Toonami's Lasting Legacy

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  • Cartoon Network's Toonami brought anime to the west in a way that was completely unprecedented. These days My Hero Academia premieres on red carpets but it wasn't always that way. Join Mike as he breaks down how Toonami changed the western mind to love Dragon Ball Z, Yu Yu Hakusho and so much more.
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Komentáře • 887

  • @BonsaiPop
    @BonsaiPop  Před 4 lety +324

    Hi everyone, welcome to year 2 on Bonsai Pop. Let's rock it out together 👌

    • @xanderwilliams8400
      @xanderwilliams8400 Před 4 lety +3

      Love your shirt bro👏🏽

    • @DarkQueenMarceline
      @DarkQueenMarceline Před 4 lety +3

      Why not name that new show something like Interactive Anime since that's essentially what anime games are?

    • @1Hollowgoku
      @1Hollowgoku Před 4 lety +3

      I really gotta say I love and appreciate the content y’all create on this channel to the point that this has become my favorite channel on CZcams well for anime and I look forward to you guys folding in gaming into your content......HOLY SHIT do a collab video with Maximilian dood that would be awesome

    • @MrAfriKa
      @MrAfriKa Před 4 lety +6

      Its just crazy when I was a teenager you were a fucking nerd watching these shows, now at 30 I can talk about Samurai Champloo, Cowboy Bebop, and DBZ and not get to many second looks.
      Everybody was a secret fucking nerd.

    • @april8940
      @april8940 Před 4 lety +2

      Happy Anniversary!! Are you guys going to do an episode on the old Saturday night Adult Swim block that had Inuyasha, Ghost In The Shell, Big O, Cowboy Bebop, FLCL, and Trigun, etc etc? I kind of think that this video is a good jumping off point to get into that and how it introduced a lot of people to anime. I mean, yeah, a lot of what can be said about Toonami can be said about Saturday night Adult Swim. I fucking treasure the time that I had back then, though. Me and my sister would always stay up late watching that and when the Cowboy Bebop intro came on at like 3 or 4 in the morning sometimes we would have to rush up to the old ass NEC TV and manually turn it down so our mom wouldn't wake up. Anyway, thanks for the nostalgia.

  • @weeaboomanotakutsuki8353
    @weeaboomanotakutsuki8353 Před 4 lety +436

    Born too late to explore the Earth.
    Born too early to explore the universe.
    But was born just in time for Toonami.

    • @bywas2001
      @bywas2001 Před 4 lety +1

      weeabooman otakutsuki underrated true comment

    • @Thebepob
      @Thebepob Před 4 lety +1

      I'm going to put that on a black tee-shirt and wear it to a Mac Demarco show.

    • @Lawlsworth1337
      @Lawlsworth1337 Před 4 lety +1

      most of the worlds oceans are unexplored
      and the earth is mostly water

    • @beneficent2557
      @beneficent2557 Před 3 lety

      Beautiful.

    • @taWay21
      @taWay21 Před 4 měsíci

      Underrated comment!

  • @bohemianprince7944
    @bohemianprince7944 Před 4 lety +401

    Toonami made me feel like I was part of an event, rather than just watching Anime alone.

    • @clashwithkeen
      @clashwithkeen Před 4 lety +20

      SO TRUUEEEE. First time I've really thought about it. It wasn't until years later with a new set of friends that I found out they were hardcore geeking out over it. When it aired nobody I knew was into it so I felt like I was part of a secret club of only a handful of people that were counting down the minutes and seconds until Tom showed up on screen every day. Hearing that voice again after so many years legit gives me goosebumps.

