it or not) 2 years old in 2001 lol, my parents would leave the television on any channel and I just stumbled across it with my own two toddler eyes like all I saw was colors and explosions and action and I fell in love like ever since then, I watched Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball series, Gundam Wing and Seed totally and I remember they aired the original Gundam 0079 one time but it got panned cause of the missing episodes like episode 15 and the September 11th attacks which crazy enough took place where I live in new york, and toonami even had a large hand in getting me into shows like Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star, Gundam, Evangelion, Transformers, Gigantor, Rouruni Kenshin, Inuyasha, Tenchi Muyo, Beyblade 2000 saga, not to mention in the mid 2000s like a lot of it inspired me to be an Otaku and gain inspiration to do my own work some day and when I see Toonami now it's lost that spark it's had from back then like before hype was hype I used to be hyped for those shows constantly before it was cool and corporate, which is a damn shame. I'll still remember the block that made me love Giant Robots, Anime, and collect figures to this day and made me want to create my own anime since Toonami is for the fans and by the fans and that's what made it awesome to a generation.
Just found this and I absolutely love it! I'm an old school dude anime wise and thanks to Toonami, I found a lot of classics I still enjoy. TOM was the anime GOAT.
Toonami was such a event to me growing up. I had a stopwatch with one alarm on it. 7pm. And I would stay up as late as a kid could to watch all my favorite shows. Most of them I own now. Love all the hard work guys. Thanks
Toonami was definitely a big part of the Anime propagation throughout the West, but Sci-Fi Channel's "Saturday Anime" preceded it by a couple years and largely introduced audiences to more adult themed Anime like Vampire Hunter D, Project A-ko, 8 Man After, Robot Carnival, Akira, Dominion Tank Police, etc. Nothing but love for Toonami, but Sci-Fi should get some love too!
This video just made me feel the same excitement anime on VHS tapes, toonami, the 5 a.m. DBZ is sailor Moon in the morning! This one video chronicled of my life up till now through anime. I'm new to this channel and have been enjoying everything I've seen so far especially your videos on classic anime.
I'm so glad I ran across this channel while drunkenly wandering around youtube. I love the content you guys put out. It honestly helped reinforce the decision I made to leave my office job to become a tattoo artist. All the teachers said we should stop drawing sick Gundams and big tiddy anime chicks or we'd never make it in "the real world." How sweet it is to get paid to be passionate about something, thanks for the great content!
Really appreciate channels like yours, I grew up on Anime and Love it even as an adult, love the community and the culture, continue to do what you do...... not that you need me to tell you.
I was first introduced to Voltron, Vampire Hunter D, etc in the mid-90s by my local public TV station in San Jose. Vampire Hunter D is still one of my all-time faves.
Hi everyone, welcome to year 2 on Bonsai Pop. Let's rock it out together 👌
Love your shirt bro👏🏽
Why not name that new show something like Interactive Anime since that's essentially what anime games are?
I really gotta say I love and appreciate the content y’all create on this channel to the point that this has become my favorite channel on TH-cam well for anime and I look forward to you guys folding in gaming into your content......HOLY SHIT do a collab video with Maximilian dood that would be awesome
Its just crazy when I was a teenager you were a fucking nerd watching these shows, now at 30 I can talk about Samurai Champloo, Cowboy Bebop, and DBZ and not get to many second looks.
Everybody was a secret fucking nerd.
Happy Anniversary!! Are you guys going to do an episode on the old Saturday night Adult Swim block that had Inuyasha, Ghost In The Shell, Big O, Cowboy Bebop, FLCL, and Trigun, etc etc? I kind of think that this video is a good jumping off point to get into that and how it introduced a lot of people to anime. I mean, yeah, a lot of what can be said about Toonami can be said about Saturday night Adult Swim. I fucking treasure the time that I had back then, though. Me and my sister would always stay up late watching that and when the Cowboy Bebop intro came on at like 3 or 4 in the morning sometimes we would have to rush up to the old ass NEC TV and manually turn it down so our mom wouldn't wake up. Anyway, thanks for the nostalgia.
Born too late to explore the Earth.
Born too early to explore the universe.
But was born just in time for Toonami.
weeabooman otakutsuki underrated true comment
I'm going to put that on a black tee-shirt and wear it to a Mac Demarco show.
most of the worlds oceans are unexplored
and the earth is mostly water
Beautiful.
