I'M SUPPOSED TO KNOW THIS??!! Reacting to "Toonami" by Nostalgia Critic

[@arkauthor]

Toonami was the introduction to anime to America. Surprisingly Tom has some lore to him and they did special that sometimes effected Toonami itself, like the Intruder 2 special.

[@VegetaLF7]

Toonami was something that damn near every American kid grew up with as our introduction to anime. If someone didn't watch it, they heard about it from their friends at school. We all knew Tom and his epic voice, the incredible shows on that block and the countless hours spent watching it after school each day. I'm also someone who has been a subscriber to Duck since the first channel, so it absolutely comes as no surprise you never heard of it.

[@mercurioslevin1877]

its not just in America, I'm from the UK and it was just as you said over here as well XD

[@mr44mag]

I was really busy with school and extracurricular stuff, but I'd always try to catch it or at least late night runs with my little brother as it was pretty much the only time we saw each other. Thanks Toonami and Toonami faithful for using violent cartoons to bring us together.

[@theduckgoesmoo]

I think I watched Pokémon and yugioh on 4kids like that was a channel right?

[@calebgoodman3028]

@@theduckgoesmoo Pretty sure that’s a company. Those shows did air on Cartoon Network though. Before Disney got the rights for Pokémon and Nicktoons for Yu-Gi-Oh!.

[@cmrobbins88]

@@theduckgoesmoosort of. Both ran on Kid’s WB until it became CW 4Kids around 2007/2008 I think. Until 4Kids shutdown in 2012.

[@ShadyRK9]

You seriously don't know Toonami?! They was a big deal back in 2000's! Even before Crunchyroll was a thing! Lots of anime became well known due to them! In fact they recently came back in 2015 and they're STILL active to this day!

[@thehonestreviewer7754]

Duck says he couldn't know Toonami cause he was born around its debut. Commenters also born around that time are like, "Nah brah." Duck says to just watch DBZA over the original. Commenters like, "Nah brah."

[@b3rz3rk3r9]

Which confused me, since I'm around 2 years younger than Duck and I grew up with Toonami; both the tail end of the original run and when they rebooted it.

[@BlazeWriter]

“Yeah, I’ve never heard of Toonami” Oh thank good, for a second I thought you were normal.

[@userjames5976]

Yeah, if he ever actually knew about something he reacted to, it would probably destroy the galaxy.

[@ARCtheCartoonMaster]

I mean... I was born in 1996 and I never heard about Toonami until around the time Critic's video came out. Granted, maybe it just wasn't a thing here in Australia.

[@SoobiHoo]

Toonami was my gateway to anime. A few years back, I always stayed up late on Saturdays to watch Bleach, Soul Eater, Deadman Wonderland, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Ghost in the Shell, and Cowboy Bebop on Toonami, those were good memories.

[@keyblademasterclark]

Wasn't Brotherhood AFTER Toonami?

[@SoobiHoo]

@@keyblademasterclark no it aired on Toonami around 2012 or 2013, it came on late alongside Ghost in the Shell and Cowboy Bebop.

[@keyblademasterclark]

@@SoobiHoo Oh ok. I only watched it on Crunchyroll. I remember GITS:SAC being on toonami as well as Fullmetal Alchemist

[@james9329]

March 17th 1997 was the day Toonami launched on Cartoon Network. Ended in 2008 due to low ratings. Came back on the Adult Swim network on April 1st 2012 as part of an April Fool’s prank before officially returning on May 26th 2012 and it’s still going to this day. A year and a half ago it celebrated its 25th anniversary.

[@calebgoodman3028]

Toonami aired when you were a kid too Mr. Duck. In fact it was originally on a weekday afternoon block. One thing I found interesting personally is that the target demographic grows as the storyline of our robot host Tom develops starting with a small version that progressively get older as he’s remodeled from incidents in specials. It was a bit of a surprise when Tom’s fifth model was introduced and he just starts swearing since he’s now on an adult block.

[@brodywright6350]

To answer your question Toonami is still around. It air on adult swim on saturday from 12am to 3am.

[@billsloan]

Unfortunately it starts at 12am.

