Anime Reanimates on Adult Swim

Japanese animation is making a quiet comeback—and Cartoon Network is cashing in

Like a magic sword lost for a thousand years or your bad-seed vampire sister, anime is coming back.

Cartoon Network’s action-oriented programming block Toonami is back on Tuesday, this time late at night during Adult Swim—and as an anime-only affair, at least for now. “We were mostly looking for older-skewing material,” said Jason DeMarco, vp of strategic marketing and promotions for Cartoon and AS. “We could probably do Family Guy in the middle of the night, and it would do better.

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