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Pokemon may be the last anime airing in the west

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This is not a joke, relaying this from a friend who works in sound mixing for dubs. Please take with a grain of salt
In the long term. At this moment fewer dubbing companies are licencing anime. And the only ones marketing anime to young children are established brands (Pokemon, Yugioh ect)
After 4kids died, there were simply no other dubbing studios willing to go to absurd lengths to appease soccer moms. Most anime dubs today freely include swear words and mentions of sex, as a result they aren't allowed on networks aimed at children.

Back in the late 90s and early 2000s, anime such as MHA would have aired on childrens networks, with swearing and sexual innuendo removed completely. It is now understood (to some degree at least) That anime fans in the west are not pleased by this kind of editing (On top of more absurd edits such as One Piece) and again, fewer companies are willing to literally paint over frames of animation to this extent just for localization. 4kids was "unique" in that regard.
Ultimately, children in the future won't find themselves growing up on anime, the only anime airing on publicly available american networks are tied heavily to merchandising. And many children are simply forbidden from watching the networks and blocks which air the most dubbed anime.