There's a certain paradox involved with Cartoon Network and its movement toward showing anime titles like Inuyasha, Cowboy Bebop, DBZ, and once upon a time, Outlaw Star, as well as other titles.
Anime is still not something whole-heartedly accepeted by society. Granted, there are tens of thounsands of people who do by immerseing themselves by attending conventions and supporting capitalism by purchasing related products, we're still severely outnumbered. Most people (adults and teenagers alike) will alienate anime as weird, strange, even childish. This is mostly because they do not and do not desire to understand what it is. And continued ignorance on culture is how people become segregated.
So, in a way, Cartoon Network is doing a big favor by allowing society (with cable, anyway), know and understand what this whole anime thing is about. They don't have to like it, but at least they'll know what it is a little better. Hey, maybe it'll even attract some more fans.
On the other side of the spectrum, we like being a cult. We like being "unknown." We don't want to integrate ourselves into society, because we feel like we can call anime something of our own. Something that defines us, and not another. Cartoon Network only attracts more and more general people, and sometimes unsavory ones, into this group. Expanding the group. Generalizing the group. Diluting its potency, even. We liked it way back when, when no one knew about anime. It was an even stronger characteristic an individual. And even on Cartoon Network, there is evidence of censorship and dubbing, which doesn't even give them the "real deal," so to speak.
So, Cartoon Network's promotion of anime is basically your everyday double-edged sword. We want to become accepted, and yet, we want to stay private.
