TOM 2.0 was the GOAT era for me. And co-sign earlier about the TOM sagas where his ship got stolen
I forgot how crazy his own storyline was. Coming home from school to watch DBZ, Yu Yu Hakusho, Kenshin every day
My only regret was that I never got super into Gundam until later. I slept HARD on UC Gundam (0079, Zeta, 08th MS Team, 0080, etc.) One of the realest animes ever created
The last TOM before Toonami's cancellation was kinda
to me, and it doesn't help that they were screwing up One Piece right around that same time (the 4kids dub
). Funimation did a way better job later on, but at that point, the damage was done, and Toonami was no longer a daily after-school thing for the kids. It's a real shame that One Piece never got as big as it should have been in the West. Piff series
Naruto was on fire in the late 2000s, but it's hard to go back to the series now just because of how badly it fell off when they all grew up.