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I'll take a crack at this. Admittedly, I don't really hate all any of what Toonami has aired, since even if the show fails in it's own merits, I can usually enjoy it as mindless fun or so bad it's goodness. I'm only considering shows from the AS era of Toonami. Top 10 1. Eureka Seven - Still my favorite anime. Admittedly the first half of the show can be a bit unenjoyable, but the show really shines through in the second half, which more than makes up for everything in my opinion. The show also has a killer soundtrack (which I have on my iPod), and is also partially responsible for introducing me to Joy Division, which is now one of my favorite bands. 2. Black Lagoon - One of Toonami's best pickups, in my opinion. With badass gunmen and over the top fights, there's nothing not to love about the show. Not recording this when it ran on Toonami is one of my biggest regrets. 3. Kill la Kill - While I wasn't too impressed when the first images of Kill la Kill came out, I was pleasantly surprised when I watched it. Insane and fun, Kill la Kill starts up crazy and doesn't stop until the very end. 4. Gurren Lagann - Really neck and neck with Kill la Kill, because I enjoy both series so much. As Kill la Kill's spiritual predecessor, Gurren Lagann starts small but end the series with giant robots throwing galaxies at each other, which is hard to beat on the insane scale. 5. Inuyasha - While I'm defnintely not rabid about it, I really do enjoy Inuyasha. Sure, it meanders and takes it's time with the plot, but I honestly find that half the fun about Inuyasha. It helps that I never really hated any of the filler for the show, with even the stupid stuff being enjoyable. I've fond memories of staying up until early in the morning in 2013 watching Inuyasha as the sun came up, and I still maintain that it's the perfect show for the 5 AM hour, should Toonami ever get those slots back. Also, much like Eureka Seven, Inuyasha has great music. 6. Samurai Champloo - One of my favorite series from ASA, the show delivered again when it aired on Toonami. It has just the right balance of action, drama, and comedy, that the series remains enjoyable throughout, and never really gets terrible. Rerun or not, the show was awesome, and I'm glad it got a run on Toonami. 7. Sym-Bionic Titan - Out of the American shows that aired on the revived Toonami, this is my favorite of the bunch. I enjoy the everything about the series, from the action scenes, to the character interactions, even down to the series being an homage to John Hughes movies. It was a good show for a time filler, too, if Toonami was able to manage their contract expirations properly. 8. Sword Art Online - Yeah, this is in my top shows. I've already outlined why I like this series already, but here it is again: I do genuinely think that Aincrad is a solid arc for the show. It's not perfect, no, and Kirito is still a Gary Stu, but it has good action, beautiful animation (one of the few universally agreed upon things about SAO), and story that I actually enjoyed. It would have been a lot better received if Aincrad was the whole show, I think. Fairy Dance is saved from total oblivion by the addition of the royally fucked up Sugou, who is deranged, psychotic, and rapey, yet he knows it and revels in it. This makes him oh so enjoyable to me, and I love it. 9. Attack on Titan - AoT was massively hyped before coming on Toonami, and in all honesty, I don't think any of that hype was mistaken. The series had solid characters, a good premise, good action, and a twist that, while I correctly guessed, was still pretty good. Had Toonami not rerun the series to death at the top of the night, it might be higher. 10. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood - While I don't like it as much as the original Fullmetal Alchemist anime, FMAB is still an excellent show, and was probably the best show on the lineup when Toonami was first revived. Admittedly, Toonami did spam the show quite a bit, and I'm pretty sure it didn't get a break at all from when Toonami was revived all the way to when it left the block in 2014. Regardless, the show was fun to watch. Bottom 10: 10. Star Wars: The Clone Wars - This one, admittedly, boils down more to my own personal tastes than the actual quality of the show. I dislike CGI (see #8), which is one strike against it. I also really don't like any prequel stuff in Star Wars, even though this The Clone Wars, admittedly, did it really well, and made it seem exciting, and not terrible. The show replaced a slot of Inuyasha at 5 AM, which I really didn't enjoy, and that was enough for me to dislike it. Finally, there was also this one guy who kept going on and on about it, saying it was the best show on Toonami and how they weren't respecting it, that I grew to hate it intensely. 