Old-Ass Anime Cast #11: Adult Swim
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I feel you on Cowboy Bebop. I've wanted to analyze it scene by scene, episode by episode, for YEARS now, but there's no way I could ever do it justice. Each episode feels like its own densely packed movie, and the emotions it makes me feel are so strong that the only words I can use to describe to people why it's my favorite show are "Just go fucking watch it and cry and think about it and cry some more."
Chip The Wizard I had a friend make this for me, but yeah, pretty much, minus the 7 Deadly Sins part (The smile is just Godot's normal cocky smile), you're spot on, haha
They were "running in the 90s", huh? *EUROBEAT INTENSIFIES*
Thank you, now I'm not allowed to get anywhere near to a car for a week D:
I will never forget how Tokyopop tried to bring Initial D to TV in the early 2000s then ended up changing all the character names to weird western names in the manga and made it read left to right..
I own the world's cheapest car, eurobeat makes it feel like sports car...My friends call that car Hotwheels (its a tata nano though)
Literally saw your comment twice before it clicked and I literally LoL'ed
Literally?
Literally!
ANIME FOREVER
All kids out of the pool
But... Teacher, I swear I'm a guy.
"But if you were at work people would think you're watching child porn." Uh... what if I want that?
I miss the old people swimming.
Be calmed, Digi. Cowboy Bebop still holds up. It's immortal.
OuroborosChoked preach
I'll always have great fondness and memories when it comes to early Adult Swim, being in middle school and staying up all night watching these weird grown up "cartoons" that I knew I shouldn't be watching and talking about it with my nerd friends at school.
20:25 You know someone watched the dubbed version when they pronounce Urameshi as Yourameshi
Плющенко X Well, on adult swim anime is in english/dubbed (I just looked it up)
I can only hear his name in my head through the voice of Kuwabara
yourameshi is #notmyameshi XD
/juskeɪ jərəmεʃi/
My parents used to watch Fullmetal Alchemist on Adult Swim. They like it.
Little Paul I wished I had parents
I'll watch Toonami with some friends. Usually we take a break from Saturday D&D to watch an episode. Other than that we sorta keep it on for background noise
Hah. Once you started talking about Inuyasha, I paused the video to grab my Kirara plushie out of my room. Even though I can recognize now that it's garbage, I just thought that show was the best thing ever when I was younger. I still have a lot of fond memories, too, like that time I took an old window pole, a whole shit-ton of tin foil, and some Halloween spider web fluff and put together my own crappy replica of the Tetsusaiga.
Also, I was a girl in my early teens watching this show, so in hindsight I'm realizing that Inuyasha was basically my Twilight? I mean, they're both stories about a teenage girl falling in love with some sort of supernatural boy, with wolf boy third wheels. Except Kagome actually had a personally and agency, and Inuyasha's plot actually had some excitement and stakes.
Soran M. Bane I'm with you all the way bro
Makes a lot of sense since Rumiko Takahashi was one of the few female authors working in the shounen genre. The other notable one being Hiromu Arakawa who wrote Full Metal Alchemist.
Outlaw Star literally helped shape me into the man I am today lol. I love the space western trio so much OS, Bebop and Trigun
AceCube what is OS?
joe botsch ....outlaw star lol
AceCube Space Western is such a deeply underappreciated genre.
It baffels me how everybody always mentions Outlaw Star and Trigun alongside Cowboy Bebop. I watched Trigun for the first time very recently and I just think it was a really REALLY bad show. Honestly boring and a slog to sit through, cheap animation, lame characters, stupid story. I only watched a few episodes of OS, got bored, and it's been on my backlog ever since. I can't say much about it but from what I've seen I honestly doubt it's going to be anywhere near as good as Bebop. That is because Cowboy Bebop is a masterpiece. The only reason OS and Trigun are always associated with Bobop is because they were airing on adult swim and had similar themes, but they're not worth the praise and barely worth watching at all. But that's just my opinion.
