Tom 1 taught me the meaning of courage.

Techno.

Same as OP, but with Gorillaz.

The Midnight Run was the shit. Loved it.

pretty much 95% of all my imagination, creativity, ability to dream, and find pleasure from fantasy and science fiction all came from toonami

>>5909294
holy shit i remember that epic night. it was back in 2001, what was the date exactly? I remember digimon season 3 was supposed to start the next morning (a saturday). good times.

I wonder if the people who worked on toonami are browsing /co/ right now?

How do they feel?

Samurai Jack gave me good taste in cartoons.

Those videos introduced me to Daft Punk AND Leiji Matsumoto.

>>5909294
This. Fucking this.

Toonami fucking introduced me to the idea of an "action-cartoon".
i.e., when animators from America and Japan get off their ass and use animation for something other than Ren & Stimpy bullshitting around for 22 minutes.

It was this basic concept that made me want to pursue a career in artistic animation.

Love of science fiction, anime, techno.

Toonami was a big part of shaping me.

Oh man, same. I didn't know Daft Punk existed until they had that AMV night.

Have you all forgotten about me?

How to be strong
How to fight, even against the overwhelming odds
How to believe in the power of good
If you do something with your loved ones in mind, anything is possible
How getting the girl and saving the day is a dream anyone can achieve

Fuck, I'm crying so hard because of this list. If TOM never existed.....

>>5909330

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ozb39Bgh9w

Daft Punk is terrible though.

Gorillaz sucked, but fuck yeah Daft Punk.

I picked them up after remembering how much I loved One More Time. I used to think they actually looked like that (sans being blue aliens) as a band, that it was a full band.

At least this thread might have real discussion, not just ;_; BAWWW WE MISS U REST IN PEACE GOODNITE SWEETE PRINZE

Daft Punk and Gorillaz are my two favorite bands. My love of action cartoons, harem genre, giant robots. And courage. Whenever I feel down I go watch those old tom videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH-0s0pRleg

>>5909427

>>5909462
also extremely relevant to toonami tonight

Daft Punk

Big O

Samurai Jack

Toonami was the stuff of legends when I was a kid! I ate, slept and dreamed fantasy and science fiction because of this shit! Damn...

People say that violence and mature themes desensitize kids. Fuck that! Watching Toonami is the reason I started day dreaming about robots and swordfights in the first place, and it's the reason I'll keep dreaming until I die.

Fuck you Cartoon Network...

bump

I completely forgot that I first really learned about Daft Punk and Gorrillaz from Toonami.
Fuck, man; they're still two of my favorite bands.

gorillaz would be good if they lost the goth-punk bullshit.

>>5909595Fuck you Cartoon Network...

So who's ready for the Tim & Eric Marathon!?

What, too soon?

Influenced me into being the person I am today. If I had never seen DBZ and all of the other awesome action anime and shows they aired, I would not be at an art school becoming an animator right now.

Not to mention all of those positive life lessons that the TOMs taught us. What power is, courage, friendship, etc. I don't even think messages like that are even IN cartoons anymore.

>>5910133
Never mind them being IN cartoons. Kids always see that message and ignore it. TOM was able to get it across in 30 seconds. It was these messages that stuck with me.

>>5909345

Well, the people at Adult Swim browse /a/. Poster even started letting them know what was coming and apologized for it.

As for me, Toonami got me into anime, turned me on to Daft Punk and Gorillaz, and gave me something to talk about with my friends when we weren't playing on the playground.

It told me I had a right to dream, and that I'd decide my own destiny by standing up against any self-doubt.
It introduced me to anime. I would watch DBZ every afternoon. It was perfect to my little fifth grade mind.
Like OP, it introduced me to Daft Punk. So, in a way, I should thank TOM for sowing the seed of electronic love that has grown so tall. Oh, and The White Stripes.
Toonami also scared the shit out of me. That Big O episode with the little girl... The red balloon... Watching at midnight... That memory still makes me feel... bothered, for some reason.

BIG O! IT'S SHOWTIME!!!!!!!!

>>5910060
Genres, do you know them?

DBZ, Kenshin, and G Gundam were fucking action fuel.

THIS HAND OF MINE IS BURNING RED

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP-ugoF-www

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11H9Ee3hf68&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VefKtyZs2w&feature=related

back when Toonami was the best thing on TV

Manly Tears

Toonami helped shape me into who I am today.

