Toonami Absolution is a weekly podcast where Alyx, Jon, and Sam revisit the Toonami and Adult Swim shows that made them, and you, you. From the block's early days with shows like Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and Transformers: Beast Wars to the imported anime that made Toonami and Adult Swim appointment television for a generation of kids, such as Cowboy Bebop, Sailor Moon, and Dragon Ball. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Listen in the Podli app 🎧
Follow your favourite podcasts, listen offline and in the car with CarPlay and Android Auto, and always pick up where you left off. Free to try.
Nov 13, 2026 · 31:45
A gentleman thief, a princess in a wedding dress, a count with a secret, and a clock tower chase that people still talk about. This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx, Jon, and Sam…
Nov 11, 2026 · 34:18
The cliffhanger from last time pays off in a fight, and then the show detours into zombie treasure hunters and mushrooms. This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx, Jon, and Sam…
Nov 9, 2026 · 29:29
Three episodes of Space Ghost that are all weird in their own way. What a way to end a season! This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx, Jon, and Sam cover the last three episodes…
Nov 6, 2026 · 32:18
A 13-year-old witch moves to a new city, starts a delivery business, and then loses the thing that makes her a witch. It’s gentler than that sounds, but not as simple. This week…
Nov 4, 2026 · 33:50
Guns, God, and a blind musician with a very bad secret. This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx, Jon, and Sam cover Episodes 19 and 20 of Samurai Champloo: “Unholy Union” and…
Nov 2, 2026 · 32:06
One episode wraps up the runaway-director storyline with a visit from Metallica. The other was written by two former Late Show with David Letterman writers and turns Space…
Oct 30, 2026 · 33:45
Vampire Week finishes with a Sailor Moon stage musical about vampires. It’s real, its official and it’s two hours long. Yes, this was Jon’s pick. This week on Toonami Absolution,…
Oct 28, 2026 · 33:59
A dhampir bounty hunter, a rival crew of hunters, and a vampire who may not be the villain. Vampire Week continues with one of the best-looking anime films of its era. Today on…
Oct 26, 2026 · 31:04
Toonami Absolution’s Halloween special Vampire Week kicks off with Gotham’s Dark Knight facing the original creature of the night, and the Joker and the Penguin get dragged into…
Oct 23, 2026 · 33:21
Peter Parker gets bitten by a spider on a school trip. His uncle dies because he made a selfish decision. He becomes Spider-Man. Sam Raimi makes one of the most important…
Oct 21, 2026 · 30:19
Lullabies of the Lost wraps up. Then Mugen learns to rap. The show contains multitudes. Alyx, Jon, and Sam cover "Lullabies of the Lost (Verse 2)" and "War of the Words,”…
Oct 19, 2026 · 30:38
The Council of Doom throws Space Ghost a birthday party. Matt Groening wants to know which specific part of Space Ghost is a ghost. Alyx, Jon, and Sam cover "Surprise" and "Glen…
Oct 16, 2026 · 34:47
Disney commissioned a 30-minute Halloween special. Tim Burton delivered a live-action fairy tale with an all Asian-American cast, kung fu fights, nunchucks, a gingerbread house…
Oct 14, 2026 · 33:07
One episode: the trio fish a bag of gold out of a river and are immediately pursued by people who want it back. The next: the group splits up and nothing goes well for anyone.…
Oct 12, 2026 · 31:49
A man named Commander Andy wants to read a list of demands. Space Ghost has an evil twin with a beard. These are separate episodes but they have very similar energy. Alyx, Jon,…
Oct 9, 2026 · 33:17
Before Dragon Ball. Before Goku. There was Bardock, and he could see the future, and it did not help him at all. Alyx, Jon, and Sam cover Dragon Ball Z: Bardock – The Father of…
Oct 7, 2026 · 33:40
Mugen has a history. His history has found him. It brought friends. Alyx, Jon, and Sam cover "Misguided Miscreants (Part 1)" and "Misguided Miscreants (Part 2)," Episodes 13 and…
Oct 5, 2026 · 29:23
One episode is a tribute. The other is Bill Nye asking Space Ghost to prove he exists. This week has a lot of mood whiplash. Alyx, Jon, and Sam cover "Sharrock" and "Boo!"…
Oct 2, 2026 · 36:19
Before the Nolan trilogy. Before the Marvel Cinematic Universe changed the landscape entirely. There was Tim Burton, Michael Keaton in a rubber suit, Jack Nicholson in clown…
