The addition of Toph to the protagonist's side and Azula to the antagonists adds immeasurably to the series.
#Will we ever get a new avatar series series
Books Two and Three really amp up the plotline, concentrate on the core of the overall story arc, and the look of the series improves more than you can imagine. I admit that Book One was episodic and a little hard to get through. Chock-full of action, character development, plot twists, and some of the best and most awesome animation you'll probably ever see in your lifetime, Avatar the Last Airbender makes most anime look like it's standing still. For a series that isn't really anime, it's the best anime series I've seen in a long time. Like, Lord of the Rings "epic", like Battlestar Galactica "epic". It takes a lot to get me to review another DVD in the same series. Reviewed by Lawrence Sufrin, December 2006īelow: Promotional art from Avatar: The Last Airbender Perhaps there is hope for American television after all. Besides, if you raise them on good stuff, they'll want good stuff when they're adults. Do not worry they'll appreciate the fact that they're not being talked down to. To describe the characters and the complex web of schemes and counter-schemes that permeate this saga would make you believe that it would be all too much for the little kiddies. The scripts here are more mature than most of the shows running on ABC-TV during prime time. Leave it to a childrens' network not to talk down to children. It is an intelligently written epic with all the impact of Lord of the Rings. It's probably the best-animated series they've come up with since The Mysterious Cities of Gold (a show it resembles in some ways). Can the Last Avatar reunite humanity and save his world?Īvatar The Last Airbender is the surprise hit series from Nickelodeon. He's going to need all the friends he can get as he confronts the great armies of the four nations. Now, he's out and not quite ready for the challenge he must face in this bleak, desolate realm.įortunately, Aang has found some new friends in a waterbender named Katara and her warrior brother Sokka. An Airbender of great power named Aang who has been locked in ice for a century. Regrettably, he is a twelve-year-old boy. Each nation fought the other for total domination of the world. The world of man had divided into four nations representing the four elements (Earth, Air, Fire and Water). Reviewed by Brian Cirulnick, November 2012 It's rare to find a sequel better than the original, and this (so far) is it in every way. The series hasn't hit DVD yet, but is available as digital downloads on Amazon, so grab 'em and view them at high-def on your iPad. So much happens in every episode, you've got to watch each one twice to take it all in. The wonderful steampunk/industrial cityscapes combined with the amazingly choreographed fight sequences (seriously, the best kung-fu you've ever seen) make this series completely killer. Korra has the most luscious look of any anime series I've ever experienced. There's the rise of a terrorist group representing non-benders who feel that they are being treated as second class citizens, and they are lead by the mysterious and charismatic Amon, who poses the gravest threat ever to all benders - he has the power to take away a person's bending, permanently. So she travels to meet with her airbending master, only to discover that Republic City isn't the harmonious place the previous Avatar envisioned. After mastering Water, Earth and Fire, she's ready to learn Air-bending, but because so few airbenders exist (they are all the offspring of Aang and Kitarra), she's disappointed to learn that her trainer has other issues to deal with in Republic City, a place founded by Aang as a central location by which all the nations and tribes can live together in harmony. She's the opposite of Aang in every way, much to the consternation of her trainers. Set some 70 years after the events in the original series, we are introduced to a new Avatar in training, a young waterbender with a firey spirit. It's simply the greatest made-for-tv epic I've ever seen animated or otherwise. At (so far) 12 episodes, it blows the original out of the water and sets its hair on fire. Well, the same crew that brought us Avatar, have topped themselves and the Japanese with "Legend Of Korra", which is the tightest scripted, most gorgeously animated, most excellently designed and choreographed non-anime anime that's ever been done. It was simply the strongest non-anime anime series ever created. When I finally sat down to watch and review "Avatar The Last Airbender" some time back, I was not just blown away, I was blown on the floor, through the door and out onto the street - Avatar was the most epic, Epic series I'd ever seen, a true credit to the scriptwriters and storyboard artists who made it happen on this side of the ocean.
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