    • @xblade149
      @xblade149 Před 4 lety +3

      Yes

    • @SSJ491
      @SSJ491 Před 3 lety +10

      Toonami was the best program block of all time that Sean Akins, and Jason DeMarco ever created. I grew up with Toonami during my childhood years with Dragon Ball, Sailor Moon, Yu Yu Hakusho, Naruto, and more. Even though I started watching anime on television back in September 11, 1995 with Sailor Moon on US television syndication when I was a toddler. It was too girly, and I need something manly. That is where my young brother introduced to me into Dragon Ball Z on syndication (and then moved to Toonami in the year of 1998; alongside with Sailor Moon) in the late 1990s. Alongside with Pokémon (aired on syndication in the fall of '98, and move to Kids' WB on the following year in 1999 and onwards until 2006) and Digimon (excepted Tamers....because I do not want to deal with my worst nightmare/my true fear from the last saga...that creepy terrifying female human monster) (aired on FOX Kids in the late 1990s and early 2000s). Those still and were my first four anime titles that I started with and grew up from. As for Toonami, I was excited as my young brother and I was hooked on watching Dragon Ball (Z, the original Dragon Ball, and GT), Naruto, and the others (even though we flipped channels after Dragon Ball Z came off in the early 2000s). When Toonami moved to Saturday primetime at nights (2004-2008) away from weekday afternoons (1997-2004), I started to watch more shows on Toonami on Cartoon Network including Teen Titans (2003 on Kids' WB, and then in 2004-2006 on Cartoon Network), Yu Yu Hakusho (2003-2004), and Rouroni Kenshin (2003). It was amazing that I grew up watching the block from my childhood years from the late 1990s up to my teenager years in the mid 2000s. But when Toonami shutdown on September 20, 2008, which I didn't even knew that the block got shutdown because I stopped watching Toonami on Cartoon Network in around the summer of 2008. Cartoon Network went downhill at that time, and there was no good cartoons (except Adventure Time, Regular Show, Total Drama Island/Action) at that time, just live action in the late 2000s and early 2010s. But when Toonami came back on Cartoon Network, now airing on Adult Swim (replacing Adult Swim Action (2001-2012; which I grew up watching Inuyasha during my late childhood years up to my teenager years)). I was getting excited again, like my childhood inside of me is getting reborn watching the program block again just like good old times, even though I am in my adulthood years right now. But giving the chance watching new shows that I didn't watch including, Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood, Cowboy Bebop, IGPX, One Piece (which I didn't get the chance to watch in the mid 2000s, because of the 4Kids dub; while it was airing on 4KidsTV children's program block (formerly known as FOX Kids/FOX Box) in 2004 until FUNimation picked it up the license to produced and dub the show properly like its Japanese counterpart) and Ghost in a Shell. I also watched new anime titles including Casshern Sins, Deadman Wonderland, Eureka Seven, Samurai 7, and more. But all in all, Toonami grew up on me, and I am proud that I had a great time with.

    • @unknownyoutuber3424
      @unknownyoutuber3424 Před 3 lety

      Literally

    • @razkable
      @razkable Před 3 lety +4

      it felt like nerds were running it...people like us...the way they gave us kenshin hakusho dragonball gundam naruto and a few others proved they were anime fans

  • @shadow42037
    @shadow42037 Před 4 lety +653

    In the states,
    Toonami walked so anime could run

    • @EagleZtoTheGrave
      @EagleZtoTheGrave Před 4 lety +21

      Thats beautiful, but id say Toonami flew so anime could could run lol

    • @bohemianprince7944
      @bohemianprince7944 Před 4 lety +3

      Pewds reference. Sicko mode.

    • @RobbieStacks90
      @RobbieStacks90 Před 4 lety +26

      Toonami wasn't created for anime, it was for us kids to watch action cartoons, like they could have put Swat Kats or Pirates of Dark Water on there if they wanted to. That's why in the early days they played shows like Thundercats and Jonny Quest into the ground. Once they blew up with Sailor Moon and early DBZ, they got the money and green light from Cartoon Network to get expensive stuff like Gundam Wing from Bandai and get Funimation to finish dubbing DBZ, that's how it became so Japanese dominant in the early 2000s.

    • @destynova4512
      @destynova4512 Před 4 lety

      Agreed though I was introduced to it way before toonami existed.

    • @InfiniteGenresOfMusic
      @InfiniteGenresOfMusic Před 4 lety +2

      @Tomas Bell Johnny Quest* Also Thundercats DID show on Toonami at one point.

  • @mvangord1
    @mvangord1 Před 4 lety +207

    1999: Toonami recommends us anime
    2020: We recommend Toonami anime
    How the tables have turned

    • @Murillos1
      @Murillos1 Před 4 lety +4

      Are you planning on watching Toonami's Original series though?
      And if you do recommend series to Toonami, do you watch the block yourself?

    • @kameronjones7139
      @kameronjones7139 Před 3 lety +4

      @@Murillos1 I will definitely be watching their originals

  • @MrSkiPR
    @MrSkiPR Před 4 lety +282

    Yup, nothing like Dragon Ball starting all over right in the middle of the Namek Saga over, and over, and over again.
    I became an expert of the Sayajin Saga.

    • @IPIay01
      @IPIay01 Před 4 lety +21

      This gave me some Vietnam level flashback PTSD.

    • @MikeBNumba6
      @MikeBNumba6 Před 4 lety +17

      Yup as soon as goku arrived on Namek to fight Recoom it would start over again. God that was annoying. All the way back to freaking Radditz lol.

