momocon | [adult swim central] + Art Comedy Pop-Culture Network https://adultswimcentral.com Since 2002 - Advocating All Things Adult Swim PLUS Art Comedy Pop-Culture & More! Thu, 10 Aug 2023 06:02:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://adultswimcentral.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/cropped-ascsocial-32x32.png momocon | [adult swim central] + Art Comedy Pop-Culture Network https://adultswimcentral.com 32 32 29223453 Toonami Announcements from the Toonami Panel at MomoCon https://adultswimcentral.com/2019/05/25/toonami-announcements-from-the-toonami-panel-at-momocon/ https://adultswimcentral.com/2019/05/25/toonami-announcements-from-the-toonami-panel-at-momocon/#respond Sat, 25 May 2019 03:34:00 +0000 https://adultswimcentral.com/?p=88 Atlanta, GA is home of Momocon, one of the many conventions happening during this Memorial Day weekend. This Friday, the Adult Swim block, Toonami, hosted it’s very own panel which featured Jason DeMarco (Co-Creator of Toonami, Senior Vice President and Creative Director of Adult Swim On-Air), Gill Austin (Co-Creative Director of Toonami and Creative Director of Adult Swim Sponsor Promotions), Steve Blum (voice of TOM) , and Dana Swanson (voice of SARA). During the panel for attendees and on the Adult Swim stream for the rest of us, we were given announcements and a few previews for upcoming events.

The announcements that were made are as follows:

  • Crunchyroll will be showing the subtitled versions of both seasons 2 and 3 of FLCL. Promo.
  • Lupin the Third Part 5 will begin on Toonami on June 15.
  • Gundam The Origin will begin on Toonami on July 6.
  • The next Total Immersion Event will be called the Forge and will air later this Fall on November 9 (you can watch the first episode here)

The rest of the panel consisted of Q & A witht he audience with those who got to ask a question receiving a special TOM gift. The rest of the panel attendees received other Toonami related swag. The panel ended with the audience getting to watch the new Attack on Titan episode that will air on May 25. Those of us who were watching on the stream will have to wait til then.

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Toonami Announcements from MomoCon https://adultswimcentral.com/2015/05/31/toonami-announcements-from-momocon/ https://adultswimcentral.com/2015/05/31/toonami-announcements-from-momocon/#respond Sun, 31 May 2015 05:59:00 +0000 https://adultswimcentral.com/?p=1389 In cased you missed the Toonami panel at MomoCon, or didn’t watch the live stream through Adult Swim, the Toonami crew made a few announcements that revealed what’s ahead for the Saturday night block for the upcoming year.

1. Intruder 2 will be coming in October. It will run for five weeks, and a prequel comic will be coming out in September.

2. Show acquisitions: Michiko and Hatchin (Funimation) will premiere on June 20, 2015, replacing Inuyasha: Final Act after its run, and Akame ga Kill (Sentai) takes Kill La Kill’s place on August 8, 2015.

3. The Toonami mobile app will be coming out sometime in October. The app will feature the latest show schedule, an alarm clock, downloads of wallpapers, ringtones, and more. It will be available on both the  iOS and the Android.

4. A remastered version of the show IGPX will be released.

Are you a Toonami fan? What are your thoughts on these announcements? Let us know in the comments.

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Toonami @ MomoCon 2013: One Piece! Movie Night! New Tom! https://adultswimcentral.com/2013/03/10/toonami-momocon-2013-one-piece-movie-night-new-tom/ https://adultswimcentral.com/2013/03/10/toonami-momocon-2013-one-piece-movie-night-new-tom/#respond Sun, 10 Mar 2013 13:55:00 +0000 https://adultswimcentral.com/?p=609 Right now at the Hilton Atlanta, there’s a con going on. Inside of the con, there’s a panel going on. Inside of the panel, there’s news. Toonami news.

Our buddies at Toonami Faithful.com are currently at the Toonami panel at Momocon, and they’ve been livetweeting all the big news coming out of it. And, when I say big news, I sort of really mean big dang news.

First up, if you’ve ever been clamoring for One Piece to make its way over to Toonami, guess what? Your wishes have been granted. The 586-episode nautical shonen anime about a boy pirate aspiring to be King of the Pirates named Monkey D. Luffy, who has the properties of rubber after eating something called the Gum Gum Fruit, trying to find the One Piece treasure will be coming to the block soon. No date yet, as far as we know, but we’ll let you know once we know. I assume it’ll be a replacement, perhaps for Tenchi GXP.

Next, a movie night is a-comin’! Soon, too! The block will host a Neon Genesis Evangelion movie night on March 17th. Next weekend! I’m unsure of which, but I do assume it will be the Rebuild films, since FUNimation owns those. And if they are, watch them! Even if you’ve seen the original show. It’s a whole new story.

Next up: the block will make a couple changes to its look. Specifically, to its host and his ship. TOM 5 was introduced at the panel:

TOM 5 twitter.com/ToonamiNews/st…

— Toonami News (@ToonamiNews) March 10, 2013

…along with an all-new Absolution:

New absolution twitter.com/ToonamiNews/st…

— Toonami News (@ToonamiNews) March 10, 2013

The panel is still going on, and the Toonami Faithful dudes are there, taking it all in both on their own and with a camera. They’ll be providing video of the entire panel later on today, after the panel has ended, and when they do, we’ll let you know and we’ll throw it up here. Or, you can follow their account @ToonamiNews, and find out exactly when the video goes up. You should actually probably just follow them anyway. They’re integral on Twitter in the efforts to raise awareness that Toonami is back, so people will tune the heck in and get the block the ratings it so needs and deserves. Follow our friends for the most breaking of Toonami news.

If any more news comes out of the panel, we’ll be updating this post. So keep it locked here, and on Twitter for anything else new regarding the panel.

Updates under the cut, since we have some big ol’ images.

UPDATE: The panel is now over. We’ll let you know when Toonami Faithful’s video comes out.

UPDATE (2): The Toonami Tumblr has posted the schedule for next Saturday, the 16th, and at 1AM-3:30, the block will have a special presentation of Evangelion 1.11: You Are (Not) Alone. It’ll be surrounded by your regularly scheduled Toonami programming otherwise, Bleach, Naruto, Bebop, and Inuyasha. It’s their birthday!

UPDATE (3): Check out TOM 5! Dude’s lookin’ slick.

And a little 360:

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