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Welcome to the Toonami Datadock. Not to be confused with the Toonami Infolink, the Datadock is the home of the factoids about the block that you may not have known about or wanted to know a little bit more about.
I won't waste anymore time, let's get started with a burst of history:
 FIRST WORDS UTTERED ON TOONAMI: "Right here."
The line was from "Race" Bannon in a clip of The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, one of the initial shows on Toonami. It came before the transmission disclaimer before the opening credits of Toonami began. My bros at Toonami Digital Arsenal cut it out accidently in the clip presented at the site.
FIRST SERIES ON TOONAMI: ThunderCats
The first series to air on Toonami was a perfect mesh of American creativity and Japanese animation, or at least a facsimile (I mean, many of today's audiences never saw the original Transformers, Galaxy Rangers, Mighty Orbots, nor Bionic Six, all of which were better shows). It's popularity and mystique only grew after its Toonami run, which led to a series of comic book miniseries, rumors of a new animated series, and the creation of a 3D animated feature film coming in a few years. It's also noteworthy that the studio behind ThunderCats became the core of Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli.
FIRST DC COMICS PRODUCTION ON TOONAMI: Superman (1940)
In essence, it's the very first action cartoon series ever made, so it's fitting that Dave Fleischer's legendary adaptation of the then-new comic book character would make an appearance on Toonami. Today's audiences feel that perhaps it was a little too old, but it did lay the groundwork for the inspiration of the DC Animated Universe that began in 1992 with Batman: The Animated Series and, sadly, ended with Justice League Unlimited in 2006.
HOST WITH THE LONGEST TENURE: TOM 3 (March 1 [first appearance in promos]/March 17, 2003 [first appearance on the block] - March 16, 2007)
No one represented the brand longer than the third incarnation of TOM. He was the last major face of the weekday version of Toonami and launched the block into Saturday nights. For at least the core of the demographics, this version had been, until recently, the definitive face of Toonami.
Got you hooked yet?
Well, welcome to the 'Dock of the Base. There's an Otis Redding reference there, but I think
the core members of the audience doesn't know who that is. I'm your tour guide. Here are your destinations this week:
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