AceCube dude. All 3 are amazing. Trigun's animation may be a little low budget, but the show legit makes me laugh whenever I watch it. Peace and Love! 🤞🏻
The Big O gave me strong batman TAS/cowboy bepop vibes. Wish it wasn't so underrated.
akou12 I heard it never ended properly. In the era of Evangelion and similar, that was a big knock. People were scarred enough already! Haha.
The creators were trolls, look at how they ended the first season THAT WAY, without any guarantee that they would get a second season. They were trills from the beginning.
The reason you get the batman TAS vibe is actually due to the fact that Sunrise, the producer of the show, was a subcontractor for Warner brothers studios and helped make Batman TAS. Sunrise also of course worked on Cowboy Bebop as well so its not that surprising that you feel those shows are close together.
Kingofshapes Same voice actor also portrayed Spike and Roger Smith
Betterman yea I could tell immediately.
I watched Kekkaishi on Adult Swim in the common room at the top floor of my freshman dorm room. It was a sort of consistency with my past that acted as relief from the overwhelmingly taxing, hyper-social environment of be accidentally choosing the party dorm because it was coincidentally sharing a similar name with a Shakespeare character. I won't say it was an amazing show, but it was there at a good a good time in my life for me to appreciate it. No one was in the party dorm on Saturday night. Everyone was out drinking/getting high. So the entire room became mine, and I even slept there frequently XD. Once or twice people were actually there, and I could tell they would feel like they were intruding on my space; though I always welcomed them anyway.
Digi, you gotta bring "ANIME FOREVER!" back, whether it's ironically or unironically
Can we talk about how awesome it was that Knights of the Zodiac had a fucking Flock of Seagulls song as its opening instead of just the normal routine. that shit blew my goddamn mind when i was a kid.
I've been waiting for this since you started talking about anime on CZcams. Bout damn time.
Does the lolicon you of now get aroused by the loli you of 15 years ago?
Can you English?
Probably
I've heard bits of your history with anime here and there but having a good chunk of it in one place was really enjoyable to listen to. I
I actually remember really loving Pilot Candidate and being so disappointed with how it ended (or its cancellation). When I think back on it I remember a sense of loneliness in the atmosphere that was really relatable at the time. I did rewatch it when I bought the DVDS several years later but can't remember what I thought of it.
For some strange reason they are actually currently rerunning SAC right now.
Awesome. Must be that the voice dubs for other shows aren't releasing until later this summer.
Pilot Candidate was ass. Horrible anime that made no sense. It was also cancelled while in production, so it has no ending. There is literally nothing to get out of revising it unless your remembered liking it and need to see how far your sense of taste has come since childhood.
The OP has been permanently stuck in my head for 16 years.
For the love of all that is sacred, never stop making videos. I want to meet you someday. You're my favorite internet personality.
Zach Goughler Never meet your heroes, I'll leave it at that.
Eh, I don't agree with InuYasha getting that bad quickly. It has some solid arcs post-Naraku getting introduced, specifically the Band of Seven arc, which introduced a new set of villains that were quite interesting.
At the end I was like: You cannot be talking about... there's no way... oh my god...
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION
WE ARE BROTHERS
abschussrampe follow me
Well FLCL 2 is airing exclusively on toonami soon
Also look up Shallow rewards - 20 years of toonami, it's a long podcast thing with one of the directors of toonami about how it's changed over the years
It's pretty ducking interesting
I went to one of my cousin's open houses for graduation and talked to her younger brother, who was around 12-14 at the time.
Apparently younger kids around that age, who still live with their parents, still watch Toonami.
He talked to me about how he was waiting for episodes of Hunter x Hunter, and Sword Art Online to come out.
