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 ...

For a whole generation, Toonami was more than a programming block. It served as an entrance to a new universe of storytelling. When Cartoon Network first introduced Toonami in 1997, no one would have ...

For Americans of a certain age, Toonami served as the gateway to anime. Before streaming made thousands of shows available at our fingertips, we had a harder time coming by anime. Broadcast television ...

John is a writer and podcaster based in New York. He's passionate about comic books, superhero movies, Star Wars, and anime. Toonami was a popular television block on Cartoon Network, started in 1997 ...

Every week day it was time to tune in to see what happened in Dragon Ball Z, Transformers, and other classics. Looking back, many didn’t appreciate the impact Toonami had on television, and perhaps ...