Avatar The Last Airbender (Anime or....?)

[sandwraith]

Tween girls do help the popularity of shows like Avatar. The whole shipping wars between ZuTara and KatAang which were eventually superseded by MaiKo(which I loved. Really. Mai's awesome.)helped the series gain more popularity. I think the series has one of the strongest female fanbase an animated series could have. I mean, not Twilight-level fanbase but respectable enough.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I hate shipping more than almost anything else in the universe.

 

[sandwraith]

Hey, I'm not crazy about it either but even on certain editorial staff, shipping wars exist (COUGH>GWEN<COUGH).

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I know, it's everywhere. I just don't really care to see or participate in it. Who might end up with whom is a passing thought for me as I watch the show, not a fairy tale ending to become obsessed with.

 

[sandwraith]

C'mon Corp. It's embedded in all of us. I mean, I feel wrong somehow thinking of Peter Parker with anyone other than Mary Jane. Clark with Lois, Snake-Eyes with Scarlett, Robin Hood and Marion,The Monarch and Dr.Girlfriend. Hootie and his Blowfish. Sometimes a character or two shows up to roil the waters a little (Black Cat, Lana Lang, etc.etc) and it creates intrigue! And people LOVE intrigue couple with sexual tension. It makes for good TV, comics and even in video games.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

just watched all four parts of sozins comet for the first time...omg, that was epic. I seriously hope legend of kora does well enough to get picked up as a full series, or else I'm gonna go into withdrawal from the geniuses that created this stuff.

 

[Lord]

Didn't know there were so many who thought this was anime, i mean, it was made in American, so that should give you a clue what it really is.

I think it's boring.

I hope you know what you missed npw

As compared to....?

So far I enjoy the characters of the story, having >ahem< downloaded the entire Book 1 and latest episodes from Book 2. A lot of my friends compare Avatar to Naruto. There are some similarities in terms of the ages of the two main characters but personally I like Avatar better because its just one of those shows that you feel at ease with. The best part is that it isn't draggy, it ain't a 200+ series with no end in sight yet through excellent writing, you get an idea of the cultures and societies that make up the world of Avatar.

I never thought it should be compared to Naruto, it does have elements of a shonen and those precede Naruto by years, then again at the time Naruto was probably the most famous anime in the USA, so i can see where the comparisons came from.

But it's also very different, while Naruto has to follow a manga and to insert filler in order to give a healthy gap between the chapters and the episodes, Avatar could do whatever it wanted anytime, and the fillers would therefore be able to be part of the story instead of just filling time.

And the creators of Avatar had the entire plot in their minds from the very inception, while Naruto keeps dragging and due to the lack of planing there's a clear drop in quality. It also doesn't help that one of the few good things it had with a loser main character were now made void with the revelation that he's also a chosen one, a cliché that has been done to death that Avatar: The Last Airbender was able to use in a different and interesting way.

By the way, 2nd threat incoming.

 

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