I remember my first experience with Adult Swim was Yu Yu Hakusho as well and then Fooly Cooly. Originally, I caught Fooly Cooly at the episode "Firestarter" and thought it was just a fever dream, since it was so...weird to me. It wasn't until next week that I realized it was an actual show and it was due to FLCL that I started to look more into anime. After that, my friend Hailey introduced me to Fullmetal Alchemist and the manga of Bleach, and then my downward spiral just. Happened.
Edit: Also, I'm hyped as fuck for the Eva video coming next.
When you mentioned Miguzi I was hit with a brick of nostalgia
Terrified of returning to Cowboy Bebop? Don't be.
That build up at the end had me thinking you would talk about Eureka Seven on the next episode
I like! Keep it up!
Got that Adult Swim podcast and yes, Yu Yu was a standout one for me as a kid and I was upset when it was gone. Also, heard about the Pilot Candidate debacle online lmao.
I'm like 5 years younger than you, it's kind of wierd hearing about having to buy or watch anime on TV. When I first got into anime, when I was like 10, I was just watching it in the computer lab at school.
Princess Bubblegum did nothing wrong
IKR, I'm eight years younger and I only vaguely remember adult swim before it was shut down. For me, I was introduced to anime when a Funimation section was added on On-Demand. Every couple of weeks, three new episodes were added for a series and once when ended a new series would take its place. I think my first show was either School Rumble or Full Metal Panic (I watched Yugioh, Pokémon and Dragonball Z/Kai but I don't really count those). That was about 6 or 7 years ago... Back then I didn't really pirate, so I went back to Adult Swim for anime when they started airing Attack on Titan.
My story is similar in some ways. I was first introduced to anime through my cousin as well. My favorite shows were already stuff like Pokemon and Yugioh, but that didn't really register to me as different from other cartoons. I started to kind of get it when he pulled me into his room to watch the premiere of the Naruto dub on whatever that was on, and I saw more of it catching the occasional episode of Cowboy Bebop or Fullmetal Alchemist when I was at his house. Besides Naruto I could barely grasp any of it, but it just felt really cool. It was probably just the sheer violence and maturity that was atypical of anything animated and western that really sunk into me. Probably the inciting incident to finally turn me into a true fan was catching FLCL epsisodes 1 and 5 and some of Durarara which completely blew my mind beyond what I thought was possible. That said, I didn't actually start consuming a lot of anime until some of my friends in high school told me there was some on Netflix and that I should watch this great show Sword Art Online.
Glad to know I'm not the only one who still remembers Fighting Foodons. I always thought that show had a really cool premise.
Same here. Adultswim was my anime cherry popping experience (besides pokemon, obviously).
A lot of those early shows were on toonami at some point which is how I found them. When I found out about streaming I watched a lot of those more adult shows mentioned.great times.
Right now, being 21 years old, I'm watching Cowboy Bebop for the first time. I've just finished watching episode 13 and had to come somewhere to talk about it.
This show makes me feel weird. Every time an episode ends I just feel happy. No matter what happened I'm just glad that I was able to watch it and experience it. I dunno. It's the bittersweet stories, the silly humor, the little details and references scattered around.
I get you. I'm a literature student, so I kinda know how to analyze a narrative piece of art. Yet I wouldn't know how to tackle Cowboy Bebop. I can't point out what makes it so special. I guess I just have to finish it and think about it some more.
Anyway, I just wanted to say: Don't be afraid of watching it again. It's fucking beautiful.
I'm rewatching Bebop after not seeing an episode in 8-10 years but yeah it still is such a strong anime.
I threw my shoe at the tv when InuYasha aired it's first final episode on late YTV. It was such a god damn waste of time, "Reasons We Can't Kill Naraku this Week" indeed.
I think a lot of people can remember their first anime well because of the feeling you get. I experienced Vision of Escaflowne as my first anime, I don't really count Dragonball Z or Sailor Moon despite seeing those before.
Go revisit it, rewatch it. Test your inner cynic and skepticism. Never surrender! Never give up!
So many classic shows that I have yet to watch... So little time to watch them...
