March 17: Toonami gets rebooted in a big way. New graphics, new locale, new hosts, new TOM, and no SARA. And the fans went crazy. Not crazy with gladness, but crazy with frustration and anger. TOM, whose third incarnation was tall and had five fingers, seemed to have reverted into a rusting robot with four fingers again, a shorter squat body (more triangular than even his first incarnation), and a face that resembled Thomas the Tank Engine. And like that franchise, Toonami's visual appearance seemed to attract younger audiences rather than the 9-14 demographic the Saturday night Toonami was supposed to be aimed towards (definitely contradicting the Hellboy [which aired that night] and Mosaic movies [which aired the following week] that were both rated TV-14).
TOM also seemed to no longer host the block, rather reverting those duties to his two new sidekicks, the energetic Flash and the Moltar-like D. Part of the reason behind the new look's disapproval with the fans besides the actual look was the fact that Cartoon Network didn't explain the reasoning behind it at all.
On the bright side, Toonami actually showcased many of the imaging campaigns that had been a part of the block since its beginnings, including the first appearances of Moltar and the three previous TOMs on the block in years.
June 1: Miguzi, Toonami's replacement on weekdays, signs off for the last time.
Mid-June:Storm Hawks premieres on the block in rerun mode before airing first-run episodes exclusively on the block by the end of the summer.
Summer: Toonami sponsors Klik, a national skateboarding competition.
August 25: FUNimation's first cycle of One Piece episodes make their premiere on Toonami. Mega Man also makes a brief stay on Toonami before becoming a Jetstream exclusive.
September 8: Toonami's timeslot is cut by an hour courtesy of a live-action special called Props.
October 6: Toonami's timeslot is cut by another hour to fit in a two-hour block of Goosebumps episodes. Needless to say, Toonami fans are pissed.
October 27: For the first time since it premiered, Toonami didn't air at all that week. The whole week on Cartoon Network was pretty much overtaken by Goosebumps.
2008
January: Eyeshield 21 finally debuts on Toonami Jetstream. Toonami on Cartoon Network is still two hours long with Naruto taking helm of the first hour. It ends some time after the Super Bowl.
February: The block didn't change much since mid-January. Nothing to see here. The Cartoon Network Upfronts, which may reveal Toonami's fate in the coming year, has been postponed until April.
March 15: For the first time since late summer 2007, new bumpers appear on Toonami in honor of the block's 11th anniversary. There were a few aimed towards the older viewers of the block.
March 22: Bakugan, a toy-based game property owned by Sega and distributed by Cartoon Network in the US, heads to Toonami.
March 29: Bakugan is no longer on Toonami, replaced by the game-oriented Blue Dragon and the returning Samurai Jack.
APRIL 3: Highlighted by the official announcement of the Star Wars: Clone Wars series, Cartoon Network announces plans to transform their Friday night lineup into a "fantasy adventure" night. Toonami was not mentioned at all during the upfronts making many long-time viewers wonder about the future of Toonami.
June 21: Blue Dragon is removed from Toonami, replaced with the heavily popular Ben 10: Alien Force while reruns remain on Jetstream. Fans fail to notice the irony that a sequel show with the initials AF at the end is actually on the block (probably because Dragon Ball isn't before it).
June 30: One Piece, Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, and Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo are all pulled from Toonami Jetstream, with the only new show being Pokémon: Master Quest.
July 2008: For the first time in a long time, Bandai announces that the latest Gundam series, Gundam 00, is heading to American television. However, instead of the franchise's long-time American home Cartoon Network, they announce the series is heading to Sci-Fi. Sci-Fi's Wire news section also revealed that Cartoon Network's Friday night "fantasy adventure" night will now be seen on Saturdays.
July 9: Jason DeMarco reveals in a rare but insightful interview at Toonami Fan that originals may be coming to Toonami, Williams Street doesn't have as much influence at Toonami anymore, and nothing's forever, not even the block itself.
July 12: Superman: Doomsday, a very loose adaptation of The Death and Return of Superman storyline, airs on Toonami but without Toonami-specific bumpers heavily edited from its initial PG-13 release.
July 14: Kiba, a series produced by ADV Films and Upper Deck Entertainment, premieres on Toonami Jetstream without any announcement or press release. It marks the very first ADV Films series to air under the Toonami aegis since the ill-fated Giant Robot Week showings of Nadesico, Evangelion, and Dai-Guard.
July 19: In honor of the previous week's release of Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Toonami airs both Hellboy animated films, marking the first time since October 2007 that Toonami aired more than two hours. Audiences were either watching the finale of Nickelodeon's popular Avatar or watching showing of The Dark Knight, the sequel to Batman Begins.
July 26: In honor of the previous week's release of The Dark Knight, Toonami airs an extended five and a half hour edition of the block, including Batman Beyond: The Return of the Joker, the premiere of the second Naruto movie, Legend of the Stone Geiel, an hour of Naruto premieres, and episodes of B10: AF and Samurai Jack.
September 20: The final broadcast of Toonami is marked with a brief, yet memorable finsl message from TOM, which he (and his voice actor Steve Blum) invoke Spike Spiegel's final word on Cowboy Bebop, a symbollic "Bang." Toonami Jetstream remains online for the time being.
October 4: Two weeks after Toonami's cancellation, something new creeps up in its place. Action Flicks, "hosted" by a silver Nood with a patch, a blue-hued eye, and a toothpick (mistakenly referred to as a cigarette, premieres in the block's former night airing edgier fare and Toonami's former marquee franchise, Naruto.
