When Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin was announced for the Toonami programming block a few weeks ago, it wasn’t clear what time the series would be airing. Fans will have to keep awake just like Hunter ...

For the anime-obsessed in the United States, Gundam didn’t start on April 7, 1979 like it did for viewers in Japan -- it started on March 6, 2000 with the premiere of Gundam Wing on Toonami. Gundam up ...

Peter Cullen, the voice of Optimus Prime, was able to give some stirring performances when it came to the many characters he has portrayed over the decades, but man was he able to take things up to a ...

A handful of anime franchises defined Toonami in the early days of the programming block, namely Dragon Ball Z and Gundam Wing. Those two anime would go on to be the gateway drug for a generation of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Iron-Blooded Orphans takes this premise and ratchets up the body ...

Toonami was one of the most chill places to watch action cartoons. The Cartoon Network block embraced lo-fi beats and a sleek sci-fi setting. Hosted by the smooth-voiced Moltar and TOM, there was a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. So popular in fact that the novels spawned a 7 episode OVA series, ...

John is a writer and podcaster based in New York. He's passionate about comic books, superhero movies, Star Wars, and anime. Toonami was a programming block that aired on Cartoon Network from ...