    • @RobbieStacks90
      @RobbieStacks90 Před 4 lety +12

      That was the only problem with Toonami on weekdays- Reruns, as Moltar explained to us kids, and it became more glaring later on with the short, 26 episode type shows. That was so satisfying when the new episodes finally came and Goku washed Recoome and Captain Ginyu and we got to see Vegeta and the Z Fighters try to take out Frieza. Those episodes were all built up hype to see if Vegeta could really get strong enough to go Super Saiyan and beat Frieza.

    • @destynova4512
      @destynova4512 Před 4 lety +4

      Really the only reason I hate Frieza so much.... get to Goku becoming Super Sayian than boom back to the beginning of the saga again. Damn I wish the internet was better back then.

    • @WereGururumon
      @WereGururumon Před 3 lety +1

      Bruh, kids will neverrrrrr understand that level of frustration 😂😂😂😂

  • @Treesicle
    @Treesicle Před 4 lety +73

    We owe a lot to toonami as well

  • @16bitworld2
    @16bitworld2 Před 4 lety +279

    I remember every day after school I'd make sure all my homework n house chores was done by 7pm so I could watch Toonami. The line up used to be Hamtaro, Ronin Warriors, Sailor Moon, Dragonball Z, Tenchi Muyo, Gundam Wing etc. Wish I could go back to those days

    • @jackingofftoraelilblack2342
      @jackingofftoraelilblack2342 Před 4 lety +11

      Nah I remember when it was saturday and I would stay awake from 12 am to 6 am watching anime and from 6 am watching Pokemon then falling asleep

    • @jasonlieberman4606
      @jasonlieberman4606 Před 4 lety +5

      I forgot that they'd aired Tenchi... What's great about that reminder for me is that in the last month I've revisited Universe and the OVA, and as I got into it I kept scratching my head when I asked myself how I'd gotten into the franchise as a kid and could remember at all.
      But if it was on Toonami, that's almost definitely the answer

    • @16bitworld2
      @16bitworld2 Před 4 lety +1

      @@jackingofftoraelilblack2342 Adult 🏊‍♂️

    • @dattmavid1
      @dattmavid1 Před 4 lety +4

      Getting me all nostalgic man. "Space Is The Place" is still one of my favorite promos of all time

    • @mr.billthrower7392
      @mr.billthrower7392 Před 4 lety +2

      So you just gone forget the goat Yu Yu Hakusho? Boy some of yall niggas ought to be ashamed of yourselves.

  • @Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache

    One of the reasons why I am so invested in Cartoon Network doing well. If CN goes, Toonami goes.

    • @Sune
      @Sune Před 4 lety +8

      Just Some Guy with a Mustache I wonder how many kids today watch the programming block though. especially since anime is so prevalent online through streaming services and...piracy

    • @gheebus3890
      @gheebus3890 Před 4 lety +11

      CN has nothing to do with Toonami now, it's all about Adult Swim's success

    • @xxsaintxx27_
      @xxsaintxx27_ Před 4 lety +5

      Sorry but cartoon network is dogshit nowadays and it saddens me it was my childhood

    • @Clos93
      @Clos93 Před 3 lety +1

      CN and Adult Swim are two different networks within Turner Broadcasting, and are treated separately in the Nielsen Ratings. As long as Adult Swim is around, Toonami will be around. But who watches TV anymore, amirite? 😂

  • @JimmyNails27
    @JimmyNails27 Před 4 lety +55

    "It is ok to indulge in what makes you happy"
    I needed to hear that.

    • @CrstnJdiKnight
      @CrstnJdiKnight Před 4 lety +1

      Nothing wrong with that at all, just into...an obsession.😁🥳

  • @hxh_slayer85
    @hxh_slayer85 Před 4 lety +98

    Did anyone else get a tear in the eye. Childhood memories!

  • @Kodeb8
    @Kodeb8 Před 4 lety +99

    As much as I love toonami, I feel like a lot of people tend to leave out another important piece in bringing anime to the west, adult swim! Toonami for the most part had to stay kid friendly, but adult swim was able to remove those chains and show that anime wasn't just for kids! Also lets not forget that when toonami ended, adult swim was for a few years the only place where you could watch anime on TV! Until, of course, ironically enough, they ended up bringing back toonami.

    • @payrollrio
      @payrollrio Před 4 lety +2

      Pedro Ortega bro don’t forget Casshern Sins 2012 also

    • @janaekelis
      @janaekelis Před 4 lety +3

      @@payrollrio Big O too!