[@Degdreams]

They didn't talk about G Gundam, IGPX which was a Toonami original, and that whole week long Intruder event they had in between commercials... dude Toonami was WILD

[@BigJon200]

IGPX 🔥🔥🔥

[@ThatNerdKM]

5:36 I was born 7 years after you and even I grew up with Toonami in both reruns and when the program returned later. How you grew up with so little pop culture exposure is truly baffling.

[@ericb9252]

Buddy, there are MANY Transformers TV shows, long before the Michael Bay movies. I know it'll be awhile till Kids WB and commercials hopefully is this week, so you can do it Monday, but if he doesn't upload it this week, consider the Batman 89 review next, since you'll probably wanna do Batman Returns in December. It is a Christmas movie.

[@thehonestreviewer7754]

The fact that those horrid films are the only piece of Transformers media he's aware of hurts my very soul.

[@SnakeVash]

"Does anime have to be Japanese?" Anime literally translates to Japanese animation. So yes, it does have to be Japanese. However, there are anime inspired styles for other shows that exist. They're not anime, is they're anime inspired.

[@silentassason]

Weren't there multiple animation studios in Japan that said the opposite that it's a style and not specifically Japanese animation? I think I remember hearing that somewhere

[@StCerberusEngel]

The word's usage is a cultural difference between Japan and the western world. In Japan, anime literally means animation. All animation. Including non-Japanese productions. However, in other parts of the world, and specifically the US, anime specifically means Japanese animation, replacing the term Japanimation that was used prior to the word entering the current vernacular. Personally, I've always defined it as animation made by Japanese people or companies, reflecting their culture and tastes, and primarily for a Japanese audience. Other countries have copied very specific examples of anime styles and utilize Japanese studios for their own work, but if it doesn't reflect Japanese sensibilities and isn't aimed at their own as an audience, it's not anime, it's just animation.

[@NamedNameless1]

No it doesn't. Anime is just short for "animation", it doesn't translate to anything. Japan doesn't differentiate between Japanese and Western animation, they call it all "anime".

[@vaullus6074]

33:30 ish The biggest hit on Hamtaru was levity. There were way too many serious or action packed anime/cartoons where it wasn't available. Hamtaru brought a bit of grounding and silliness that the other cartoons wouldn't give. This would balance issues of too much stress or too many hard line issues in a video block.

[@BlahBlahWoofWoof12]

3:23 Literally chat when they talk about you 9:34 When Duck talks bad about a show he never watched 11:29 She got you 20:30 My first anime! LET'S GO!! 24:00 You have to watch this 27:03 My favorite thing about this show is the main romance story started with them meeting & he tells her straight out he wants to kill her & keeps saying it everytime they meet, constantly pulling out that thing on your desk & pointing it at her & on two occasions nearly succeeds. 28:15 Oh my God YOU DON'T KNOW THE SPICE GIRLS!!!! 29:37 Can't even explain how good this is 43:40 See Tom gets it 51:38 Best boy?! 59:00 This show was my jam. You don't even know!

[@futuregadgetlabmember5320]

The follow up to this should be the Kids WB.

[@quantum_leviathan]

So fun fact: (I don't know if this is just a rumour ,actual truth or a planned twist that never came to be,but...) I heard that Jar jar Binks was originally supposed to be a sith infiltrator spy, and that all his "goofy antics" were a sort of drunken style sith trickery if you go and rewatch all the movies he was in and keep in mind this potential plot twist, it just weirdly makes sense seeing as he's regularly causing problems for the Jedi characters by being a klutz and shit but now what if all that was an act to hide his sith allegiance

[@quantum_leviathan]

There's just a lot revolving around his character that never really made sense ,like why did he even exist, everyone hated him, but if you keep in mind this potential plot twist it all makes sense, it just never panned out

[@calebgoodman3028]

To explain that Powerpuff Girls anime clip, Cartoon Network did get in touch with Japan on making an anime adaptation of their show. It’s an alternate universe and the girls are human preteens but honestly I thought it was overall a good adaptation with interesting twists like that storyline with this boy with a chronic illness that was corrupted by an evil power and Miyako (Bubbles in this show) refused to hurt him because the boy was a childhood friend of hers that, as I stated earlier, is chronically ill.