Underrated comment!
Toonami made me feel like I was part of an event, rather than just watching Anime alone.
SO TRUUEEEE. First time I've really thought about it. It wasn't until years later with a new set of friends that I found out they were hardcore geeking out over it. When it aired nobody I knew was into it so I felt like I was part of a secret club of only a handful of people that were counting down the minutes and seconds until Tom showed up on screen every day. Hearing that voice again after so many years legit gives me goosebumps.
Yes
Toonami was the best program block of all time that Sean Akins, and Jason DeMarco ever created. I grew up with Toonami during my childhood years with Dragon Ball, Sailor Moon, Yu Yu Hakusho, Naruto, and more. Even though I started watching anime on television back in September 11, 1995 with Sailor Moon on US television syndication when I was a toddler. It was too girly, and I need something manly. That is where my young brother introduced to me into Dragon Ball Z on syndication (and then moved to Toonami in the year of 1998; alongside with Sailor Moon) in the late 1990s. Alongside with Pokémon (aired on syndication in the fall of '98, and move to Kids' WB on the following year in 1999 and onwards until 2006) and Digimon (excepted Tamers....because I do not want to deal with my worst nightmare/my true fear from the last saga...that creepy terrifying female human monster) (aired on FOX Kids in the late 1990s and early 2000s). Those still and were my first four anime titles that I started with and grew up from. As for Toonami, I was excited as my young brother and I was hooked on watching Dragon Ball (Z, the original Dragon Ball, and GT), Naruto, and the others (even though we flipped channels after Dragon Ball Z came off in the early 2000s). When Toonami moved to Saturday primetime at nights (2004-2008) away from weekday afternoons (1997-2004), I started to watch more shows on Toonami on Cartoon Network including Teen Titans (2003 on Kids' WB, and then in 2004-2006 on Cartoon Network), Yu Yu Hakusho (2003-2004), and Rouroni Kenshin (2003). It was amazing that I grew up watching the block from my childhood years from the late 1990s up to my teenager years in the mid 2000s. But when Toonami shutdown on September 20, 2008, which I didn't even knew that the block got shutdown because I stopped watching Toonami on Cartoon Network in around the summer of 2008. Cartoon Network went downhill at that time, and there was no good cartoons (except Adventure Time, Regular Show, Total Drama Island/Action) at that time, just live action in the late 2000s and early 2010s. But when Toonami came back on Cartoon Network, now airing on Adult Swim (replacing Adult Swim Action (2001-2012; which I grew up watching Inuyasha during my late childhood years up to my teenager years)). I was getting excited again, like my childhood inside of me is getting reborn watching the program block again just like good old times, even though I am in my adulthood years right now. But giving the chance watching new shows that I didn't watch including, Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood, Cowboy Bebop, IGPX, One Piece (which I didn't get the chance to watch in the mid 2000s, because of the 4Kids dub; while it was airing on 4KidsTV children's program block (formerly known as FOX Kids/FOX Box) in 2004 until FUNimation picked it up the license to produced and dub the show properly like its Japanese counterpart) and Ghost in a Shell. I also watched new anime titles including Casshern Sins, Deadman Wonderland, Eureka Seven, Samurai 7, and more. But all in all, Toonami grew up on me, and I am proud that I had a great time with.
Literally
it felt like nerds were running it...people like us...the way they gave us kenshin hakusho dragonball gundam naruto and a few others proved they were anime fans
In the states,
Toonami walked so anime could run
Thats beautiful, but id say Toonami flew so anime could could run lol
Pewds reference. Sicko mode.
Toonami wasn't created for anime, it was for us kids to watch action cartoons, like they could have put Swat Kats or Pirates of Dark Water on there if they wanted to. That's why in the early days they played shows like Thundercats and Jonny Quest into the ground. Once they blew up with Sailor Moon and early DBZ, they got the money and green light from Cartoon Network to get expensive stuff like Gundam Wing from Bandai and get Funimation to finish dubbing DBZ, that's how it became so Japanese dominant in the early 2000s.
Agreed though I was introduced to it way before toonami existed.
@Tomas Bell Johnny Quest* Also Thundercats DID show on Toonami at one point.
1999: Toonami recommends us anime
2020: We recommend Toonami anime
How the tables have turned
Are you planning on watching Toonami's Original series though?
