The Eras of Toonami Part 1

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The Toonami Timeline. How has Cartoon Network's Toonnami block after two decades?
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[@dreamguardian8320]

Having Toonami around was truly the good old days.

[@crazisaturn2274]

It's still around tho

[@dreamguardian8320]

@@crazisaturn2274 But not as popular as it was in the good old days.

[@Murf_Workshop]

The way how you simply stated "the Golden Age" I got a big smile on my face. I remember it too well. Gowing up in the 2000s we did not know how good we had it. Toys and kids TV was at it's best.

[@CartoonObsession]

This was a cool look back at Toonami's original run. I even forgot about some of this stuff over the years.

[@greenlineessays]

Funny enough, I actually saw your Toonami video a couple of days before I uploaded mine!

[@CartoonObsession]

@@greenlineessays Wow, what a coincidence. You can never have too many Toonami videos. 😂

[@greenlineessays]

@@tlst94 Yes!!

[@SSJ491]

The Dragon Ball series, Sailor Moon, Gundam Wing, Naruto, One Piece, Yu Yu Hakusho, and a lot more made Toonami special on Cartoon Network during my childhood years through my teenage years from the late 1990s and mid 2000s.

[@chelseadelon9628]

@@Rain-tt9dr prob 28-32

[@zzco]

Iron Age kid here. Moltar is MY toonami. Tom is a close second, but Moltar will always be host to me. Rest in peace, C. Martin Croker. Thanks for the memories!

[@greenlineessays]

That's interesting, most Toonami fans prefer TOM...at least most of the ones I know. I think that comes down to Moltar being involved in such a small amount of its broadcast, whereas TOM has been around the longest. It's cool to seen that you are a fan of the OG. And yes, RIP C. Martin Croker. He will be missed.

[@zzco]

@@greenlineessays Sailor Moon was responsible for making me a Toonami faithful, lol.

[@zzco]

@@greenlineessays I was 14 when I found Toonami. I'll be turning 40 next year, so. Lol.

[@seank829]

So this just confirmed so many shows I have brief memories about as a kid...I thought I had gone crazy

[@edwardgrijalba744]

I really would love to see a Toonami iceberg video.

[@cheeseboi588]

"Toonami has spanned 25 full years" It stopped in 2008 and began again in 2012. That's not 25 "full" years.

[@greenlineessays]

25 "WHOLE" years actually... But I see where you're coming from. The segment in question refers to the brand of Toonami that has lasted 25 years. Despite the fact that Toonami was canceled for four years adult swim considers March 2022 to be the 25th anniversary. You can even check on their KZbin page. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y6SwhnWshJyajtk

[@TheKillerEmcee]

Why so picky? Just enjoy the video...

[@cheeseboi588]

@@TheKillerEmcee You seem like the kind of person that wouldn't say anything to the cashier if they got your McDonald's order wrong.

[@elijahblechman8633]

Seeing the history of the block it's entirety makes me realize how much of a ghetto Warner Bros has created for anime on American television. Because of that Crunchyroll basically has a Stranglehold on most anime distribution in terms of streaming. It's crazy how little options there are for watching anime in the West despite such a large exposure. You basically have the few scattered shows and occasional movie on streaming services, you have Crunchyroll or the FUNimation app as the official site, or you just have to wait for it to come on Toonami. You'd figure with the success of anime on streaming you think the Legacy Media like television would stop keeping anime in this weird Saturday night ghetto and start airing it on weekday afternoons at like 5:00 or something. Things like Demon Slayer and my hero Academia have massive appeal that 14 year old audience. It was a slow transition to where Adult Swim basically started clumping all their anime together and slowly phased it out in favor of just having one night in Japanese animation. I can remember days on Cartoon Network what the more toy commercial styled anime with air on Sunday mornings and those eventually disappeared too. Sorry for going on this weird little Ranch over here I'm just a little confused at how anime on Western television has been completely phased out and this weird pseudo Monopoly that's placed on the industry and it's importation to the United States.

