The Return

The Return is a 2-part Toonami Total Immersion Event (T.I.E.) that will air from March 19-26, 2022. The Return, the ninth canonical Toonami T.I.E., and the eleventh overall, was announced on March 12, 2022 through a promo during the Toonami broadcast. The premiere of The Return will roughly coincide with the 25th anniversary of Toonami's first broadcast on Cartoon Network (March 17, 1997). The T.I.E. was animated by production studio Hinge.

Episode 1
Air Date: March 19, 2022

TOM and SARA are sitting within the control room of The Forge, when TOM begins to reflect on the fact that many TOMs exist in the universe. Then, an alarm goes off, revealing that a ship is heading in the direction of the station. As the ship docks, TOM and SARA realize that the ship seems to be a modified version of the GPS Absolution Mk. I, that is transmitting a signal of a TOM 2 era Toonami broadcast. The episode concludes with the doors of the ship opening up, with TOM in shock of what’s inside.

Episode 2
Air Date: March 26, 2022

Voice Cast

 * TOM 6 - Steve Blum
 * SARA v4 - Dana Swanson
 * Narrator/Voice-over - Howard Parker