And if you do recommend series to Toonami, do you watch the block yourself?
@@Murillos1 I will definitely be watching their originals
Yup, nothing like Dragon Ball starting all over right in the middle of the Namek Saga over, and over, and over again.
I became an expert of the Sayajin Saga.
This gave me some Vietnam level flashback PTSD.
Yup as soon as goku arrived on Namek to fight Recoom it would start over again. God that was annoying. All the way back to freaking Radditz lol.
That was the only problem with Toonami on weekdays- Reruns, as Moltar explained to us kids, and it became more glaring later on with the short, 26 episode type shows. That was so satisfying when the new episodes finally came and Goku washed Recoome and Captain Ginyu and we got to see Vegeta and the Z Fighters try to take out Frieza. Those episodes were all built up hype to see if Vegeta could really get strong enough to go Super Saiyan and beat Frieza.
Really the only reason I hate Frieza so much.... get to Goku becoming Super Sayian than boom back to the beginning of the saga again. Damn I wish the internet was better back then.
Bruh, kids will neverrrrrr understand that level of frustration 😂😂😂😂
I remember every day after school I'd make sure all my homework n house chores was done by 7pm so I could watch Toonami. The line up used to be Hamtaro, Ronin Warriors, Sailor Moon, Dragonball Z, Tenchi Muyo, Gundam Wing etc. Wish I could go back to those days
Nah I remember when it was saturday and I would stay awake from 12 am to 6 am watching anime and from 6 am watching Pokemon then falling asleep
I forgot that they'd aired Tenchi... What's great about that reminder for me is that in the last month I've revisited Universe and the OVA, and as I got into it I kept scratching my head when I asked myself how I'd gotten into the franchise as a kid and could remember at all.
But if it was on Toonami, that's almost definitely the answer
@@jackingofftoraelilblack2342 Adult 🏊♂️
Getting me all nostalgic man. "Space Is The Place" is still one of my favorite promos of all time
So you just gone forget the goat Yu Yu Hakusho? Boy some of yall niggas ought to be ashamed of yourselves.
We owe a lot to toonami as well
@@Dantheferret it is back….every Saturday night
"It is ok to indulge in what makes you happy"
I needed to hear that.
Nothing wrong with that at all, just into...an obsession.😁🥳
Did anyone else get a tear in the eye. Childhood memories!
right here brotha, right here
Seriously, though. Toonami was amazing.
Unlocked so many memories I thought I'd lost
You're God damn right
One of the reasons why I am so invested in Cartoon Network doing well. If CN goes, Toonami goes.
Just Some Guy with a Mustache I wonder how many kids today watch the programming block though. especially since anime is so prevalent online through streaming services and...piracy
CN has nothing to do with Toonami now, it's all about Adult Swim's success
Sorry but cartoon network is dogshit nowadays and it saddens me it was my childhood
CN and Adult Swim are two different networks within Turner Broadcasting, and are treated separately in the Nielsen Ratings. As long as Adult Swim is around, Toonami will be around. But who watches TV anymore, amirite? 😂
As much as I love toonami, I feel like a lot of people tend to leave out another important piece in bringing anime to the west, adult swim! Toonami for the most part had to stay kid friendly, but adult swim was able to remove those chains and show that anime wasn't just for kids! Also lets not forget that when toonami ended, adult swim was for a few years the only place where you could watch anime on TV! Until, of course, ironically enough, they ended up bringing back toonami.
Pedro Ortega bro don’t forget Casshern Sins 2012 also
@@payrollrio Big O too!
Janae Stephenson-Brown facts. But I never got into it
@Pedro Ortega
Fooly Cooly too!
Toonami's Midnight Run established the timeslot for more adult cartoons late at night. However, yeah Adult Swim eventually took over and brought us so many more shows.
I do remember when adult swim started showing up I was pissed off because it took some of my anime time for "Home Movies" or "Tim and Eric?... While I started to be ok with Home Movies, Tim and Eric still annoys me that it took a half hour of my anime time....
Where would we be without Tom, I was allways hyped when I saw that ship, and the narrative of Toms story is awesome
Because of Toonami's imager breaks (the compilations of anime clips, set to hip hop beats, with a message), I listen to chill hop. Because of Toonami, I marathoned G4TV through high school for all the video game reviews, tips and tricks, as well as "nerd culture." Toonami hooked me into Anime throughout middle school and high school.