Sep 30, 2026 · 26:47
"Gamblers and Gallantry" is the episode where Jin falls in love and Mugen trains a rhinoceros beetle for competitive fighting. These two boys couldn’t be more different. Alyx,…
Sep 28, 2026 · 31:49
"Lovesick" and "Transcript." One episode about Space Ghost losing the love of his life. One episode that is almost entirely a Jonathan Richman concert. Alyx, Jon, and Sam cover…
Sep 25, 2026 · 32:16
One OVA to celebrate fifty years of Lupin III. With two resurrected villain who drop Lupin into his own past only to learn what makes Lupin and his friends so special. This is a…
Sep 23, 2026 · 28:23
Episode 9: Forged travel documents. Prison sentence. Mugen fetch quest. Forest full of bandits. Warrior monks. Large quantity of weird burning plants. Hallucinations. Chase…
Sep 21, 2026 · 29:58
Season 3. New Seaon. Same Ghost Planet. Lokar is trying to steal Moltar. Space Ghost is about to replace his entire production staff with a machine, this can only go well? This…
Sep 19, 2026 · 37:24
It has been one year. We have watched a lot of things. Some of them were great. Some of them were Tony Hawk In Boom Boom Sabotage. It is time to hand out some awards. This week…
Sep 18, 2026 · 33:05
Alyx loves Bungo Stray Dogs. Jon and Sam have not seen it. Can they understand Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple, a movie that comes after season 2? One that features an evil fog,…
Sep 16, 2026 · 33:07
Fuu's purse being stolen by a thief who turns out to have a completely sympathetic reason for what he's doing, but that won’t mean there are not consequences. The other episode…
Sep 14, 2026 · 33:49
A weird scientist who reads too much Lewis Carroll and has developed mind-control technology, decides its time for tea. The Batman gets locked up in Arkham Asylum, while the…
Sep 11, 2026 · 37:41
A rich dude decides that the best way to celebrate his kid’s birthday is to have Mr. Satan punch a load of aliens. Goku watches this whole thing from heaven. The movie never…
Sep 9, 2026 · 33:33
Fuu gets recruited to model for the most famous ukiyo-e artist in Edo Japan, only to nearly end up being sold into slavery. Then a red-haired foreigner who may or may not be…
Sep 7, 2026 · 32:39
A guy with no powers, no weapons, and no particular physical skill is somehow one of themost dangerous antagonists Batman has ever faced. Then, Batman heads back to the street…
Sep 4, 2026 · 30:09
The rules of Otokoyo are simple: seven children go into an abandoned city after dark. They are hunted by demons, and some will go missing. This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx,…
Sep 2, 2026 · 32:39
Mugen and Jin, bored and irritated by Fuu, split off at a fork in the road. Both immediately get recruited as bodyguards by the two yakuza clans currently fighting over a small…
Aug 31, 2026 · 32:27
Harvey Bullock is under arrest for kidnapping a witness. The evidence against him is damning. Batman doesn't believe it for a second, and not because he likes Bullock. Also,…
Aug 28, 2026 · 35:43
The Joker, the Penguin, the Riddler, and Catwoman have joined forces, formed an alliance called the United Underworld, acquired a device that can reduce human beings to dust and…
Aug 26, 2026 · 32:22
A waitress spills tea on the wrong customer. A vagabond and a ronin both anger the same magistrate and are sentenced to death. The waitress rescues them. But she isn’t doing this…
Aug 24, 2026 · 32:55
Matt Hagen finally has his revenge. A mild-mannered accountant from Ohio becomes the most dangerous man in Gotham for five minutes. And a background character who will eventually…
Aug 21, 2026 · 33:31
A new figure in a Batsuit has been operating in Gotham without Bruce Wayne's knowledge or permission. Gotham's criminal infrastructure is being systematically dismantled. Batman…
Aug 19, 2026 · 35:03
The Spirit Bomb landed. The Great Ape is gone. Vegeta is on his knees and Krillin is holding a sword. One word from Goku is going to define the entire rest of Dragon Ball Z. This…
Aug 17, 2026 · 29:14
One episode is about a fake psychic running a financial cult on Gotham's wealthy elite. The other episode is about an actor who becomes a living pile of clay and cannot stop…
Aug 14, 2026 · 34:21
The TV series gave us a cheerful girl with fortune-telling cards and a slow-burn romance on a world of flying castles. The movie opens with Van covered in blood and Hitomi…
Aug 12, 2026 · 32:42