[@deckire]

Man that April Fools when they brought back Toonami was a surprising for me. I didn't know about The Room april fools joke, I saw the broadcast line for a adult swim programs, and said to myself "I haven't watched adult swim for a long time, I'll put it on to pass the time" and then Tom 3.5, just appeared, saying April Fools, and I didn't go to bed that night due to nostalgia.

[@theduckgoesmoo]

The emotions must’ve been so real

[@xujenvoxith360]

I'm '86 so I remember all of this. I usherd in the new millennium watching Toonami. Watching the saiyan saga on repeat till it finally continued was painful. I will say GT had its moments. Omega shennron was kinda cool as a design standpoint.

[@The_Blue_Otaku]

Honestly people rag on Dragon Ball GT but I'm part of the few that think it's good sure it has its flaws but even with it's flaws it introduced a lot of badass things like Super Saiyan 4, Baby/the Tuffles and the Shadow Dragons but at least GT is 100% more enjoyable to watch then Dragon Ball Evolution

[@xujenvoxith360]

@JoJo_Joestar the baby arc was a little out there for me and by the end, i wasn't even hyped for ss4 it was more of "it's about damn time." moment. All the villains busting out of hell was cool. I just thought the super 17 thing was a dumb way to go about it. The shadow dragons was the only arc I could almost 100% get behind and is the only one I can see being used for super. The DragonBalls are being heavily abused so we are getting a good set up.

[@SCP.343]

Sailor Moon is basically a Fan Fiction of The Tale Of The Bamboo Cutter (also called The Tale Of Princess Kaguya) from Japanese Mythology with some of elements of the story of Selene and Endymion from Greek Mythology thrown in, in the same way that Dragon Ball is a Fan Fiction of Journey To West.

[@channingpappe2876]

Pluto used to be officially considered a planet but now its size is similar or smaller than some moons or asteroids. At best, planetoids like Pluto are now considered dwarf planets. But, it still has Planet in Dwarf Planet so I’m still calling it a planet.

[@theduckgoesmoo]

Bingo

[@anthonyrivers1218]

The big o was one of my favorite anime that aired on toonami I still watch it to this day it was so complex and cool it's sad it's not mentioned more often.

[@drakeware655]

Regarding what Tamara said about what Powerpuff Girls "used to be," that's actually Japan's take on the Powerpuff Girls called Powerpuff Girls Z, which came out AFTER Powerpuff Girls had finished airing

[@Bardic_Knowledge]

When I was in elementary school, I would run like fury to get to the TV from the bus home so I could catch Sailor Moon. I always missed the opening theme, to the point where I had no idea it existed until I started showing the redub to my partner.

[@wesgillhamii_pde]

Letting my mom watch an episode of Tenchi Muyo with me when i was 13 was a horrible mistake.

[@fireball1249]

Oh God!

[@theduckgoesmoo]

Do I even want to know

[@AlexThat200]

@@theduckgoesmoo Harem anime. "Harem" is basically a genre of anime where a bunch of girls/guys have the hots for the main protagonist. And what usually is associated with it is mostly sexual scenes involving the cast. Emphasis on the word, "mostly" since they can't show anything that's not appropriate for public channels/streaming services. Some harem anime don't have that and are more focused on the relationships but they're pretty much overshadowed nowadays as degenerates are more louder about their interests.

[@Godzilla-tu2cd]

To make this short you really need a childhood

[@smugsneasel]

We need to develop time travel technology and give him one.

[@Godzilla-tu2cd]

​@@smugsneasel😂 exactly

[@userjames5976]

Just hearing the amount of things he didn't know about nearly gave me an aneurysm.

[@Godzilla-tu2cd]

@@userjames5976 😂 same

[@billsloan]

Too late.

[@Voxrar]

You just awakened something for me. I had no idea Unkle Iroh was the same VO as Aku. As a kid I never connected those two in my head!

[@Americanbadashh]

I knew this but really heard the similarity once we mentioned it

[@dustinroberts6963]

He was also Splinter in the 2007 TMNT movie

[@calebgoodman3028]

Uncle Iroh the evil shapeshifting master of darkness drinking his favorite tea enjoying Pai Sho with a foolish samurai warrior.

[@ashwingfantasy030]

I was born in 1993 didn’t discover Cartoon Network or adult swim until cable

[@BBBHuey]

39:03 "Well also, wasn't Goku supposed to be killed off by the end of Z?" Says the guy who saw the Buu Bits from Dragon Ball Abridged...

