Memoir:

Sometime in the 4th grade I used to watch Gundam Wing on Toonami. When I was younger, maybe the third grade or earlier, I used to watch Dragon Ball Z without really knowing it was anime. In the end of the 4th grade I was building Gundam Models. Tenchi Muyo followed after this. Outlaw Star followed. Then the Big O. I began to go to my friends house and we both o would watch his copies of DBZ. We would watch Ranma 1/2. His older sister was an Otaku. She had tons of Japanese Manga, untranslated and translated. In the 6th grade I began reading Manga. Trading Yugioh cards.

We began collecting Newtype Magazines. I had thier demo DVDs of King of Bandit Jing, Di Di Charat, and Azumanga Daioh. We met the proverbial geek, who was well ahead collecting Shonen Jump and watching CN or Animidnight on Action. Sometime between 6th grade and 7th grade Techtv began showing Betterman, and Boogybop Phantom. At some point Ruroni Kenshin snuck in Cartoon Network. Some other show ended up on Techtv after awhile. Then Adult Swim got my attention. Cowboy Bebop. Trigun. Dare I say, Inuyasha.

I was getting a normal fix of Anime morning, day, and Night. then in the 8th grade I got a girlfriend who was into Japanimation. No, not some ugly thick glasses chic. A hot out-of-my-leauge filipino girl. This sped me into my addiction. Mostly becuase she had scores of anime. Chobits, Hellsing, Love-Hina. A month before we met, and this is important to know -FLCL came on [AD]. That was my all time obsession. Following these up until now are the last few recent anime on Cn or talked about in Newtype.

I quit wathcing toonami when it started sinking, but even so, that doesn't make the sting any less worse.

-That was my early years, and they ended one minute at a time. I will never get those experiences duplicated. Toonami will never be duplicated. a chunk of me is dead.

There is nothing left that is worth watching CN except Venture Brothers, and the new episodes aren't nearly as good.

Bullshit. Dermott > You

I remember when Yu Yu Hakusho was on adult swim....
does that make me old?

I remember when Ronin Warriors were on toonami.

Is I be old?

I remember when Ronin Warriors were on toonami.

Is I be old?

If you are then I am too. That's where I first saw that show and fell in love with it. I remember coming home from school to watch it and then my mom telling me she never taped it for me. I even remember getting pissed off at her. Wow. Maybe I am old. Damn.

I remember when Ronin Warriors were on toonami.

Is I be old?

That show kicked ass. But it wasn't on for very long. :P

FAG's

Go watch porn instead of cartoons

To me, Toonami died when Tom 2.0 came in. Sure I watched it, but it wasn't the same. Still though, R.I.P.

This. I liked the white Tom.

I do watch porn and cartoons and movies and cooking shows and those stupid ghost hunting shows. Sometimes all together at the same time, but that's only if I'm really board.

toonami was how i first got exposed to japanese animation back in the day...dragonball (know i shouldn't admit it, but fuck i watched it to a point), ruroni kenshin, gundum wing, and OUTLAW FUCKING STAR. but overall, eh, i kinda moved on past most animes and the ones that i'll watch now aren't going to be on at 3:30 on toonami. hopefully this doesn't mean adult swim is going to lose their "action" programming some of it [inuyasha] they can lose but they should just show a lineup of flcl, cowboybebop, trigun, samurai champloo, and evangelion in a loop because all those shows are fucking win and i would never of first seen them without cartoon network late night programming.

Anime is gay.

wow
[adult swim] for the fucking win?

Negative.

I remember the old songs they use to play. Like when there was the first Tom, in the early days of Toonami. I still got the CD of em. First CD I made.

Hakusho. Win.

Kenshin. Win.

Outlaw Star. Win.

and many others.

dragon ball is cool. (its hillarious)

Now they're going to show only one episode of Naruto...every 'other' week. Lame. :(

i'm pretty positive that about 60% of kids in america wouldn't be watching anime, or even know what anime was, if it wasn't for toonami. ):

i really liked the cool looking robot dude, i wanted him as a pet

It's either that or those god-awful fillers.

Unless they do both. Then it's pure fail.

Yay! I'm glad they're getting rid of that crap. There should just be a separate anime channel so that it doesn't trash regular programming.

.....
you mean like Total Drama Island?

meh. toonami is one of the reasons that i started watching cartoon network waaay back in high school. dbz, outlaw star, and tenchi muyo were the first series that i religiously watched every single day.

as sad as it's passing might be, i also think that toonami's time on this earth has expired. last time i tried to watch it i think it made me physically sick...

at least there's still adult swim, although that's kinda gone downhill in the last couple of years.

*misses teh good ol days*

Think yourselves lucky you had it for even that long. In the UK we had Toonami until last year, but it showed so much crap. The only decent show was Megas XLR, for comedy value. Other than that show it was filled with Justice League and loads of other scheiss. Also, it had Teen Titans. Yuk.

Fuck this stupid country

I LOVE Megas XLR

I LOVE Megas XLR

Yeah don't get me wrong, it's a good show, but shame about the lack of episodes.

.....
you mean like Total Drama Island?

I was setting up my laptop last weekend and it was just starting. I watched the whole thing. It was like a fucking trainwreck.

Nooo Toonami :(

I remember watching Dragonball Z on that shit everyday growing up.

R.I.P.

I too remember the old days of tonami when they showed stuff like god knows what back before '04
I still remember Dbz And when space ghost and and other great animated things. then the sucky stuff came on like
naruto and all the real anime got bumped to past midnight... Why did they do that i mean why can't there be a anime only tv channel with no dub and subtitles that would rock.
then i could watch all the anime my eyes could handle
Really Guys

Its going to be a sucky future with anime starting at 3am
*takes 1911 colt and cleans it readying one bullet right in front of it*
See you later ...
tonami

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