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

TOM and SARA enters the bridge in shock of how the absolution is here when it was destroyed 19 years ago. SARA enters the ship matrix to confirm it identify. Suddenly SARA old form appears on screen which is an on board echo of the old SARA AI core and has been looping old data; it also appears to be damaged as well so it will take time to decode her message. The biggest discovery however is that is The Absolution form 250 years in the future. Suddenly the ship takes off and departs from The Forge with TOM and SARA onboard. Changing it name to Absolution MKV 14; begins it journey to it destination. Since the ship is also a intergalactic broadcasting vessel; TOM and SARA leave The Forge behind and now broadcast Toonami onboard the ship.

Voice Cast

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

Trivia

 * Not confirmed to be the final; This will be the last TIE for a very long while as confirmed by Jason