William's Street is thinking about bringing back Toonami...

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AshburnerX

AshburnerX

... thanks to fan response from the April 1st remake and the outcry of support from the #BringBackToonami hashtag, board posts, and Facebook postings.

They just responded to it.

#BringBackToonami We've heard you. Thank you for your passion and interest - stay tuned.
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So hey... this could be awesome.
 
Shegokigo

Shegokigo

Toonami is definitely something that most people remember with Rose Colored Glasses of Nostalgia.

aka it wasn't great.
 
Bumble the Boy Wonder

Bumble the Boy Wonder

Few things from my adolescent years were actually better when I viewed them in recent years, than how I remembered them growing up.

For example, and not to derail the thread, but I recently discovered that Pete and Pete was hilarious, but Jesus Christ did I hate that show as a kid..

On-topic: I find there was only a select group of shows that I enjoyed from Toonami, considering they probably aired about 20 different ones during it's run, I think.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

I think the series the hold up today are Big O and Outlaw Star, but I could always stand a Gundam series if they could bring one in. I'd love if they got the rights for Sailor Moon again and showed it uncut, including the final seasons, but that's a pipe dream unless Toei gets it's head out of it's ass.

Honestly, we're probably going to have most of the same Adult Swim Action shows, but with Toonami bumps, music videos, reviews, Tom hosting and a few classic shows returning. I'd be fine with this.

And yes, Pete and Pete was brilliant. A lot of the old Nick shows were. I still think that Salute Your Shorts was the best "kids" sitcom ever produced. Too bad we'll never see full releases of ether series on DVD.
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

I want this to come back and I want it to be on for twenty years. I plan on having kids by that time and I want to be raised watching some good cartoons dammit!

And one criticism towards Sailor Moon. Not toward the characters or story-line no they were fine. In fact I put a few steps above Power Rangers/Super Sentai. But...Sailor Moon S was not a sequel series. It was the second season. Tell me if anyone else finds it stupid how TV shows rename the series every time a new season comes out. STOP GIVING SLAYERS A NEW TAGLINE! It's the same silly show we've always loved and it doesn't need a name change every five minutes. OH! They should put that on Toonami!
 
Cajungal

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But then we'd have to hear David Moo. :mad: I'm not rabidly anti-dub, but that guy is awful. AWFUL.
 
phil

phil

If they brought it back with some new stuff like Gurren Laggan for example, mixed with a classic one here and there ( looking at your outlaw star) I think it could be pretty great.
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

Gurren Lagann is good, but it's old news. What we need is something new for generation Z. Maybe some new American Action cartoons. 1.) Nothing based on DC comics. We have DC Nation for a reason. 2.) Not based on a toy-line. We get enough of that crap all-ready.3.) No Hamtaro. Why the hell was that on Toonami in the first place?
 
Shegokigo

Shegokigo

The reason Toonami was awesome to most of you was because otherwise you had no access to the anime they were showing. You couldn't afford to buy the box VHS sets, if they even had sets available for purchase. However you are not a child anymore, you either own or have seen the series' they pass on it or will pass on the new one multiple times. There's zero reason for you to catch an episode or two out of sequence just because it's airing. Sure you'll watch one or two here if you remember it being good but you won't watch an entire season intently (with lots of commercial interruption). New anime fans also won't stay and watch entire seasons, if they see an episode of something interesting, they'll watch it, maybe half of it and then go download/buy the series.

Toonami was a product of it's age and no longer has a place in this era of TV/HULU/NETFLIX/ARRRRBAY technology.
 
Bones

Bones

i am still depressed we live in a world where the purchase of something you like to watch is out of the question.(this is mostly anime as far as I have seen) then again I am a late 90's anime collector who still buys his media, so I don't count for shit.

shego don't even get me started on the vhs box-sets, I cry a little every time I think of those days, when you would pay 20-30 dollars for 2-3 episodes or a whole lot for the whole box-set. my one friend has frickin dbz, nge, sailor moon, and others ON TAPE. it scares me that we were ever willing to pay that much money for a tv series. HELL i remember when a dvd boxset of a series was easy 100-200 bucks!
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

One word: Crunchyroll. The website has basically made anime on TV irrelevant unless you can't stand subs. You can keep up with your favorite series for a modest monthly fee and get it very soon after it's aired in Japan (like a day or two after at worst).

Me? I'll probably catch Toonami if they bring it back, if only because I don't have anywhere to stick boxed sets and lack a big ass drive for getting them otherwise. I really prefer to watch anime on TV as opposed to hunched over my PC.
 