I could go into vast detail but I simply won't.

>>5910264
IT TELLS ME TO DEFEAT YOU >:D

>>5910264
IT'S LOUD ROAR TELLS US TO GRASP VICTORY.

>>5910299
NOW TAKE THIS!

I saw the Interstella video first the first time on Toonami. "One More Time!". It was the first time I saw the favorite band and it took me 3 years to find out who did it.

Godspeed.

"Cancellation

Effective Saturday, September 20th, 2008, Cartoon Network has canceled the block and has aired its final transmission on the same day. Employees who worked on the block will be going to other parts of the channel. Anime will be mostly handled by Adult Swim, and there will be a action block replacing Toonami on Friday nights afterwards. Toonami Jetstream will remain without the Toonami name. [1] At the end of Toonami's final airing, the host, voiced by Steven Blum, ended the block by saying "bang"; this was the signature of one of Steven Blum's other roles, Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop.

Goodbye Childhood
_________________________
Fight to keep the last bit up on Wikipedia

God, Toonami taught me to never give up, that through friendship and sheer will you can overcome any odds. It's bullshit, but it's the most inspiring bullshit ever.

It taught me that I'm an old old old fuck because it goes off the air the day befor my 25th birthday. Eleven fucking years ago I was getting yelled at for not coming out to dinner because I COULD NOT MISS Toonami.

But seriously - it's that I've grown to appreciate and love the classic hand-drawn styles, and not that slick high-gloss animation most productions sport now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hj8xW3r9Bg

I will also forever be an utter freak for this show. THERE IS A LEGEND.

>>5910305
MY LOVE, MY ANGER, AND ALL OF MY SORROW!

Toonami was my childhood.

Always looked forward to getting home and watching some goddamn kickass cartoons.

Toonami showed me anime. It showed me that cartoons where not just for kids. It showed me that imagination, creativity, and dreams were life skills, not kiddy pastimes. TOM's inspirational messages stuck in me, subconsciously stronger than anyone else's advice. It gave me the courage to like what I liked and fuck anyone else's opinion.

It seems cheesy to say that a cartoon block had influence on someone, but TOM was no ordinary host and Toonami was no ordinary program block.

>>5910322
I saw it on the website.

Discovery was the first CD I ever bought. It was kind of a big deal for me since I always thought having CDs and listening to music and stuff was something big kids did.

I remember laying on my stomach playing Golden Sun with Crescendolls playing on my bulky handheld CD player.

>>5910349
FUCK YEAH RONIN WARRIORS

>>5909238

Same as OP. Daft is like my favorite group and I've bought all their Cds.

-------------------------------


Toonami though, was a foundation of my childhood. From all the responses, I know I'm not the only one. They shaped a generation of kids to be good people. I'm really depressed right now

>>5910324

Screencapped for your pleasure.

toonami gave me friends..I would talk to the guys in my class about the episode of dragon ball z and talk about how hot tuxedo mask was in sailor moon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxKZkkrUlh8

MORE
THAN
POWER
OUR

You know what's totally fucked up? This morning I had the strangest urge to listen to all Daft Punk's 'Discovery' and then I fucking listened to Gorillaz for no other reason than I wanted to dance. I hadn't even heard about Toonami dying...but damn, it's like I'd had a feeling without even realizing.

>>5910429
thank you anon

>>5910264
>>5910293
>>5910299
>>5910305
Now I'm on ebay looking for this series. MEMORIES...

Dammit, now I'm listening to the old Toonami soundtrack and watching the mix vids on youtube. That ending nearly brought me to tears with the "Bang" line...

You know what was strange /co/?

before i knew this was going on...i was watching the speed racer movie on demand.

Speed racer used to be on cartoonnetwork and it was one of their first animes.

>>5910470
you sir are some sort of sorceror

/co/'s blog, the Nerd Rage report is here.

We submit to you this post which makes a more permanent commentary on Toonami as a whole. We strongly urge anyone who's interested to check it out and leave your personal stories. Toonami had an effect on us all comrades. Let us record our memories.

Bang ;_;

>http://nerdragereport.blogspot.com/2008/09/toonami-end-of-age.html

>>5910544
>>/co/'s blog

I probably would have turned out heterosexual if it weren't for G Gundam and Domon's ass.

Man. I could thank Toonami for so many things.

It introduced me to Gorillaz, thus introducing me to Jamie Hewlett, who is a major artistic influence for me.
It also didn't treat me like a child. Toonami didn't pander to me like other shows. It knew that I could understand what it was trying to say.

