After 19 years Naruto is ending on toonami

damn I thought they stopped toonami, I guess I got it mixed up with boomerang

you mean boruto? because the dub for boruto just finished

I don't even know about toonami so I feel nothing.

Both have been finished for years now. Subbed and dubbed, so what are you yapping about? I mean if they aired the last dubbed episode years ago it would have more impact.

I remember asking what are you yapping about? A already completed dub, broadcasting in a network, that’s been back even before the dubs release; the impact would be greater if they did this years ago. That extra shit wasn’t necessary.

I've owned all of naruto and shippuden on dvd for years so i finished it 2ish years ago but i did grow up 2004/2005 watching it week by week episode by episode with some hiatus's and rewatches thrown in. but when i did finally finish it 2 years ago all i can say is that it was surreal. i started watching it when i was 9 and was 27 when i finished. naruto was and has been a part of my life for almost all of my life. it was my 1st anime, my 1st shounen, my gateway into the medium of anime and Japanese culture in general. i literally grew up with the characters. we aged together. it truly was a unique experience that i will never experience again. im not going to say its the greatest anime ever but it definitely had the most significant impact on me as a person. there were times growing up that were so difficult and isolating that looking forward to watching the new episode on Saturday was the ONLY thing i looked forward to. my house, my grandparents house, a friends house, a hotel room, didn't matter, i wasn't missing an episode. i even had to watch an episode of kimimaro vs lee fight in a car dealership waiting room because my parents dragged me along all day. to me it wasn't and isn't just a show, as lame and cringey as it sounds and is, the characters were friends and family to me. i aspired to be like them, their personalities shaped mine. and no anime that will ever exist will do that for me again.

What’s Toonami?

@ido4224 it's basically a programming block in america (but it airs in some other countries too) that shows anime. It's what really popularized anime here, the co creators really were kinda the ones that made dbz popular in the west.

I never thought I'd seen actually Toonami air the ending of Naruto in my lifetime. Lol.

@Arcanius7 Basically, what got me back into Anime in 1997 I believe. But they only had Sailor Moon & Voltron to start with. They improved every year after, adding new shows.

Eh. It would have been more impactful if it was the first place to release all the dub episodes first when the dub finished years ago and Naruto part 1 is currently being re-aired on Toonami Rewind so it's not going anywhere.

The topic doesn’t make much sense. If a anime has already concluded in both English sub and dub before Toonami decided to broadcast it, it defeats the purpose of the discussion.

The dub for Shippuden was available through piracy shortly after the subbed version ended. Additionally, the NS4 game already had the dub prepared for all the canon parts, excluding any fillers.

The dub ending on Toonami doesn’t carry much weight since anyone could have watched it by now, and it lacks the emotional impact that this thread suggests.