Even now, I daydream of being a kid coming home from school to watch Toonami's block in the afternoon. I daydream of the years I would sneak in the middle of the night to watch adult swim (the original real adult swim, with the adverts of old people swimming).
Sci-Fi was how I learned about Anime and Toonami is how I fell in love with it.
Toonami made my childhood before I even knew what Toonami was
Couldn't imagine my life without toonami. I'm so glad I was born when I was.
Never got Toonami in Canada but got YTV. Sailor Moon and Samurai Pizza Cats started a love for anime.
But I know how important Toonami was to the North American market.
If you’re covering everything that ever aired in Toonami I’m beyond hyped to finally have someone talk about Zoids: Chaotic Century. The dub was a little weird, but that show is the reason I still hold love for mech in my heart today.
Zoids memories
I still have a white liger action figure from toys r us back in the day 😂
Dude, I would play the Toonami games on the CN website. That, and Lego Mars Mission took up my days before I bought a PlayStation
Harshhaze I remember doing this tio
OMG my dad had a super tiny tv about 14in CRT style in the garage and I was able to get a cheap VCR recorder and recorded shows on that tv because my parents always wanted to watch wheel of torture and jepardy or similarly we would have dinner. Flood of memories and the dedication I had to watching my favorite anime shows!!! Thanks love your videos! Keep up the amazing work!
Did Bonsai Pop just bring back Saturday morning cartoons with this upload schedule?
That dope!
I miss those days so much. Toonami was awesome and gave me something to look forward to every week. You could argue that it's better now because you can watch literally anything at any time, but that's just it. The anticipation of waiting on the next episode of your favorite show made it feel special. It's like drinking - fun every now and then, but becomes not so fun if you do it all the time.
If it wasn't for Toonami I don't think I would love anime and manga as much as I do now and become the weeb I am today
Everyone here is older right? I'm 33 and I remember this like it was yesterday. I was in 7th grade in 99....time sure does fly, enjoy it guys before you know it you will be on youtube watching videos about shit that happened to you in 7th grade. Good times.
Tom has been a trusted friend of mine since high school. I have always looked forward to hearing from him. He always had something positive to say and made me feel at home out there in space.
I can relate to that
Until next time...stay gold...
Oof, the nostalgia. Makes my heart hurt. At least we have Bonsai Pop now, the future isn’t all bad.
Toonami is still around tho
Yooo that DBZ/Sailor Moon hentai online hit different as a kid. 🤣
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Unfortunately! It’s only referring to anime English voice actors. But! That doesn’t stop the perverts from making Rule 34 fanart.
The Metal Gear series is an (insane) anime in videogame form, would love a video on that.
Joeoeo0 i can agree to that
Man, you guys really hit me in the feels with this one, you’ve got yourself one more sub! Looking forward to taking this journey together.
90s era anime can and will always have my heart and like a lot of folks here, I will always have a bias for it
"Ani-social society"
Whoever came up with that name, you are a genius.
It's thanks to Toonami it saved my life from killing myself, without it, I've never would have been here. So... thank you. Being at home was hell, but Toonami was my real home and it still is, from to this day! I've been with Toonami from the very beginning! And I remember very Anime and cartoon that ever aired on TV.
From the Foods I eat, to the games I play, to the Toyota I drive, to the shows I watch, to the toys I played with, I love 🇯🇵 JAPAN
Captain Planet,Freakazoid(Dexter Douglas),Darkwing Duck,Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventure,Batman The animated series, Spider-Man The animated series and X-men The animated series were my favorite along with Gargoyles!
2002 is when I got into Toonami and introduced to anime. Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, G Gundam, Transformers Armada. Good times.
Thank you so much for this trip down memory lane. Toonami is truly something special, I can't imagine any future generation having something so quirky and unique.
And big congrats on 2 years of kickass anime vids. Here's to many more!
I used to LOVE watching yuyu hakusho and Inuyasha on adult swim at night. I can still remember those chill eastern-style bumpers that played during the commercials.
I was there at the beginning until around 2007. Coming home from school, telling mom I don't have any homework, snack, sitting in front of the TV, toonami, dinner, bed....almost everyday as a child and preteen...it was my childhood. Weekends were for other things...