    • @payrollrio
      @payrollrio Před 4 lety

      Janae Stephenson-Brown facts. But I never got into it

    • @SavvyMuhon
      @SavvyMuhon Před 4 lety +5

      @Pedro Ortega
      Fooly Cooly too!

    • @EvaOwnsAll
      @EvaOwnsAll Před 3 lety

      Toonami's Midnight Run established the timeslot for more adult cartoons late at night. However, yeah Adult Swim eventually took over and brought us so many more shows.
      I do remember when adult swim started showing up I was pissed off because it took some of my anime time for "Home Movies" or "Tim and Eric?... While I started to be ok with Home Movies, Tim and Eric still annoys me that it took a half hour of my anime time....

  • @nikolascabrera1901
    @nikolascabrera1901 Před 4 lety +53

    Where would we be without Tom, I was allways hyped when I saw that ship, and the narrative of Toms story is awesome

  • @Commonwealth96
    @Commonwealth96 Před 4 lety +14

    Because of Toonami's imager breaks (the compilations of anime clips, set to hip hop beats, with a message), I listen to chill hop. Because of Toonami, I marathoned G4TV through high school for all the video game reviews, tips and tricks, as well as "nerd culture." Toonami hooked me into Anime throughout middle school and high school.
    Even now, I daydream of being a kid coming home from school to watch Toonami's block in the afternoon. I daydream of the years I would sneak in the middle of the night to watch adult swim (the original real adult swim, with the adverts of old people swimming).

  • @OrionPSG1
    @OrionPSG1 Před 4 lety +3

    Sci-Fi was how I learned about Anime and Toonami is how I fell in love with it.

  • @duchi882
    @duchi882 Před 4 lety +35

    Toonami made my childhood before I even knew what Toonami was

  • @marcelm103
    @marcelm103 Před 4 lety +40

    Never got Toonami in Canada but got YTV. Sailor Moon and Samurai Pizza Cats started a love for anime.
    But I know how important Toonami was to the North American market.

  • @BaoZakeruga
    @BaoZakeruga Před 4 lety +25

    Couldn't imagine my life without toonami. I'm so glad I was born when I was.

  • @262cj
    @262cj Před 4 lety +52

    Did Bonsai Pop just bring back Saturday morning cartoons with this upload schedule?

  • @kelvinwhiting6074
    @kelvinwhiting6074 Před 4 lety +37

    OMG my dad had a super tiny tv about 14in CRT style in the garage and I was able to get a cheap VCR recorder and recorded shows on that tv because my parents always wanted to watch wheel of torture and jepardy or similarly we would have dinner. Flood of memories and the dedication I had to watching my favorite anime shows!!! Thanks love your videos! Keep up the amazing work!

  • @Metlhead443
    @Metlhead443 Před 4 lety +12

    If you’re covering everything that ever aired in Toonami I’m beyond hyped to finally have someone talk about Zoids: Chaotic Century. The dub was a little weird, but that show is the reason I still hold love for mech in my heart today.

    • @AppericateGamer
      @AppericateGamer Před 4 lety +4

      Zoids memories

    • @zhogan_7115
      @zhogan_7115 Před rokem

      I still have a white liger action figure from toys r us back in the day 😂

  • @Harshhaze
    @Harshhaze Před 4 lety +33

    Dude, I would play the Toonami games on the CN website. That, and Lego Mars Mission took up my days before I bought a PlayStation

    • @slimboyd
      @slimboyd Před 4 lety

      Harshhaze I remember doing this tio

  • @freshpeeshes9899
    @freshpeeshes9899 Před 4 lety +4

    I miss those days so much. Toonami was awesome and gave me something to look forward to every week. You could argue that it's better now because you can watch literally anything at any time, but that's just it. The anticipation of waiting on the next episode of your favorite show made it feel special. It's like drinking - fun every now and then, but becomes not so fun if you do it all the time.

  • @SamTheGumMan117
    @SamTheGumMan117 Před 4 lety +18

    If it wasn't for Toonami I don't think I would love anime and manga as much as I do now and become the weeb I am today

  • @Cazvolaine
    @Cazvolaine Před 4 lety +11

    Tom has been a trusted friend of mine since high school. I have always looked forward to hearing from him. He always had something positive to say and made me feel at home out there in space.

  • @trollof229antthevariable9
    @trollof229antthevariable9 Před 4 lety +23

    Yooo that DBZ/Sailor Moon hentai online hit different as a kid. 🤣

    • @statesminds
      @statesminds Před 4 lety

      Troll of 229: Ant the variable lmao they liked it

    • @whathell6t
      @whathell6t Před 4 lety +1

      Troll of 229: Ant the variable
      You think that’s awesome. Check out this awesome commercial: czcams.com/video/9h1lFlKsppo/video.html
      Unfortunately! It’s only referring to anime English voice actors. But! That doesn’t stop the perverts from making Rule 34 fanart.

