The End of Our Childhood: for Former Cartoon Network Junkies

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The End of Our Childhood: for Former Cartoon Network Junkies

Postby borpii » Sun Oct 12, 2008 7:57 pm

It's over. Toonami's over. I noticed they hadn't been on for a few weeks and I thought CN had just put Toonami on the shelf because it was excited over its new batch of crappy movies. That's not the case. Toonami is over for good now.

I'd long grown out of most of their lineup, seeing as the only anime they featured anymore was Naruto (Shamefully I admit that I'm a junkie) but wow. Toonami was the medium that introduced me to anime. It was so exciting back in the days when it felt like the Cartoon Network execs actually gave a crap about giving anime a chance. Now with this and Adult Swim slaying their "action" Saturdays, tv is going to suck.

I'm not the only one deeply saddened by the death of Toonami am I? Come sob dramatically with me, fellow (former) Cartoon Network junkies.
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Postby AaronAMV » Sun Oct 12, 2008 7:59 pm

. . .

It's a shame... But at least they weren't showing any "good" anime any more...
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Postby Vivaldi » Sun Oct 12, 2008 8:18 pm

They'd Petered off into crappiness in the past few years, but seriously, they got so many people into anime in the first place. They also used to have excellent lineups, I miss awesome shows like outlaw star, kenshin, and gundam.
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Postby angelx03 » Sun Oct 12, 2008 9:23 pm

Wasn't this announced that Toonami is dead like a couple weeks ago? BELATED SADNESS!
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Postby The Origonal Head Hunter » Sun Oct 12, 2008 9:25 pm

I miss the days of Moltar's, or whatever his name was, hosting. Outlaw Star and DBZ goodness.
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Postby Jasta85 » Sun Oct 12, 2008 9:26 pm

so, aside from adult swim, is cartoon network still showing anime? or have they tried to drop it, seems that they have been trying to get out of anime for a while it's just that they had too many viewers from it to do it openly
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Postby Sukunai » Sun Oct 12, 2008 9:44 pm

Watching anime on tv is really like watching ANYthing on tv.

Non anime shows on tv suck, I am not surprised that anime on tv sucks. But what is always odd, is that people actually enjoy watching anime on tv in the first place.

Bye Toonami, never watched ya, won't miss ya.
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Postby ShatteredFlame » Sun Oct 12, 2008 10:17 pm

Sukunai wrote:Watching anime on tv is really like watching ANYthing on tv.

Non anime shows on tv suck, I am not surprised that anime on tv sucks. But what is always odd, is that people actually enjoy watching anime on tv in the first place.

Bye Toonami, never watched ya, won't miss ya.


You really have to stop speaking only from YOUR opinion. Or at least use some common sense before you post. You do realize that without anime airing on TV, it wouldn't have been popular in the first place, right? Toonami introduced lots of people into anime, including a portion of people on this site.

And fuck, just because YOU don't enjoy anything on TV doesn't mean others don't. And just because your too biased to look into anything that's not anime doesn't mean it sucks.
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Postby CodeZTM » Sun Oct 12, 2008 10:19 pm

I'm gonna miss it. :(

I miss the days of Tenchi. I miss the days of dragonball, when it was appealing to me. I also miss outlaw star, sailor moon, cardcaptors and all the other anime of my childhood, before I knew it was anime.
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Postby 76 » Sun Oct 12, 2008 10:59 pm

Wow.


I won't really miss Toonami, but I will acknowledge that I am one of it's leeching spawns.
Toonami got my started on anime, like others have said, before I knew what anime was. Moltar was the badass of the nineties, like Chuck Norris, but with a giant cannon that would shoot anime into the sky(never understood that....>_>)


I appreciate who you were, Toonami, and though I don't give a shit for tom2-3, and lil tom was definitely part of my good experience, the elitist bastards down at the org taught me that you're for t3h no0bz, so I disowned you.

=D

I did really like the anime I watched on Toonami, but if I could bring it back, I wouldn't.
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Postby EvaFan » Sun Oct 12, 2008 11:21 pm

I remember seeing DBZ for the first time on toonami and was like:

"WTF those guys are shooting beams at each other"

I admitt I got into anime cause of Cartoon network but it wasn't because of toonami. I got into it back when they played "speed racer" late night and "ronin warriors"(Which i still love to this day) durring the daytime.

Good times 8-)
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Postby Kumatora » Mon Oct 13, 2008 7:25 am

It's sad to see this block go, but it's probably for the best at this point.

Like for many people here, Toonami turned me into an anime fan. Unfortunately, I was only interested in Cardcaptors, DBZ, Sailor Moon, and Yuyu Hakusho at the time. So, I never really got much of a greater appreciation for this block until recently.
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Postby Ishbalan » Mon Oct 13, 2008 7:59 am

This is old news. I didn't think it was worth making a thread over. Besides, the only anime they were running at the time was Naruto, and they are still going to run it on CN.

Anyway, Toonami was dead to me as soon as TOM took off his helmet and called himself TOM4.
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Postby borpii » Mon Oct 13, 2008 12:37 pm

Jasta85 wrote:so, aside from adult swim, is cartoon network still showing anime? or have they tried to drop it, seems that they have been trying to get out of anime for a while it's just that they had too many viewers from it to do it openly


I'm not sure if Naruto is in their permanent schedule-- the one week I saw it outside of Toonami may be a fluke, with my luck. But Adult Swim is slaughtering its anime. It seems like they're begrudgingly keeping Bleach and they just abruptly shut off Code Geass- I was really getting into that one, even if it's dubbed.

Cartoon Network is definitely abandoning anime, and since my cable provider is so Comcastic, we still don't have Anime Network. I may die...

[quote = Ishbalan]This is old news. I didn't think it was worth making a thread over. Besides, the only anime they were running at the time was Naruto, and they are still going to run it on CN.
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Yeah, it's old news but I was totally in disbelief so I had to piss and moan here! Also, Toonami was such a staple in most people's journey to anime I felt like it deserved a thread memorial.

Had so many good memories with Toonami, it was painful watching it suffer at the hands of that last TOM .

Something cool: The article quotes the last episode of Cowboy Bebop! Did you notice? Steve Blum was the only cool thing left about Toonami...[/quote]
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Postby Vivaldi » Mon Oct 13, 2008 1:33 pm

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