You're the second video essay channel that manipulated me into a sub by having a toonami video be the first video I watched. Congrats.
This vid needs to be seen by 500k
you hit the nail on the head here brother. good job.
Just watched two of your videos. Great work. Toonami was the bees knees as a kid. Staying up late at night just to catch YuYu Hakusho and Cowboy Bebop was the highlight of my childhood. I would be so upset when I accidentally fell asleep and wake up right at the end of the credits with the "real folks blues" playing at 2am. Zoids will come on extremely late like 5am. I would catch it right before school. Such nostalgia...
I'm glad I was able to experience watching Toonami in the early 2000s as a kid this was the Golden Era of anime😀
You are the best content creator on this platform, relatable, humble, and genuinely kind. It must be a true honor to be your friend, and I will be patrioning soon. I wish you a long life Mike, I'm glad that your story worked out. It sounds like you deserve every bit of it.
Mike, I'm so glad to be able to watch the content of a really radical punk rock dude a decade or two younger than myself that shares my same love of anime and video games. Keep building on that golden foundation my shaggy no pants dude.
Rachums McOne same tho im 28 and i feel him and i would have been good homies if we met lol music anime video games the trifecta i love and respect
You know, I'm a little worried bout the other guys behind the bonsai pop and Treesicle with all this Corona virus business, seems like they haven't been seen in a while.
Heavy nostalgia in this I remember so many days during middle school in the 2000s watching dbz and sailor moon. Then staying up late on the weekends to watch yu yu hakusho and Inuyasha those were the days. From there I developed a massively addictive habit of buying anime and manga from long forgotten bookstores like Walden books and then borders. Anime is so important to me and I'm so grateful to the Japanese community for creating these amazing shows that we get to experience and enjoy. Thanks so much man for making these amazing videos that really gives these shows and the history of how they got here their due justice man. Always looking forward to a Saturday upload from you guys.
I know this video was focusing on Toonami's 'legacy,' but I'm very disappointed that it didn't even allude to Toonami's cancellation and return.
Much like you, I know I would not be who I am today without Toonami. I watched everything I could on Toonami and I still miss today the feeling of getting home from school and sitting right in front of the TV to watch my favorite shows. Toonami and Anime taught me who I am, I just wish I could enjoy Toonami like I did when I was a kid. I still think about watching Yu Yu Hakusho every day. Now I am old and tired with a kid of my own and I struggle to stay up on Saturday nights past 11. Although Toonami has returned to us it will never be the revolution it was back in the late 90s and early 00s. I love anime, but like you said, there is so much out there now and I can't keep up like I did when I was a kid, I find myself just going back to my childhood favorites instead of expanding my horizons. Thank you again for the wonderful video.
Happy to be along for the ride, can’t wait for year 2 of Bonzai Pop. And I love video games so am totally behind you on that
I'm just now getting back into anime again. Toonami was the beginning of my anime journey, then life happened. 70 hour work-weeks. Back in the day it was DBZ, Gundam, and Cowboy Bebop, now I'm discovering stuff like One Punch Man and Sword Art Online. It's cool to be back.
I’m 47 and watched Toonami to get my anime fix.
Bonsai Pop is for sure carrying the torch. Toonami was a force that changed our lives, Tom’s evolution has been so dope. There was nothing like discovering YYH, Kenshin, G Gundam, Beast Wars (all the gundams and Zoids) so many classics.
I remember the ocean dub of DBZ even being on on WB50. Kids WB also kinda changed the game with Yugioh, Jackie Chan adventures, and Shaolin Monks, etc. I’m rambling, point is, keep doing what you’re doing guys this TH-cam channel is a gem. You have my support 💯
I’ve made more friends gathering around to watch toonami then when I would be in public just trying to get by.
There was something about crowding around the tv with a bunch of people after school watching things like dragon ball Z and rooting for your favorite character to do something incredible.
The debt I owe to toonami for all the good times I’ve had might never be repaid but hell if I won’t try by continuing to suggest more anime to more friends in hope of sharing what toonami shared with me.
Toonami is my favorite example of marketing done right. No real hidden agenda, just genuine passion and love of the media of which they're selling.
That was beautiful.....Awesome job... as an oldschool Toonami veteran myself hats off to you.
