Toonzai Memorial Thread. (11 Years!)

[Cure Dragon 255]

I wanted to make this thread for a while. I bet the kids that watched Toonzai are now adults now itching to share their experience with the franchise!

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[MrSatan2099]

I was already a grown man by the time Toonzai came around, but I still have a few positive memories of it. I was working a third shift security job at the time and I'd get home at about 7:30 Saturday morning. I would never just go right to sleep, I'd stay up and have breakfast and watch tv, catch up on house work and all that for a couple hours. It was pretty cool to just be able to turn on broadcast TV and watch Kai, Spectacular Spiderman, and Justice League Unlimited (One of my all time favorites) so casually. It sort of brought back the old Toonami vibe.

I am also very interested in various edits of the series. Objectively, it's a negative thing that I'm against, but it did happen so it's at least fascinating to see the different ways the material has been officially released. After all, like may of us I got started with the franchise watching another heavily edited broadcast TV series, so in a way it was kind of a full circle thing. The boat has probably sailed timing wise, but maybe one day there will be a children's TV edit of Super.

[OmegaRockman]

The boat has probably sailed timing wise, but maybe one day there will be a children's TV edit of Super.

Such a thing does, in fact, exist. Versions of the show using edited dialogue have been airing in other countries like the UK, Australia, and any country that has Toonami Africa and CN Africa (from my research Super moved to CN Africa after a while) for quite some time now. In the UK, Pop even cuts a few scenes. The dialogue edits seem to only cover to about episode 52, though, since the Pop broadcasts suddenly had more explicit references to death, kept Mr. Satan's name, and awkwardly cut around cursing around that point.

[MrSatan2099]

The boat has probably sailed timing wise, but maybe one day there will be a children's TV edit of Super.

Such a thing does, in fact, exist. Versions of the show using edited dialogue have been airing in other countries like the UK, Australia, and any country that has Toonami Africa and CN Africa (from my research Super moved to CN Africa after a while) for quite some time now. In the UK, Pop even cuts a few scenes. The dialogue edits seem to only cover to about episode 52, though, since the Pop broadcasts suddenly had more explicit references to death, kept Mr. Satan's name, and awkwardly cut around cursing around that point.

That is pretty neat! I'll have to look into some of those. Always fascinating to see how the shows are localized.

[Catsenti]

I actually grew up watching Kai on Nicktoons, but would also watch Toonzai because I was highly amused by the absurd amount of cuts and footage edits. After Nicktoons finished Kai, I kept watching Toonzai/Vortexx just because I was curious how they would handle some scenes. I even used a copy of Vegas to slap together fake edits that Toonzai might make (like 16's head getting smashed, I managed to cut it to look sort of like 16's head magically vanishes, and Freeza getting cut to pieces, where all shots of him in more than one piece were dropped). Honestly, that's what got me interested in pursuing a film editing career, which I'm going to college for. So Toonzai made me go on the path I am today, in a way.

[Yuli Ban]

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Behold! It's too bad so many video links are now broken, because the hilarity seems like a near-infinite well of affable laffs.

What shocking is that the Toonzai version of Kai would've been considered "incredibly faithful" had it come out in 1997-1999. It really needs to be hammered home that the OG FUNi dub was miraculously bad.

[MasenkoHA]

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What shocking is that the Toonzai version of Kai would've been considered "incredibly faithful" had it come out in 1997-1999. It really needs to be hammered home that the OG FUNi dub was miraculously bad.

If Funimation came out the gate with Toonzai Kai the discourse would be “Yes the the censorship is ridiculous but the translation is fairly accurate , the acting is passable at worse , and they kept the Japanese Background Music its the best we could have hoped for for a tv network dub”

[KPike87]

I never caught Kai while it aired under Toonzai, but I did catch a few on Vortex (I primarily watched on Nicktoons). If I had to praise one thing The CW did better than Nicktoons it was the order of the episodes in reruns. Unless it was a marathon, Kai was ALWAYS shown out of order in reruns; sometimes they'd keep the past few episodes in order that just aired, but most of the time, especially in 2012 when it was basically over, it was a total crapshoot. I know it was done to shuffle up shows with lots of episodes like SpongeBob or Fairly Odd Parents so it doesn't get stale, but shows like Kai and Avatar were really hard to get engaged with this structure.

If memory serves, while it wasn't perfect either, Vortexx actually showed most episodes in order and stick with it, at least after Kai finished up. The CW had way more experience with airing episodic cartoons, anime in general, so that probably explains it.

[Cure Dragon 255]

I still wish Toonzai aired to this day. I wonder what other anime we could have seen on the airwaves of TheCW.

[ericmick]

I was already a grown man by the time Toonzai came around, but I still have a few positive memories of it. I was working a third shift security job at the time and I'd get home at about 7:30 Saturday morning. I would never just go right to sleep, I'd stay up and have breakfast and watch tv, catch up on house work and all that for a couple hours. It was pretty cool to just be able to turn on broadcast TV and watch Kai, Spectacular Spiderman, and Justice League Unlimited (One of my all time favorites) so casually. It sort of brought back the old Toonami vibe.

I am also very interested in various edits of the series. Objectively, it's a negative thing that I'm against, but it did happen so it's at least fascinating to see the different ways the material has been officially released. After all, like may of us I got started with the franchise watching another heavily edited broadcast TV series, so in a way it was kind of a full circle thing. The boat has probably sailed timing wise, but maybe one day there will be a children's TV edit of Super.

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