  • @bluedemonnn
    @bluedemonnn Před 4 lety +2

    Everyone here is older right? I'm 33 and I remember this like it was yesterday. I was in 7th grade in 99....time sure does fly, enjoy it guys before you know it you will be on youtube watching videos about shit that happened to you in 7th grade. Good times.

  • @nothankyouiwillnotgiveyoum2077

    Oof, the nostalgia. Makes my heart hurt. At least we have Bonsai Pop now, the future isn’t all bad.

    • @bla2772
      @bla2772 Před 4 lety +1

      Toonami is still around tho

  • @duomaya9545
    @duomaya9545 Před 4 lety +8

    It's thanks to Toonami it saved my life from killing myself, without it, I've never would have been here. So... thank you. Being at home was hell, but Toonami was my real home and it still is, from to this day! I've been with Toonami from the very beginning! And I remember very Anime and cartoon that ever aired on TV.

  • @Mirai8
    @Mirai8 Před 4 lety +11

    Man, you guys really hit me in the feels with this one, you’ve got yourself one more sub! Looking forward to taking this journey together.

  • @Joeoeo0
    @Joeoeo0 Před 4 lety +9

    The Metal Gear series is an (insane) anime in videogame form, would love a video on that.

  • @jordynbrocksmith912
    @jordynbrocksmith912 Před 4 lety +7

    90s era anime can and will always have my heart and like a lot of folks here, I will always have a bias for it

  • @Electric_Bagpipes
    @Electric_Bagpipes Před 3 lety +4

    "Ani-social society"
    Whoever came up with that name, you are a genius.

  • @Skaroosh
    @Skaroosh Před 4 lety +2

    Thank you so much for this trip down memory lane. Toonami is truly something special, I can't imagine any future generation having something so quirky and unique.
    And big congrats on 2 years of kickass anime vids. Here's to many more!

  • @jangofett8210
    @jangofett8210 Před 3 lety +2

    From the Foods I eat, to the games I play, to the Toyota I drive, to the shows I watch, to the toys I played with, I love 🇯🇵 JAPAN

  • @michaelbrent1536
    @michaelbrent1536 Před 4 lety +2

    Captain Planet,Freakazoid(Dexter Douglas),Darkwing Duck,Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventure,Batman The animated series, Spider-Man The animated series and X-men The animated series were my favorite along with Gargoyles!

  • @statesminds
    @statesminds Před 4 lety

    Happy to be along for the ride, can’t wait for year 2 of Bonzai Pop. And I love video games so am totally behind you on that

  • @julianseals4840
    @julianseals4840 Před 4 lety +1

    Yooo awesome video thank you I grow up watching all these classics peace love and positive energy ✊🏾

  • @cjthibeau4843
    @cjthibeau4843 Před 4 lety +1

    Happy Birthday BP!!!! Much love, so glad I found this channel right around when it had started and so glad I have stayed. One of my favorites on the platform tbh. SO happy yall covered Toonami, so much nostalgia to elementary and middle school. And I am glad to hear year 2 will be even better! Cannot wait!

  • @junior111292
    @junior111292 Před 4 lety +1

    This brought tears to my eyes. Pure nostalgia. Love you guys. Glad to be apart of the Patreon and the community

  • @sojiroseta98
    @sojiroseta98 Před 4 lety

    You guys are by far my favorite new channel and damn near already at the top of my anime content channels list

  • @phillipgardner5478
    @phillipgardner5478 Před 4 lety

    You guys do a great job with this channel.I can tell you guys put a lot work and love in. Please continuing to put out content about old as well as new anime series.

  • @YaboyAQ
    @YaboyAQ Před 4 lety +1

    Hey man! Just wanted to say huge congrats on what you accomplished in 1 year. I found your channel about 2 months ago and am hooked. I love your objectivity, content, and diversity of content. Keep up the good work!! Thank you for being you

  • @DurdleDers
    @DurdleDers Před 4 lety +2

    Thank you for this trip down memory lane Mike. I personally hope see lots of those hidden gems you spoke of in the future, I love finding shows tucked away in the past that I would have otherwise missed. That being said, I've seen a looooot of anime, so I'm curious what you can come up with!

  • @tdunn1907
    @tdunn1907 Před 4 lety

    You guys are the best. This video gave me chills and flashbacks of some the best anime years of my life. Keep up the good work.