There needs to be a Toonami streaming service. A one stop shop for anime where all the studios come together. I know it'll never happen but a guy can DREAM.
Just finished listening to you on the Yi Yi Hakusho episode of Wizard and the Bruiser and came to this episode first. Toonami was absolutely a staple of my childhood and adolescence. I absolutely miss the vibe and everything it was so much. I look forward to catching up on the years worth in content on here! 😄
One of the most underrated channels in TH-cam, love you guys keep it up
You guys are the best. I love the themes you go over, aside from anime. The fact that we should be able to enjoy Saturday morning cartoons as an adult, sitting down and watching a bonsai pop video while I work brings me some of that childhood joy that’s so hard to come by nowadays
This brought tears to my eyes. Pure nostalgia. Love you guys. Glad to be apart of the Patreon and the community
Toonami was a staple of my childhood. Steve Blum’s voice was synonymous with anime (before I saw Cowboy Bebop) for me. It was way more than a block; it showed me an entirely new paradigm and artistic medium.
Toonami will always have a place in my heart I always took time to watch the anime that came on it nowadays I can't watch it all the time because of work but best believe when I get weekends off and 10:30 rolls around I am in my living room watching anime on toonami late into the night once again
When you've only been an adult for like five months and really just want to know more about Tom's character arc.
Toonami was a priceless influence. Sailor Moon, Tenchi Muyo, and Reboot were my essentials in my first taste of creative expansion. Amazing to hear about it again.
The afternoon toonami block shaped me.
The arguments about stepping away from the TV for a SECOND we’re intense back then 😂
Man way to bring me back. Toonamie introduced me to one of my favorite anime Gundam wing. My sister and I were ready for this everyday after school. I miss the 90s 😭
I totally forgot about Blue Submarine No 6 until just now. Thanks for the flashback.
my highschool years were 1999-2002 this block of awesomeness was a holy grail.
My childhood was essentially me getting home from school, and grabbing a snack to enjoy while watching toonami. Loved it.
YEP. I'm 25, and back when I was 11/12, all my shit better be DONE by like 6, cuz Naruto comes on at 9 and the other cool shit at 7/8
I love your video so much! I got thrown back to the time where I watched Toonami on Saturday nights as a young girl falling in love with anime. I realize how lucky we were to watch all these animes on TV. Anime on Toonami alongside anime on Adult Swim truly defines my childhood: a golden time full of nostalgia. Thank you for your wonderful videos and reminding me of the special nostalgia that will never go away. Keep it up!
Toonami is weirdly one of those things that really defined millions of kids ,if you watched it once for every night ,it just stuck with you.Almost like finding you're individual purpose in life.
Toonami will always have a special place in my heart. A lot of people don't recognize the significance of what Toonami did in bringing anime to the West. I remember coming how from school sneaking in my dad's room to watch Gundam Wing and DBZ. I remember when Tenchi Muyo first came on and Tom's memorable phrase 'love stints'. I remember tearing up when I first heard the 1st ending song of OutLaw Star. I remember waiting until my parents went to bed on Saturday nights to catch the ending of Toonami with Ghost in the Shell and segway into Adult Swim to watch Inuyasha. I would love to see your take on Wolf's Rain or Darker than Black
Toonami was the ish I ran home as quickly as possible just to watch! Thank you for the channel! Thank you for the work!
You guys are by far my favorite new channel and damn near already at the top of my anime content channels list
Been following you guys for a while now and I love seeing all the diversity in your videos. You guys are absolutely top notch.
That being said, I would love to see you guys cover Kenichi: History's Strongest Disciple. One of the most underrated series of all time in my own opinion and worth an extensive dive into.
Stay frosty gentlemen!
Toonami building the childhoods of anime and games where timeless memories are born
I remember when Tom talk about Mario Sunshine ☀️ on the game cube. Hope they talk about G-Gundam soon! 👏👏👏
One thing I appreciate now (that I didn't think about much when I was a kid) was that Toonami would show anime every day (at first) Unlike today where you're pretty much to wait a week in between episodes (unless it's Netflix) Of course a lot of series would repeat when they ran out of episodes, but just having it on everyday made it easier for me to fall in love with. That and when adult swim came along and adopted shows like Inuyasha and Cowboy Bebop every night... Man. Even with cable dying, I still wish we could get a network that would just play a block of anime every day.