9. Beware the Batman - I'll be completely honest: I hate CGI. I truly hate it. I'm not denying the fact that CGI can look great, but I hate how practically all of western animation has switched to using CGI. You won't find any American made animated movie that uses anything other than CGI. I want to see traditionally drawn movies again, not anymore CGI bullshit. Of course, Beware the Batman being CGI isn't the only strike against it. Gotham in the series felt empty. It felt like there was nobody living there. The series also didn't have any of the classic Batman villains, instead going for his B-List villains. While a neat idea in theory, it was executed poorly, and it didn't work for the series. In the end, I'll take B:TAS over Beware the Batman anyday. 8. Dimension W - My dislike of Dimension W really stems from how much potential the series had. When it was first announced, and I first looked into the series, it made it seem like the series would be some sort of conspiracy detective action series: Kyouma would find Mira and do his jobs with her, all while some sort of conspiracy with the New Tesla Company would unfold, with Kyouma and Mira slowly picking up evidence about what's going on. That series would have been awesome. Instead, we get a couple episodes of intrigue, and 10 episodes of the plot going really nowhere, with nothing changing and no consequences happening because of the events they went through. Couple this with a watersports fetish scene that feels like it was meant for Rule 34, and that's Dimension W in a nutshell. 7. Blue Exorcist - Much like Dimension W, this series really had so much going for it at first. It looked like it was going to be an awesome series about the main characters fighting demons and Satan, but what it turned out to be was more or less was series depicted everything the main BUT fight demons. Also don't get me started on the anime only part. I'm still reeling to understand why they decided to go the consensual Rosemary's Baby route with the show, or how any of the hell Satan unleashed on Earth was supposed to bring the Assiah and Gehenna closer. 6. Tenchi Muyo GXP: This series pretty much speaks for itself. It's unfunny, unentertaining, and it features none of (save a single episode) the characters from Tenchi Muyo that I liked. This never should have been on Toonami. 5. Samurai 7: I didn't really find Samurai 7 to be a bad series, but it definitely wasn't traditional Toonami fare. It was relatively slow moving, and it seemed incredibly dramatic: only Kikuchiyo really seemed to provide any sort of comedic moments. The show also seemed really out of place on Toonami, especially considering that soon after it was picked up, Toonami got the 6 hour expansion, and the block seemed to have more lighthearted action fare. 4. Naruto: Shippuden - Shippuden on Toonami has annoyed me to no end. Naruto itself wasn't exactly the pinnacle of fine writing, but the series had (what I thought) a good story, had good pacing, and had interesting characters. I was admittedly excited when Shippuden started on Toonami, though a lot of that was all the excitement surrounding Toonami around 2013-2014. Since then, Shippuden has been shown to have shit pacing, randomly placed and stupid fillers, and an ungodly annoying fanbase that is best personified in that of Applecountry, who may or may not have been a troll. The fact that the Toonami airings are so far behind the dubs really isn't helping, and in my opinion, they should just take Shippuden off Toonami and replace it with something else, or at the very least, advance it to somewhere near where the dub is at. 3. Akame ga Kill - I don't care how enjoyably edgelord Akame ga Kill was, this series is still shit. The series jettisoned it's story in favor of being bloody and gory, and would introduce characters, and give them backstory, just to be killed off in the same episode. Plot was never a main concern for Akame ga Kill: just show more gore, more blood and action, and it'll all be fine. While the show was definitely enjoyable if you didn't think about it, I can't really call it a good Toonami series. 2. Sword Art Online - Yep, it's on here again, specifically Season 2. In contrast to season 1, which had a genuinely decent first arc and a batshit insane villain in the second arc, SAO II doesn't really have anything that makes it stand out. It just seems really generic. And that's not even including their attempts to resolve PTSD with rape and little girls saying "Thank You!", or their attempts to gain sympathy points by giving a filler girl that I don't care about AIDS. The only really funny part of the season was when Klein found that pretty girl in the dungeon who transformed and turned out to the Thor. Other than that, SAO II was a poor follow up to the first series. 1. King Star King - Everyone knew this was going to be Number 1 on the list. King Star King had absolutely no place being on Toonami, even if it was just for filler. The series was just filler. It's dumb, it's gross, it's crass, it's insane: it's typical Adult Swim drug induced fare. And had I seen it on regular Adult Swim, I probably would not have minded it so much. Because that's where it belongs: Adult Swim. Not Toonami.