Real nostalgic right here
As a german guy, when watching anime-videos, I really like it when here and there, single german words are used.
Didn´t knew you could use "Zeitgeist" in english :D
"anime took me in, it did so after I rented ninja scroll from block buster" your anime story is literally the joke I tell friends, amazing
also, I watch toonami not because I don't know about streaming,or because I watch to, but because I'm a college student with out a job that cares about the creators and has satellite tv
Digi these podcasts are cool keep making them please
Man, Digi, you gotta watch the whole 0080 OVA. It's one of the best Gundam stories ever done.
Why I discovered this series only now?? It's so interesting to listen to you talking about some shit
Funnily enough I just saw someone on a TV show who called himself "Space Cowboy".
I remember Candidate for Goddess. It was just one o those shows that was cool at the time because CG mechs.
Around 2006-07 I moved to a new house and I found a channel that, after 6 or 7pm, turned into a channel called Colours TV or smth and it ajred anime until like 4am
I remember aside from more popular shows like YuYu Hakusho it also had Fruits Basket, Blue Gender, Spiral, Negima, Kodocha, Detective Conan (as Case Closed), Kiddy Grade, Slayers, etc...
digi just do a multi part bebop series should work out that way
this might sound odd, but you ooze a surprising amount of charisma. I don't know if it's just because of how much you love anime and can just ramble on about it, or if I just enjoy hearing you talk about old-school anime, like you're an old friend I never knew or something. It's very strange, whatever it is, but it's fun as fuck to listen to.
I found out about Adult Swim when I woke up in the middle of the night and decided to watch Cartoon Network. I wondered why the channel name said "about swam" (It was late and I was young and stupid) but I went with it.
First show I saw there was Case Closed. I really liked it and would wake up late so I could catch it and whatever else was on around it's time slot.
Candidate for Goddess! I remember that show and actually didn't mind it. The series did not have an actual ending because I think the last 2 episodes never got made or something like
i remember pilot candidate it was kind of borning, i just kind of sat through it just to watch the next show
I vaguely remember Pilot Candidate for Goddess, but it's limited to the fact that it's just teen drama, and it never really took hold the way that shows like Gundam Seed did later.
THE EVA HYPE IS REAL!!!
Back in 2003-2004 was when I heard about Trigun. I started watching Tenchi Muyo back in 2000 before I started watching Toonami. My first shows from 2000-2005 were Sailor Moon (US Air Version), Dragon Ball Z (US Air Version), Dragon Ball (US Air Version), ,Gundam Wing [was not much of a fan of Gundam for whatever reason at the time but when I watched Endless Waltz was what got me into Gundam], Rurouni Kenshin, Outlaw Star [loved this show] and Gundam Seed. I watched episodes 23 and 24 of Neon Genesis Evangelion back in 2003 because someone brought their badly ripped from VHS copies of Evangelion over and watched End of Evangelion of at first I did not like but would for some reason had left an imprint on my mind that in December of 2005 because I had this random want to watch Evangelion for whatever reason for maybe intuition was involved and ended up watching episodes 23 and 24 as well as End of Evangelion and ended up liking it. Got introduced to a show called El-Hazard and I got introduced to Ah My Goddess by way of the movie back in 2005. Moved to Texas in July of 2005 so I was and just spent much of my time in my room and stopped watching Toonami all together. Got into shows like Ghost In The Shell Stand Alone Complex back in November of 2005 of which I would eventually watch in its entirety back in January of 2007. Got introduced to Yoko Kanno back in 2005. Watched the first 6 episodes of RahXephon back in July of 2006. Did not want to get into InuYasha because it was too long. Watched a OVA called Bastard! back in 2007. Tried to watch Wolf's Rain back in 2006 but ended up not going back to it until 2014. Heard about Vision of Escaflowne back in 2006 but eventually got around to watching it as well as Cowboy Bebop in 2014. I watched Genesis of Aquarion back in 2015.
I vaguely recall liking "Pilot Candidate" but I can't remember a single thing about it.
