Toonami: Difference between revisions

''To celebrate TOM’s return to television."''|'''Richie Branson'''<ref>"[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29MIkOROI0M #ToonamisBackBitches]", which was used as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOnHfEP1Roc the intro to Toonami during its 2012 return premiere.]</ref>}}

'''''Toonami''''', an influential programming block consisting primarily of a mix of Western action-adventure cartoons and anime, aired on weekday afternoons (and, later, Saturdays) on [[Cartoon Network]] starting in 1997. The block featured ''incredibly'' high production values for its [[Framing Device|commercial bumpers, advertisements, and ARG campaigns]], which included high-end 3D graphics, a soundtrack consisting of then-uncharacteristic (for a children's block) drum-and-bass and ambient music, and a consistent setting and narrative. Toonami had a hand in [[Uncanceled|uncancelling]] several syndicated series (''[[Dragon Ball]] Z'', ''[[Re BootReBoot]]'', and ''[[Sailor Moon]]''), and it premiered several series on its own, both anime (''[[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing|Gundam Wing]]'', ''[[Outlaw Star]]'', all three of the original ''[[Tenchi Muyo!|Tenchi Muyo]]'' series) and Western animation (the 2002 ''[[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe]]''). In regards to anime, fans and historians both credit Toonami for single-handedly ushering in the [[Japanese Invasion|mainstream Japanophilia boom]] of the early-to-mid 2000s.