  • @MySqueezingArm
    @MySqueezingArm Před 3 lety

    Hitting me in the nostalgia. Subbed for life, thank you

  • @PaulAmedu
    @PaulAmedu Před 11 měsíci

    Love thia channel and this video. The passion bleeds thru. I rlly enjoy it. Keep going, u gotta a supporter in me

  • @the13rook
    @the13rook Před 4 lety

    One of the most underrated channels in CZcams, love you guys keep it up

  • @catalyst25
    @catalyst25 Před 4 lety +4

    you hit the nail on the head here brother. good job.

  • @ade1174
    @ade1174 Před 3 lety +1

    2002 is when I got into Toonami and introduced to anime. Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, G Gundam, Transformers Armada. Good times.

  • @Emertx7
    @Emertx7 Před 4 lety +3

    Heavy nostalgia in this I remember so many days during middle school in the 2000s watching dbz and sailor moon. Then staying up late on the weekends to watch yu yu hakusho and Inuyasha those were the days. From there I developed a massively addictive habit of buying anime and manga from long forgotten bookstores like Walden books and then borders. Anime is so important to me and I'm so grateful to the Japanese community for creating these amazing shows that we get to experience and enjoy. Thanks so much man for making these amazing videos that really gives these shows and the history of how they got here their due justice man. Always looking forward to a Saturday upload from you guys.

  • @hendricksroshane
    @hendricksroshane Před 4 lety

    Thank you so much for this one Bonsai. back when I was a child and would sometimes spend the daytime over the weekends with my grandma, that would be the only time I'd have the opportunity to watch cable tv and toonami was a big part of that. I like you used to find this robot really dope and entertaining how he'd introduce the anime. so for you to share the history behind the platform is much appreciate. enjoy the vacation. keep up the great work!

  • @therandomvideoman111
    @therandomvideoman111 Před 4 lety

    You're the second video essay channel that manipulated me into a sub by having a toonami video be the first video I watched. Congrats.

  • @brinftw565
    @brinftw565 Před 4 lety +1

    Thank you for always putting out amazing content.
    I'm always excited to watch everything on this channel!

  • @30chillipalmer
    @30chillipalmer Před 4 lety

    Hey Bonsai Pop. You Guys are Kings!! Thank you for all you do for us as fans.

  • @mcdog80
    @mcdog80 Před 4 lety

    First video of yours I’ve seen, and it’s really great! Love your stuff man congrats on 1 year! I’ll be watching from here on out

  • @s7lresearchdr.311
    @s7lresearchdr.311 Před 4 lety

    I appreciate what you're doing - subbed! Good Work!

  • @jonatkinson1312
    @jonatkinson1312 Před 4 lety +1

    Been following you guys for a while now and I love seeing all the diversity in your videos. You guys are absolutely top notch.
    That being said, I would love to see you guys cover Kenichi: History's Strongest Disciple. One of the most underrated series of all time in my own opinion and worth an extensive dive into.
    Stay frosty gentlemen!

  • @GrimMetropolis
    @GrimMetropolis Před 2 lety

    I was there at the beginning until around 2007. Coming home from school, telling mom I don't have any homework, snack, sitting in front of the TV, toonami, dinner, bed....almost everyday as a child and preteen...it was my childhood. Weekends were for other things...

  • @angeloroker88
    @angeloroker88 Před 3 lety

    You guys did a great job on this video

  • @Soooooooooooonicable
    @Soooooooooooonicable Před 4 lety +3

    I used to LOVE watching yuyu hakusho and Inuyasha on adult swim at night. I can still remember those chill eastern-style bumpers that played during the commercials.

  • @sagenerd419
    @sagenerd419 Před 4 lety

    That got surprisingly emotional for me. I love what you guys are doing here

  • @ddotdollaz
    @ddotdollaz Před 4 lety

    Just watched two of your videos. Great work. Toonami was the bees knees as a kid. Staying up late at night just to catch YuYu Hakusho and Cowboy Bebop was the highlight of my childhood. I would be so upset when I accidentally fell asleep and wake up right at the end of the credits with the "real folks blues" playing at 2am. Zoids will come on extremely late like 5am. I would catch it right before school. Such nostalgia...

  • @AngelSanchez-br9lg
    @AngelSanchez-br9lg Před 3 lety

    Great video bro I haven’t vibe with a video like this in a while

  • @yomiknishes6976
    @yomiknishes6976 Před 4 lety

    Amazing. Thank you as always for this looking glass back into the golden years 😍

  • @klaytonking8261
    @klaytonking8261 Před 3 lety

    You are the best content creator on this platform, relatable, humble, and genuinely kind. It must be a true honor to be your friend, and I will be patrioning soon. I wish you a long life Mike, I'm glad that your story worked out. It sounds like you deserve every bit of it.