[@mecha64zilla14]

They did Jackie Chan Adventures dirty. Yes toonami is still airing to this day

[@TheFrugalVideoGamer]

The best way to sum up Hamtaro is the hamster version of Rugrats. The stakes were low, but that was part of the appeal. And Rock Lee was *heavily* inspired by Bruce Lee, and his single best moment in my estimation was during the training arc, when he's upagainst an opponent who can control sand, and his trainer tells him to drop the leg weights. Everyone's standing there laughing at the idea that *that* would help any... until the weights hit the floor and *send up clouds of dust 30 feet high from the impact.*

[@keyblademasterclark]

GT had some good ideas. The dragonballs becoming sentient beings and corrupted because of how often they were used, SSJ4, the ending

[@billsloan]

The overused thing was a bit too much plus the show itself was the worst cartoon I ever watched up until that point.

[@gavin5724]

I’m just taking a guess and assume you only know stuff from your time and nothing before then. Or I could be wrong.

[@OtaKatWolfe]

Duck: "i've literally never heard of anything"

[@marquesgorham4226]

I can't believe how much stuff this guy doesn't know.

[@flamewind26]

I was just a baby during all this from Toonami too. We only had PBS Kids on our tv, no cable sadly so we didn't experience Disney Afternoon or this.

[@hidanprime]

Here's an interesting tidbit not many know but confirms what we all inferred: HIM is actually an acronym for "His Infernal Majesty", a direct reference to the Devil (and by extension the goth rock band HIM).

[@judgejohnson2796]

14:33 Do not! I repeat! DO NOT RECOMMEND THE ABRIDGE OVER THE ORIGINAL DBZ!

[@saiyan4414]

The person who voiced the mayor also voiced SpongeBob. Tom Kenny

[@johanstenfelt1206]

I was born in 1997 and I knew about Toonami when I was a kid. Anyway, I really appreciate you Reacting to this. By the way, how about doing the History of Walt Disney Studios by ElectricDragon505 at some point.

[@itachi112059]

who else had Sailor Moon as their first anime?

[@StCerberusEngel]

It was the first time I recognized it as something specific. I'd seen localized anime before, but couldn't quite put my finger on why it seemed so different. When I saw Sailor Moon on Toonami...something clicked and I went digging. Then I found out what Anime was...and realized I had heard of Japanimation in my very younger days. I think seeing the Noozles (The Wondrous Koala Blinky) on Nickelodeon was my first anime. Localized, but anime it was. Then Speed Racer, Voltron, G-Force (Battle of the Planets), Robotech... I had a rich, anime-filled childhood, it turns out.

[@leviuzumaki3903]

Toonami was absolutely massive, it had dragon ball, inuyasha, one piece, naruto it was awesome! It came on in the afternoons on weekends I believe, but came late at night or early in the morning on weekdays. But it was incredible, although Cartoon Network was always awesome earlier teen titans, batman beyond, Batman the animated series all great.

[@ARCtheCartoonMaster]

39:53 OMG, Jessica DiCicco! She is a national treasure, and anyone who says otherwise... is part of the 90% who never watched _The Buzz on Maggie._

[@YukoValis]

11:30 in a weird technical way.. our moon is kind of a planet. Unlike all the other moons in the solar system, ours was created by a massive meteor crashing into earth. It broke off some of our landscape to become the moon. So yeah technically not a planet, but was built from a planet.

[@b3rz3rk3r9]

Hey Duck, you ever consider using these segments as watchlists, because I'd totally love to see your reactions to some of these; especially Justice League. Like dude, that theme song was so hype, you felt like you were gonna see legendary heroes just pop to life. Which is fitting, since the show itself was amazing. And I'm not just talking from Nostalgia; the show holds up even today, to where when I have kids, Justice League and JL Unlimited are going on their watchlists.

[@rathendar3431]

Jackie chan adventures was low key a great show.

[@fireball1249]

Hell yeah it was!

[@Jmasterturbo2]

Yes Bleach was also on toonami, TO make it easy for you think of several anime that came out before 2010 and yes it came out on toonami, Hellsing Ultimate, Attack on Titan, etc. To make you understand. The reason anime is really even popular as it is in the west is because it was shown on toonami first.

