Now we can start looking at Toonami! Powerpuff Girls and Samurai Jack were mentioned earlier because they were created for Cartoon Network – so they won’t be mentioned twice, but it should be noted those two shows made an appearance on Toonami.
Toonami was a greeting point between Western animation and Eastern animation. It brought the two worlds together into one amazing programming block. Without further ado, we should just start looking at the shows that were a part of Toonami.
Some of my favorites were any of the DC shows, Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z, Kenshin, Gundam, Zoids and the unlisted Tenchi shows! What were yours?
Batman Beyond
Batman: The Animated Series
Justice League
Superman: The Animated Series
Dragon Ball GT
Gundam Wing
Sailor Moon
Cardcaptor
Dragonball Z
Dragon ball
Voltron
Hamtaro
He-Man
Thunder Cats
Zoids New Century
Neon Genisis Evangelion
Rorouni Kenshin
Yu Yu Hakasho
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Cartoon Network celebrated is 25th anniversary over the weekend. While they’ve had a hefty lineup of shows over the past 25 years, the network’s best years can be narrowed down to a set of six years – 1996 – 2004.
Between 1997 and 2008, Cartoon Network revealed Toonami, the programming block that would take up afternoons and evenings. Toonami, paired up with some original shows from Cartoon Network’s own studios made this network the best network during that time period (it’s worth mentioning Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time, Steven Universe, and Regular Show as the more current watchable shows).
Before we jump into the Toonami lineup, let’s take a moment to appreciate some of Cartoon Network’s best original programming between ’96 and ’01 (some of which also appeared on Toonami’s block).
Dexter’s Laboratory (96)
Johnny Bravo (97)
Cow and Chicken (97)
Powerpuff Girls (98)
Featured on Toonami.
Ed, Edd n Eddy (99)
Courage the Cowardly Dog (99)
Samurai Jack (01)
Featured on Toonami.
The Toonami lineup portion is on the following page.
