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Avatar the Last Airbender (84)

1 Name: *insertnamehere*!!mhJDjCwh : 2011-12-30 20:23 ID:XOMFQhEG (Image: 480x486 gif, 54 kb) [Del]

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I've waited... 13 days, since the board renaming for this thread to pop up. It didn't happen. Well... Time to make it happen. Here's the Avatar thread, yo!

Avatar: The Last Airbender is an American animated television series that aired for three seasons on Nickelodeon from 2005 to 2008. The series was created and produced by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, who served as executive producers along with Aaron Ehasz. Avatar is set in an Asian-influenced world wherein some are able to manipulate the classical elements by use of psychokinetic variants of Chinese martial arts known as "bending." The show combined the styles of anime and American cartoons, and relied for imagery upon various East-Asian, Inuit, and South-American societies, with a brief reference to the Indic.

The series follows the adventures of protagonist Aang and his friends, who must save the world from the evil Fire Lord by ending his war against the neighbor nations. The pilot episode first aired on February 21, 2005 and the series concluded with a widely praised two-hour episode on July 19, 2008.

Avatar: The Last Airbender was popular with both audiences and critics, garnering 5.6 million viewers on its best-rated showing and receiving high ratings in the Nicktoons lineup, even outside its 6–11-year-old demographic. Avatar: The Last Airbender has been nominated for and won awards from the Annual Annie Awards, the Genesis Awards, the primetime Emmy awards and a Peabody Award among others. The first season's success prompted Nickelodeon to order second and third seasons. In other media, the series has spawned a live-action film, titled The Last Airbender, directed by M. Night Shyamalan, scaled action figures, a trading card game, three video games based on the first, second, and third seasons, stuffed animals distributed by Paramount Parks, and two LEGO sets. An art book was also released in mid-2010. Furthermore, the president of Nickelodeon announced on July 21, 2010 that a sequel called The Last Airbender: Legend of Korra will premiere in 2012.

2 Name: Baka ni Baka : 2011-12-30 21:07 ID:i3G7M/wh (Image: 1024x768 jpg, 95 kb) [Del]

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My god you're my hero for posting this. This I salute to you.
ALL HAIL THE FIRE NATION!

3 Name: Loliprincess : 2011-12-30 21:19 ID:JF28Fc1r [Del]

Finally someone makes a thread about this series. This is not only one of the best cartoons out there it is also one of the best series out there as well. I can't wait for the Legend of Korra to come out though. :D If I had to decide I think I'd either want to be the Avatar if not a firebender, maybe an airbender if possible. :)

4 Name: Takara!E7th54kZFw!!XI8GEi6V : 2011-12-30 22:09 ID:pr2+SEqM [Del]

The origins of the bending styles:
http://lianaet.tumblr.com/post/14350564195/monster-sweetz-girl-a-timothy-turner

5 Name: Pokjhdbnxw!amuOBZI1yA : 2011-12-31 16:03 ID:Ot5kRD75 [Del]

I watched he series as a kid and loved it.
Then I watches it recently, and loved it.

As for the movie... I don't know if anyone who's seen the cartoon even likes the movie.

I've seen the series twice and enjoyed every minute of it, especially the bad-assness of the ending.

6 Name: Kamikapa !gsaTjWquEI : 2011-12-31 16:40 ID:BRK9SPoR [Del]

Finally someone makes a thread about Avatar! My gratitude to you, *Insertnamehere*. I totally love this series, the scrip is brilliant, the plot is quite atracttive and the characters are wonderfull. I had a HUGE problem with the end actually, the last episode specifically. I think they finished it rather quickly, I don't know. The battle between Aang and Ozai was cool but I felt that something was missing and they should have done the epilogue in a second episode so they could develop more the end of the war and everything. ALso, I don't like the couple that Aand and Katara make, I'm really uncomfortable with it because they don't match (at least for me, oh well)

I'm really looking forward to seeing The LEgend of Korra, looks really interesting. As for the live-action movie, it raped my eyes, ok? IT SUCKED!!

7 Name: Ladarius : 2011-12-31 20:26 ID:lVeOCnJL [Del]

I liked the animation series but didnt like the Live-Action movie. It was a waste of time. Also i cant for the new series The Legend of Korra, im really looking forward to that

8 Name: Yatahaze !E/8OvwUzpY : 2011-12-31 21:13 ID:hBNtYz8c [Del]

Honest to God, I've never even seen a full episode of this.
Should probably watch it.