[@trevorcolston4527]

Good job on these man. They are on point!!!

[@animegothvampire1999]

I remembered toonami since I was a little kid and teenager. I don’t forget it at all. It was amazing time in my life tbh

[@RICKEYDD]

thank you for covering this

[@greenlineessays]

You're welcome! Although, I think I could've done a better job. In a few years and hoping to make a revised version.

[@luiggyacosta2140]

97 - 04 Best Years

[@Hoochibaba]

toonami is how i found some of my favorite anime like blaech naruto and Dimension W plus I loved storm hawks as a kid. truly influential to how anime and cartoons have progressed over the years

[@jalenikezeue4114]

Man toonami Changed my life as a Kid If it was for that channel ⭐ I would of never of heard of Anime

[@lexibrowning7447]

I remember clear as day waiting for IGPX to drop because Toonami advertised the sht out of it. Sadly, it aired during NOT Toonami's decline but Cartoon Network's decline. CN City era (arguably greatest era in animation history) was coming to an end and they introduced a sht ton of live action series throughout the entire channel.

[@dupersuper6516]

The live action weren't bad shows, people just rejected them for not being cartoons which was unfortunate because many of them were really good shows

[@majidvf8066]

@@dupersuper6516 But it's the Cartoon channel maybe that's why they didn't like em'. They should have used boomerang 🪃 isn't that there's also or maybe have made another channel for live action shows

[@dupersuper6516]

@@majidvf8066 Nick and Disney had live action, and CN had live action hosts, they probably thought they could get away with it. You're right about the separate channel, but I don't think they'd be willing to invest unless they were certain the shows would turn a profit which they didn't. Smh

[@boparadigm]

Great video

[@Wesleym134]

I remember seeing toonami back when it was still hosted by Moltar and it had Thundercats on it's block. That's how a 1990's kid like me got introduced to it.

[@legionaireb]

Hope the second part of this comes soon.

[@benjamingonzalezjr9294]

Great vid! Also i listened to part of the video at (2x) speed and narrator sounds like Jesse Eisenberg. 😂

[@greenlineessays]

Oh great...it's worse than I thought...

[@PENT931]

Cool vid love it 🌙

[@nekovoltz6899]

I remember the first show I watched on toonami was Thunder Cats. VHS tapes were in high demand back then. Thanks For trip down the memory lane. Sadly You forgot .hack//SIGN ( Feb 1, 2003) lol What is the current Era?

[@BentHeWiLdER]

I was there playing outside waiting til 5 to watch toonami.

[@QuintrellDemary]

I really remembered this good video on toonami me and my brothers always watched after school

[@megaprotodude]

I remember watching the Mega Man Star Force "movie". Definitely had me reminiscing about back then

[@youngbryzzle9360]

I really like this video, there are some points though where you may be talking too fast or something because it's a little hard to tell exactly what you're saying sometimes. Every so often a group of words sounds like it gets a little jumbled up. Great video though, what a nostalgia trip!

[@greenlineessays]

Thanks! I've been working on enunciating and talking slower. If you check out my other videos I'm hoping you will see an improvement. The channel is still a work in progress!

[@Only1Jenda]

I remember staying up late just to watch toonami Sailor Moon ,card captor Sakura,etc. any anime til it was no longer available for broadcast TV (anime went onto Cable)😢

[@BrianAwesome]

1997 - 1999 (Early Years) 2000 - 2001 (Peak Years/Anime Boom) 2002 - 2005 (Silver Age) 2006 - 2008 (Bronze/Dark Age)

[@sanjugouniverse7870]

This video was fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@greenlineessays]

Thanks! It really could have been better though.

[@sanjugouniverse7870]

@@greenlineessays are you making a part 2 soon ?

[@greenlineessays]

@@sanjugouniverse7870 It's been out for quite some time now.

