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| That's right, pick those jaws up from the floor: Toonami's back, b******… (Background image: From official site) |
Hi, this is HD again from HardDoor. I last posted in here at TeddyChanTastical! in February with a review of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time for Valentine's Day, so this time, Teddy-chan asked if I'd contribute something regarding the revival of the Cartoon Network's beloved Toonami anime block, which made its surprising return this past Saturday night on Adult Swim after taking an even more-surprising bow in 2008. Originally a trip down memory lane for the channel's annual April Fool's Day celebration, the massive amount of positive buzz and nostalgia generated by the one-night-only event gave AS honcho (and former Toonami producer) Jason DeMarco enough of an impetus less than two months later to resurrect the block in place of AS' mainstay anime timeslot--at least for a test run (or is that a "Midnight Test Run"?).
Now sporting updated HD graphics for its robotic TOM mascot/host and a new lease on life, as well as two new titles, is this the same Toonami (or as Teddy-chan called it, "TWOnami") that everyone remembered and loved on April 1st and from bygone days (albeit with the added benefit of late night's looser censorship)?
Well, yes and no.