9 Name: Misuto!M4ZBq07Cs. : 2011-12-31 21:28 ID:NhId80Wb [Del]

Could have sworn there was a thread for Avatar somewhere already... I definitely remember talking about it somewhere on the boards at one point. Oh well.

I love Avatar. It's a great show, and it was well-thought out for what was marketed to be a show for kids - in western culture, such a thing tends to mean it's only for kids, and I liked that they took it seriously enough for it to be more than that.

Later on after finishing the series, I looked up behind the scenes stuff for the show. As >>4 posted, they really did their research with the bending and the cultural references for each nation. At one point, they aired the whole series with annotations from the creators, which helped give it more depth and point out details you may have missed on a casual watch-through.

...And I don't think we need to talk about the live action movie in here. That's for the film board. Also, general consensus is it was disliked by fans of the original series anyway, so why even bring it up when we understand that?

10 Name: *insertnamehere*!!mhJDjCwh : 2011-12-31 21:31 ID:XOMFQhEG [Del]

>>9 Could it have been the Zuko vs Roy thread?

11 Name: Ta-Kun : 2011-12-31 22:16 ID:qSrWW+mc [Del]

Theres a new series comming out in 2012.

12 Name: Nomura_Mangaka* : 2011-12-31 23:37 ID:FMTTSAK9 [Del]

>>11 Yeah, i heard about that! It sounds pretty good to me!

13 Name: Bread!RTgBiSnMz2 : 2011-12-31 23:45 ID:bRzySPSz [Del]

WHATWHY?

The series is done. I don't like it when something is fine the way it is, and then they continue it and crap it up. For example, Maria Holic.

Anyways, if the sequel is going to be about new characters and etc, I'm all for it. I just have a bad premonition that it's going to be bad though.

I sense it.

14 Name: *insertnamehere*!!mhJDjCwh : 2011-12-31 23:55 ID:XOMFQhEG [Del]

>>13 Yes, it's new characters. Note: "The Legend of Korra". It's the last sentence. Hurr.

15 Name: Teto Kasane : 2012-01-01 00:55 ID:GgtabIE7 [Del]

i hope it doesnt turn out like one of those shows that should have stopped while it was ahead!! i just hope it doesnt suck cuz i thought that Avatar was a pretty cool show! =)

16 Name: Clumzyy : 2012-01-01 01:45 ID:lsWpZPCK [Del]

The series is completely genius and >>1 thanx for the heads up on the upcoming series!
The live-action movie...disappointed me beyond belief
Basically.... it fucking sucked

17 Name: Baka ni Baka : 2012-01-01 10:31 ID:i3G7M/wh [Del]

>>16 I try to pretend the movie never existed....so let's just say the legend of korra is going to be awsome. it's got steampunk feel!

18 Name: frevor4ever : 2012-01-01 12:16 ID:eyTq/+af [Del]

*insertnamehere* you are awesome for posting this.
I'm really looking forward to TLoK. It's a shame that Sokka's not gonna be in it....

19 Name: Alias!65Ekk2a7ZI : 2012-01-01 15:22 ID:5iVZl2YQ [Del]

Yeah, the director for the movie was pretty much a racist a hole who doesn't understand plot points or comedy.If you ignore that monster of a movie, then the Avatar shows have absolutely nothing wrong with them. They're pretty much perfect,and if the writers stay the same The Legend of Korra should be just as great.

20 Name: Misuto!M4ZBq07Cs. : 2012-01-01 16:25 ID:NhId80Wb [Del]

>>19 Hey now... I didn't see it, but I never heard anything about him being a racist.

And what the hell did I say?? We're not talking about the damned movie in the first place!

I've been keeping myself relatively free of the hype by not looking into Legend of Korra that much. Curious as all hell now to see what it'll be like. I heard it's not going to be nearly as long as the original series, though.

21 Name: *insertnamehere*!!mhJDjCwh : 2012-01-01 16:37 ID:XOMFQhEG [Del]

>>20 Yeah, I think they said it's gonna be 26 episode.

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23 Name: Alias!65Ekk2a7ZI : 2012-01-01 16:58 ID:5iVZl2YQ [Del]

Sorry, didn't see that part.About him being racist,some people, myself included, got really mad at him because he decided to use a mostly white cast to play Asain characters, and those who weren't white were the bad guys.I just needed to mention this, now I'll shut up about the movie, sorry.

