Avatar: The Legend of Korra.

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While not exactly anime, Bryan Konietzko and Michael DiMartino, creators of Avatar: The Last Airbender have announced at the Wall Street Journal that they're making a follow-up tentatively titled The Legend of Korra.

I'm not giving away anything that's not in the article, but the new series will be set 70 years in the future from the end of ATLA and deal with the new Avatar, Korra, who looks to be from the Water Tribe. She'll learn airbending from Aang's son, Tenzin.

So, what say you about it? I'm game for another Avatar series as long as it's as good as the first. Also, it's probably the only anime-type show you'll see made by Americans for Americans any time soon.
 
While not exactly anime, Bryan Konietzko and Michael DiMartino, creators of Avatar: The Last Airbender have announced at the Wall Street Journal that they're making a follow-up tentatively titled The Legend of Korra.

I'm not giving away anything that's not in the article, but the new series will be set 70 years in the future from the end of ATLA and deal with the new Avatar, Korra, who looks to be from the Water Tribe. She'll learn airbending from Aang's son, Tenzin.

So, what say you about it? I'm game for another Avatar series as long as it's as good as the first. Also, it's probably the only anime-type show you'll see made by Americans for Americans any time soon.
 
"Next Generation" shows are usually never as good as the first. I don't think this new Avatar show will be in the quality minority, but you never know. Certainly I'm interested, but I'll wait for the fan reaction before actively getting my hopes up.
 
"Next Generation" shows are usually never as good as the first. I don't think this new Avatar show will be in the quality minority, but you never know. Certainly I'm interested, but I'll wait for the fan reaction before actively getting my hopes up.
 
"a passionate, rebellious, and fearless teenaged girl" who is hotheaded, independent and "ready to take on the world
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Does that not sound like every shonen show minus the girl? Honestly, Avatar is no different from an incredibly genric anime show. I don't know why people went so crazy for the show.
 
"a passionate, rebellious, and fearless teenaged girl" who is hotheaded, independent and "ready to take on the world
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Does that not sound like every shonen show minus the girl? Honestly, Avatar is no different from an incredibly genric anime show. I don't know why people went so crazy for the show.
 
The one thing I fear about the plot is that it sounds like every super hero cartoon/comic that's ever come out. Someone with super powers fights crime in a city (Spider-man, Spider-man, friendly neighborhood Spider-man!). But I guess "there's nothing new under the sun." The original series wasn't exactly novel either, but it was executed well. Hopefully they can do the same for this.

Call me young but I actually thought Star Trek: The Next Generation, was more enjoyable than the first.
 
The one thing I fear about the plot is that it sounds like every super hero cartoon/comic that's ever come out. Someone with super powers fights crime in a city (Spider-man, Spider-man, friendly neighborhood Spider-man!). But I guess "there's nothing new under the sun." The original series wasn't exactly novel either, but it was executed well. Hopefully they can do the same for this.

Call me young but I actually thought Star Trek: The Next Generation, was more enjoyable than the first.
 
KanjiiZ said:
"a passionate, rebellious, and fearless teenaged girl" who is hotheaded, independent and "ready to take on the world
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Does that not sound like every shonen show minus the girl? Honestly, Avatar is no different from an incredibly genric anime show. I don't know why people went so crazy for the show.
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well you probably have been watching anime for a long time, but for the up and coming generation, Avatar could of been the first they have seen, and not everyone watches anime in the US also, so cartoons is what they tend to watch, that is probably one reason Avatar became such a hit
 
KanjiiZ said:
"a passionate, rebellious, and fearless teenaged girl" who is hotheaded, independent and "ready to take on the world
Click to expand...

Does that not sound like every shonen show minus the girl? Honestly, Avatar is no different from an incredibly genric anime show. I don't know why people went so crazy for the show.
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well you probably have been watching anime for a long time, but for the up and coming generation, Avatar could of been the first they have seen, and not everyone watches anime in the US also, so cartoons is what they tend to watch, that is probably one reason Avatar became such a hit
 
I could not possibly be more excited for this. The new setting is exactly what I wanted out of sequel.

Honestly, Avatar is no different from an incredibly genric anime show.
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I hate most shounen shows but I love Avatar. A few reasons:

- It's not structured around battles. Apart from Aang's eventual goal of defeating Lord Ozai, combat between characters is treated realistically, ie they see each other, briefly try to kill each other and then get on with other things. You don't have this massive drawn out spectacle where Protagonist A vs Antogonist K is the focal point of an entire plot arc.

- The conflict feels like a real conflict. You get the impression that the war between the Fire nation and the rest is an actual war involving thousands of people on each side. In shounen anime conflicts, everything inevitably boils down to a handful of super-powered demigods butting heads. In Avatar that only happens at the finale.

