It has been gone for many years now, but fans have spoken: Toonami has returned. Now known as Adult Swim's Toonami has premiered last Saturday night replacing Adult Swim's Saturday Anime night. Here is my review for T.O.M.'s return to T.V. Sense this is less of a review about a single T.V. series or movie, this review will cover the entire new Toonami block. I'll break it down by anime!
(If the anime was previously on AS, it gets docked a point today.)
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| Me too, me too.. |
Bleach:
Inherited from Adult Swim's anime night. Bleach has been about the ongoing adventures of the substitute soul reaper Ichigo Kurosaki and his friends battling various other Soul Reapers, Hallows (Undead evil spirits), or something in-between. The first episode to appear on Toonami wrapped up the most recent arc of the T.V. series where Ichigo and his friends/slight rivals battled against the spirits of their own weapons. Neat idea, but it really didn't need to last thing long.
Bleach started out as an amazing series but has been pushed and stretched out far enough to loose most of it's original audience. Here is hoping the next arc will be the last. Before you start to flame me with hate-mail, remember that this is only my opinion. Bleach, like Naruto and Dragon Ball before it, has gone on for too long. There is anime that last forever (Doremon, Detective Conan) and then there is anime that often writes itself into a corner and drags on for too long. I wouldn't mind them even starting the series over again seeing how I originally missed most of it.
2/5.
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| I love me a women in mittens. |
Deadman Wonderland:
Ganta is framed for the murder of everyone in his classroom, but he claims innocence. He in tossed into a new type of privately ran prison known as Deadman Wonderland along with other hard time criminals. There he meets the enigmatic Shiro, a young girl who apparently already knows him and considers him a good friend. Ganta also discovers that he can now manipulate his own blood to become a weapon to defend himself.
An interesting series that for some reason feels like a mix of FMA, Eureka 7, and Durarara. All great series of course, but will this series be able to keep out of the shadows? It seems like it is a little confusing at first, so I hope this series goes somewhere soon. First episode down, 12 more to go~
3/5
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| Episode 1: Check out the little android girl's panties. |
Casshern Sins:
A reboot of the original Casshern, Casshern Sins brings us back to the world where the human race has been destroyed. It seems to of ended this way due to Casshern himself, who is now wanted dead by all robots on the surface. I tried to watch this series some time ago in it's original Japanese language, but honestly it bore me and I never got passed episode 2. Watching it again for a second time reminded me that it wasn't as bad as I originally remembered but then again that may change when I watch episode 2 tonight. Hopefully this series will go somewhere good and fast, because it needs to.
2/5
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Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood:
The second series based on the manga Full Metal Alchemist, Brother hood follows the storyline of the manga much closer then the original T.V. series. New animation of our favorite characters with slight changes to the voice crew. (Roy's Japanese Voice & Al's English are different.) I'm pretty sure all of this series has already played previously on Adult Swim, but I would not mind watching it again. The Elric Brothers are about to make their way to the north where we will be introduced to new characters such as Gen. Armstrong's sister and the new Sloth. Even though this series was inherited from AS's original lineup, it does seem like a perfect match for Toonami.
4/5
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| "Dude, you're on my eyes!" |
GitS: Stand Alone Complex Second Gig:
The second season of the Ghost in the Shell T.V. series. I honestly love both of these seasons more then I do the original movie. The episode that premiered on Adult Swim's Toonami brought back some good memories. I do love this series, but I've already seen it enough to know the best lines in the episode as soon as it started.
"When you become a prosthetic, can you still have sex?"
"Want to find out?"
4/5
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| The Bepop Crew. |
Cowboy Bepop:
The classic series about bounty hunters who travel between planets just to make a little cash so they can have beef in their sauteed peppers. This is an anime everyone needs to see at-least once. Great action, fighting, comedy, and even a enough eye-candy for both the sexes. Again though, we would of been watching this anime with or without Toonami.
4/5
Overview: Toonami is just now returning. Remember when Lord Voldemort came back and he started a little weak, or when you die in FFXI you are weakend for a short period before regaining your strength. That is the idea here:
Toonami is reborn, but it still needs people to push it. You want more anime? Demand it and watch Toonami either way. You want more time slots? Then watch it every week! Even though rival channels have taken shows such as DBZ and Naruto, doesn't mean we can't bring back some of the other classic anime. I'm hoping the future will bring a nice lineup such as this:
Long Anime: Bleach is perfect, replace it with One Piece once it is over. Keep the Funimation curse words and blood too! Hell, even Ranma 1/2 would be a great anime to play in this slot.
Hour of new anime: Once Deadman and Casshern are over, maybe another newer anime or lesser known anime could hit this time slot. Air Gear, Fairy Tail, My Bride is a Mermaid, or Vandred would be great for new viewers.
Hour and a Half of the classics: Kenshin, Evangelion, Gundam, or Tenchi. Keep a rotation of all the classic anime that has been played. After Bepop maybe replay Big O? Then after GitS perhaps run Durarara again? A good mix of old and new would seal the deal.
I'd like to give you a higher score T.O.M., and here is hoping I can in the near future. 3.4/5
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| Welcome Back T.O.M. Glad you have you here. |
Edit: Something I wanted to mention to everyone:
Remember that Adult Swim became what it was because of Toonami's Midnight Run. Just keep that in mind when you start your complaining. ^.~
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