Toonami Absolution

This week, Toonami’s Super Friends gives us a weird two-parter. First, we get The Energy Mass, an episode that features The Atom, Ray Palmer a superhero who modern fans will likely know because of his more...unsavoury comic stories. This is paired with The Monster Of Doctor Droid, a short where Wonder Woman and Superman do battle with an evil scientist.

We also get another slice of Superman with The Two Faces Of Superman, where Superman is forced to battle The Toyman, one of his biggest foes from the 1940s. Toyman has built a robot version of Superman, but can the Man Of Steel stop it before it ruins his reputation.

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Toonami Absolution is a weekly podcast where Alyx, Jon, and Sam revisit the Toonami and Adult Swim shows that made them, and you, you.

From the block's early days with shows like Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and Transformers: Beast Wars to the imported anime that made Toonami and Adult Swim appointment television for a generation of kids, such as Cowboy Bebop, Sailor Moon, and Dragon Ball.

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This episode, we discuss the 7th and 8th episodes of YuYu Hakusho.

Episode 7, Gouki and Kurama sees Yusuke finish off his fight with Gouki before heading out to do battle with Kurama, hoping he can stop him using the Forlorn Hope. However, this plan takes a sudden turn when it turns out that Kurama may not be all he seems.

Episode 8, The Three Eyes of Hiei, sees Yusuke clash with Hiei, the third and final Spirit World criminal. However, Yusuke quickly learns that Hiei is way out of his league, forcing him to fight harder than ever to protect his friends.

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Toonami Absolution is a weekly podcast where Alyx, Jon, and Sam revisit the Toonami and Adult Swim shows that made them, and you, you.

From the block's early days with shows like Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and Transformers: Beast Wars to the imported anime that made Toonami and Adult Swim appointment television for a generation of kids, such as Cowboy Bebop, Sailor Moon, and Dragon Ball.

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We’re continuing our jaunt through the world of Dragon Ball movies by tackling 1991’s Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug. Will Lord Slug be able to reach the heady highs of Dragon Ball Z: Tree Of Might or will the Namekian villain fail to make an impact?

This movie also introduces one of the weirdest forms in Dragon Ball history, in the form of Pseudo-Super Saiyan (or Fake Super Saiyan) meaning that this film holds a special (if weird) place in history.

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Toonami Absolution is a weekly podcast where Alyx, Jon, and Sam revisit the Toonami and Adult Swim shows that made them, and you, you.

From the block's early days with shows like Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and Transformers: Beast Wars to the imported anime that made Toonami and Adult Swim appointment television for a generation of kids, such as Cowboy Bebop, Sailor Moon, and Dragon Ball.

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Just when you thought it was safe, more Super Friends appears!

This week we have Super Friends vs Super Friends, an episode that desperately wants to convince you that you like Aquaman, despite the entire story being about how useless he is when he can’t call on a whale for help.

We follow it up with The Big Birthday Caper, a Batman cartoon that was clearly drawing inspiration from the live-action Adam West Batman series. However, it doesn’t quite stick the landing, leading to one of the most surreal cartoons ever made.

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Toonami Absolution is a weekly podcast where Alyx, Jon, and Sam revisit the Toonami and Adult Swim shows that made them, and you, you.

From the block's early days with shows like Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and Transformers: Beast Wars to the imported anime that made Toonami and Adult Swim appointment television for a generation of kids, such as Cowboy Bebop, Sailor Moon, and Dragon Ball.

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Our Yu Yu Hakusho rewatch continues with episode 5 “Yusuke's Back” and episode 6 “Three Monsters”. Yusuke finally returns from the Spirit World, but quickly finds that his life won’t be the same as he’s now a Spirit Detective, meaning that he has to investigate evil oni, demons, and ghosts and stop them causing chaos in the human world.

Even worse, Yusuke is dropped in at the deep end, as he has to recover three powerful supernatural artifacts that have been stolen by Kurama, Gouki, and Hiei, each of whom is much stronger than Yusuke. Seems like poor Yusuke can’t catch a break!

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Toonami Absolution is a weekly podcast where Alyx, Jon, and Sam revisit the Toonami and Adult Swim shows that made them, and you, you.

From the block's early days with shows like Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and Transformers: Beast Wars to the imported anime that made Toonami and Adult Swim appointment television for a generation of kids, such as Cowboy Bebop, Sailor Moon, and Dragon Ball.

