Toonami Faithful Podcast

Sketch, Kuro and Steven are joined by returning guest LumRanmaYasha who just happened go to Anime Expo. After Lum tells the other's about their experience at Anime Expo including some thoughts on Rooster Fighter it's onto a recap of Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga episode 7. 0:00:00 - Schedule Update and Lum's experience at Anime Expo 1:00:23 - Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga Ep 7 Recap

Sketch, Paul, Laser and Steven are joined by returning guest JP Reckless to recap Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War and the first three episodes of Dragon Ball Daima. Then Paul and JP share their thoughts on Lazarus before the conversation turns to HBO Max, Adult Swim and the impending division between the cable networks and studios of Warner Bros. Discovery. 0:00:00 - Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood Wa...

Kuro, Paul, Laser and Steven discuss the penultimate episode of Lazarus and things are really heating up on Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War and Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga! And with Lazurus nearly over they take a moment to speculate what Toonami might add in July. 0:00:00 - Lazarus Ep 12 0:37:31 - Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Ep 6 1:04:21 - Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga Ep 6 1:27:42 - Speculating To...

Sketch, Paul, Kuro, Laser and Steven discuss this week's episodes of Lazarus, Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War, Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga and give their first impressions of Dragon Ball Daima!

Sketch and Kuro sit down with Jason DeMarco to discuss producing anime for Warner Bros. Discovery: namely Lazarus with the legendary Shinichiro Watanabe, Sunghoo Park sneaking Jason into Ninja Kamui and notably bringing an animated Lord of the Rings film to theaters alongside Kenji Kamiyama and Peter Jackson.

Kuro, Sketch and Steven are joined by LumRanmaYasha and (eventually) JP Reckless to discuss this week's Toonami block and a whole bunch of Toonami related news! 00:00:00 - It was a very busy news day... 00:26:57 - Lazarus Ep 10 00:52:00 - Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Ep 4 01:17:30 - Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga Ep 4 01:49:00 - A Lil More of Dragon Ball Daima Discussion 01:59:25 - Special Podcast A...

Sketch, Kuro, Laser and Steven discuss Lazarus, Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War and Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga and then just when you think the podcast is over... Kuro swaps out for Paul because Dragon Ball Daima just got announced for Toonami!

Sketch, Paul, Kuro, Steven and our returning guest Sam 1 from Toonami Squad discuss Lazarus, Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War and Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga.

Sketch, Kuro, LaserKid and Steven discuss Lazarus Ep 7 and the first episodes of both Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga and Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War! 0:00:00 - Lazarus Ep 7 0:33:38 - Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga Ep 1 1:09:00 - A Very Brief Bleach Refresher 1:14:42 - Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Ep 1

Sketch, Kuro, LaserKid and Steven are joined by returning guest Jesse Betteridge: creator of the Zannen Canada Podcast to discuss the two-part season finale of Common Side Effects and our opinons on the show overall. After that we recap episode 6 of Lazarus and share what we think of the series thus far. Sorry for the audio drop outs in the last hour of the recording. 0:00:00 - Intro 0:11:20 - Com...

Sketch, Kuro, LaserKid and Steven are joined by returning guests Fabian and LumRanmaYasha to discuss the season finale of Blue Exorcist and the 5th episode of Lazarus. 00:00 - Intro and News 12:37 - Lazarus Ep 5 Recap 58:11 - Blue Exorcist Season 1 Finale Discussion Music credits for this episode: "Core Pride" as performed by UVERworld

Sketch, Kuro, LaserKid and Steven are joined by LumRanmaYasha from Manga Mavericks and Toonami Faithful graphic designer: JP Reckless to recap Lazarus episode 4, discuss Ginger Root's Shinbangumi and get very excited about the latest schedule update. Bleach is back, Blue Exorcist continues and Head Samurai: Darrell Maddox makes a cameo! And if that wasn't enough schedule discussion for you, then s...

