Toonami

Last year was a great excuse for me to finally go back to reading manga and catch up on so many anime I have had on my "Need to Watch" list. Some of which I will probably write about at some point, like Akatsuki No Yona. This past week though I binged on one I […]

 Attack on Titan is the big anime franchise that singlehandedly saved both the manga and the anime market in the West. When it premiered in 2013, the anime and manga worlds were looking a bit lackluster with old genres and tropes, and its high concept intensity captured the imaginations of fans worldwide. It is the […]

Who does not love all those pretty monsters?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxY8Jb7Zc6wUzumaki (2021): I cannot begin to describe how exciting it is to know Junji Ito's Uzumaki will be coming to Toonami this year It seems it will be a 4-episode miniseries in black and white based on the manga, and from just the early glimpses it looks like[...]

Along with the ongoing #ASFestChallenge (still currently underway, with rules and info below), the weekend includes a ton of never-before-seen performances (including Mastodon, Robyn from Club DOMO, and Kaytranada), live-streams (including Rick and Morty and The Eric Andre Show), Run The Jewels (Killer Mike and El-P) debuting their Cyberpunk 2077 music video, a special edition[...]

Set for November 13-14, the weekend also includes a ton of never-before-seen performances (including Mastodon, Robyn from Club DOMO, and Kaytranada), live-streams (including Rick and Morty and The Eric Andre Show), Run The Jewels (Killer Mike and El-P) debuting their Cyberpunk 2077 music video, and a special edition of Toonami More details should be heading[...]

For those of you wise enough to check out Adult Swim at midnight on Saturday, you were treated to much more than just your weekly Toonami anime line-up Holy Calamavote featured Run The Jewels (Killer Mike and El-P) going commercial-free and tearing through their first full performance of their critically-acclaimed new album RTJ4 in its entirety[...]

That's the case this Saturday, October 17th, at 12 midnight ET, when activist ice cream company Ben & Jerry's and Adult Swim hand over an hour of Toonami time to Killer Mike and El-P aka Run The Jewels to help boost voter registration and election turnout.[caption id="attachment_1281999" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Adult Swim x Ben & Jerry’s[...]

To celebrate the home release of the most recent season on Blu-ray and it's upcoming debut on HBO Max on November 1st, we have some cool new extras worth checking out.[caption id="attachment_1275236" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Samurai & Shogun (Rick and Morty) | adult swim[/caption]First up, "Samurai & Shogun" director Kaichi Sato shared some of the original[...]

Viewers of Adult Swim's late-night block of anime programming got more than they expected Saturday night when Toonami host and our resident robotic champion TOM (voiced for the past twenty years by Cowboy Bebop voice actor Steve Blum) voiced his support on behalf of all of Toonami of the Black Lives Matter message and movement.[caption[...]

If you thought all the goodies that Adult Swim Con's "How They Do It: 'Rick and Morty'" panel with series co-creator Dan Harmon, and Chris Parnell, Sarah Chalke, and Spencer Grammer had to offer were all there was to enjoy? Well, they had one more "gift" for both Rick and Morty and anime fans alike. Directed […]

When we first announced Adult Swim Con was coming a little less than a month ago, we discussed how it was part of a virtual convention schedule that also included this week's Comic-Con@Home, next month's WarnerMedia's DC Fandome, and this past weekend's Skybound Xpo. Now that we find ourselves staring into the abyss of what […]

It appears hit Japanese manga series The Promised Neverland will be taking the next step in its on-screen evolution, with Heroes star Masi Oka, writer and director Rodney Rothman (Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse), and Vertigo Entertainment bringing a live-action series to Amazon. With Rothman directing and Meghan Malloy (Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse) writing the pilot, […]

This season, My Hero Academia has given us one quality episode after the other – and "Japanese Hero Bilboard Chart" keeps that momentum rolling along. It was interesting to see how they are finally trying to get things back around to superhero action again. This episode proved much more of a balance between slice-of-life anime […]

This new vibe of offering viewers more intimate, behind-the-scenes moments appears here to stay – at least for the time being – on My Hero Academia… and I am definitely good with that. This episode was well-structured on a number of fronts and brought tears to my eyes for many reasons. From beginning to end […]

It was one thing having to wait for the midseason return of Adult Swim's Rick and Morty when our lives were normal and we had a number of other pop culture "shiny objects" to keep us distracted. But now with more and more of us finding ourselves in lockdown… self-quarantining… social distancing… and every other […]

The second part of this season of My Hero Academia has had more of a slice-of-life anime vibe; however, last episode brought us back to the action we are quite used to. This episode started right where it left off and showed how Deku is more than capable of holding his own against a villain… […]

On My Hero Academia "Gold Tips Imperial", we continue to see Class 1-A giving their best to prepare for the upcoming School Festival. Once again, not much really happens in this episode. Mostly set-up… but for what? Hmmm… However, I am sure that we will soon be up to our quirks in impeding doom before […]

On My Hero Academia "Prepping for the School Festival Is the Funnest Part", we get to see Class 1-A put together the plans for the school festival. While the vibe is amazing and it is nice to see them back in the school setting, not much really happened in the episode. At least it moved […]

Last episode of My Hero Academia kept the chill vibe going, and I am very glad to see our heroes-in-training back to the school setting. I know it might seem weird and oddly anti-climactic after a few of them almost died fighting the Shie Hassaikai – but we all needed some unwinding after a ton […]

This past weekend's episode of My Hero Academia was so much better than the last one. I think they could have shaved off some of the "apologetic crying teacher" and make it one episode instead of two-and-a-half. That said, it was much more enjoyable and made my heart so happy. Yes, it was weird… but […]