You guys do know that America had that kinda thing back the, it was a banned, they just never introduced anime early in the day on cartoon network. After a while, people started to sway to anime because it up the ratings like late at night, cowboy bebop, blue gender, trigun, and even inuyasha was always at night... Now naruto is in the afternoon and it is becoming popular, for foxkids and channel 11, back then, shaman king and pokemon where popular for kids but since they made it so bad dubbing it didn't matter. Also the licensing for america is very strick, such as if anything gets licensed by america, people have to stop disputing it non-english that is why so many subbers have to drop there anime they are subbing because it is licensed. America has a very strick rule if you guys didn't know that, but anime has been popular enough that Air Bender was made(America anime)