toonami jetstream

toonami jetstream is an online website that allows you to watch dubbed anime episodes for free sponsored by two american cartoon companies. it shows a new episode once a week, i think. it downloads pretty fast on my connection. i watched hikaru no go and prince of tennis. it's WEIRD hearing the japanese names with an english accent!! it's not so bad for some names, but for others (namely the ones that have a "r") it's downright strange. ryoma (pronounced lee-o-ma becomes rye-o-ma (rye as in rye bread))

the quality is pretty good. but as always....the girl voices alway drive me up the wall...

all in all....it's more worth it to go to youtube and watch all the fansubbed episodes in an insane marathon. and you get the original voices. and you get the original translation. and the original opening and ending. and things aren't lost in translation. like "mada mada dane," which really should have been kept...because it's his catchphrase for heaven's sake. when the ignorant american-dubbed PoT fans go to cons they'll totally alienate themselves from the fansubbers and the original trendjumpers. haha, suckers.

looking at the first north american corporation sponsored anime website, you can totally tell where the american anime market is directed. at the young boys. i'm wondering if they're aware of the fact that PoT, despite it's sport subject, has huge power in gathering a gigantic female fan-base? they probably know, but i guess it's hard to push it in this culture. hrrmm...oh well.

on the other hand, manga is probably more directed towards females. i mean....look at tokyopop. so i guess the teenage american culture says that boys are glued to the tv and girls read? and practically all the manga readers at the library are girls. there are the one or two boys out there... but they are very very rare.