I'M SUPPOSED TO KNOW THIS??!! Reacting to "Toonami" by Nostalgia Critic 

its not just in America, I'm from the UK and it was just as you said over here as well XD

I was really busy with school and extracurricular stuff, but I'd always try to catch it or at least late night runs with my little brother as it was pretty much the only time we saw each other. Thanks Toonami and Toonami faithful for using violent cartoons to bring us together.

I think I watched Pokémon and yugioh on 4kids like that was a channel right?

@@theduckgoesmoo Pretty sure that’s a company. Those shows did air on Cartoon Network though. Before Disney got the rights for Pokémon and Nicktoons for Yu-Gi-Oh!.

@@theduckgoesmoosort of. Both ran on Kid’s WB until it became CW 4Kids around 2007/2008 I think. Until 4Kids shutdown in 2012.

Yeah, if he ever actually knew about something he reacted to, it would probably destroy the galaxy.

I mean... I was born in 1996 and I never heard about Toonami until around the time Critic's video came out. Granted, maybe it just wasn't a thing here in Australia.

Which confused me, since I'm around 2 years younger than Duck and I grew up with Toonami; both the tail end of the original run and when they rebooted it.

Wasn't Brotherhood AFTER Toonami?

@@keyblademasterclark no it aired on Toonami around 2012 or 2013, it came on late alongside Ghost in the Shell and Cowboy Bebop.

@@SoobiHoo Oh ok. I only watched it on Crunchyroll. I remember GITS:SAC being on toonami as well as Fullmetal Alchemist

The fact that those horrid films are the only piece of Transformers media he's aware of hurts my very soul.

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Weren't there multiple animation studios in Japan that said the opposite that it's a style and not specifically Japanese animation? I think I remember hearing that somewhere

The word's usage is a cultural difference between Japan and the western world. In Japan, anime literally means animation. All animation. Including non-Japanese productions. However, in other parts of the world, and specifically the US, anime specifically means Japanese animation, replacing the term Japanimation that was used prior to the word entering the current vernacular. Personally, I've always defined it as animation made by Japanese people or companies, reflecting their culture and tastes, and primarily for a Japanese audience. Other countries have copied very specific examples of anime styles and utilize Japanese studios for their own work, but if it doesn't reflect Japanese sensibilities and isn't aimed at their own as an audience, it's not anime, it's just animation.

No it doesn't. Anime is just short for "animation", it doesn't translate to anything. Japan doesn't differentiate between Japanese and Western animation, they call it all "anime".

Unfortunately it starts at 12am.

The emotions must’ve been so real

Honestly people rag on Dragon Ball GT but I'm part of the few that think it's good sure it has its flaws but even with it's flaws it introduced a lot of badass things like Super Saiyan 4, Baby/the Tuffles and the Shadow Dragons but at least GT is 100% more enjoyable to watch then Dragon Ball Evolution

@JoJo_Joestar the baby arc was a little out there for me and by the end, i wasn't even hyped for ss4 it was more of "it's about damn time." moment. All the villains busting out of hell was cool. I just thought the super 17 thing was a dumb way to go about it. The shadow dragons was the only arc I could almost 100% get behind and is the only one I can see being used for super. The DragonBalls are being heavily abused so we are getting a good set up.

I knew this but really heard the similarity once we mentioned it

He was also Splinter in the 2007 TMNT movie

Uncle Iroh the evil shapeshifting master of darkness drinking his favorite tea enjoying Pai Sho with a foolish samurai warrior.

Bingo

There's just a lot revolving around his character that never really made sense ,like why did he even exist, everyone hated him, but if you keep in mind this potential plot twist it all makes sense, it just never panned out

The overused thing was a bit too much plus the show itself was the worst cartoon I ever watched up until that point.

Oh God!

Do I even want to know

@@theduckgoesmoo Harem anime. "Harem" is basically a genre of anime where a bunch of girls/guys have the hots for the main protagonist. And what usually is associated with it is mostly sexual scenes involving the cast. Emphasis on the word, "mostly" since they can't show anything that's not appropriate for public channels/streaming services. Some harem anime don't have that and are more focused on the relationships but they're pretty much overshadowed nowadays as degenerates are more louder about their interests.

We need to develop time travel technology and give him one.

​@@smugsneasel😂 exactly

Just hearing the amount of things he didn't know about nearly gave me an aneurysm.

@@userjames5976 😂 same

Too late.

I remember it being one of the first times I actually got a pop culture film reference in a show, my dad introducing me to the Evil Dead/Army of Darkness films when I was *way* too young for them but still enjoyed them all the same. So seeing a version of Ash in Reboot was when I realized that shows and movies might actually reference each other. It was an eye opening realization to make for a kid.

Still love this show. I don't care about dated graphics, it's of its time, and at the time, ahead of its time.

@@VegetaLF7 "What kind of sick creature gets enjoyment out of playing this sorta game?!"

Hell yeah it was!

It was the first time I recognized it as something specific. I'd seen localized anime before, but couldn't quite put my finger on why it seemed so different. When I saw Sailor Moon on Toonami...something clicked and I went digging. Then I found out what Anime was...and realized I had heard of Japanimation in my very younger days. I think seeing the Noozles (The Wondrous Koala Blinky) on Nickelodeon was my first anime. Localized, but anime it was. Then Speed Racer, Voltron, G-Force (Battle of the Planets), Robotech... I had a rich, anime-filled childhood, it turns out.

Not fan made at all. It’s an official anime owned by Cartoon Network for a Japanese adaptation that did have a English dub.

​@@calebgoodman3028 neat. I remember a lot of my friends talking about it. It felt like a fever dream since I saw it here and there around places sparingly

Oh it has been for a couple months now

There’s a number of theories

I actually thought I had an average exposure to things growing up…. RU-vid pointed out that I was a little wrong

​@@theduckgoesmooa little?

Thank you

Jackie didn't voice himself. That was James Sie (Cabbage Merchant in Avatar). Jackie only did the live action portions at the end of each episode. James Sie also voiced Shendu and Chow

@@dustinroberts6963 Fair enough, I thought it was him. It's been a long time since the last time I saw the show, and I never bothered looking at VA's for anything back then, so the impression was close enough that it had me fooled.

I stopped watched Cartoon Network way before 2012

@@theduckgoesmoo What did you watched, watching paint dry lol.

@@SoobiHoo I didn’t watch tv anymore lol I don’t even have cable at my house right now

@@theduckgoesmoo You got the internet, so you're set for life lol.

@@theduckgoesmoo I get not watching TV. Because I don't really do that anymore either. The TV in my room is practically just for gaming. But the internet has allowed me to see so much! I'm in the middle of watching Ergo Proxy right now! Granted I've been in the middle of watching it for months because I keep getting distracted and watching other things, but it's the principle of the matter.

Toonami used to be an afternoon kids block. There are literally ads for Powerpuff Girls on Toonami back in the day.

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I guess he doesn't

RU-vid didn’t exist when I was in elementary school…

Use of the word is a cultural difference. Most of the west: Anime = Japanese animation Japan: Anime=animation

The main reason the stories are so damn good. The Mecha fights are just icing on that dense, delicious cake.

I don’t know how I did it like I watched stuff it just wasn’t normal I guess