[@sanjugouniverse7870]

@@greenlineessays I’m slippin let me turn this bell on Keep creating you dope 🔥

[@cardinalhamneggs5253]

I only know about _Reboot!_ because I found it by chance while browsing Amazon Prime Video on an X-Box 360 to see what seasons of _Power Rangers_ were available.

[@ricardoechevarria9421]

Back when I watched TV alot especially a kid we was conditioned but I love toonami

[@t0ny_708]

Ahhh the golden age. Right in the middle of my childhood

[@ricardoechevarria9421]

I'm older than toonami but I remember 95% of the shows

[@eboooo]

Moltar Era was my favorite, it was the first. Birdman, Thundercats, Voltron all of it. ❤️❤️🙏🏾

[@soggysod9397]

Toonami truly made my childhood

[@tracyndiyob162]

happy 25th anniversary toonami!!! :3

[@robertparis5680]

Toonami single handedly made an entire generation of people weebs. Also wasn't there a toonami midnight run segment?

[@ichigoshinobia.k.alitshino9781]

you got hd toonami bumps... nice

[@greenlineessays]

Yeah! As a matter fact we got them from another KZbin channel called SlimD716 who has a ton on his channel. I suspect he worked very hard and upscaled them. kzbin.info

[@luissantiago5163]

Oh gnarly

[@iama2427]

As soon as I saw transformers Armada and He-Man in this video I briefly cried those were the happiest years of my life and I was born in 1998.

[@hokage1997]

god i was such a naruto nerd as a kid XD loved the anime so much that i adored the spin off games aswell (like uzumaki cronicles 2 and UN) i remember going camping over the weekend of the hundo back in 2007 because of my brother bday and my mom had to record all those episodes on the dvr lol ironically i also realized 15 years later i created my yt channel a day after toonami originally got cancelled ahah also bo bobo wa god tier imo.

[@greenlineessays]

So true! Those were good times! They were most certainly my favorite.

[@fuadfarah648]

Sweet show ever

[@MrOlivos666]

Nostalgia trip🙃

[@PrimateSoul]

Anyone else love to here Steve Blum in that montage?

[@kingdavidsama2865]

Toonami and that Ps2 and 3 was the good ol days

[@fairytailhero5965]

I remember the good old days of watching toonami of my favorite shows like dragon ball z and sailor moon

[@greenlineessays]

Those were the days.Right now I am re-watching both Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball Z. Alongside Ronin Warriors and Gandam Wing.

[@fairytailhero5965]

@@greenlineessays nice I'm watch sailor moon r the movie then right after watch dragon ball z the tree of might

[@retronova_official]

First Era: Iron Age Favorite Era Aesthetic: Ascention Age Favorite Era Programming: Golden Age

[@greenlineessays]

Favorite Era Aesthetic: Neo Gothic Era Favorite Era Programming: Silver Age

[@jesseguajardo8592]

So is there a part 2 to this?

[@greenlineessays]

Stay tuned... I'm planning to release it in 3-4 weeks!

[@edwardgrijalba744]

@@greenlineessays ok I'll sub right now.

[@robertwalker7454]

I still wished that they would have continued Stormhawks.

[@thecollector4194]

This js how I got into anime in the first place. I was about 7 when i saw an episode of dragon ball z and i just started to watch anime all the time.

[@takashijames7760]

Not even all the eras, man is just reading dates and airing shows on a wiki page

[@greenlineessays]

You're not necessarily wrong. This list is partly inspired by Disney's film eras. The list groups together the different films in two different time periods based on audiences perception of them. The Toonami list, which was partially taken from somebody else's list, Is to chop up the timeline of Toonami into different sections based on how they might've been perceived. At the very end I've included a to be continued sign indicating that there is a second part to this video. In the second video I plan to add more commentary, that is to say my own commentary. Hopefully I will be able to give a better experience… This is my first video so please be patient, I hope to get better. Thanks for the feedback!

