We owe it all to Toonami. While anime spent decades arriving on western shores in irregular stages — and often with new titles, like Astro Boy, Speed Racer and Battle of the Planets, which scrubbed ...

There are so many anime series in the U.S. that it’s sometimes easy to forget that these Japanese imports weren’t always ubiquitous. Some classic titles like Astro Boy, Speed Racer, Robotech, Mazinger ...