27 Facts About Toonami

Toonami is an American late night television programming block that primarily broadcasts Japanese animation and occasionally American action animation.

Toonami initially ran as a weekday afternoon block on Cartoon Network from 1997 until 2004, when it transitioned into a Saturday evening format until its closure four years later.

On May 26,2012, Toonami was relaunched as a late night block on Adult Swim.

Toonami was originally a weekday afternoon cartoon and action block hosted by Space Ghost villain-turned-producer Moltar at the Ghost Planet Industries building from March 17,1997, to July 10,1999.

Toonami manages to defeat Swayzak before the Absolution hits Earth.

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Toonami replaced the block known as Saturday Video Entertainment System.

The new Toonami lineup showcased anime such as Naruto, Rave Master, Duel Masters, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, One Piece, Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, Zatch Bell, and Pokemon Chronicles, as well as premiered North American productions including Teen Titans, Megas XLR, Justice League Unlimited, and IGPX, Toonami's first and only original production co-produced by Production I G and Bandai Entertainment.

Toonami then aired its final broadcast later that same evening.

Toonami Jetstream remained with the Toonami name until January 30,2009.

On January 6,2013, Toonami introduced a new blue color scheme, after using a similar scheme to introduce Inuyasha on November 3 of the previous year.

On December 31,2016, Toonami aired its first subtitled anime broadcast with the music video of Porter Robinson and Madeon's Shelter, produced in collaboration with A-1 Pictures and Crunchyroll.

Toonami followed the sneak preview by airing the film Mind Game and aired programming after that was scheduled after Black Clover, except Iron-Blooded Orphans, in original Japanese with English subtitles.

On May 13,2019, Adult Swim announced that Toonami would be shifting its whole block thirty minutes earlier, starting at 10:30 PM and ending at 3:30 AM, cutting a half-hour rerun of Family Guy.

That same day, block runner Jason DeMarco tweeted that Toonami had six original projects in total in the works, including three that were unannounced at the time.

On December 28,2020, it was announced that Toonami would be increasing the block back to four hours as Attack on Titan would return on January 9,2021.

On November 10,2021, it was announced that for one night only, Toonami would receive an extra night of programming on November 26,2021.

On January 8,2022, Toonami announced that they will be airing a new show every week "for the next month or so" beginning with the second season of Assassination Classroom.

Toonami has done panels from MomoCon, San Diego Comic-Con, Dragon Con and Anime Expo which they've streamed as part of Pre-Flight either live or on tape delay.

In December 2012, Toonami was launched as a standalone channel in Asia-Pacific.

An Indian version of Toonami was first launched as a block in 2001 and was then followed by a stand-alone channel in 2015.

Japanese version of Toonami was first launched as a programming block for Cartoon Network Japan on July 22,2002.

In contrast to its American and international counterparts, the Japanese version of Toonami aired North American action cartoons instead of anime.

The weekend block of Toonami was then replaced by the premiere of Adult Swim in Latin America on October 7,2005.

Toonami was launched as a programming block on Cartoon Network in Pakistan and ran from 2004 to 2013.

Stand-alone Toonami channel was launched in Southeast Asia replacing Boomerang on December 1,2012.

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African Toonami was relaunched on March 27,2020, as a pop-up channel on DStv until mid-May 2020 when it was relaunched as a permanent channel on StarTimes.

Toonami was launched as a programming block on Cartoon Network in the UK and Ireland in 2001.