Major changes are ahead for the Cartoon Network, chief among them the replacement of the weekday Toonami Block with the new Miguzi Block. Starting Saturday, April 17, Toonami will move to Saturday night, where it will air from 7pm to midnight. The Toonami block will feature numerous anime series including Gundam Seed and Rave Master as well as Dragon Ball Z, Yu Yu Hakusho, Transformers: Energon, Dragon Ball GT and Rurouni Kenshin; but it will not be all anime, it will also include Cartoon Network original series such as Justice League and Megas XLR. Instead of focusing on the after school needs of 6 to 11 year-olds, Toonami will now be targeted at teens, with the top anime and action series on the Cartoon Network.
Meanwhile, the Meguzi Block, despite its vaguely Japanese name, does not appear to include any anime series. In addition to the Teen Titans and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the afternoon block as currently constituted includes two new animated adventure series, Totally Spies and Code LYOKO. In between the cartoons the Miguzi Block will feature live action segments, and a fantastic undersea environment where the franchise's computer-generated host Erin will hold forth.
