You Grew Up Watching Anime on Cartoon Network. Your Parents Had No Idea What You Were Actually Watching.
You Grew Up Watching Anime on Cartoon Network. Your Parents Had No Idea What You Were Actually Watching. By Jimigrimm Your mom thought it was cartoons. She heard the TV on in the living room after school, glanced at the screen, saw bright colors and spiky hair, and went back to making dinner. Maybe she […]
Yu Yu Hakusho Was Created by a Man It Nearly Broke. It Became One of the Greatest Anime to Ever Air on Toonami.
Yu Yu Hakusho Was Created by a Man It Nearly Broke. It Became One of the Greatest Anime to Ever Air on Toonami. By Jimigrimm If Dragon Ball Z was the show that built Toonami’s audience and Gundam Wing was the show that proved that audience would stay up late, Yu Yu Hakusho was the […]
Tenchi Muyo! Showed Up Between Dragon Ball Z and Gundam Wing and Proved That Anime Could Make You Laugh, Think, and Feel Things You Didn’t Sign Up For.
Tenchi Muyo! Showed Up Between Dragon Ball Z and Gundam Wing and Proved That Anime Could Make You Laugh, Think, and Feel Things You Didn’t Sign Up For. By Jimigrimm Between the power levels and the giant robots, there was a show about a teenage boy who accidentally released a space pirate from a cave […]
Gundam Wing Beat Dragon Ball Z in the Ratings on Its Own Block. The Ripple Effects Changed American Television.
Gundam Wing Beat Dragon Ball Z in the Ratings on Its Own Block. The Ripple Effects Changed American Television. By Jimigrimm There’s a specific memory that belongs to anyone who was watching Toonami in March 2000. Dragon Ball Z ends. The bumper plays. And instead of something familiar, a new show appears. Giant robots. Political […]
Sailor Moon Was Cancelled, Saved by a Fan Campaign That Weaponized Pop-Tarts, and Changed What Toonami Was Allowed to Be.
Sailor Moon Was Cancelled, Saved by a Fan Campaign That Weaponized Pop-Tarts, and Changed What Toonami Was Allowed to Be. By Jimigrimm You didn’t pick Sailor Moon. Sailor Moon picked you. Maybe you were flipping channels after Dragon Ball Z and there she was, a clumsy teenage girl tripping over her own feet one minute […]
Dragon Ball Z Was Cancelled Twice in America Before Toonami Turned It Into the Biggest Anime on the Planet.
Dragon Ball Z Was Cancelled Twice in America Before Toonami Turned It Into the Biggest Anime on the Planet. By Jimigrimm You already know the Spirit Bomb takes three episodes. You know this because you watched it happen, came back the next day, watched Goku still charging it, came back the day after that, and […]
The MCU Was Built on Characters Nobody Wanted. The Ones Marvel Sold Off Were the Popular Ones.
The MCU Was Built on Characters Nobody Wanted. The Ones Marvel Sold Off Were the Popular Ones. By Jimigrimm In December 1996, Marvel Comics filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company that created Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, and the Avengers was broke. The comic book speculation bubble had burst, sales had cratered, and […]
Anime Didn’t Start With Toonami. It Took 35 Years of Bootleg Tapes, Borrowed Robots, and One Movie That Changed Everything to Get There.
Anime Didn’t Start With Toonami. It Took 35 Years of Bootleg Tapes, Borrowed Robots, and One Movie That Changed Everything to Get There. By Jimigrimm If you grew up watching Toonami, there’s a good chance you think anime in the West started with a robot on a spaceship telling you to watch Dragon Ball Z […]
DC Just Reinvented Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman From Scratch. It’s the Biggest Thing Happening in Comics Right Now and Most Fans Have No Idea.
DC Just Reinvented Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman From Scratch. It’s the Biggest Thing Happening in Comics Right Now and Most Fans Have No Idea. By Jimigrimm While MCU fans are debating Doomsday theories and anime fans are arguing about Crunchyroll, something massive has been happening in comics that a huge chunk of the fan […]
Marvel and DC Stopped Making Comics Together for Over 20 Years. The Story of Why They Stopped and What Brought Them Back Is Bigger Than the Crossovers Themselves.
Marvel and DC Stopped Making Comics Together for Over 20 Years. The Story of Why They Stopped and What Brought Them Back Is Bigger Than the Crossovers Themselves. By Jimigrimm Superman and Spider-Man are sharing a comic book again in 2026. If that sentence doesn’t hit you, you might not understand how impossible this was […]