On April 1st the final episode of YuYu Haksuho aired on Cartoon Network during it's really late extra Toonami lineup. It was sad to see one of my favorite anime come to an end. But what we didn't expect was for the show, & the whole line-up, to go with it. Now that YuYu Hakusho came to an end, Cartoon Network scrapped the whole line-up all together. This upset me greatly, cause I really liked the line-up, even though it was on extremely late at night. I enjoyed watching Gundam Seed a 2nd time through, even though it was now only on every other week. But Cartoon Network kept screwing the line-up over, so I guess it was only a matter of time.
The extra Toonami hour started almost 2 years ago now. It aired Fridays/Saturdays at midnight was a place to air new Toonami anime that didn't get high enough ratings to air on the regular Toonami. New eps of Gundam Seed, .hack//LTB, & Cyborg 009 aired there (although Cyborg 009 was sadly pulled before finishing the series, even though it only had a handful of shows to go). About a year later the line-up expanded from 1-hour to 3 to include a bunch of other Toonami shows like Justice League, Samurai Jack, & Megas XLR. Shortly thereafter though, for whatever reason Cartoon Network cut it back down to 1-hour & pushed it back even later at night (4am Central time), where it now only showed repeats of Seed & .hack//. A couple months ago some good news came that new eps of YuYu Hakusho would be coming to the block to finish off the series. I thought this meant good things for the block & would breath some much needed fresh life into it. & for awhile it did, but now that YuYu has come to an end it seems that CN is done with it for good. This also pretty much kills any hope for having Gundam Seed Destiny airing on CN. How sad.