Sketch, Paul, Kuro, LaserKid and Steven are joined by our long-time listener and contributor Jefferies Herrera to talk about Lazarus episode 3 and recap episodes 7 and 8 of Common Side Effects. Music credits for this episode: "Number One - Bankai" as performed by Shiro SAGISU featuring Hazel Fernandez

Sketch and Paul sat down with voice actress Stephanie Nadolny. She voices young Goku in Dragon Ball, GT and Daima. She also voices young Gohan in the Funimation dub of DBZ.

Sketch, Paul, Kuro, LaserKid, Steven and our guest Sam from Toonami Squad discuss episode 2 of Lazarus and a little bit of schedule news. Then we bid farewall to Paul and recap episodes 20-22 of Blue Exorcist.

Sketch, Steven and our guests Duelist and Samster299 from Toonami Squad discuss the first episode of Toonami's latest original series: Lazarus and recap episodes 5 and 6 of Common Side Effects. Music credits for this episode: "Dark Will Fall (from "LAZARUS" Soundtrack) [feat. Jacob Lusk]" as performed by Bonobo

Kuro, Sketch and our returning guest LumRanmaYasha from Manga Mavericks recap episodes 3 and 4 of Common Side Effects and episodes 18 and 19 of Blue Exorcist. 00:00:00 - Intro and Schedule Update and Other News 00:22:44 - Blue Exorcist eps 18 and 19 Recap 01:17:20 - Common Side Effects eps 3 and 4 Recap Music credits for this episode: "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" as performed by Eiffel 65

This week, we celebrated our 500th regular episode of the podcast live on Twitch. Hosts from the present join with Darrell Maddox and Junior as they reminisce about our podcast and what it meant to them. Special Guest Dana Swanson, the voice of SARA on Toonami also joins us to talk Toonami and what they have been up to lately.

Kuro, Sketch, LaserKid and Steven recap episodes 16 and 17 of Blue Exorcist and episodes 1 and 2 of Common Side Effects. Before that we take a moment to honor beloved actors George Lowe and Dave Mallow and discuss some Toonami adjacent news. Tune in live for our 500th episode on March 23rd at 9pm EST on twitch.tv/toonamifaithfulchannel 00:00:00 - Intro, Memoriums, Toonami Adjacent News 00:37:02 -...

Sketch, LaserKid and Umeko finally discuss the Dressrosa arc of One Piece at length, roughly 77 episodes from 629-706 (about 70% of the massive arc). Before that though, there's some more Toonami related news including a schedule update that we won't be griping about. Music credits for this episode: "Wake Up!" as performed by AAA (featuring Colleen Clinkenbeard and Chris Rager)

Members of the Toonami community joined together to discuss the current state of the block and what changes should be made to help revitalize Toonami. Panelists include members from Toonami Faithful, Toonami Squad and the Toonami Escape Podcast.

Kuro, Sketch, LaserKid and Steven recap episodes 12-15 of Blue Exorcist but before that they have another lackluster schedule update to share. Music credits for this episode: "In My World" as performed by ROOKiEZ is PUNK'D

Sketch, Paul, Kuro, LaserKid and our returning guest Arcangel recap the final three episodes of Mashle: Magic and Muscles season 1 but before that there's some Toonami related news and a new anime block on AXS TV to discuss. 00:00 - Intro and Toonami related news 27:44 - AXS TV Anime.com Hour First Impressions 37:50 - Mashle: Magic and Muscles Eps 10-12 Recap Music credits for this episode: "Knock...

Sketch, Paul, Colt and our returning guest LumRanmaYasha from Manga Mavericks discuss Toonami's February 2025 schedule and the larger concerns they have with what's going on with the block lately.

Kuro, Sketch and Steven recap episodes 8-11 of Blue Exorcist and Sketch added an itty bitty schedule update at the start. Both Kuro's are back and it's gonna be cat-a-clsymic! Music credits for this episode: "Without Me" (Instrumental) as performed by Eminem