Pilot Candidate was cancelled halfway through so it does just end, but I actually enjoyed it and it seemed like they were working towards more under the surface then they ever got the chance to bring out.
When I'm watching an anime, I ended up saying ''this thought or feeling done best possible way in Cowboy Bebop. Why is it so memorable for me? This anime showed all the tragedies in life in the most philosophical way, but it did not blind it. Because in reality we can't see the tragedies clearly. For the first time in my life, I was so impressed by the fact that I couldn't find out the past of the main character.
We all know only a part from Spike's past but we're gonna carry that weight.
P.s: english isn't my first language. Sorry If I messed up..
I watch a Toonami stream every saturday, mainly for the nostalgia factor.
I actually remember pilot candidate. It was extremely boring. I kept watching it hoping something cool would happen. And the girls were all kinda cute. But it just ended and I felt so betrayed because most of the other shows were so good.
I actually went back and watched it several years ago. I remembered kinda enjoying it back when I first started getting into anime, seems my taste for TRASH was around then too, but I couldn't really grasp why my younger self enjoyed it. Probably just robots. EVA crushed it and had everything Pilot did but was better.
Outlaw Star was fantastic!
Did you ever watch "The Vision of Escaflowne?"
Cassius Lives i did
it was noticeably missing from this list for me
Cassius Lives Escaflowne is the first cartoon that made me think "maybe some of these cartoons are made in japan". It's still one of my favorite anime to this day.
Print media isn't dead. Small magazines are doing much better than larger ones right now.
Anime forever
I remember Pilot Candidate (Megami Kouhosei/Candidate For Goddess). I don't want to, but that's what being an anime obssessive since 1987 does to you....
I loved the Shaman King anime! The Hungarian dub was awesome.
anime wise Miguzi had Yu-Gi-Oh GX, Zatch Bell, Pokemon, One Piece, Naruto and others. I don't remember much of Toonami but i loved Muguzi haha
The only reason I can think of for people watching toonami nowadays is if they specifically watch dubs and the show they're looking for isn't available anywhere else (legally).
It's interesting that my experience was so different.
From the moment I was introduced to anime as a medium separate from Western cartoons, I was consuming it digitally. Somewhere around 2003. Never bought any DVDs or watched it on TV.
Might be because my first "anime" was a pirated DVD of the Japanese Naruto and Bleach. Pacific Mall was a seriously shady place to do business.
Pilot Candidate. That had a character named Zero and Joshua Seth was one of the VAs in it, right? That’s all I can remember.
Also I sometimes still watch the current Toonami because I largely prefer dubs and they'll usually have the new dubbed episode of whatever before it's available on Kissanime or something. I usually leave my TV on for background noise anyway so if there's nothing to do on a Saturday it'll be a fun little thing to watch.
pilo candidate was filler, was suppose to air on daytime instead. Adult swim had time constraints, so they chose pilot candidate to fill in. tenchi on adult swim was the same version on Toonami, also because they're just lazy :P
Toonami: Midnight Run... Or just the original Toonami, adult swim's anime block owes a toooooonnnnnnnn to it....
When the hell were you in school? I pretty distinctly remember watching all of Toonami and staying up late enough to catch FMA right when Adult Swim started immediately after Toonami ended. Am I completely remembering wrong? Or were you in school at like 9pm???
I'm pretty sure Yu Yu wasn't in the initial line up with bebop, bebop was was running when AS was only on Sunday night's, Yu Yu was some time after I believe
I first saw Cowboy Bebop as a teenager on Adult Swim and it was the first episode. I was pretty shocked by the graphic violence (I was a bit of a wuss with that sorta stuff) But I watched the whole thing with my mouth agape and I was in love. It's been a huge influence on me as a writer, as a Pen & Paper Rper. Pretty much every single character I've roleplayed are Spike in some shape or form. He's one of my favourite characters, ever. Sorry this old fanboy will stop his gushing now. lol
Why did I think you were a 90s Sci-fi network anime kid like me? Either way, interesting perspective. I like how in the 90s we all watched the same shows though. Now I wear an anime hoodie and nobody knows what show it's from because we all watch different ones of the 80 shows that are on per season.
rewatch cowboy bebop and talk about it cause I loved your carry that weight video ❤
Did anyone else watch the Colors chanel line up? I think I watched that from 2007-2009ish? I remember the line up was
Kodocha
Fruits Basket
Spiral (Suiri no kizuna???)
