This is a list and brief review of movies aired on the original Toonami block and Adult Swim in alphabetical order. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1999, 2000): I remember seeing this on tape, but not on Toonami. All I remember of it now is that the titular Phantasm is a woman. Batman & Mr. … Continue reading Toonami Retrospective Part Five: Toonami Goes to the Movies
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Toonami Retrospective Part Four: Childhood’s End
Toonami 2005 D.I.C.E.: WTF is this? Zatch Bell!: This show seems to get nothing but flack nowadays, but I liked the motivations of some of the characters. They went deeper than, “I wanna fight a lot of people!” or, “I wanna eat a lot!” or “I wanna perv on a lot of women but not … Continue reading Toonami Retrospective Part Four: Childhood’s End
Toonami Retrospective Part Three: Growing Pains
Toonami 2003 .hack//SIGN: I remember this series being pretty downbeat. The ending was ambiguous, and not happy. Martian Successor Nadesico: Wait, WHAT?! I don't remember this series airing on the block AT ALL. What I'm thinking is that Cartoon Network just aired one or a few episodes for their “Giant Robot Week” on Toonami. Gigantor: … Continue reading Toonami Retrospective Part Three: Growing Pains
Toonami Retrospective Part Two: 2001 — A Toon Odyssey
Toonami 2001 Outlaw Star: A decent scifi show, though it's hard not to compare it to its contemporary Cowboy Bebop. I mainly remember this series for its romance subplot and the heroine questioning her identity and humanity, but there are lot of episodes that don't deal with those subplots. It's still worth checking out. While … Continue reading Toonami Retrospective Part Two: 2001 — A Toon Odyssey
Toonami Retrospective and Review Part One: Building a Better Cartoon Show
In which I give my opinions on all of the shows and movies featured on Toonami's numerous incarnations, culminating in my list of favorites. 1997 I didn't really watch Toonami when it first began. ThunderCats (1985): Never really saw it, on Toonami, at least. I have a tape of it somewhere. The art style is … Continue reading Toonami Retrospective and Review Part One: Building a Better Cartoon Show
Anime Trailer Park #5: ADV Films/AD Vision
Surely I can dig deeper for more anime ephemera. I have the technology. Specifically, I have... YouTube. KennyLauderdale uploaded some old anime trailers off of VHS tapes, and helpfully divided them up into compilations. The first of these videos features several trailers from ADV Films/AD Vision, one of the hipper anime publishers around in the … Continue reading Anime Trailer Park #5: ADV Films/AD Vision
Anime Trailer Park #4: Anime Works (Part Two)
Fantasy Trailers Genma Wars: Glorified music video for a really shitty anime. It has some really gross usage of rape (even by one of the protagonists) and horrible animation. For example, the hero's wolf companion just flaps his jaw over and over to “speak”. The attempt to replicate Shotaro Ishinomori's art style just makes the … Continue reading Anime Trailer Park #4: Anime Works (Part Two)
Anime Trailer Park #4: Anime Works (Part One)
This preview disc from 2003 divides the trailers up by genre, and each title gets a blurb of a description. It's time to figure out if Anime Works... does. (grimaces) Content Warning: This post will mention and/or discuss the disturbing content featured in some of the titles. Action Apocalypse Zero: A narrated trailer for an … Continue reading Anime Trailer Park #4: Anime Works (Part One)
Anime Trailer Park #3: US Manga Corps Anime Zone 1.1
This disc was bundled with Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie. It features trailers from U.S. Manga Corps, Software Sculptors, and Central Park Media. U.S. Manga Corps Agent Aika: Naked Missions: Glorified music video that nonetheless gets the series' ethos across: fan service, and lots of it. Some people absolutely hate the series for its lack … Continue reading Anime Trailer Park #3: US Manga Corps Anime Zone 1.1
Anime Trailer Park #2: Bandai Visual
Bandai 2002 Anime Guide Now for a more prominent publisher – that still couldn't survive the bursting of the mid-2000s anime bubble. This disc has (gasp) descriptions for all of the titles featured?! Nonetheless, I will still only consider the contents of the trailers themselves. .hack//SIGN: It's a good thing that we get these descriptions … Continue reading Anime Trailer Park #2: Bandai Visual
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