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25 Name: King Dude !zXqFpoplY6 : 2012-01-02 03:15 ID:cKJy7lXX [Del]

Show was the shit but the movie sucked ass.

26 Name: King Dude !zXqFpoplY6 : 2012-01-02 03:29 ID:cKJy7lXX [Del]

>>13 I want shows to be a decent length. Like FLCL (Fooly Cooly) was only six fucking episodes, and Bleach is like 200+. And shit, Bleach isn't even the worst offender, it's Pokemon with a whopping 700 mother of crap loads EPs. It's just that I hate when shows are too short or too long.

27 Name: Shikyo-chan : 2012-01-02 11:30 ID:Z95etnBL [Del]

I din't like this ending. I WANNA KNOW WHERE ZUKO'S MOM IS! I read that the co-creator made a storyboard for him reuniting with her but the creator asked him to take it out. I wanted to kill the creator but all in all it was a good series.

28 Name: Chii : 2012-01-02 18:45 ID:6BAaDR9a [Del]

Yes, very good series. ^-^ I, for one, thought it was a great ending, but yeah, I WANNA SEE ZUKO REUNITE WITH HIS MOM!!!! T^T

29 Name: Kamikapa !gsaTjWquEI : 2012-01-03 14:35 ID:BRK9SPoR [Del]

>>27 I read that the new Avatar graphic novel, "The Promise", may have information about the issue with Zuko's mother. I just hate the fact that I can't get it where I live ¬¬

30 Name: Takara!E7th54kZFw!!XI8GEi6V : 2012-01-04 05:15 ID:pr2+SEqM [Del]

So I looked at the trailer and read the basic storyline for the new series of Avatar, did anyone else notice that they basically steampunked the show? Which is awesome in my opinion, btw.

31 Name: Clumzyy : 2012-01-04 14:05 ID:lsWpZPCK [Del]

>>17 yeah lets hope they dont mess up the coming series.
And I wanna see zuko reunite with his mom 2!

32 Name: Naria : 2012-01-13 02:02 ID:x1xZkTe/ [Del]

...but the movie is sort of...

33 Name: Zombie-girl : 2012-01-15 13:13 ID:zhjnhz2H [Del]

I enjoyed watching this series. But I thought that they should have made more episodes for it.

34 Name: Next The Square : 2012-06-23 03:42 ID:7mcpX9Ax [Del]

I started watching this show the at the intended age. I was ten. However, now that I am a week from eighteen, I am now wise and literate enough to say this is by far the greatest TV series in existence. Western artists should be proud and the anime artists of Japan should be inspired. I would say it is even better than the greatest anime. It had a nice straight forward plot with an unwavering central goal. It had appropriate twist and fantastic and well planned character development. 60 episodes wasa perfect number and I anticipate the Legend of Korra will be just as great.

35 Name: Phantasy : 2012-11-28 06:25 ID:XbVSKUUd [Del]

I loved this series, the best westeren animation by far. It actually lokks likes china. But that film was god aweful! And insult to this perfect series. Lookinh forward to Legend of Korra

36 Name: Deemo !6OUTWlcrfE : 2012-11-28 15:27 ID:S9IXVwc0 [Del]

I loved this show. For me it never got old. My mom watched it with me and we still say "Monkey Feathers" or "Sifu Hotman" all the time. xD

37 Name: Otonashi : 2012-12-05 18:13 ID:0cvyAT6t [Del]

I hail from the northern water tribe. Also have you guys heard about the new book coming out next year called "The Search" and its about Zuko finding his mum!!!!

38 Name: TK : 2012-12-05 19:01 ID:CKkB8agA [Del]

I'm from the Easter Air Temple. I;m so excited about the new season Otanashi!! Ever since the last episode of the last airbender i wanted to know what happened to Zuko's mother.

39 Name: Anlora : 2013-01-11 21:20 ID:0g0lEPB7 [Del]

I heard there's gonna be a some new comics called The Search and it's about well finding Zuko's mom. FINALLY ANSWERS.

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41 Name: kaito : 2013-01-11 22:19 ID:yjHF/mQE [Del]

really Zuko"s M0m

42 Name: L : 2013-01-12 09:35 ID:X1k/vlho [Del]

I LOVED ATLA!!!

43 Name: K. !lFf0rLkBgg : 2013-01-12 10:54 ID:sFFoPyzZ [Del]

This has always been one of my biggest fandoms. I've seen all the episodes at least twice. ;)
In my opinion, the storyline is very well thought out and there's some serious character development going on here.
Highly recommended series.