One thing I really appreciated back then were the promos. You touched on them a bit by saying they were narrated by some legendary people. But then there were the promos they aired that were almost like AMVs, where they used a particular piece of music and spliced together a bunch of clips of their popular shows. The one I remember the most was called Mad Rhetoric, but there was a couple others too
Yooo awesome video thank you I grow up watching all these classics peace love and positive energy ✊🏾
Wow, can't believe it's already been a year.
I grew up with Toonami from 12am-4am, great times.
Thank you for this trip down memory lane Mike. I personally hope see lots of those hidden gems you spoke of in the future, I love finding shows tucked away in the past that I would have otherwise missed. That being said, I've seen a looooot of anime, so I'm curious what you can come up with!
I got into Toonami when I was (Believe it or not) 2 years old in 2001 lol, my parents would leave the television on any channel and I just stumbled across it with my own two toddler eyes like all I saw was colors and explosions and action and I fell in love like ever since then, I watched Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball series, Gundam Wing and Seed totally and I remember they aired the original Gundam 0079 one time but it got panned cause of the missing episodes like episode 15 and the September 11th attacks which crazy enough took place where I live in new york, and toonami even had a large hand in getting me into shows like Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star, Gundam, Evangelion, Transformers, Gigantor, Rouruni Kenshin, Inuyasha, Tenchi Muyo, Beyblade 2000 saga, not to mention in the mid 2000s like a lot of it inspired me to be an Otaku and gain inspiration to do my own work some day and when I see Toonami now it's lost that spark it's had from back then like before hype was hype I used to be hyped for those shows constantly before it was cool and corporate, which is a damn shame. I'll still remember the block that made me love Giant Robots, Anime, and collect figures to this day and made me want to create my own anime since Toonami is for the fans and by the fans and that's what made it awesome to a generation.
Just found this and I absolutely love it! I'm an old school dude anime wise and thanks to Toonami, I found a lot of classics I still enjoy. TOM was the anime GOAT.
Toonami was such a event to me growing up. I had a stopwatch with one alarm on it. 7pm. And I would stay up as late as a kid could to watch all my favorite shows. Most of them I own now. Love all the hard work guys. Thanks
Toonami was definitely a big part of the Anime propagation throughout the West, but Sci-Fi Channel's "Saturday Anime" preceded it by a couple years and largely introduced audiences to more adult themed Anime like Vampire Hunter D, Project A-ko, 8 Man After, Robot Carnival, Akira, Dominion Tank Police, etc. Nothing but love for Toonami, but Sci-Fi should get some love too!
This video just made me feel the same excitement anime on VHS tapes, toonami, the 5 a.m. DBZ is sailor Moon in the morning! This one video chronicled of my life up till now through anime. I'm new to this channel and have been enjoying everything I've seen so far especially your videos on classic anime.
Why did this almost make me cry!? Thanks Toonami and Bonsai Pop.
I'm so glad I ran across this channel while drunkenly wandering around youtube. I love the content you guys put out. It honestly helped reinforce the decision I made to leave my office job to become a tattoo artist. All the teachers said we should stop drawing sick Gundams and big tiddy anime chicks or we'd never make it in "the real world." How sweet it is to get paid to be passionate about something, thanks for the great content!
Hey Bonsai Pop. You Guys are Kings!! Thank you for all you do for us as fans.
So glad you made this. This was easily the best part of cartoon watching as a kid
This is the video I’ve been waiting for on the growth and origin of anime curation in the West. Thank you for this.
I appreciate the shout out for ID there. That show is an interesting dive.
Hitting me in the nostalgia. Subbed for life, thank you
You guys are the best. This video gave me chills and flashbacks of some the best anime years of my life. Keep up the good work.
>unkempt and pantsless
Dude's my spirit animal bro.
Really appreciate channels like yours, I grew up on Anime and Love it even as an adult, love the community and the culture, continue to do what you do...... not that you need me to tell you.
It took me 20 years to know what TOM'S name stood for thanks for that dude 👍👍
I too am grateful for Toonami. It was the beginning in so many ways. Thanks T.O.M
-With Love,
A kid from the 90's
I was first introduced to Voltron, Vampire Hunter D, etc in the mid-90s by my local public TV station in San Jose. Vampire Hunter D is still one of my all-time faves.