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This week’s movie is Batman And Mr. Freeze Sub-Zero. This 1998 movie was a direct-to-video spin-off from the universally beloved Batman: The Animated series and follows on from one of Batman: The Animated Series’ most beloved episodes.

But can this new Mr Freeze tale live up to what came before? And how does it measure up to the other Batman: The Animated Series movie, the highly praised Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm? There is only one way to find out!

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Toonami Absolution is a weekly podcast where Alyx, Jon, and Sam revisit the Toonami and Adult Swim shows that made them, and you, you.

From the block's early days with shows like Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and Transformers: Beast Wars to the imported anime that made Toonami and Adult Swim appointment television for a generation of kids, such as Cowboy Bebop, Sailor Moon, and Dragon Ball.

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We continue our exploration of Super Friends (that isn’t actually Super Friends due to Toonami lying) with an actual Super Friends cartoon in the form of “Will The World Collide?” We then get a double bill of Clark Kent with the Superman short “The Men From APE” and the Superboy cartoon “Krypto The Seeing-Eye Dog”

The highlight of this being The Men From APE, where Superman fights a team of supervillain consisting of Lex Luthor and a series of 1940s Superman villains who have been lost to time, making it very funny in retrospect.

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Toonami Absolution is a weekly podcast where Alyx, Jon, and Sam revisit the Toonami and Adult Swim shows that made them, and you, you.

From the block's early days with shows like Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and Transformers: Beast Wars to the imported anime that made Toonami and Adult Swim appointment television for a generation of kids, such as Cowboy Bebop, Sailor Moon, and Dragon Ball.

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This week we tackle “Kuwabara: A Promise Between Men” and “Requirements for Lovers” the 3rd and 4th episodes of YuYu Hakusho. Yusuke is still stuck as a ghost, forcing him to reach out to his friends to get them to do the things he needs to do in the land of the living.

Because of this, Kuwabara is forced into a strange situation, one that gives us a chance to appreciate how well-written YuYu Hakusho’s side characters are.

Then, continuing YuYu Hakusho’s trend of having weirdly existential episodes “Requirements for Lovers” sees Yusuke’s house get set on fire, forcing Yusuke and Botan into a race against time to protect Yusuke’s body so that he can return to life in the future.

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Toonami Absolution is a weekly podcast where Alyx, Jon, and Sam revisit the Toonami and Adult Swim shows that made them, and you, you.

From the block's early days with shows like Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and Transformers: Beast Wars to the imported anime that made Toonami and Adult Swim appointment television for a generation of kids, such as Cowboy Bebop, Sailor Moon, and Dragon Ball.

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Sailor Moon R: The Movie (also called Sailor Moon R: The Promise of the Rose) was the movie made to tie-in to Sailor Moon’s second season.

However, this movie is an odd one, as it is directed by Kunihiko Ikuhara (the man who would go onto direct Revolutionary Girl Utena) who opted to take the story in an unusual direction, using the movie to flesh out Mamoru Chiba (or Tuxedo Mask’s) backstory by introducing Fiore, an alien Mamoru made a promise to when he was a young boy.

Though, as is the norm for Sailor Moon, Fiore also has an evil plan, one that Sailor Moon and the Sailor Scouts must stop before it is too late.

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Toonami Absolution is a weekly podcast where Alyx, Jon, and Sam revisit the Toonami and Adult Swim shows that made them, and you, you.

From the block's early days with shows like Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and Transformers: Beast Wars to the imported anime that made Toonami and Adult Swim appointment television for a generation of kids, such as Cowboy Bebop, Sailor Moon, and Dragon Ball.

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Toonami lied to you!

After learning that Toonami showed Super Friends for a brief period in 1998, Jon decided that this show would be our next Western Cartoon block. However, Jon quickly discovered that Toonami didn’t actually show Super Friends.

Instead, they showed a different show (the Superman Batman Adventures) and simply called it Super Friends. What makes this especially odd is that the Superman Batman Adventures is a show that mixes together a load of old Filmation shorts from the 1960s, meaning that this “new” Toonami show was just a load of reruns from the 1960s.

We really feel that effect in this episode, as we’re stuck with two very wacky slices of Batman.

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Toonami Absolution is a weekly podcast where Alyx, Jon, and Sam revisit the Toonami and Adult Swim shows that made them, and you, you.

From the block's early days with shows like Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and Transformers: Beast Wars to the imported anime that made Toonami and Adult Swim appointment television for a generation of kids, such as Cowboy Bebop, Sailor Moon, and Dragon Ball.

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