The Kaio-ken can't hold him. The Kamehameha can't stop him. The Spirit Bomb hits him and he survives. Vegeta has taken everything and the situation is very bad. This week on…
Aug 10, 2026 · 35:45
One episode features Batman catching an invisible man who is creepier than he should be. The other features Adam West and is genuinely one of the best episodes in the series.…
Aug 7, 2026 · 33:42
In 2007, Hideaki Anno released the first of four films re-examining Neon Genesis Evangelion from the beginning. The first question everyone asked was: is it actually different?…
Aug 5, 2026 · 35:05
Nappa has been functionally unstoppable for four episodes. Then Goku arrives. Then Nappa has approximately ninety seconds of screen time remaining. This week on Toonami…
Aug 3, 2026 · 33:01
Batman meets his match. Bruce Wayne meets the woman he can't stop thinking about. They are the same person and he has no idea. This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx, Jon, and Sam…
Jul 31, 2026 · 33:51
The Joker has been dead for years. The new Batman is a teenager from the future. And Warner Bros were keen to cut it to ribbons, this Bonk gets hit with Joker gas, a satellite…
Jul 29, 2026 · 33:51
The three-hour wait is over. Goku still isn't there. So, Piccolo makes the most important decision of the Saiyan Saga. This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx, Jon, and Sam cover…
Jul 27, 2026 · 35:45
I've Got Batman in My Basement is widely considered one of the weakest in the entire series. Heart of Ice won an Emmy and redefined a villain for every medium that followed.…
Jul 24, 2026 · 30:53
A boy wakes up as a Squirtle, and before he can asks questions he is immediately conscripted into a Pokémon rescue team. Just a normal day in the Pokémon world! This week on…
Jul 22, 2026 · 33:38
Chiaotzu self-destructs. Tien fires a Tri-Beam until he can’t go on any more. Alas, Nappa walks away from both without a scratch. Also, nobody in this dub is dying. They are…
Jul 20, 2026 · 31:16
Harvey Dent is gone. Two-Face is here. He has a plan, a coin, and a vendetta. And somehow, this week, Batman's biggest challenge isn't stopping a supervillain, it's convincing a…
Jul 17, 2026 · 32:31
We have now heard what may be the worst English dub ever made. Even worse, its put on top of a series we genuinely love. It's Kuwahara now. His name is Kuwahara. That's what they…
Jul 15, 2026 · 34:39
Nappa plants six Saibamen in the ground. Tien dominates his immediately. Yamcha decides he wants a go and prepares to fight. This is a mistake. This week on Toonami Absolution,…
Jul 13, 2026 · 33:36
Mayor Hill publicly compares Batman to the Joker. The Joker takes this personally and infiltrates his son's birthday party in response, which is a proportionate and measured…
Jul 10, 2026 · 37:15
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…
Jul 8, 2026 · 32:50
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…
Jul 6, 2026 · 31:30
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…
Jul 3, 2026 · 33:17
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…
Jul 1, 2026 · 35:56
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…
Jun 29, 2026 · 34:31
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…
Jun 26, 2026 · 32:49
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…
Jun 24, 2026 · 34:15
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…
Jun 22, 2026 · 32:14
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…
Jun 19, 2026 · 35:37
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,…
Jun 17, 2026 · 35:21
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…
Jun 15, 2026 · 34:47
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…
Jun 12, 2026 · 34:45
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…
Jun 10, 2026 · 32:11
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…
Jun 8, 2026 · 33:35
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,…
Jun 5, 2026 · 35:16
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…
Jun 3, 2026 · 34:39
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,…
Jun 1, 2026 · 31:01
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…
May 29, 2026 · 35:53
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,…
May 27, 2026 · 33:56
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…
May 25, 2026 · 33:14
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…
May 22, 2026 · 35:45
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…
May 20, 2026 · 32:20
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,…