[@Dancestudent08]

I don’t see why Toonami just won’t create an app for us to subscribe to??

[@MrGabeanator]

i remember when it on kids wb

[@HM2SGT]

Steve Blum and Peter Cullen - the only way I could've gotten better is if they had Robert Conrad, John Dehner and Orson Welles! What voices!

[@jeffhunterhunter]

September 2005 I stopped watching toonami for a plethor of reasons I didn't start watching toonami again until 2018 for a brief time and I stopped again

[@greenlineessays]

What made you stop a second time in 2018?

[@matthewhanson2158]

Total Drama (2007-2014), Total Drama Presents The Ridonculous Race, 6teen, Stoked, Yu-Gi-Oh Arc-V, Regular Show, Syn-Bionic Titan, Chop Socky Chooks on Toonami on Cartoon Network

[@matthewhanson2158]

Metajets on Toonami on Cartoon Network

[@matthewhanson2158]

Redakai Conquer the Kairu on Toonami on Cartoon Network

[@matthewhanson2158]

Transformers: Animated on Toonami on Cartoon Network

[@matthewhanson2158]

Transformers: Robots in Disguide (2015) on Toonami on Cartoon Network

[@matthewhanson2158]

X-Men Evolution on Toonami on Cartoon Network

[@jaredunderwood978]

Fail after fail after fail

[@HM2SGT]

Don't be so hard on yourself, someday you'll succeed!

[@AfroSnackey]

I remember watchin toonami when I was 5 back in '98 and I really couldn't get into anime cuz of the framerate. It'd make me seasick. It still does so I just read manga lmao!!

[@user-ds2lm8uz6s]

Gundam still one of my favorite anime

[@anthonymort5202]

It was September 20th I remember because it was my birthday

[@aaronboy5512]

Why tam4 looks like he came outta thomas?

[@H3ahhhp]

⭐️TooNaMi rocKZ🎸

[@colleen4ever]

You're talking really fast. It's hard to understand what you're saying sometimes.

[@Lil_Ink340]

Inuyasha u forget that one 🔥🔥🔥

[@wademyers9698]

Toonami wasnt bad it had some good moments like justice league, and other DC. but in regards to Anime Adult Swim is where all that go started and lagged way behind Adult swim in that regards. ( i know to mature for audiences )

[@admiralAlfonso9001]

We need anime on the television

[@trycon40]

what era did eureka seven fall into?

[@greenlineessays]

The next one in fact! Be on the look out in 3-4 week if you can wait that long.

[@boparadigm]

@@greenlineessays where was Inuyasha?

[@boparadigm]

Or blue submarine 6 ,and that series with the android with the guitar ?

[@greenlineessays]

@@boparadigm Next video! Should be pretty soon!

[@SSJ491]

The TOM 3.5 Era back in 2012.

[@AnimeCollector]

Wow... Seems like I stopped watching Toonami at exactly the right time.

[@greenlineessays]

And when did you stop watching?

[@AnimeCollector]

@@greenlineessays circa 2007-2008

[@truthcrusader360]

You stopped watching at the worst time.

[@SSJ491]

I stopped watching Toonami in the summer of 2008 before the program block got canceled on September 20, 2008 on Cartoon Network when I was a teenager.

[@PARZ90s]

@5:24 Unfortunately?! Dragon Ball Z was the heart and soul of Toonami.

[@greenlineessays]

It was unfortunate for the shows being replaced. When Toonami is just made up of Dragon Ball it can get kind of boring for some people. I think it's better for Toonami to have more variety. But yes, Dragon Ball does make up a part of Toonami's heart and soul. Alongside Sailor Moon and possibly Gundam.😃

[@brycetangney3966]

Is ur time line right ?

[@greenlineessays]

I'm fairly certain, based off the research I did. Was there something I missed? When I eventually get around to revising these videos I will be sure to add in some of these amendments.

[@YuukiTakemoto1996]

No Swayzak? Where are the TIEs? I want a mention of Swayzak to show the fans shouldn't hate him!! Also, he was planned to be an anti hero.