[@VirtueCry]

8:39 "Reboot" Reboot was _the shit_ back in the day. It was the first 3d cartoon I saw. Well, the first one many kids saw back then. I still quote "we are helping" from the episode where everyone dumb. It was goofy and kid friendly, until it wasn't. There's a Mortal Kombat episode which changes the tone of the entire show going forward, because violence and personal loss is now a thing.

[@VegetaLF7]

I remember it being one of the first times I actually got a pop culture film reference in a show, my dad introducing me to the Evil Dead/Army of Darkness films when I was *way* too young for them but still enjoyed them all the same. So seeing a version of Ash in Reboot was when I realized that shows and movies might actually reference each other. It was an eye opening realization to make for a kid.

[@StCerberusEngel]

Still love this show. I don't care about dated graphics, it's of its time, and at the time, ahead of its time.

[@StCerberusEngel]

@@VegetaLF7 "What kind of sick creature gets enjoyment out of playing this sorta game?!"

[@GR3GORY90]

There were other anime that was shown on cartoon Network as well as Toonami. That was about some of them.

[@TheJackish90]

1997, huh. Okay, how fitting that the Channel Awesome crew educates the old man and the baby about Toonami.

[@neroatlas9121]

22:00 Thats Powerpuff Girls Z, an anime adaptation if the powerpuff girls made in 2006 as a collaboration in order to bring powerpuff girls to japan. It was never aired in the US but weirdly did air in Latin America and (of all places) the Balkans (two regions where they have pretty big fanbases). Check the 2.6 thousand powerpuff girls Z fanfictions, its like a list of balkan war criminals, it leaves you scared, confused, and weirdly interested.

[@jeffheithaus9120]

Actually the Clone Wars introduce General Grievous for the first time and He was Terrifying and OP. Took on Five Jedi with no problem, his moves were just epic and how he fought and moved was so epic and also scary. If you want to see General Grievous as his best and beyond awesome watch his intro into the series. Also Toomami was what introduce me to Bleach Dub and I loved it. Still a forever fans of it. Love the Arrancars being by favorite villains, but I do love the Quincy SternRitters just a much too.

[@jonathanmasters8895]

16:48 I CAN'T b the only one who whistled the home for infinite losers intro when that popped up

[@CassiusStelar]

TOM 4 was an affront to humanity and im glad they brought back TOM 3 when the block was revived

[@ssj2kenshin]

i remember when toonami first came to cartoon network. how i got into anime ect. such great times.

[@trajectoryunown]

Toonami got me into anime when I was but a lad. My early childhood is full of memories from Mobile Fighter G Gundam, Rurouni Kenshin, YuYu Hakusho, Dragon Ball Z, Hamtaro, Cyborg 009, Zatch Bell, Yugioh, Rave Master, and Evangelion. I wouldn't have the affinity for anime or Japanese culture today if it weren't for Toonami. On behalf of everyone from my generation, I thank thee. ❤‍🔥

[@brandonfulmore2371]

what you just saw was the anime version of Powerpuff Girls called "Powerpuff Girls Z" 22:00 They that popular they got an anime adaptation

[@haku8135]

For the record, I was born in 1996 and Toonami was my ENTIRE CHILDHOOD. It's the SINGLE reason anime is so popular in the west! The fact you have never seen it is a TRAVESTY. YOU DO NOT KNOW THE GLORY OF HAMTARO! Also, the definition of Anime is literally Japanese Animation, so yes, it needs to be made in Japan. Anything else is just animation in the style of Anime. Jackie Chan Adventures was my jam, it's so awesome.

[@Alexanderthegreat159]

Honestly i aint surprised you dont know. 🤣 A lot of anime wouldnt have made it in the States if it wasnt for toonami. All there was to watch it for most people for the longest time

[@titanmo01]

I understand now. You were still a baby. I am way older than you. If only I could show you how passionate I was about Toonami when it was peak.

[@ARCtheCartoonMaster]

37:35 Well, that line hits different here in Australia.

