How Toonami Changed What I Watched

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Previously on isoul.uk: When Renting a Movie Was an Event — the ritual, artwork and scarcity of rented VHS tapes made individual films matter in a way that streaming has made difficult to remember.

I watched anime before I really knew what anime was.

Like a lot of children growing up in the 1990s, Pokémon was simply a cartoon on television. Sailor Moon was another show. I wasn’t thinking about where they came from, how they were produced or whether they belonged to a separate medium.

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How Toonami Changed What I Watched