May 18, 2026 · 32:01
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…
May 15, 2026 · 34:47
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…
May 13, 2026 · 33:08
It all comes down to this. Alas, this fight is not as easy as it first seems, pushing Yusuke to his limit. This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx, Jon, and Sam cover Yu Yu Hakusho…
May 11, 2026 · 29:43
Dinobot makes a decision that will haunt the rest of the season. Two fan-favourite Maximals get abducted by aliens. And yes, there are spiders in this one too. This week on…
May 8, 2026 · 34:11
Frieza is dead. Goku is home. Everything is fine. And then Frieza's older, taller, somehow even more evil brother shows up, looking for revenge. This week on Toonami Absolution,…
May 6, 2026 · 31:41
Tarukane's mansion is guarded by an army of demons led by the mysterious Toguro Brothers, can Kuwabara make good on his promise to rescue Yukina or will he and Yusuke end up as…
May 4, 2026 · 30:27
We're back in the Beast Wars! Unfortunately, Tarantulas and Blackarachnia are also back. We’re not happy about it either, but that is how life goes sometimes. This week on…
May 1, 2026 · 34:01
We were promised cars. We were not prepared for other worlds and ancient aliens. This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx, Jon, and Sam cover the 2003 Cartoon Network film Hot…
Apr 29, 2026 · 33:16
The Saint Beasts arc ends. Then something genuinely new begins and it introduces two of the most important figures in the entire series. This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx,…
Apr 27, 2026 · 32:44
Optimus Primal is gone. Two fan-favourite Predacons are dead before the opening credits finish. And a handful of Maximals and Predacons just got entirely new bodies. Season 2 of…
Apr 24, 2026 · 33:47
A walking castle powered by a fire demon. An ongoing war no one can seem to stop. A young woman cursed to walk the Earth in the body of a grandmother. Hayao Miyazaki doing what…
Apr 22, 2026 · 27:13
The Saint Beasts arc explodes into its climax as Yusuke finally comes face to face with Suzaku, the last and most dangerous of the four. This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx,…
Apr 20, 2026 · 34:06
Season 2 of Space Ghost: Coast To Coast keeps pushing the format into genuinely strange territory, and this batch of episodes might be the weirdest stretch yet. This week on…
Apr 17, 2026 · 32:30
One of the greatest animated films ever made. A battle between humanity and nature with no clean heroes and no easy answers. Hayao Miyazaki at his absolute peak. This week on…
Apr 15, 2026 · 30:47
Kuwabara vs. a tiger. Over a lake of lava. Twice. And then Hiei shows us exactly why you do NOT mess with him. This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx, Jon, and Sam cover YuYu…
Apr 13, 2026 · 29:24
Yet more broadcasts from the Ghost Planet with Space Ghost: Coast To Coast Season 2 Episodes 5 and 6: Fire Drill and Le Livre d'Histoire. Fire Drill is one of the seasons most…
Apr 10, 2026 · 35:05
They killed Optimus Prime. They really did it. And if you were a kid watching in 1986, you were never the same. This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx, Jon (who has never seen…
Apr 8, 2026 · 31:22
The Four Saint Beasts arc kicks into high gear as Team Urameshi enters Maze Castle and Kurama proves he's one of anime's most underrated fighters (even if he gets his butt kicked…
Apr 6, 2026 · 32:16
Love advice from Fran Drescher, Carol Channing, and Alice Cooper. A pizza order gone catastrophically wrong. Space Ghost: Coast to Coast Season 2 keeps getting weirder, and we…
Apr 3, 2026 · 34:03
We return to the world of Transformers with the Transformers Armanda Premier Movie. This movie aired on Toonami on August 23rd, 2002. This isn’t a movie in the traditional sense,…
Apr 1, 2026 · 30:05
As one YuYu Hakusho story ends, another begins. Episode 13 “Yusuke vs. Rando: 99 Attacks” sees the battle between Yusuke and Rando come to a head, as Yusuke has to push himself…
Mar 30, 2026 · 30:00
Space Ghost: Coast To Coast throws us right in at the deep end with two of the oddest episodes in the show’s history. First we have “President's Day Nightmare” (also known as…
Listen in the Podli app 🎧
Follow your favourite podcasts, listen offline and in the car with CarPlay and Android Auto, and always pick up where you left off. Free to try.
Your podcast? Get the Podli badge for your site