44 Name: Niko : 2013-01-14 17:00 ID:etTTghxF [Del]

I'll think about it...

45 Name: Dragonborn101 : 2013-01-15 12:16 ID:8b/viD1X [Del]

Amazing show I watched the whole series

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47 Name: Sakunya S. : 2013-04-14 01:38 ID:5c2P+Zfe [Del]

I still need to watch this XD unfortunately, I'm too busy watching anime that I need to finish because I can't watch two or more series at the same time XD

48 Name: archery98 : 2013-04-15 22:20 ID:9uHFE++B [Del]

Oh man, Avatar: the Last Airbender has been one of my favorite shows for a long time. The characters and storyline are great, and the art is so unique, and awesome in its own way. Watertribe! ^_^

49 Name: Anime : 2013-04-20 18:47 ID:nkxfDDiL [Del]

i have a question:
i found out my lucky element so i would know what type of bender i would be, but, heres what is said: "you are soil. your lucky element is water. so would my bending element be earth or water? heres the site i used: http://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/le.htm
let me know what you think arigato gozaimasu

50 Name: SanityJinxazu : 2013-04-20 20:05 ID:ocGgTGO6 [Del]

>>49 It's water, The lucky element is water none the less and you bring upon soil when mixed with earth.

51 Name: Anime : 2013-04-20 20:48 ID:nkxfDDiL [Del]

>>50 it uses soil to represent earth

52 Name: Anime : 2013-04-26 15:30 ID:nkxfDDiL [Del]

bump
also check out >>49 please

53 Name: Aurelia : 2013-07-23 14:04 ID:UXtLbG0h [Del]

This was good. The film made was horrible. They pronounced Aang's NAME WRONG. >:[

54 Name: Doug !WAdchFoEJk!!XI8GEi6V : 2013-07-23 15:34 ID:VT8Ba5sd [Del]

>>53 Everything they did in the film was wrong :/ everything, uughhh XD

55 Name: Sleepology !4a6Vun8zuw : 2013-11-09 19:09 ID:ec3UqG9G [Del]

56 Name: kenpachi ramasama : 2013-11-09 20:48 ID:hLrZ5UG3 [Del]

I LOVE THIS SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

57 Name: Anonymous : 2013-11-16 13:31 ID:ec3UqG9G [Del]

asdfg

58 Name: Minami : 2013-11-16 18:31 ID:YwJmZqoq [Del]

I love this show!! It was an original plot!

59 Name: Kitty : 2013-11-16 21:12 ID:WPoaec4D [Del]

i love avatar!!!

60 Name: Miya : 2013-11-17 11:26 ID:Wtp6Ein1 [Del]

Ah, Avatar. I really loved this show. It was one of the very first few series that I was extremely committed to and watched 'till the end. I remember we didn't have the channel to watch this so the kids in my neighborhood would have to meet at a friend's house and watch from there.

I wished there was more episodes but I don't dislike it not being continued, I feel it's just enough. I was pretty hyped about the new Legend of Korra, but it didn't catch my attention enough.

Still love this show.

61 Name: karu : 2013-11-17 21:08 ID:3a5gckPD [Del]

i need to re watch this!

62 Name: Sakunya S. : 2013-11-18 11:10 ID:qMDF83Vf [Del]

I still need to watch this XP This show is still very liked, and i am just like "asd;glkj"

63 Name: Neige !h45CN3bvL2 : 2014-12-17 07:40 ID:N1z4E5RR [Del]

Over-a-year-since-last-bump bump.

I finally watched this series in season order after (literally) years of putting it off. Seriously, the files had been on my computer since the start of 2011, and it's fucking the end of 2014 now. I think I've perfected the art of procrastinating.

I did love it as a kid, but I never really watched it seriously for the story. I kinda just watched it the same way you'd watch cartoons afterschool, mostly for the bright colours and fight scenes. But it's so well done, it's amazing. The characters, the story, the univerise the pacing, it's all near fucking perfect, it just makes my head spin. It's the first time in ages that I've managed to get so immersed in a fictional world. It's glorious.

So yeah, it's awesome, 10/10 will probably buy on bluray and rewatch soon. I'm having my first bout of post-anime depression in a long time. Like always, it's the sign of a great show.

