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 ...

But the block came to an end in 2008. It had limped along for a while with a shortened schedule consisting more and more of reruns. Fans mourned the loss for four years. Then, on April 1, 2012, ...

The golden age of Toonami wasn’t just about the anime and action cartoons—it was about the atmosphere. Toonami’s commercials ...