History Creator / Toonami

!!Toonami currently plays or rotates the following series as of March 30, 2024: [[note]]All times Eastern/Pacific.[[/note]]

* 1:00 AM- ''Anime/LycorisRecoil''

!!Toonami currently plays or rotates the following series as of March 23, 2024: [[note]]All times Eastern/Pacific.[[/note]]

* 12:30 AM - 1:15 AM- ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'': Entertainment District arc
* 1:15 AM- ''Anime/LycorisRecoil''
* 1:45AM- ''Manga/OnePiece''
* 2:15 AM- "Manga/NarutoShippuden"
* 2:45 AM- ''Anime/DragonBallZKai''
* 3:15 AM - ''Anime/NinjaKamui'' (sub)

* Manga/Zom100BucketListOfTheDead [[note]]Begins March 30[[/note]]

* 12:30 AM - 1:30 AM- ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'': Entertainment District arc
* 1:30 AM- ''Anime/LycorisRecoil''
* 2:00 AM- ''Manga/OnePiece''
* 2:30 AM- ''Anime/DragonBallZKai''
* 3:00 AM - ''Anime/NinjaKamui'' (sub)

* 12:30 AM - ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'': Entertainment District arc
* 1:00 AM- ''Anime/LycorisRecoil''
* 1:30 AM- ''Manga/OnePiece''
* 2:00 AM- ''Anime/NarutoShippuden''

!!Toonami currently plays or rotates the following series as of March 16, 2024: [[note]]All times Eastern/Pacific.[[/note]]

* 1:00 AM- "Anime/LycorisRecoil"
* 1:30 AM- "Manga/OnePiece"
* 2:00 AM- "Manga/NarutoShippuden"

* 2:00 AM- "Manga/Naruto:Shippuden"

* 2:00 AM- "Manga/NarutoShippuden"

* 2:00 AM- "Manga/Naruto"

* 1:30 AM- "Manga/{{OnePeice}}"
* 2:00 AM- "Manga/{{NarutoShippuden}}"

* 1:30 AM- "Creator/OnePeice"
* 2:00 AM- "Creator/NarutoShippuden"

* 1:30 AM- "Manga/OnePeice"
* 2:00 AM- "Manga/NarutoShippuden"

* 1:00 AM - ''Anime/NinjaKamui'' (sub)
* 1:30 AM to 6:00 AM - ''Anime/DragonBallZKai'': special Creator/AkiraToriyama tribute.

Every so often, the block will do special event story arcs that showcases TOM in a dire situation. The name comes from the fact that even though the shows are still playing, the event is still happening offscreen in the bumpers, so TOM and Sara wouldn't be able to greet the viewers until the threat is resolved. In the heyday of the block, there would also be some games and comics online that would tie into the event. To learn more about them, check their individual pages.

Every so often, the block will do special event story arc that showcases TOM in a dire situation. The name comes from the fact that even though the shows are still playing, the event is still happening offscreen in the bumpers, so TOM and Sara wouldn't be able to greet the viewers until the threat is resolved. In the heyday of the block, there would also be some games and comics online that would tie into the event. To learn more about them, check their individual pages.

The block features ''incredibly'' high production values for its [[FramingDevice commercial bumpers, advertisements, and ARG campaigns]], which included high-end 3D graphics, a soundtrack consisting of then-uncharacteristic (for a children's block) drum-and-bass and ambient music, and a consistent setting and narrative. Toonami had a hand in [[UnCanceled uncancelling]] several syndicated series (''Anime/DragonBallZ'', ''WesternAnimation/{{ReBoot}}'', and ''Anime/SailorMoon''), and it premiered several series on its own, both anime (''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Gundam Wing]]'', ''Manga/OutlawStar'', all three of the original ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' series) and Western animation (''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2002'' and ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR''). In regards to anime, fans and historians both credit Toonami for single-handedly ushering in [[UsefulNotes/TheJapaneseInvasion the mainstream Japanophilia boom]] of the early-to-mid 2000s.

* EndOfAnAge: The block's cancellation is considered by quite a few fans to be the end point of the '90s-'2000s [[UsefulNotes/TheJapaneseInvasion anime boom]], as well as a major sign of Cartoon Network's rapidly worsening NetworkDecay.

* KillerApp: Toonami ''[[InvokedTrope itself]]'' is cited as one, since its popular and acclaimed programming introduced the West to the [[UsefulNotes/TheJapaneseInvasion anime phenomenon]]. As far as the programs themselves are concerned, Toonami had ''three'' of these during its golden age.

!!Toonami currently plays or rotates the following series as of February 24, 2024: [[note]]All times Eastern/Pacific.[[/note]]

* 12:00 AM ''Anime/NinjaKamui'' [[note]]Original Toonami production directed by Sunghoo Park of ''Manga/JujutsuKaisen'' and ''Webcomic/TheGodOfHighSchool''.[[/note]] (Dub)

* 1:00 AM - ''Anime/LycorisRecoil''
* 1:30 AM - ''Manga/OnePiece''
* 2:00 AM - ''[[Manga/{{Naruto}} Naruto: Shippuden]]''
* 2:30 AM - ''Anime/DragonBallZKai''
* 3:00 AM - ''Ninja Kamui'' (Sub)

* Manga/Zom100BucketListOfTheDead [[note]]Begins March 20[[/note]]

Cartoon Network exported Toonami to other nations' versions of the network; it even became an entire network thanks to a revamp of the spinoff channel CNX (before [[NetworkDecay degrading]] into "CN Too"). The Creator/KidsWB weekday afternoon block also tried to adopt Toonami's brand for about a year from 2001-2002, but the programming didn't fit the block's image, and the Toonami branding soon went away. On December 1, 2012, Turner launched [[Creator/ToonamiAsia another Toonami channel in Asia]], the success of which has led to [[http://www.regularcapital.com/2014/12/toonami-thailand-launch-14th-january-2015/ yet another Toonami channel being created in Thailand.]]

!!Toonami currently plays or rotates the following series as of February 10, 2024: [[note]]All times Eastern/Pacific.[[/note]]

* 2:30 AM - ''Anime/IGPXImmortalGrandPrix'' [[note]]The HD re-mastered episodes from Creator/{{Discotek Media}}[[/note]]

* ''Anime/DragonBallZKai'' [[note]]Replacing ''IGPX'' on February 24th[[/note]]

* 3:30 AM - "WesternAnimation/GinndyTartakovskysPrimal"