Toonami Faithful Podcast
The Toonami Faithful Podcast is a weekly podcast that talks about the action cartoon block Toonami on Adult Swim.
Episodes
July 6, 2025 • 134 mins
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 Wars Ep 7 Recap
0:30:17 - Dragon Bal...
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June 26, 2025 • 95 mins
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 Toonami's Next Acquisition
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June 18, 2025 • 133 mins
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!
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June 16, 2025 • 57 mins
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.
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June 13, 2025 • 134 mins
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 Announcement!!!
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June 5, 2025 • 168 mins
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!
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May 29, 2025 • 109 mins
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.
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May 23, 2025 • 115 mins
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
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May 16, 2025 • 191 mins
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 - Common Side Effects Eps 9 and 10 (Sea...
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May 9, 2025 • 150 mins
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
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May 2, 2025 • 178 mins
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 stick around for a second round with...
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April 24, 2025 • 134 mins
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
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April 22, 2025 • 80 mins
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.
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April 18, 2025 • 141 mins
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.
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April 11, 2025 • 148 mins
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
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March 28, 2025 • 152 mins
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
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March 24, 2025 • 187 mins
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.
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March 13, 2025 • 165 mins
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 - Blue Exorcist Eps 16 and 17 Recap...
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March 7, 2025 • 178 mins
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)
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March 3, 2025 • 198 mins
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.
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