64 Name: Sayomi : 2014-12-17 14:19 ID:LHW8cWwm [Del]

I remember watching this when I was around 10, never thought I'd see it again to be honest! Im glad I watched it though (even though I ended up shipping Zutara for some reason o.O)

The sort of sequel to this (legend of korra) is pretty awesome aswell, but ya'know, the sequel can never beat the original.

65 Name: ang31x !mszflcyTKY : 2014-12-17 18:38 ID:vE7tX6J/ [Del]

I loved this anime before I even knew what anime was!!!

66 Name: Colorless Energy !O1jzujos12 : 2015-08-14 17:08 ID:rtcNBXcm [Del]

Bump for original thread

67 Name: KURO : 2015-08-14 20:58 ID:+3hU53PN (Image: 500x375 gif, 945 kb) [Del]

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avatar is probably the most epic show, with the most legit character development.

68 Name: A.I.d.A !ao.AgYdRoo : 2015-08-15 03:24 ID:FWyVC3BV [Del]

The Last Airbender was so bad.

Why must live action always fail anime?

69 Name: PandaFreak : 2015-08-15 04:50 ID:HeechwOn [Del]

>>68 Ikr...
This anime was my childhood
I love it so much
I had CDs (yeah CDs) of all the episodes
But I have no idea where they went and I certainly can't remember anything from it now XD

70 Name: Anonymous : 2015-08-16 19:32 ID:mJms/Xp4 [Del]

>>69

it's all available on netflix and worth rewatch.

71 Name: Roza : 2015-08-25 00:21 ID:gxrPyyFH [Del]

Look I really hope this is not true but....fuck smh

http://www.vcpost.com/articles/86253/20150823/avatar-last-airbender-2-updates-director-m-night-shyamalan-defends-first-film-ready-sequel.htm

72 Name: Easmea : 2015-08-25 00:33 ID:IdGNrgOC [Del]

This...is...my...childhood!

73 Name: Fray !W1Nq.7lGn2 : 2015-08-25 00:35 ID:AS+2JVST [Del]

>>71 I read that as he's confirmed that he wants to do a sequel, not that there will be. I mean, that movie flopped, I see no reason why nickelodeon would want him to make a sequel movie if they know it isn't going to make them any money.

At least god I hope so.

74 Name: Roza : 2015-08-25 00:37 ID:gxrPyyFH [Del]

I love how its says in the article "creators Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante Dimartino revealed that the two decided to pretend Shyamalan's big-screen adaptation didn't exist at all"

75 Name: Jilva : 2015-08-25 01:49 ID:HaikqtQU [Del]

There is a chance that the last airbender 2 will come out because even though the first one sucked it earned tons of money and got a lot of attention because it was so bad. Well noone is gonna watch it anyway:))

76 Name: Iarrthoir : 2015-08-26 08:43 ID:HPZKXar1 [Del]

I heard that there's going to be a Legend of Korra comic.

77 Name: Siren !SzqYl/82/w : 2015-08-26 16:35 ID:LDj/IiaJ [Del]

Sort of related:
They just announced a Korra blu ray collection, if nothing else it looked AMAZING in HD, so it's a good buy for any big fans. Not seen the design yet, I hope it's detailed and not just a typical cardboard flimsy box set.

78 Name: Easmea : 2015-09-06 02:58 ID:IdGNrgOC [Del]

This show was literally my childhood, there are no words to express how much I love this show.

79 Name: hazel : 2015-09-06 22:33 ID:7u9mKDHJ [Del]

http://www.vcpost.com/articles/86253/20150823/avatar-last-airbender-2-updates-director-m-night-shyamalan-defends-first-film-ready-sequel.htm

Last airbender 2 is circling..sadly.. I don't know if it's quite confirmed yet. Lets hope not.

80 Name: Neige !h45CN3bvL2 : 2015-09-07 08:12 ID:nLs2Mdtk [Del]

>>79 First was a financial and critical bomb. I wouldn't worry.

>>77 I hope they release the first series at some point as well. I want this series as a part of my collection, but I'm waiting until they release something special.

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Hey there, avatar here.



Yeah, I miss this series....

82 Name: Saika : 2015-10-19 19:05 ID:DjAuXuNJ [Del]

I loved this series! Zuko was my bae. XD

83 Name: Top Ramen : 2015-10-20 18:13 ID:RdP0o3px [Del]

I'm sure some people have already been arguing about if this is an anime or not. I don't really care. I enjoyed it.

84 Name: Intes !e/5s0l6leI : 2015-10-21 23:49 ID:klnGfSbR [Del]

I wish they would animate the comics into movies or something.