  • @jacjames9685
    @jacjames9685 Před 3 lety

    This video just made me feel the same excitement anime on VHS tapes, toonami, the 5 a.m. DBZ is sailor Moon in the morning! This one video chronicled of my life up till now through anime. I'm new to this channel and have been enjoying everything I've seen so far especially your videos on classic anime.

  • @scruffylookingnerd857

    Just finished listening to you on the Yi Yi Hakusho episode of Wizard and the Bruiser and came to this episode first. Toonami was absolutely a staple of my childhood and adolescence. I absolutely miss the vibe and everything it was so much. I look forward to catching up on the years worth in content on here! 😄

  • @Digitallegend2
    @Digitallegend2 Před 4 lety

    This video nearly brought me to tears with how much nostalgia this brought back, thank you so much for doing this video and Godspeed to many many more !! What is the music used in this video it fucking rocks !!

  • @karlibox6297
    @karlibox6297 Před 4 lety

    I love your video so much! I got thrown back to the time where I watched Toonami on Saturday nights as a young girl falling in love with anime. I realize how lucky we were to watch all these animes on TV. Anime on Toonami alongside anime on Adult Swim truly defines my childhood: a golden time full of nostalgia. Thank you for your wonderful videos and reminding me of the special nostalgia that will never go away. Keep it up!

  • @VinceroAlpha
    @VinceroAlpha Před 4 lety

    Wow, y’all have been out for a year!? Nice congratulations, I love your narration and perspective on the media, keep up the good work!

  • @marshallmarcano6275
    @marshallmarcano6275 Před 4 lety

    So happy to see this out!!

  • @shaquonstewart3736
    @shaquonstewart3736 Před 4 lety

    Thanks this video really gave me awesome nostalgic vibes

  • @ThatsAggravating
    @ThatsAggravating Před 2 lety

    You guys are the best. I love the themes you go over, aside from anime. The fact that we should be able to enjoy Saturday morning cartoons as an adult, sitting down and watching a bonsai pop video while I work brings me some of that childhood joy that’s so hard to come by nowadays

  • @redq.r.o.w3.1.28
    @redq.r.o.w3.1.28 Před 4 lety

    congratulations ^_^ on your one year and keep up the good work your videos are awesome dude cheers 🍻

  • @jadejam7424
    @jadejam7424 Před 4 lety

    Congrats guys!!! This channel is everything i never knew i needed and wanted :>

  • @gorillamac
    @gorillamac Před 4 lety

    This video showed up in my recommendations and am here to view it, because Toonami was a big part of my childhood as well and seeing the love put here for not only that but anime and the like, I'm going to go back and watch some other videos. And I'll be subscribing.

  • @christian11111
    @christian11111 Před 4 lety

    Much like you, I know I would not be who I am today without Toonami. I watched everything I could on Toonami and I still miss today the feeling of getting home from school and sitting right in front of the TV to watch my favorite shows. Toonami and Anime taught me who I am, I just wish I could enjoy Toonami like I did when I was a kid. I still think about watching Yu Yu Hakusho every day. Now I am old and tired with a kid of my own and I struggle to stay up on Saturday nights past 11. Although Toonami has returned to us it will never be the revolution it was back in the late 90s and early 00s. I love anime, but like you said, there is so much out there now and I can't keep up like I did when I was a kid, I find myself just going back to my childhood favorites instead of expanding my horizons. Thank you again for the wonderful video.

  • @alligatorsam5357
    @alligatorsam5357 Před rokem

    That was beautiful.....Awesome job... as an oldschool Toonami veteran myself hats off to you.

  • @thaddeussmithiii8065
    @thaddeussmithiii8065 Před 4 lety +1

    So glad you made this. This was easily the best part of cartoon watching as a kid

  • @andromedafrigga7653
    @andromedafrigga7653 Před 4 lety

    This video brings me nostalgia ❤ thank you

  • @ninjammer726
    @ninjammer726 Před 4 lety

    awesome retrospective guys great work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @LordOfTheWhores
    @LordOfTheWhores Před 4 lety

    Your channel is awesome, I've watched a far bit and often focus on airing/recent anime but I like to mix in older series too like I'm currently watching Dirty Pair.

