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Welcome to Avatar Shrine, your unofficial source for Nickelodeon's Avatar:
The Last Airbender animated series.
What is Avatar?
Avatar: The Last Airbender, (also known as Avatar: The Legend of Aang)
is an increasingly popular American TV animation, co-created and executively
produced by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko and first broadcasted
on Nickelodeon on 21 February 2005.
It is many Asian influences, including anime, (Studio Ghibli's and Hayao
Miyazaki's works in particular) martial arts and elemental magic, and
follows the story of a twelve-year-old boy named Aang who is the last
in a long line of 'Avatars'. These powerful beings are master of all elements
and are vital in the world's ever shifting balance.
However, just before the great war with the Fire Nation when his people
needed him most, Aang vanished from the world for many years, trapped in
a huge block of ice with his faithful flying bison, Appa. The series starts
one hundred years after this event when two young siblings called Katara
and Sokka from the Water Tribe find Aang and release him from his icy prison.
Soon after they find out his true identity as the Avatar who betrayed the
world a century ago and decide to join him in his quest to stop the Fire
Nation and restore the world's balance.
The animation of Avatar: The Last Airbender is strongly based on Japanese
anime, and is sometimes mistaken for it. This is understandable though,
as the series is such a blend of American cartoons and Japanese anime that
it can hardly be called either.
Originally intended for a young audience, Avatar: The Last Airbender, sometimes
thought of as "childish" is in reality an amusing tale of wonderful
characters, beautiful animation and edge-of-your-seat action. The series'
immense popularity has spawned forty episodes over two seasons and Nickelodeon
are already planning season three to air in America in 2007. |
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