They band together to fight against the organization that kidnapped them in the hopes to prevent a massive world war. Despite the cutesy character models, Cyborg had some serious dark and bleak moments.
This show is unique in the sense that it is Hamtaro follows the title character in a series of hamster-based adventures which has got to be one of the most adorable phrases in the English language. It was a fun show that provided a much-needed respite between other, more action-based programs.
This continuation of the s cartoon featured a teenage Jonny and Hadji teaming with up with Race Bannon's daughter, Jessie, to go on more archeological adventures and mysteries. On top of that, the show also took on cyberspace by having adventures in the cybernetic "Quest World.
Sym-Bionic Titan merged together the drama and awkwardness of high school with insane mecha combat. How can you not love battles between two space-faring races taking place in an Illinois suburb? It was a co-production between Cartoon Network and Production I. It even had high production value and a famous voice cast e.
Mark Hamill, Haley Joel Osment. If anything, it's worth watching this mecha racing series for its amazing animation and interesting premise. This series was a crazy, nonsensical anime featuring Bobobo, a tough muscleman that can kick baddies into dust with his powerful nose hair. While some of the jokes may have been lost in translation it's a pretty sophisticate Japanese satire of the genre , kids still enjoyed the bizarre visuals. And although the actual card games were quite fun, it couldn't live up to the hype of Yu-Gi-Oh!
The series follows a boy named Shobu Kirifuda who seeks to become the best duelist in the world like his father. In their universe of five civilizations, duelists can make fantasy into a reality through card games.
Laser swords, motorcycles that turn into jet planes, aliens, air battles, Storm Hawks had everything! Seeing the ragtag group of Storm Hawks battle Master Cyclonis to unite the kingdoms of Atmos was visually exciting and fun. This Americanize anime of Tetsujin go was one of the oldest shows ever re-air on Toonami, originally premiering in ! This classic anime is one of the first ones ever to reach American soil and was one of the pioneers for the giant robo genre for cartoons and anime alike.
It was abruptly pulled from the block before it could complete its run. Set in a fictional universe in the Universal Century year , the Principality of Zeon has declared independence from the Earth Federation, and subsequently launched a One Year War. The conflict has directly affected every continent on earth, also nearly every space colony and lunar settlement. Zeon, though smaller, has the tactical upper hand through their use of a new type of humanoid weapons called mobile suits.
After half of all humanity perishes in the conflict, the war settled into a bitter stalemate lasting over 8 months. The series begins with a newly deployed Federation warship, the White Base , arriving at a secret research facility located at the Side 7 colony to pick up the Federation's newest weapon. However, they are closely followed by Zeon forces. A Zeon reconnaissance team member disobeys mission orders and attacks the colony, killing most of the Federation crew and civilians in the process.
Out of desperation, teenage boy Amuro Ray accidentally finds the Federation's new weapon—the RX Gundam, and neutralizes the situation. Scrambling everything they can, the White Base sets out with her newly formed crew of civilian recruits and refugees in her journey to survive, and unknowingly, change the course of the war.
Amuro is a talented amateur mechanic, who spends a lot of time in building different mechanical parts with little social interactions with other people. Born on Earth in Prince Rupert, Canada, Amuro's early childhood was spent on the planet with his parents, Tem and Kamaria Ray, until Amuro's father was called up by the EFSF to do weapon research under the guise of colony construction.
Though Amuro's father wanted his mother to come with them, she declined it was implied that she was having an affair at the time. When Amuro reunites with his mother during the One Year War there is some animosity between them, as Kamaria could not tolerate her son taking part in the violence of a military life.
Once Amuro and his father made it to space, Tem was often not home for long periods of time. Amuro became a social misfit and kept to himself, spending most of his time at home building and repairing gadgets. His neighbor Fraw Bow took it upon herself to take care of him. This trend continued into the One Year War period. When Char Aznable sent a group of Zeon mobile suits in a reconnaissance mission on Side 7 with the purpose of gathering information on the Project V , one of the new recruits from the squad decided to attack the colony.
In sheer desperation, Amuro ended up piloting the RX Gundam to defend his home. Using his intuition and reading the manual, Amuro manages to start up the Gundam and defeat the two attacking Zaku mobile suits. Unfortunately, due to his lack of experience, Amuro also blew a huge hole in the colony cylinder, nearly destroying Side 7 in the process.
Seeing his potential, Bright Noa assigned the reluctant Amuro to the Gundam and repeatedly sent the boy out against Zeon forces. Bright Noa — Bright is a loyal and dedicated soldier both in war and peace. He enforces strict military discipline and regulations, yet he never hesitates to make the morally right decision for the better of all, even if he has to disobey orders from his superiors.
As the most experienced officer on board the White Base, whose crew consisted mostly of teenagers no older than 17, during the majority of Mobile Suit Gundam, he was often placed in the role of father figure toward the crew.
A prime example of ability to maintain discipline and make tough decisions for one's own good is throwing the protagonist Amuro Ray into the brig for insubordination and for going AWOL. When Char Aznable attacks the colony, Side 7, all the officers on the White Base are incapacitated, leaving Bright, who is then an ensign, with the highest seniority on the ship, and he assumes command from the wounded Captain Paolo Cassius. The Federation's major perceived value for the White Base turns out to be the Zeon's obsessive attraction to it.
The ship becomes a major decoy in Federation operations. Fraw Bow — Amuro's close friend and confidante, and devoted to his welfare. With Amuro's parents separated and his father Dr. Tem Ray frequently away on business for the Earth Federation's Project V, Fraw takes it upon herself to make sure that the perhaps charitably-described "engineering nerd" or "mecha otaku" eats, sleeps, bathes, lives in some degree of cleanliness, and—in her initial appearance—follows military evacuation orders.
It was because of these unique robotic suits, and the personalities of the characters, that Gundam Wing became so beloved among fans and remains so to this day! Is Gundam Wing your favorite series of the franchise? What's your favorite mech suit from the anime? Goku's continued adventures against evil forces were just what budding anime fans were after and the series has helped inform Toonami's makeup for years to come.
A major component of the Toonami lineup isn't just its focus on anime dubs, but also the figure TOM who has come introduce the block for many years. TOM wasn't always a part of Toonami, but his first appearance coincides with the premiere of Ronin Warriors. Originally known as Legendary Armor Samurai Troopers in Japan, Ronin Warriors comes from Sunrise and almost plays like a more masculine version of a magical girl series. Ronin Warriors remains a curious footnote for Toonami, but it hints at the direction the block would go in.
G-Force: Guardians of Space is technically the first anime to ever air on Cartoon Network back in The series is very much a response to the trend that Battle of the Planets ignited in America, but the space travel series was treated more like filler for Toonami. It was a program to take up a slot after Robotech and Voltron ended and only a handful of episodes were shown rather than a more complete run.
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