And the list goes on.

>>5910564

Yes, /co/'s blog. We have one. It's been established.

I remember watching toonami when I was a kid at my uncles house since I didn't have cartoon network. Watching DBZ (pre-cell) and gundam wing. It was one week and I still remember it clearly.

Then I finnally get Cartoon Network, wait for toonami to come on, and... what had happened... Sure Megas was awsome... but what had they done to my Gundam! Where were all those badass shows from the ads!

Where was my fucking afro guy with a blue suit!

>>5910577

Toonami was my whole world as a kid. It was what me and my friends DID... we watched Toonami, we talked about shows that aired on Toonami, we taped Toonami all the time. It was my gateway into internet fandom and... basically every part of my nerd life today.

I would not be who I am today if not for Toonami. My friends, my talents and interests, were all shaped by it.

Toonami got my dad into Gundam Wing, Tenchi Muyo and even Dragon Ball Z. Its something we connected on.

We would watch it together sometimes. Then we'd laugh at our favorite parts later.

"Remember when Lady Une shot that guy, dad?"
"Which one?"
"The one she dropped out of the plane."
"Oh yeah! She didn't even want that slimy bastards blood on her carpet so she drops him out of the goddamn sky! Ahahaha!"
"Yeah! Out of the damn sky!"
"Don't curse, son."

Anyone who knows what "WE SHOULDN'T BE FIGHTING AT ALL!" is from wins.

>>5909238

this.

I Downloaded discovery as i was seeing the videos on CN.

>>5910925
Gundam Wing

>>5910882
Holy Christ, your dad is fucking AWESOME. I'm pretty sure he's me from the future, also. Sup son.

>>5910882

Oh god, I remember that part. When they showed the 'uncut' series on Adult Swim (where Heero told Relena he'd 'kill' her, not 'destroy' like was said on the Toonami version), I remember being in awe of her shooting the guy through the head as he's falling out the back of the plane. Holy fuck.

>>5910954
DAD?!

>>5910882
I think I found a picture of your dad.

>>5910882
>>"Don't curse, son."

Dammit, I think I woke up my room mate with that laugh.

>>5910949
Ding ding motherfucking ding.

When season one of Beast Wars ended, I didn't know season 2 had moved to Sunday mornings. I stopped going to Toys R Us, too, so I didn't know the show was continuing.

I'd been watching Toonami since April of '97 after that. When I found out Toonami was airing the last five episodes of Season 2, I went NUTS.

I'm a TransFag 12 years running because of Toonami.

>>5910949
>>5910925
>>5910990

If my ungodly oldfag nerd sense is right, it was Quatre who said it, right?

Everything everyone has said in this thread, and this-

"Sleep is for the weak."
"Keep those eyes open!"

...I still can't believe they did this... or that I found out about it through 4chan- I'm watching Samurai Jack right now, because of the difference in time zones.

>>5910968
I'm going back in time to relive the nineties. Except I can't tell you any of this in the- Ohhhh fuuuuuck.

>>5910990
Goddamn right. Now where's my prize?

I never would have met a bunch of my friends... on two occasions.
When I was a high school freshmen, I moved to California. I remembered Kenshin from Toonami and drew a picture of Kenshin. Threw it on my school binder. I had it out on my desk one day and this guy goes "... So... You like Kenshin?"
From that one event, and ultimately toonami, I was introduced to a now massive circle of friends whome I still see all the time.
I loved Toonami, and hope to one day get the same joy from something new I did from it.

It introduced DBZ into my life.

As a slightly chubby 5th grader, that was fucking HUGE.

Then Outlaw Star, which I hated at first, then watched again like two weeks ago and realized I was an idiot for hating it.

Then Cowboy Bebop.

Toonami ruled my afternoons.

Toonami was what made my childhood good, my friends in elementary school would talk about the latest DBZ, though we never mentioned the bumps. the bumps which sent messages i still follow to this day in my senior year in high school, they shaped my character, gave me my personal 'code of honor, and kept me from becoming a complete douchebag.

with each iteration of TOM i became more enthralled with the bumps, interested in the fact that rather than some no-name announcer or some filler between commercials, he was a true character, the true face of Toonami. the original TOM is hazy to me, as i was only 6-7 when toonami began broadcast, but the incident with the 'intruder' is still my biggest memory of the original tom, the next to versions were good, almost as good as the original, but then came the 4th and final version.

upon seeing him i knew that any thing that made toonami great was gone forever, only to be remembered by we, the Toonami Faithful.