Shegokigo

Shegokigo

See I just stream whatever I'd watch from my PC to my TV or I watch it on a second monitor while playing something. So maybe I'm biased against the TV showing programs. That and fucking commercials.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Shegokigo said:
See I just stream whatever I'd watch from my PC to my TV or I watch it on a second monitor while playing something. So maybe I'm biased against the TV showing programs. That and fucking commercials.
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I'm running XP at the moment, so I don't think I can stream to my 360. I'll upgrade to 7 eventually, but right now I'm saving up for a new processor/MB combo. I really need a multi-core if I want to play anything made recently.
 
phil

phil

Shegokigo said:
The reason Toonami was awesome to most of you was because otherwise you had no access to the anime they were showing. You couldn't afford to buy the box VHS sets, if they even had sets available for purchase. However you are not a child anymore, you either own or have seen the series' they pass on it or will pass on the new one multiple times. There's zero reason for you to catch an episode or two out of sequence just because it's airing. Sure you'll watch one or two here if you remember it being good but you won't watch an entire season intently (with lots of commercial interruption). New anime fans also won't stay and watch entire seasons, if they see an episode of something interesting, they'll watch it, maybe half of it and then go download/buy the series.

Toonami was a product of it's age and no longer has a place in this era of TV/HULU/NETFLIX/ARRRRBAY technology.
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I see what you mean, though I'd DVR the shit out of what they had to show. Granted I'm not sure if DVR recordings cout for anything in ratings.

Mainly I just want something that'll show me some of those series that I've been wanting to see again but can't bring myself to buy, mostly because I can't really justify it. I rarely watch the DVDs that I own.
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

It's not just the shows that made Toonami awesome, it Toonami itself! Kids need proper afternoon action blocks, where instead of doing their homework after school they'd just sit down and watch robots fight! Also Tom was the coolest host ever. 1-3 version, 4th version looked creepy to me for some reason.
 
Null

Null

Just so long as they stop making Squidbillies, 12 oz Mouse, and for god's sake, hire someone to murder Tim and Eric. I'd watch that- "Tim and Eric get killed, for realsies."
 
Vagabond

Vagabond

So this is just gonna be a rehash of old Toonami? I'd like to see Champloo, Blue Sub No. 6, and ZOIDS back on the air if that's the case.

If they're going to try out new stuff that's cool, I've got no idea what it could be (gundam still a thing?), but if Steve Blum, Peter Cullen, and Joe Boyd Vigil aren't on board it's just not going to work.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

I don't think it's going to be a complete rehash... more likely they are going to turn the Saturday anime block into Toonami, with Toonami trappings and some returning old shows. It's still going to have Bleach, Full Metal Alchemist, Cowboy Bebop and the Big O... it's just likely we're going to get stuff like Gundam Wing, Yu Yu Hakusho, and Outlaw Star too.

You need to remember that they have 8 hours to fill. That's more than enough time for the block.

Null said:
Also, why the FUCK isn't Archer on Adult Swim?
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I think they made that show explicitly for FX.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Hmm... it would be a bold move for them to drop GitS and Big O. Those shows have strong fan bases. On the other hand, they've been played to death...

Also, Inuyasha needed to be drug behind the chemical shed and shot long ago.
 
GasBandit

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Null said:
Just so long as they stop making Squidbillies, 12 oz Mouse, and for god's sake, hire someone to murder Tim and Eric. I'd watch that- "Tim and Eric get killed, for realsies."
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I thought those were all Adult Swim shows... I hadn't watched it in forever, but I thought Toonami was mostly the younger-demo shows like naruto and stuff.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Adult Swim STARTED as uncensored versions of those younger-demo shows. Then it added new stuff, like Yu Yu Hakusho, Cowboy Bebop, and Trigun to the line up. It became so popular that it went from once a week to everyday.To put it simply, Adult Swim is an off-shot of Toonami that took on a life of it's own when they realized that more people were watching Futurama and Family Guy than the anime stuff.
 
GasBandit

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AshburnerX said:
Adult Swim STARTED as uncensored versions of those younger-demo shows. Then it added new stuff, like Yu Yu Hakusho, Cowboy Bebop, and Trigun to the line up. It became so popular that it went from once a week to everyday.To put it simply, Adult Swim is an off-shot of Toonami that took on a life of it's own when they realized that more people were watching Futurama and Family Guy than the anime stuff.
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Huh. And here I thought it got started with SGC2C.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Space Ghost Coast to Coast is what got William's Street started, but not the Adult Swim block. You need to remember that SGC2C got cancelled after it's first season, then got picked up again when people started watching more comedy on Adult Swim.
 
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