[@ViperReApErR]

One they had that was different was megas XLR, giant robot that the head was a car, pilot drove the car to operate it and the copilot used a ps2 controller

[@Kairukurumi]

At this point I'm going to have to be the one to say it. Duck is secretly an alien and when the overlords were programming his brain with what he needed to know to blend in they just happened to exclude all the important stuff

[@theduckgoesmoo]

I actually thought I had an average exposure to things growing up…. KZbin pointed out that I was a little wrong

[@banditle6458]

​@@theduckgoesmooa little?

[@SoobiHoo]

At least Kyle knows that Toonami airs Saturday nights at midnight on Cartoon Network now, and yes its been on since 2012. Im surprised you haven't heard of Toonami since you said you watched Adult Swim.

[@theduckgoesmoo]

I stopped watched Cartoon Network way before 2012

[@SoobiHoo]

@@theduckgoesmoo What did you watched, watching paint dry lol.

[@theduckgoesmoo]

@@SoobiHoo I didn’t watch tv anymore lol I don’t even have cable at my house right now

[@SoobiHoo]

@@theduckgoesmoo You got the internet, so you're set for life lol.

[@smugsneasel]

@@theduckgoesmoo I get not watching TV. Because I don't really do that anymore either. The TV in my room is practically just for gaming. But the internet has allowed me to see so much! I'm in the middle of watching Ergo Proxy right now! Granted I've been in the middle of watching it for months because I keep getting distracted and watching other things, but it's the principle of the matter.

[@poochyenajones1362]

I never watched Toonami since it never aired in where I lived but I still heard of it when it was airing. Despite that I still watched most of these cartoons and anime, just on different channels.

[@AGO339]

i honestly believe "The Batman" is my favorite batman series. maybe i was bias but batman's villains were not just villains, they were super powered super villains on drugs!. like Bane was practically the hunk, Mr. Frieze has never been more powerfull, the joke threw hands, the penguin had some serious power in his gadgets, and i loved the stories, especially in the first couple seasons. and with season 5 being a series of crossovers with other super heroes, it ended with a BANG.

[@KimFareseed]

Don't think Toonami was a thing in Sweden. Heck, I know that the Boomerang channel seemed to have been a late arrival here. I don't think Adult Swim was a thing over here either.

[@MoostachedSaiyanPrince]

No joke, Jackie Chan Adventures was a fantastic show. Jackie Chan was involved in making it as he voiced himself, but I'm unsure of what else he contributed to the show beyond his voice and likeness. He probably helped direct fight scenes because I memory serves, the fight scenes in that show were pretty similar to the ones in Jackie Chan movies, if one or more people in those scenes had super powers.

[@dustinroberts6963]

Jackie didn't voice himself. That was James Sie (Cabbage Merchant in Avatar). Jackie only did the live action portions at the end of each episode. James Sie also voiced Shendu and Chow

[@MoostachedSaiyanPrince]

@@dustinroberts6963 Fair enough, I thought it was him. It's been a long time since the last time I saw the show, and I never bothered looking at VA's for anything back then, so the impression was close enough that it had me fooled.

[@lazyenthusiasm9891]

This innocent boy not knowing Clockwork Orange. I mean he didn’t even know Toonami so it’s understandable.

[@sarahfuger7974]

I remember when they had a movie called Batman vs Dracula .

[@chrismanning2888]

Ok, that powerpuff girls they originally showed was powerpuff girls z, which from what i remember is a fanmade anime version of the powerpuff girls that became extremely popular on the internet

[@calebgoodman3028]

Not fan made at all. It’s an official anime owned by Cartoon Network for a Japanese adaptation that did have a English dub.

[@chrismanning2888]

​@@calebgoodman3028 neat. I remember a lot of my friends talking about it. It felt like a fever dream since I saw it here and there around places sparingly

[@sarahfuger7974]

Anyone else remember Zoids !?!

[@fireball1249]

I do, well mostly the Theme.

[@calebgoodman3028]

“Political intrigue for kids” Not for kids. Teens are more the target demographic. Gundam shows are very politically charged due to being war dramas. Gray coded characters every which way and brutal deaths. More akin to Attack on Titan in that regard.

[@StCerberusEngel]

The main reason the stories are so damn good. The Mecha fights are just icing on that dense, delicious cake.

