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"Sword Art Online" Coming in August!

Aniplex of America announced at its panel at Anime Boston on Friday that the Sword Art Online television anime series will air on Toonami starting this August.

The show's dub cast stars Bryce Papenbrook as Kirito and Cherami Leigh as Asuna. Other cast members include Cassandra Lee as Leafa, Christine Marie Cabanos as Silica, Sarah Williams as Lisbeth, and Patrick Seitz as Agil.

Sword Art Online adapts Reki Kawahara's light novel series of the same name. The story revolves around a boy named Kazuto "Kirito" Kirigaya who enters a virtual-reality, massively multi-player online (MMO) world called "Sword Art Online." There is no escape from this world unless the player clears the game, but "game over" means the death of the player. Crunchyroll streamed the 25-episode series outside of Japan as it aired.

Aniplex of America also outlined its home video release of Sword Art Online on Blu-ray Disc and DVD, listed below the break.

Party like it's 1999 with the Spring '99 branding font

The font used for Toonami's Spring 1999 branding package is now online, thanks to yours truly. Feel free to add this to the Classic Toonami section, Tyler. ;)

Welcome back, Geneon and Bandai. We missed you.

Does anyone remember the article I posted a while back about Daisuki, the new anime streaming service?

Well, it has launched today! Go watch free legal anime streams now!

Here's a list of shows:

-Gundam SEED (HD Remaster) Episodes 1-5 sub
-Madoka Magica Episodes 1-5 sub
-Sword Art Online Episodes 1-5 sub
-Zeta Gundam Episodes 1-5 dub
-Prince of Tennis OVA: The National Tournament Episodes 1-5 sub
-Lupin III Series 2 Episodes 1-5 dub

Catch up on One Piece NOW!

Well, One Piece returns to Toonami next week, and since we're starting rather late in the show's run, FUNimation is now letting us play catch up.

In the event that some of you out there don't have the DVDs or haven't seen the series beyond where Toonami left off, FUNi has had a handy website running for the past few years where you could stream the uncut dub episodes for free. Unfortunately, large batches of episodes sporadically went on and off the site every few days, providing an incomplete picture.

Well, FUNi has finally decided to be merciful and now all 205 episodes are available for streaming. No episodes are missing. AT ALL!

http://onepieceofficial.com/videos.aspx

Go get caught up if you haven't yet, and if you don't wanna watch filler, here's a handy episode guide.

Episodes 1-53: Canon
Episodes 54-60: Filler
Episode 61: Both (first half is filler, second half is canon)
Episodes 62-130: Canon
Episodes 131-143: Filler
Episodes 144-195: Canon
Episodes 196-206: Filler

Get this up, Tyler!

Toonami's sweet font is now available for download thanks to CabooseJr!

EDIT: TDA has it up now.

Tomorrow night's gonna be a party!

Fresh from the Tumblr:

April 27th means A new TOM, a new Absolution, and the resurrection of IGPX @2am! We’ve also got a new game review, a special goodie from one of our friends (that’s all the hints you get), AND another special surprise. Tune in at the beginning of the night, and keep ooooon watching!

We love you!

xoxo, The Toonami Crew

This one's going out to all the ladies.

Toon Zone reports that Viz has acquired the classic series Sailor Moon for European release. The series will be distributed on DVD to Germany and the French-speaking countries in Europe. All 200 episodes of the series--the original, R, S, SuperS, and Stars (yes, the series the U.S. never got)--will have audio tracks in German, French, and the original Japanese. They're set for a release either in late 2013 or early 2014.

One Piece Launches May 18th

FUNimation has announced that One Piece will premiere on Toonami May 18th at 1:00am ET, beginning with episode 207 ("Great Adventure At Long Ring Long Land!"). Soul Eater will then move to its new time slot of 1:30am ET.

Courtesy Funimation.com

:add: the Toonami folks chime in!
"After talking to lots and lots of fans and a lot of internal discussion, we’ve decided to start at episode 207 with the “Ling Ring Long Land” arc (or “Davy Fight Back” arc as it’s also known). We know we’re skipping ahead a bunch, but we think this is a great place to start- plus, it’ll be in HD! For those of you who are worried you won’t be able to jump in to the story, don’t worry! Go to Funimation.com now and you can watch ALL of the older episodes, plus there are a bunch of cool little video “catch up” pieces for folks who just want the overview. In addition, our friends at Funimation are working on some “orientation/catch up” pieces we’ll be putting on Toonami."

the Tumblr also brings us the revised schedule:

12:00 – Bleachâ�¨

12:30 – (Uncut) Narutoâ�¨

01:00 – One Pieceâ�¨

01:30 – Soul Eaterâ�¨â�¨

02:00 – IGPX

02:30 – Eurekaâ�¨7

03:00 – Thundercats

03:30 – Symbionic Titan

04:00 – Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood

04:30 – Cowboy Bebopâ�¨

05:00 – Inuyashaâ�¨

05:30 – Inuyashaâ�¨â�¨

An early peek at the new look. (Update with schedule)

Check out the sweet new TOM and Absolution!

UPDATE: Here's a slightly brightened image with a better look of the bridge. (Thanks to bla2772 for doing this.)

UPDATE #2: The Tumblr has unveiled the schedule for April 27.

12.0 - Bleach
12.5 - Naruto (uncut)
1.0 - Soul Eater
1.5 - Thundercats
2.0 - IGPX
2.5 - Eureka 7
3.0 - Tenchi Muyo GXP
3.5 - Sym-Bionic Titan
4.0 - FMA: Brotherhood
4.5 - Cowboy Bebop
5.0 - Inuyasha (full hour)

Rollin' At 'Ya on April 27th!

Straight Outta' Tumblr:

"Why should you care about April 27th? Two reasons:

1. On April 27th, Toonami will relaunch with a new TOM, a new Absolution, and a new on-air look. We’ll share more details our new look as we get closer to that date!

2. IGPX IS COMING BACK!!

No, really. Thanks to our incredibly generous partners, thanks to a lot of folks doing a lot of paperwork, and thanks to the very unique and complex structure of the IGPX production deal, we were able to bring the show out of retirement so you guys can see it again, or for the first time!

Couple points: We will be very slightly shuffling the lineup to fit IGPX. We’ll announce that exact schedule closer to the 27th. It will most likely involve removing one episode of Bebop, taking us to a half hour weekly. Also, for those Megas XLR fans out there wondering if this means we can bring back Megas…. we can’t, sorry. Simply put, it’s a very different animal, and the exact elements that made IGPX’s return possible are not in place for Megas.

ANYWAY! We’re very excited to re-air, for the first time, Toonami’s only original series, and one we’re very proud of! We hope you guys enjoy it.

Watch this space in the coming month for more details about TOM 5, The new Absolution, the Toonami comic, the lineup for April 27th, and when One Piece is finally coming!

WE WILL NEVER STOP

Love, the Toonami crew."