Toonami Absolution

Paragus lands on Earth and invites Vegeta to rule New Planet Vegeta. Vegeta, like an idiot doesn’t question this and immediately agrees. Turns out Paragus son, Broly, is the legendary Super Saiyan and wants to crush Goku because they were in adjoining cribs as newborns and Goku cried too damn much. Way to keep a grudge. This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx, Jon, and Sam cover Dragon Ball Z: Broly...

King Kai just neglected to calculate the return trip. Goku has two days to get back. Nappa just destroyed East City. But according to Ocean, everything is fine because that half of city was abandoned. This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx, Jon, and Sam cover Ocean Dub Episodes 14 and 15: "The Legend of the Saiyans" and "A Black Day for Planet Earth,” the end of Goku's training and the moment the S...

A Rashomon homage about three cops with wildly different accounts of the same evening. A story that asks what is Bruce Wayne without his memory, his gadgets, his costume, or his memories? This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx, Jon, and Sam cover "P.O.V." and "The Forgotten." "P.O.V." opens in the aftermath of a blown sting operation. Lieutenant Hackle from Internal Affairs has Bullock, Officer Mon...

We have a confession to make. We watched this movie. We found it very boring. So we spend 30 minutes trying to talk about literally anything else, some of which is He-Man related. This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx, Jon, and Sam cover He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: The Beginning (2002): the 90-minute pilot movie that launched the 2002 He-Man reboot series. But in the spirit of full tra...

Goku finally reaches the end of a road that has taken him several episodes to walk. His reward is a tiny planet and a monkey he mistakes for his new master. This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx, Jon, and Sam cover Ocean Dub Episodes 12 and 13: "The End of Snake Way" and "A Fight Against Gravity... Catch Bubbles!" "The End of Snake Way" finally delivers Goku to King Kai's tiny planet after his ago...

Poison Ivy tries to end Harvey Dent with a kiss. A homeless army of children living in the sewers, is controlled by a man who calls himself a king. One of these episodes of Batman: TAS is better remembered than the other, can you guess which? This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx, Jon, and Sam cover Episodes 5 and 6: "Pretty Poison" and "The Underdwellers." "Pretty Poison" introduces Poison Ivy vi...

A 17-year-old math prodigy gets roped into pretending to be his crush's fiancé at her great-grandmother's 90th birthday party. Then he accidentally cracks an encryption code on his phone, a rogue AI takes over the world's most popular social network, and tries to end the world via meteor. This is, somehow, one of the most emotionally grounded films Mamoru Hosoda has ever made. This week on Toonami...

One of these episodes you may never have seen growing up. That's not nostalgia talking, it's because Saban’s syndicated broadcast genuinely skipped it. This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx, Jon, and Sam cover Ocean Dub Episodes 10 and 11: "Escape from Piccolo" and "Showdown in the Past,” and we need to talk about the fact that "Escape from Piccolo" is a technically a Banned Episode. "Escape from...

A villain who weaponizes guilt itself. A crazed clown who wants to guarantee he has the last laugh. Two episodes in, and Batman: TAS is already redefining Batman’s rogue’s gallery and transforming them forever. This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx, Jon, and Sam cover Batman: The Animated Series Episodes 3 and 4: "Nothing to Fear" and "The Last Laugh." "Nothing to Fear" give u our first exposure t...

Dr. Gero is dead. His laboratory computer, however, is not. And it has been very busy. So you know what that means: yet more Androids! This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx, Jon, and Sam cover Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13! (1992), the seventh DBZ film and the first to feature all three Super Saiyans: Goku, Vegeta, and Future Trunks. After Dr. Gero is taken out, his computer makes three new Andr...

Goku falls off Snake Way and lands in the Home for Infinite Losers. Naturally, he overcomes this, only to meet a beautiful snake woman who wants to eat him. Snake Way is certainly not an easy place to run. This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx, Jon, and Sam cover Ocean Dub Episodes 8 and 9: "Home for Infinite Losers" and "Princess Snake's Hospitality". And yes, we will be defending the decision to...

September 1992. Fox Kids. The opening notes of Danny Elfman's Batman theme over a city drawn in shadow and dark watercolour. One of the greatest animated series ever made has just begun. This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx, Jon, and Sam start a brand new series: Batman: The Animated Series, we’re going to be covering the show from the very first episode (in production order). "On Leather Wings"...