[@ridewild1956]

that thing with the Powerpuff Girls was an anime spinoff released after the show finished called Powerpuff girls z it was weird in a Japanese way

[@KingReaper87]

I watched when toonami started on Cartoon Network I was 9 when this started

[@naythonmeadows]

I still think about the original Tom Every now and then.

[@mercurioslevin1877]

as I watch more of Duck's videos the more certain I become that he is some secret lab experiment locked away from the world, having been grown up in the vat like some sort of .... reverse Homelander XD, it also bugs me how much Tom sounds like John St. John aka the OG voice actor for Duke Nukem lol

[@theduckgoesmoo]

There’s a number of theories

[@ssickhead1]

That Vegeta voice is from the Ocean Dub. The most iconic and the one DBZ abridged imitated is from the Funimation dub

[@vaullus6074]

31:00 Ish, Big 0 would be great to watch and/or react to.

[@germainedaniel8720]

Dude born in 97 toonami came out 2001. How he not know?😁😁😁🤣🤣

[@gavin5724]

You are a phenomenon I cannot explain.

[@theduckgoesmoo]

Thank you

[@forastero54321]

The fact that he doesn’t even know toonami really worries me…what did his parents do? Literally live under a rock? Kyle, if you need help BLINK TWICE!

[@banditle6458]

I guess he doesn't

[@judgejohnson2796]

13:11 No Powerpuff girls was not on Toonami that was an early morning cartoon network show, while Toonami aired at night.

[@calebgoodman3028]

Toonami used to be an afternoon kids block. There are literally ads for Powerpuff Girls on Toonami back in the day.

[@nathanclarke2777]

Yes Lanni did Yu Yu Hakusho Abridged first and alone cause it was one of the first Abridged shows ever! and it was the first one I watched!

[@BDTXIII]

I cannot blame you for not knowing some of these cartoon shows. At that time, there were way too many animated shows which either hit or missed.

[@robertchapman625]

Ya Reboot! A classic of 90's-early 2000's animation. @theduckgoesmoo, I hope the summary gave you a bit of interest in watching it. Come on people, vote or comment on this to try to get that as a show Kyle reacts to one day!

[@REDNDEAD]

Just telling you in advice, the Next Time on Death Battle WILL shock you.

[@joshuashelton6355]

Thunder cats had enough viewership, they just didn't sell enough toys.

[@roninunrefined1637]

Why do we expect a internet dweller to know about Toonami when he clearly states I’ve only seen DBZ abridged like it’s an accomplishment? Getting home from school and watching Toonami and then going to elementary school and talking about all the crazy shit that happened was a way of life. Not sitting on KZbin and listening to dudes dub an already dubbed show by adding teenage humor to most scenes

[@theduckgoesmoo]

KZbin didn’t exist when I was in elementary school…

[@True105]

its so unreal just how many things you missed growing up

[@theduckgoesmoo]

I don’t know how I did it like I watched stuff it just wasn’t normal I guess

[@pizzakillerskyresia7506]

I'm glad nobody remembers gen 1 Tom died to an alien 😢

[@tboy817]

Toonami was my introduction to anime

[@AGO339]

the thundercats reboot, while yes was a lil disappointing to see it be about young adults/teenagers coming to age, was still an absolutely kick ass series also imma just gonna point out, Liono was a kid turned into an adult in the original. he was an adult who often acted like a child BECAUSE HE LITERALLY WAS A CHILD. like im sorry but i heavily disagree witht he nostalgia critic comentary on this part. it was a HUGE let down when season 3 got canceled but thankfully we at least got a great coming together against the villains ending in season 2, tho it wasnt a definitive end.

[@SuperMandibleclaw]

You know duck not knowing pop culture is becoming more of the "say the line bart" simpsons meme

[@theduckgoesmoo]

Oh it has been for a couple months now

[@ryanwatkins6830]

Had to drop the like just cuz you recognized GUNDAM 👍 nice man

[@crcoghill]

Short answer: yeah Long answer: ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY! GO WATCH THESE SHOWS!

[@NateTmi]

I wonder is anyone has made a compilation of all the Dragon fist attacks in all of dragon ball

[@hidanprime]

Samurai Jack and Aku brought us EXTRA THICC!

[@BBBHuey]

Dragon Ball might've put anime on the map for most of the western world, but I'd argue that Robotech probably did it first.