I guess we really needed to know Bulma's mother's name, right? My god, this is just reminding me that Super is gonna suck.

That is true. They really went all out on the dub cast. I really wish they would have stuck with the idea they had in the IGPX miniseries. It would have been interesting to see a show based on that.

I think the the OVA series is just going to continue as long as they can keep thinking of new girls to add to the harem. That's the conclusion I've come to.

OVA 3's existence is made a lot easier to ignore by the fact that Funimation doesn't even have it in the same boxset as OVAs 1 and 2, or at least they didn't when I bought my set.

Yeah I hate this new art style already, but given the pics of Kajishima's current stuff I understand why they changed it. This also looks terrible, in general, but so is pretty much anything Tenchi recently. The only Tenchi stuff that I actually liked was the stuff that aired on OG Toonami and the Tenchi Universe movies. I truly can't believe Tenchi has enough popularity, especially after that third OVA, to warrant a fourth OVA series.

I'd imagine the full ratings would come out today so we can see how JoJo did then. Regardless of whether or not it did worse than the One Piece marathon, it was a holiday weekend, so I'm sure they weren't expecting much. The DBZ marathon will obviously do well, though, even if it is New Years Eve.

Yeah I don't really mind IGPX. I won't go out of my way to get it on Toonami again, but if a rerun slot opens up it would be nice to see.

I've heard of this prior to Mochi talking about it, so I'm more inclined to believe it.

Goddamn, 2016 really has it out for Carrie Fisher's family, doesn't it? It wouldn't even be worth it to make a tasteless joke about this.

I've actually heard that he does, too. It's one more reason to hate Super for me.

Huh. This might make the next Star Wars movie a bit more difficult.

It doesn't have to air before DBS to get us 11:00. It AoT Season 2 was going to get Toonami an expansion, they could just stick it at 11:30 and push DBS up to 11:00.

And that's why Ryoko was always best girl.

This seems about right. I figured we would be getting 11:00 expansion for whenever the hell Samurai Jack shows up, though there may be a show that AoT can expand out.

Oh, I agree. There are objectively better shows than it, but Inuyasha always entertained me.

Well, assuming that there aren't any marathons in the next few months (that that it doesn't get taken off for Daylight Savings), Battle Tendency should end on April 22, so if they were going to premiere AoT after another show has ended, it would probably be April 29. Of course, given how big a name AoT is, who's to say we don't get expansion for that? Or maybe it won't premiere in April, and will show up later in the year.

They confirmed a while back that he was dead, though I personally believed he was alive, since it fit the ending of R2 so much better. Unless you mean they recently confirmed that he was alive. I haven't heard anything about that.

I usually just wait for the complete DVD releases to buy the show from Funi. It's only if I really like the show that I can justify spending so much money (Eureka Seven). I just flat out refuse to buy from Aniplex, which is why I'm glad I got both FMA releases from Funi before the rights were lost.

You know... this actually makes Shippuden seem more coherent. To me, anyway. I'm just going to assume this is canon now, just like how I assume the Bleach anime only exists for the first 63 episodes, before the king of Hueco Mundo kills Aizen for being an asshole.

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I completely agree with this. I've been burnt out on Toonami for a long while, which is a shame since I like so many of the shows individually. I think the tipping point for me was right after they picked up Akame Ga Kill, actually.

So is Ohgi not the Prime Minister anymore? Not like he was ever cut out for the job, but you know, consistency is nice. This trailer leaves me so confused, I literally have more questions now than I did before. I can't wait for the xenophobia. If Donald Trump doesn't show up in this in some form I'll be sorely disappointed. So does this confirm that Lelouch didn't die?

I vaguely remember a cartoon on Nickelodeon from like 2000 called Pelswick. I remember absolutely nothing about the show other than that the main character was a paraplegic, and that the animation was really offputting to me (at the time, anyway).