Slayers
Negima
Im pretty sure that channel had blue gender and baki the grappler on the weekends as well as some of the Lupin III movies.
Mine was *Animax*.
The OP of .//Hack SIGN (and one other spin-off) caught my imagination.
He uses the "blades of blood" more than once but it is extremely rarely used, Im not blaming you for forgetting. And the reruns of Yu Yu back then gave me trouble staying with it but its still a solid one.
... and when I say rarely, I think it was only 3 times if not 2, I just remember it being a big thing to me when I actually saw him use it again.
I've watched Bebop last month. It's still a great show.
I think the quality of the dubs for the good shows on Adult Swim are a big contributing factor for why that bloc helped popularize anime in the West in general. Dub quality is so sketchy a lot of the time but most of the shows on AS (that were worth watching in the first place) were very well done which is important because when you're a teenager in particular you don't really want to read while you're trying to watch something, or put up with some awful dub with exaggerated voice acting that makes you feel like you're watching a cartoon intended for kids. Plus, anime is such a visual medium that you really do lose a lot when your eyes are plastered to the subtitles throughout an episode.
Also, god damn, Steve Blum may be a bit of a meme now for being that guy who is in everything and immediately identifiable because he always does the same voice, but that voice will always be Spike Spiegel as far as I'm concerned. Absolutely perfect casting right there.
I do remember Pilot Candidate, nostalgia fueled memory cause I only got to see it on the rare occasions I was at a friend with cable's house. Tried watching again, hella boring.
I think the old line up for toonami was 2 episodes of DBZ, Gundam wing and sailor Moon
Durarara was once was on Adult Swim in 2011
I was also really into FLCL and found out about it through Adult Swim. Later in my life I rewatched it and I felt pretty much the same way you described it. it didn't mean as much to me as it did when I was a kid, but I never really understood why. Maybe it has something to do with it being a coming of age story?
did you watch it on blue ray? thats what made it worth rewatching for me instead of shitty vhs
I remember piolet Candide, and that I never understood what the hell was going on with it.
They did show Neon Genesis Evangelion on Adult swim.
This may be the ramblings of an old man, but there is something to be said about the loss of "The Event." you can read any manga and watch any anime ever on the internet with the click of a button. Back when North America got physical monthly copies of shonen jump, when that book came in the mail it was an event. Finally I get see the next chapter of all these stories that I've been waiting a month to see. Now you can read an entire manga series in like two hours, as long as it's not one piece. The net result for me anyways is I just don't read much manga anymore, because it's not special anymore. Same could be said for anime probably a little less so.
Read the manga for Tokyo Ghoul and Deadman Wonderland over watching the anime. Also in a old video you said you watched Dance in the Vampire Bund and say it was ok or something like that. I recommend reading the manga too
BRUH
Code Lyoko was fucking amazing.
There's a CZcams series called Anime Abandon by Bennett The Sage where he talks about bargain bin junk and actual quality anime, among them most of the iconic Adult Swim lineup... including Pilot Candidate.
KusoDM Sage is a joke.
KusoDM His videos are garbage
They're based more on riffing and joking instead of actual critique I'll admit, and no one's perfect, but it's more or less a funny showcase of old junk.
pour one out for Digi.
I'm gonna rewatch cowboy Bebop again.
And before adultswim was toonami after dark
I watch toonami whenever they have new dubs that I can't get any where else