[@greenlineessays]

Sorry about that. The purpose of these videos was to cover Toonami's history by focusing on the shows that aired. Whenever I got around to a total immersion event most of the ones I covered brought some change to the status quo for the Toonami Cast. The only one I didn't cover that brought in a major change was intruder three, I think. Although, I may have missed one. Honestly I plan to revisit these videos at some point… Whether that's when Toonami ends or in a few years to make updates as well as better videos overall. I may mention trapped in hyperspace then..😄

[@anthonymort5202]

I remember Naruto Hondo I watched it

[@greenlineessays]

Me too! Right before I started high school.

[@obizzlesportsandfitness]

You forgot DBZ uncut

[@greenlineessays]

Yeah...I missed some stuff.

[@ricardoechevarria9421]

DragonBall Z Everyday 5-530 PM

[@mattz459]

Dude, no hate but, please get a better mic and speak slower. Pronounce your words, take breaths between sentences.

[@greenlineessays]

Currently working on it! I haven't changed the mic but I did get some extra equipment to help it sound better. And some of my sentences do run together, so I will try to work on that. Some of it though is the work of my editor… I swear I had some pauses that were edited out. So I don't know, I might've to talk with him about.

[@mattz459]

@@greenlineessays Yeesh, that was such a wholesome and humble response... I mean, I wasn’t trying to be a dick or anything but, I feel like one right about now. Keep your head up, King

[@tenzou10]

I was watching this shit at 6 or 8 years old🤣

[@greenlineessays]

Nice! Are you still watching?

[@sophornnemthap6164]

the eras of syfy movies 1998 2022 host the voice 1 host the voice 2 host the voice 3 host the voice 4 host the voice 5 host the voice 6 host the voice 7 host the voice 8 host the voice 9 10 11 the living dead kaleb viriyavong ( Stephanie Mills ) from day of the dead: sigma 6 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2019 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

[@jaredunderwood978]

So rsp toonami 2005

[@fridaynightnicktoons6885]

Tom 2>1>=4>5

[@JaketheJedi23]

This is the shit yo. Ass kicking program I hope it stays up forever.

[@YoMamaBih]

I highly disagree with the names of these eras. The era after the "golden era" doesn't deserve that name.

[@BentHeWiLdER]

The golden age lasted longer 2004was its dark age then they had magoozy in 2006 for a few years

[@greenlineessays]

How long do you think the golden age last? As far as the dark ages are concerned; the reason why I placed it in late 2007 is because Toonami by this point was pretty much dead. Whereas 2004 was still pretty lively. Now, it wasn't airing during week days, which is why I assume you think the dark age starts there? I understand why but I think I disagree. Magoozy was a different block entirely. While having some similarities it felt more kid friendly.

[@enderboy6491]

praise our LORD 🛐 thank you Jesus Christ for being our savior ❤️

[@zacharyharvey9658]

Bro, some constructive criticism, having enjoyed the information your video provided, you need to work on pronouncing your words more clearly. I really struggled to understand what you were saying. Not hating on you man just saying.

[@greenlineessays]

Much appreciated! I've tried to work on that as the videos go by. How do my later videos sound? This is my first ever video.

[@gundam5281]

Gundam X should have aired after Wing... That's the sole reason Gundam failed in the West.

[@drjjloveman]

What?! Gundam wing was enough and is still definitely everyone I knows favorite run of Gundam. Especially paired with DBZ. These two shows were the highlights of my childhood. I still have like 40 Gundam wing models.

[@paulgavin841]

Sailor Moon was not toonma

[@greenlineessays]

Sailor Moon was on Toonami, they ran promotions as well as marathons for it.

[@joaquinvaleri7022]

And stop ruin 2022 please for whatever days weeks and months ok?

[@joaquinvaleri7022]

I hate toonami because i hate family guy and it really suck ok?