Rest in Peace Toonami.
May any attempt to bring you back to your glory days be succesful.

Bang...

>>5909376
>>5911031

Two shows ....

Outlaw Star AKA (Firefly The ANIME)
and
Big O

I miss midnight run

About eight years ago (god, was it really that long?) I was in 6th grade and my brothers were seniors. After school they would have friends over from time to time. Back then, Dragon Ball Z was new and interesting. One day, having only seen one episode ever of the show, I walked in to see two characters fighting on a green world falling to pieces. One character had shining gold hair, while the other was a colorless lizard thing with lipstick. It was intense. I asked my brothers who the character with the gold hair was. "Goku." they responded. I was confused. Having seen at least one episode before (where Bulma had to retrieve the falling 4-star ball from the depths of the water), I asked, "But I thought Goku had black hair?" They responded with the a simple phrase that touched me forever.
"Yeah, but now he's a Super Saiyan."

I didn't know it then, but those words led to years of rushing home to watch an hour of TV for the next three years. The biggest and longest-lasting obsession I've ever had. My love, DBZ.

Is ANYONE here older than 17?

>>5911101
>>Toonami was what made my childhood good
This. My parents started their horrible 5 year divorce a year into Toonami and my god did I need it. Toonami was something I could look forward to every day no matter what was going on. I

>>5911156
I'm 22

>>5911156

I turn 25 TODAY. The day before Toonami is cancelled. Big fuckin' omen right there, chief.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZH4d4K-mzA

>>5911156
19

>>5911156

I'm 26 and I loved catching old Toonami when I was in high school. Thundercats, New Johnny Quest, Batman, DBZ, Sailor Moon, Super Adventures, etc.

It was a great block.

What do I remember most about Toonami?

Hamtaro

Toonami made even Hamtaro awesome towatch

>>5911156
if people weren't that's even sadder..that would mean toonami was their entire childhood

>>5911156

I'm 23, I still remember Moltar

>>5911224 here

Adding on: I loved Moltar.

"IT'S ALL GIRL ACTION"

>>5911156
28
>>5911094
Bebop wasn't on Toonami. The lies /co/ tells!

>>5911262
It was about 65-70% of my childhood...
I remember getting off the bus, going home, taking a soda to my room and just turning the TV on right at 4 to watch toonami... so many days were that...

>>5911156

I'm 18. And you're old now.

Okay, cool, just checking. Felt like I was the only mid-20's guy in this whole thread for a minute there.

26, by the way. Found it in April of '97, but haven't watched it regularly since 2005. When it went Saturday only, it was all downhill from there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYeGD_YTtmU

>>5911265

That's VERY interesting Tom, so interesting that I think we should fight to the death. With KNIVES!

>>5911262
it WAS my whole childhood

you have no idea how i feel at this moment.

the only way i can sum this up is that everything must come to an end, and that nothing will last forever...

i feel really emo right now, but i'm not emo, today has been both an enlightening, and sad day for me

also, age 17

>>5911389
Knifin' around is the greatest SGCTG ever.

>>5911156
20

Really wishing I was 21 right now, to drown away the tears with sweet sweet liquor courage, but I know I couldn't do it.

Moltar and Tom taught me better then that.

>>5911404
same here..turning 17 next month
I remember watching dbz with my mom..getting sailor moon tapes for my birthday..making friends over rurouni kenshin

I am so depressed right now its not even funny

Toonami introduced me to Daft Punk, Gorillaz and to love techno music.

I remember having a shitty day at elementary school but I could always count on coming home after it and watch some good old toonami shows to finally relax. And the friday night movies... Gundam Wind: Endless Waltz, Blue Submarine, DBZ movies... hell yes.

I also remember that when 9/11 happened, there was a shitstorm everywhere... it was sad and depressing everywhere. And that's when they were showing new episodes of DBZ. And that day, they didn't show one... that made me really mad. But then the next day, they showed TWO new episodes. That was fucking awesome.

Too many good memories with Toonami... too many. It was a very good run.

>>5911156
about to be 21... spent half of my life on toonami. i kept on watching it still through all the crap so i could stay close to my youngest brother.

>>5911209
Your childhood is over. You are now a man. Now get out of your mother's basement.