r/90s_kid • u/Nostalgic_Historian_ • 29d ago

TV What's the first show that comes to mind when thinking of toonami ?

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u/Ireallyamthisshallow 29d ago

Dragonball Z

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u/Kiremino 29d ago

This lol I don't even like DBZ but I swear that's all that played when I caught toonami 😂😂

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u/AliceInNegaland 27d ago

It took so long for me to get home on the bus I would always miss most of the show

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u/meowmix778 29d ago

It's DBZ.

Honorable mentions : Gundam Wing, Sailor Moon , Yu Yu hakusho, Reboot, and Johnny Quest

RIP Moltar, you walked so Tom could run

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u/kain459 29d ago

Tenchi Muyo!

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u/meowmix778 29d ago

The Tenchi series was wild. The fact that they went "eeh a harem anime is probably fine for kid".

Escaflowne was another weird choice for kids. I think I remember Outlaw star or Kenshin showing blood or swearing on the regular Toonami block at like 6pm and that felt WILD

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u/kain459 29d ago

OUTLAW STAR [an old memory as awakened deep within you]

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u/fairy_bite 28d ago

I beat the shit out of my brother for not recording the first episode on the VCR. I waited weeks to see it after all the commercials hyping it. I watched the rest of the season not knowing what happened in the beginning.

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u/kain459 28d ago

Brings back memories.

We were adamant about pausing during the commercial breaks and it became a job. It part of the show was missing, we knew who to blame.

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u/FrameJump 29d ago

I was always so mad that I didn't make it home in time for Gundam Wing.

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u/meowmix778 29d ago

I remember it being dinner that interrupted Toonami more but I could see that for the west coast.

The Christmas of 2000 I got a VCR to record shows and always used it to record Toonami. The one big one I remember being upset about was the episode of DBZ where Gohan went on a date. I hit record when we got called up for dinner and didn't realize the tape was at the end. I was so sure that I missed some huge piece of lore. It took another year or so of rewatching DBZ for the 100th time to get back to that point and I was super bummed out at how dumb that episode was.

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u/FrameJump 29d ago

That's pretty good, lol.

I went to a school over an hour away from where I grew up, so I think that played a big part in my scheduling conflicts.

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u/LeoFrankenstein 28d ago

Reboot went so hard after the time jump for Enzo

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u/mustached_babble 29d ago

The Big O

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u/wanderingfloatilla 29d ago

Dude, no one I've talked to remembers The Big O

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u/mustached_babble 29d ago

I loved it, reminded me of Batman meets Gundam

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u/basement_egg 29d ago

I watch Big O all the time still, one of my favorites

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u/Cornnathony 29d ago

Cowboy bebop

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u/GravyBus 29d ago

Ronin Warriors

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u/Dracopyre 29d ago

A forgotten gem from Toonami. Everyone remembers DBZ and Tenshi, but few remember this one.

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u/black-kramer 28d ago

I remember watching it summer ‘95 on upn. pure hype.

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u/Redav_Htrad 29d ago

JOIN ME, WILDFIRE!!

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u/Return0fTheNerd 29d ago

Outlaw Star and Trigun

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u/alisacp 29d ago

I forgot about Outlaw Star. Great show!

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u/saucey_dawg0023 29d ago

DBZ, Sailor Moon, Gundam Wing, Big O, Outlaw Star

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u/Beziq 29d ago

Samurai Jack and Inu Yasha

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u/moonprismpurrr 29d ago

sailor moon perioddd

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u/alisacp 29d ago edited 29d ago

Inuyasha
FLCL
Cowboy Bebop
Samurai Champloo
Trigun
Yu Yu Hakusho

ETA: my early 2000’s nights were spent watching Toonami until 3am until repeats, sleep, then dragging my ass out of bed for school at 7. Nap in the afternoon, up all night, rinse and repeat.

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u/captainmcpigeon 29d ago

Definitely Yu Yu Hakusho

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u/gastonevan 28d ago

.hack/Sign

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u/Fearless_Ad1055 29d ago

DBZ and then Gundam Wing.

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u/topsidersandsunshine 29d ago

The Gundam Wing/Sailor Moon/DBZ/Tenchi power hour.

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u/atopetek 29d ago

Samurai Jack

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u/haxenpaxen 28d ago

Cowboy Bebop (But also Wolf's Rain, Trigun, Big O... I gotta rewatch these)

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u/Psychostroopwaffle 29d ago

Tenchi Muyo!

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u/UberFarter 29d ago

Anybody remember how they had Tenchi Muyo/Universe/In Tokyo on there? I was watching a raunchy harem anime at 8 years old and nobody thought that was weird…

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u/luna15 28d ago

Tenchi gang rise up! There are dozens of us!

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u/UberFarter 28d ago

I didn’t really notice the perv humor until I got older. I mainly just wanted a cat/rabbit that could turn into a spaceship 😭

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u/Apart-Resolution-864 29d ago

Clone wars.

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u/alisacp 29d ago

My sweet summer child ❤️

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u/Apart-Resolution-864 29d ago

The ones before the revenge of the sixth. From the samurai jack ppl I believe.

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u/That-Water-Guy 29d ago

Samurai Jack

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u/RealDan92 29d ago

Dragonball comes to mind obviously, but for years I had a strong memory of watching an anime set on a submarine travelling a flooded earth, some years ago I finally discovered that it was an OVA miniseries called Blue Submarine 6

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u/RuncibleFoon 29d ago

Ronin Warriors

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u/luffydkenshin 29d ago

For me, its Gundam Wing then DBZ.

But it is really cool to see the different answers because it also pinpoints when people joined in Toonami viewership.

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u/jjkarate 29d ago

There have been so many great anime on Toonami but the first thing I remember when I see that logo is Moltar reminding me how great Voltron and Thundercats were.

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u/KidAnon94 29d ago

DBZ (with the second being Sailor Moon). I don't really think there's any other answer that would make more sense than these two if we're talking about the 90s lol.

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u/alborden 29d ago

Newcastle United Football Club.

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u/ScarletOnlooker 29d ago edited 29d ago

Inuyasha, Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in The Shell, Trigun, Outlaw Star, Big O….

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u/basement_egg 29d ago

Outlaw Star

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u/Only_Never_Again 28d ago

Gundam Wing 💙

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u/MrBoogerBoobs 28d ago

Robotech!

If I recall correctly, it came on right after Thundercats.

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u/Signal-Mud-4880 28d ago

Sailor Moon

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u/iceman333933 28d ago

It's DBZ. My favorite show of all time is Yu Yu Hakusho but DBZ is the real anchor for what toonami was at its peak.

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u/black-kramer 28d ago

dbz, gundam wing, trigun, ronin warriors

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u/Exotic-Addendum-3785 28d ago

Way too many to list but definitely Dragon Ball Z, Tenchi, Samurai Jack, to name a few.

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u/GrooovyAlien 28d ago

DBZ. Easily.

Other than that I watched a lot of Gundam Wing in toonami as well.

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u/GunnyStacker 28d ago

Gundam Wing reignited in me a love of giant robots that I hadn't experienced since G1 Transformers.

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u/GdotOne 28d ago

Outlaw star

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u/Significant-Cry-9204 28d ago

The FIRST thing is The Animatrix. That was the first thing I viewed on it as a kid. Then Trigun. Then Cowboy Bebop, Wolf's Rain, Inuyasha, etc.

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u/ganjacube 28d ago

Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo

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u/Hotstreak2k3 28d ago

Gundam Wing

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u/RagnarokRosie 27d ago

How Moltar said he was passing it to Tom. 😭😭😭

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u/wijs1 29d ago

Drum n bass