Was the Majin Buu Saga ever shown much through reruns during the Mid-To-Late-2000’s Era of Cartoon Network?

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Was the Majin Buu Saga ever shown much through reruns during the Mid-To-Late-2000’s Era of Cartoon Network?

Post by DLJL731980 » Sun Mar 06, 2022 5:58 pm

Because I can’t remember if they were or not.

Here in America, I only remember seeing Buu Saga Era episodes through reruns in 2004 on Cartoon Network. But overall…in Mid-To-Late 2004 up until Early 2005…GT was the ONLY Dragon Ball series that US Cartoon Network was pushing. And then I definitely remember watching the 2005 uncut of the first 67 episodes of DBZ on Cartoon Network.

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Post by TheMajinRedComet » Mon Mar 07, 2022 1:10 pm

I think you are remembering correctly. BUU saga episodes were not rerun nearly as much as freeza and sayain saga. If I remember correctly the arc was released in 3 parts, up to vegeta dying than up till Vegetto then kid buu stuff. I could be wrong. It was around this time that I had switched to buying the DVD singles. Toonami had a lot of variety in those years. They changed the line up often plus the Buu saga is huge.
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Re: Was the Majin Buu Saga ever shown much through reruns during the Mid-To-Late-2000’s Era of Cartoon Network?

Post by jjgp1112 » Mon Mar 07, 2022 4:41 pm

Nope, I don't think so. The mid-late 2000s reruns had only gotten up to the Cell Games before Toonami got cancelled.
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Re: Was the Majin Buu Saga ever shown much through reruns during the Mid-To-Late-2000’s Era of Cartoon Network?

Post by Masquerade » Wed Mar 09, 2022 12:15 am

I don't believe so (but I tapped out of Toonami's audience by then / was more into binging Naruto subbed and discovering Bebop/FMA/Evangelion and so forth).

I will say for certain (at least as I recall) that the Kid Buu saga did not re-air more than once as they had moved on to GT almost immediately after (albeit skipping the entire 1st GT arc too). The stretch between Otherworld Tournament to Vegeta's "Final Atonement" was replayed a shit-ton, and the gap between that and the Super Buu/Fusion episodes airing were so long that Toonami had to resort to replaying DBZ in its entirety as they couldn't just keep rerunning those same episodes.

Slightly off topic, but I also remember the King Piccolo / Piccolo Jr. Sagas of Dragon Ball didn't air more than once (and I think finished alongside GT when the weekday version of Toonami was on its way out).

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Post by MasenkoHA » Wed Mar 09, 2022 6:52 am

Masquerade wrote: Wed Mar 09, 2022 12:15 am .

Slightly off topic, but I also remember the King Piccolo / Piccolo Jr. Sagas of Dragon Ball didn't air more than once (and I think finished alongside GT when the weekday version of Toonami was on its way out).
That’s what I thought so but evidently it ran once more in 2004 and then began a third run before cutting off to go back to the second half of the tournament arc and then jumping ahead to the end of the Tien arc and then pulled it off the schedule after that

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Post by DBZAOTA482 » Fri Mar 11, 2022 8:31 pm

It was before Toonami was moved to Saturday night (bad move).
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Post by MyVisionity » Fri Mar 11, 2022 9:43 pm

Toonami peaked with the 2000-2001 season. Come Fall 2001 and it was all downhill from there. I think that by the 03-04 season they weren't even pretending anymore and the lineup was like, 100% DB or something.

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