  • @Sleepgodx
    @Sleepgodx Před 4 lety

    Amazing vid and super valid points on toonami, this was the injection of anime my friends and I needed to fall in love with DBZ, naruto, and other great shows. New viewer but I'll be around tyvm for the look into this odd hour of influential content

  • @codyeure6898
    @codyeure6898 Před 3 lety

    Toonami was such a event to me growing up. I had a stopwatch with one alarm on it. 7pm. And I would stay up as late as a kid could to watch all my favorite shows. Most of them I own now. Love all the hard work guys. Thanks

  • @nathanmurphy7585
    @nathanmurphy7585 Před 4 lety +2

    Toonami was a staple of my childhood. Steve Blum’s voice was synonymous with anime (before I saw Cowboy Bebop) for me. It was way more than a block; it showed me an entirely new paradigm and artistic medium.

  • @TheCreepypro
    @TheCreepypro Před 4 lety

    man I am happy to see that you guys not only lasted a year but you are thriving despite all the adversity and what a video to mark that year everyone has great memories of Toonami I myself rediscovered anime thanks to this and never looked back in my teen years after coming from a foreign country where anime was flowing like milk and honey and after looking back anyone who are still anime fans to this day owes this block a huge debt for making us fans to this day glad you could cover it with you usual panache and flair it is always great to look back with fellow anime fans and reminiscence of simpler times looking forward to next week also happy to hear the One Piece video is back I might have to watch again just to celebrate

  • @Max_Le_Groom
    @Max_Le_Groom Před 4 lety

    You're so articulate and passionate about what You share Man, I'm subscribed. 😊💜👏👏👏

  • @wingzero-0014
    @wingzero-0014 Před 4 lety +2

    I'm glad I was able to experience watching Toonami in the early 2000s as a kid this was the Golden Era of anime😀

  • @beezneez9851
    @beezneez9851 Před 3 lety

    Hi Bonsai man. Keep up the good work. You remind the new generation of the anime goers of the classics

  • @benjaminalmaguer-munoz-zu9wo

    Really appreciate channels like yours, I grew up on Anime and Love it even as an adult, love the community and the culture, continue to do what you do...... not that you need me to tell you.

  • @soullessslacker
    @soullessslacker Před 4 lety

    Wow it been a year. Congratulations! Hope there's many more to come.

  • @AaronAlthaus
    @AaronAlthaus Před 4 lety

    Love. This. Channel. You nailed it, you are what I loved about toonami. I'd love to see you cover Read Or Die. I loved introducing all my friends to it in the early 2000s and would be gladdened to see it get some new fans.

  • @rachumsmcone9184
    @rachumsmcone9184 Před 4 lety +1

    Mike, I'm so glad to be able to watch the content of a really radical punk rock dude a decade or two younger than myself that shares my same love of anime and video games. Keep building on that golden foundation my shaggy no pants dude.

    • @statesminds
      @statesminds Před 4 lety +1

      Rachums McOne same tho im 28 and i feel him and i would have been good homies if we met lol music anime video games the trifecta i love and respect

    • @rachumsmcone9184
      @rachumsmcone9184 Před 4 lety

      You know, I'm a little worried bout the other guys behind the bonsai pop and Treesicle with all this Corona virus business, seems like they haven't been seen in a while.

  • @imdefinitelynotjesus
    @imdefinitelynotjesus Před 4 lety +2

    I’ve made more friends gathering around to watch toonami then when I would be in public just trying to get by.
    There was something about crowding around the tv with a bunch of people after school watching things like dragon ball Z and rooting for your favorite character to do something incredible.
    The debt I owe to toonami for all the good times I’ve had might never be repaid but hell if I won’t try by continuing to suggest more anime to more friends in hope of sharing what toonami shared with me.

  • @Megashell
    @Megashell Před 4 lety

    HOLY HELL MAN! i remember when you had only 25k subs you're killing it

  • @trainerlyra3
    @trainerlyra3 Před 4 lety

    i'm forever grateful for toonami. i still remember waking up at like 2 am one night when i was still pretty young, turning on my tv bc i couldn't get back to sleep, and being absolutely entranced by the giant mechas and cool animation. i grew up on pokemon, digimon, and sailor moon, but toonami really made sure it all stuck with me, if that makes any sense? i'm so pumped to see you guys tackle some more toonami classics in the future!!! hope i get to say hi at anime boston!!!

  • @mattheweck269
    @mattheweck269 Před 3 lety

    Dude. I'm here for your channel!

  • @rhymesayer207
    @rhymesayer207 Před 2 lety

    Just found this channel and I'm in love

  • @jessewilliams9195
    @jessewilliams9195 Před 11 měsíci

    Your analysis, as always, is elucidation. Thanks dude