The Last Word – Toonami, The last dream of equality in animation.
This is the end.
Beautful Friends (Jim Morrison)
This is the game…
This lonley game of history…
In 1982, a series called Captain Kangeroo ended its run on CBS – a long and great run of kids TV came to a sad end that Saturday Morning during the fall…By 1985, the series was put to pasture…
In 1990 – 1992 the syndicated series of Transformers, Thundercats, He-Man, TMNT (it moved to CBS in 1993) all ended its runs… In 1991 – NBC ended its Saturday Morning run for a much weaker TNBC lineup…
In 1996, CBS ended its Saturday Morning run for more news…
In 2001, Fox Kids ended its run – to be taken over by 4Kids
In 2008, Kids WB ended its run – to be taken over by the same company
Last Night – Toonami ended the Legacy that started back in the 1950’s. That Legacy is no more.
Yes, I was angry with the lnner circle, the people behind Toonami, because I wanted more from the block. I wanted a new ComiCon. A PAX, or at least something for the fans.
But it wasnt to be. The bickering and the other issues left that dream in the dust.
The anger is still there, but there is no reason to be angry at them.
It is time to remember. The good days and the hopes and dreams of a Revelution deferred.
Not to be seen in the way it was and the way it could have been.
I have my doubts that CN will give a damn about the block or its memories. Some stated it was dead before – but I say it was on the decay like others, heading to transformation.
The problem was the stench was too big for CN to handle. The only way to stop that stench was to end the block.
I met the love of my life in one of the Toonami chat-rooms in IRC, if it wasnt for her drug use or what not we would have been married – she passed away. I met her cousin some time later but havent talked in three years…
I started Toon Radio, Toon Radio Advance, 4.0, Toon Radio Advance Regen, GarouGothic, AnimationRep, did 350 hours of radio and now Cartoon Electro all because of Toonami.
I respected anime because of Toonami.
I got deep into animation and its history because of Toonami.
I wouldnt have come to Gamefaqs if it wasnt for Toonami and XenoGears – and even though I left because of lies, lies and more lies about things and what have you – Toonami is the theme that kept everything together. I wouldnt have been in Shadowness if it wasnt for Toonami.
That Theme is gone. That history is gone.
Anime and the American Animation have a lot to thank Toonami for, too many to count too many to state.
For when the event comes, we will know what it is for – we will know what it means.
Jeff Harris may say some short things, good things and what not.
But I say it’s not time to attack anyone or any company. It isnt time to give up or what not.
But it is time for a gut check. Its time to see who is loyal. Because ill be honest – we are reaching a day where nobody will make money on animation – and that will be the day you know when this country has lost. Because instead of being artists – they have become pronagraphers for a industry that is still under much mangling.
The FCC has been on our case for YEARS. YEARS – and it will never change. Unfortunately - for the FCC and for the american tv industry – they will be wiped clean – not by Obama – not by some nuke, but by a demographic not raised with such anti human sensibilities. I have a feeling that once they see that Government cannot do it anymore – the states will take over, meaning the business of entertainment will become more local and once that returns – anime and animation will finally get the respect it once had.
Until then, we must become stewards of what once was in this nation, which has become the American Soviet – proven by the actions of Wall Street and K Street this week. We must be able to deconstruct until only the truth is left, showcase it and then find out what it is and who will take it.
The fact that our nation has lost is way, lost its nerve and lost its will to survive is represented in Toonami’s start, rise, peak, decay and death.
Toonami will always be a part of the history of animation. The last great block before the event – one of the last great hopes of an industry, and now with only 4Kids left, the only one left standing, from the pederasts, pimp artists, and all and all out greed machine of Disney and Nick – the dark clouds of Genericism arrives…
For now we have lost our voice.
And soon we will lose our choice.
Before we lose our poise.
And then lose our souls of rebellion.
As we end up the same way as the fat man in Wall-E.
A toothless, souless, jelly like blob that is more animal than human…
May the great king of Providance have mercy on us.
Because for This universe that ends the entropy of those who lost the will to live…
This Universe will not have any for us.
Rest in Peace Old Friend.
Mankind will end in a whimper…
You ended in with a…
Bang.

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