Jill Valentine is tracking a zombie outbreak in San Francisco. Leon Kennedy is hunting a kidnapped scientist. Claire Redfield is investigating a monstrous mutant fish that is killing whales in the bay. Chris Redfield is useless, again. This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx, Jon, and Sam cover Resident Evil: Death Island (2023), the fourth Resident Evil CGI film and Capcom’s attempt to do Avengers...

One episode is about Gohan befriending a dinosaur in the wilderness and then watching it get eaten. The other is about Vegeta and Nappa wiping out a planet of bug people just because they can. DBZ filler contains multitudes. This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx, Jon, and Sam cover Ocean Dub Episodes 6 and 7: "Gohan Makes a Friend" and "Trouble on Arlia." "Gohan Makes a Friend" continues the ongoi...

The Season 2 finale of Beast Wars does something no children's animated series had any business doing in 1998: the heroes lose via time paradox. This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx, Jon, and Sam cover "The Agenda (Part 3)" the conclusion of the Beast Wars Season 2 finale and one of the weirdest endings in the franchise's history. With Megatron captured and aboard Ravage's transwarp cruiser, the...

Chris Redfield gets his team killed (yet again). Leon S. Kennedy can’t get his vacation. Rebecca Chambers has been missing from the franchise for fifteen years, but now she’s back (just to big kidnapped). A mysterious man releases a virus on New York City. Basically, business as usual in the Resident Evil universe. This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx, Jon, and Sam cover Resident Evil: Vendetta (...

Gohan is alone in the wilderness, Krillin tries to work out how to break the news to Chi-Chi and Dragon Ball Z invents the filler episode. This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx, Jon, and Sam cover Dragon Ball Z in two different dubs: Ocean Dub Episode 5, "Gohan's Metamorphosis," and then the franchise's very first filler episode: Episode 9 in the original dub, "The Strangest Robot." "No Time Like...

The Tripredacus Council has had enough. They've been watching Megatron rewrite history from the shadows and they want him to stop doing that. Thus, they send a classic Transformers character in to deal with the problem (how can this plan go wrong?) This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx, Jon, and Sam cover "The Agenda (Part 1)" and "The Agenda (Part 2)" the first two thirds of the Season 2 finale....

Leon S. Kennedy has been ordered to leave the Eastern Slav Republic immediately. Alas, he’s kinda busy dealing with yet another zombie outbreak. This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx, Jon, and Sam continue our Resident Evil movie retrospective with Resident Evil: Damnation (2012), the second Capcom CGI film and the direct follow-up to Degeneration. Set roughly six years after the fall of Raccoon C...

Raditz is still standing. Piccolo has a plan. And Gohan is about to show that, under the tears, he has a Saiyan heart. This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx, Jon, and Sam cover Dragon Ball Z Ocean Dub Episodes 3 and 4: "Gohan's Hidden Powers" and "Goku's Unusual Journey." Episode 3 escalates the Raditz fight in the worst way, as Raditz seems completely untouchable. That is until Gohan deploys Drag...

Beast Wars breaks your heart two episodes in a row. "Code of Hero" and "Transmutate" arrive back to back, and together they represent Beast Wars at its absolute best. This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx, Jon, and Sam cover the two most emotionally devastating episodes of Season 2. "Code of Hero" opens with Dinobot alone in his quarters, quietly contemplating whether to end it all. But as the exi...

One is a 20-minute theme park ride attraction from 2000 that was only ever shown in Japan, somehow directed by the man behind Genocyber . The other is the first full-length CGI Resident Evil film made to actually sit within the game continuity, one that reunites Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield for the first time since Raccoon City blew up. Together, they represent the two milestones for Reside...

This week, we're going back to the very beginning. The place where it all began (for American fans anyway) Dragon Ball Z: The Ocean Dub! This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx, Jon, and Sam cover Dragon Ball Z Episodes 1 and 2 as they aired in the original 1996 Ocean/Saban dub: "The Arrival of Raditz" and "The World's Strongest Team." Episode 1 opens five years after the end of Dragon Ball. There's...

Megatron walks into the alien installation with the Golden Disk and comes out with something that could change everything. This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx, Jon, and Sam cover "Other Visits (Part 2)" and "Bad Spark." "Other Visits (Part 2)" continues the show’s alien arc as Megatron uses the Alien Disk to gain access to the Metal Hunter (an alien space ship) and charts a course back to Cybert...

Last week, we sent Cooler into the sun. This week, he's back in robot form. Even worse, there are now hundreds of him. Goku just can’t catch a break... This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx, Jon, and Sam cover Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler (1992), the direct sequel to Cooler's Revenge and the first DBZ film to feature Vegeta. After being blasted into the sun at the end of Cooler's Revenge, C...