Live From Anime Weekend Atlanta: Toonami 1997-2008
September 20th, 2008 by Chad Bonin
From the floor of Anime Weekend Atlanta, I’m both glad and saddened to be the one breaking the news. Tonight’s Toonami will be the final. Anime will be shuffled off, with Adult Swim still apparently acquiring some, and Action will be a Friday Night/Saturday Morning thing. The Toonami people have been shuffled off to different departments of CN, and Jetstream will air for the forseeable future, but the Toonami we know is gone as of tonight.
Naruto? S&P has 15 more episodes to go over, and there’s no word on another season. No word, also, where it will air after Toonami.
In other CN news, they’re working on a Ben 10 Alien Force live-action movie, could air Powerpuff Girls Z at some point
(Original text after the bump for posterity sake)
Cartoon Network is running late, but…
Powerpuff Girls Z may be coming late this year or early next.
Pretty big announcement about Toonami coming tonight. (One of the heads of AWA mentioned Toonami would air for the last time tonight, but wasn’t clear if he was joking) edit- someone asked, and he reiterated to watch Toonami tonight for an announcement.
Edit- Toonami, as we know it is gone. The team is going to other parts of CN, anime will be mostly handled by AS, and action on Friday nights. Toonami is gone for ratings. Jetstream will be active.
S&P looked at Elfin Lied.. too much.
“No comment” on Naruto Shippunden airing.
Old School AS Friday won’t last long.
Code Geass is not doing well at all. Watch Shin-Chan and reruns of FMA.
FusionFall in January, beta testing now.
Naruto- S&P has 15 more episodes, and “wait and see” on second series. No word on where it goes without Toonami.
CN is airing Gotham Knight and New Frontier, working on a Ben 10 Alien Force live action movie.
September 20th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
[...] see, Toonami’s last night on television is tonight, and I have a song about that animation block completed for the new CD. Toonami means a lot to me [...]
September 20th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
[...] see, Toonami’s last night on television is tonight, and I have a song about that animation block completed for the new CD. Toonami means a lot to me [...]
September 20th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
No. Next week, the anime is back, back to the old, with CG and Moribito back to their old timeslots, leaving the production rights to N:S and whatnot to possibly be picked up for AS production runs. With that, though, drops FMA from the timeslot it’s gonna take tonight. And Code Geass is doing well, look at it dipshit. Its the best show they’re aring for the action genre. Old school friday sucked anyway, some of those shows were better off dead.Unfortunately, its coming back next week too
And even though Elfen Lied is a hardcore anime, complete with gore and nudity, its still one of the best anime out there. And Elfen lied was suggested, but because of gore and nudity scenes, would result in the series being absolutely mutilated. Maybe if they air it after 2:00, but that seems unlikely, due to fans disdain for some of the voice actors. Toonami was replaced when AS started airing anime. Also, do some fuckin research.
September 20th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
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September 21st, 2008 at 2:41 pm
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September 21st, 2008 at 3:34 pm
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September 22nd, 2008 at 12:59 am
[...] see, Toonami’s last night on television is tonight, and I have a song about that animation block completed for the new CD. Toonami means a lot to me [...]
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:05 am
Thanks so much for ruining our lives Cartoon network…. First you take TOM 3.0 off of CN for no fuckin reason… Then you go and ruin CN itself with stupid new shows. I miss the classics, u know, like from the early 1990’s and 2004. After that, you shove all of our child hood memories up our ass! I’m so mad right now… We only stopped watching toonami and CN so that you would realize we didn’t like the stupid “Thomas the Tank engine” Tom alright?! But instead of bringing back the visor we all know and love, you CANCEL THE WHOLE FUCKING BLOCK!!! What the hell is wrong with you?! Watch toonami on youtube. Look at everyone’s anger! You destroyed cartoon network! IT’S OVER! We are NEVER watching the god damn channel ever again. In fact, it’s not worthy of the title cartoon network anymore. Those are just senseless cartoons now… Bring back Cartoon network and fix this Bull shit right now!
September 27th, 2008 at 2:09 am
I say about time, Toonami has been in a downward spiral for awhile now.