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 ...

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 ...

For Americans of a certain age, Toonami served as the gateway to anime. Before streaming made thousands of shows available at our fingertips, we had a harder time coming by anime. Broadcast television ...

Toonami first began in 1997, originally running as an afternoon programming block on Cartoon Network and after several years bringing fans anime and new animated series, it was put to bed in 2008.