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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The prospect of bringing back Toonami was already a tenuous one in 2012. Fewer and fewer people relied on fixed-schedule ...

When Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim recently announced the return of Toonami, a long running programming block dedicated mostly to Japanese animation, anime lovers took notice. With classic titles such ...

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 ...

Matt Villei is a News Writer for Collider. Having a deep appreciation for the games, films, and books he experienced growing up, Matt wanted to learn the inner workings of how these media pieces were ...

An entire generation’s fondness for anime can be traced back to one programming block on Cartoon Network called Toonami. Toonami is a well of nostalgia for millennials whose introduction to anime ...

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 ...

When Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim recently announced the return of Toonami, a long running programming block dedicated mostly to Japanese animation, anime lovers took notice. With classic titles such ...