- The fights are real fights. By which I mean the characters have no special attacks, so the elemental bending is treated like a martial art, with combatents stringing together a relatively small number of basic moves at the right time to win, rather than simply charging up a succession of increasingly more ludicrous insta-win techniques. It involves much more strategy and creativity.

Now, don't get me wrong. Is Avatar any "deeper" or more mature than your typical shounen brawl-fest? Hell no. Almost any big shounen title is darker and more complex. I just think it has them beaten in terms of characterisation and writing.
 
I could not possibly be more excited for this. The new setting is exactly what I wanted out of sequel.

Honestly, Avatar is no different from an incredibly genric anime show.
Click to expand...

I hate most shounen shows but I love Avatar. A few reasons:

- It's not structured around battles. Apart from Aang's eventual goal of defeating Lord Ozai, combat between characters is treated realistically, ie they see each other, briefly try to kill each other and then get on with other things. You don't have this massive drawn out spectacle where Protagonist A vs Antogonist K is the focal point of an entire plot arc.

- The conflict feels like a real conflict. You get the impression that the war between the Fire nation and the rest is an actual war involving thousands of people on each side. In shounen anime conflicts, everything inevitably boils down to a handful of super-powered demigods butting heads. In Avatar that only happens at the finale.

- The fights are real fights. By which I mean the characters have no special attacks, so the elemental bending is treated like a martial art, with combatents stringing together a relatively small number of basic moves at the right time to win, rather than simply charging up a succession of increasingly more ludicrous insta-win techniques. It involves much more strategy and creativity.

Now, don't get me wrong. Is Avatar any "deeper" or more mature than your typical shounen brawl-fest? Hell no. Almost any big shounen title is darker and more complex. I just think it has them beaten in terms of characterisation and writing.
 
KanjiiZ said:
"a passionate, rebellious, and fearless teenaged girl" who is hotheaded, independent and "ready to take on the world
Click to expand...

Does that not sound like every shonen show minus the girl? Honestly, Avatar is no different from an incredibly genric anime show. I don't know why people went so crazy for the show.
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I imagine for the same reason they go crazy for generic shonen action shows. It's fun. It's also an American TV cartoon with a defined narrative and ending point- that's honestly pretty rare for US cartoons. It's rare for generic shonen shows, too, now that I think about it...
 
DuelLadyS said:
I imagine for the same reason they go crazy for generic shonen action shows. It's fun. It's also an American TV cartoon with a defined narrative and ending point- that's honestly pretty rare for US cartoons. It's rare for generic shonen shows, too, now that I think about it...
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Yeah, my little cousins loved the original Avatar: The Last Airbender because it was the first show they watched that really dealt with some big themes (
as in a serious war, characters dying, etc
), an ongoing storyline, and it didn't insult their intelligence. It is radically different from the other American shows coming out about now and they really loved the different, more mature approach. I'm sure they will be very excited with this news.

Of course I'm excited too. I eagerly await the appearance of future Toph.

It looks like the main conflict will have something to do with the unhappiness of the general public with the benders' powers. It seems a little too obvious an allegory for racism and discrimination, but I bet they can pull it off. I'm also hoping for a more interesting love interest for the main character. I was not too big a fan of Katara.
 
KanjiiZ said:
"a passionate, rebellious, and fearless teenaged girl" who is hotheaded, independent and "ready to take on the world
Click to expand...

Does that not sound like every shonen show minus the girl? Honestly, Avatar is no different from an incredibly genric anime show. I don't know why people went so crazy for the show.
Click to expand...

I imagine for the same reason they go crazy for generic shonen action shows. It's fun. It's also an American TV cartoon with a defined narrative and ending point- that's honestly pretty rare for US cartoons. It's rare for generic shonen shows, too, now that I think about it...
 
DuelLadyS said:
I imagine for the same reason they go crazy for generic shonen action shows. It's fun. It's also an American TV cartoon with a defined narrative and ending point- that's honestly pretty rare for US cartoons. It's rare for generic shonen shows, too, now that I think about it...
Click to expand...

Yeah, my little cousins loved the original Avatar: The Last Airbender because it was the first show they watched that really dealt with some big themes (
as in a serious war, characters dying, etc
), an ongoing storyline, and it didn't insult their intelligence. It is radically different from the other American shows coming out about now and they really loved the different, more mature approach. I'm sure they will be very excited with this news.

Of course I'm excited too. I eagerly await the appearance of future Toph.

It looks like the main conflict will have something to do with the unhappiness of the general public with the benders' powers. It seems a little too obvious an allegory for racism and discrimination, but I bet they can pull it off. I'm also hoping for a more interesting love interest for the main character. I was not too big a fan of Katara.
 
Like LeanGreen and DuelLadyS point out, it's a rare product of the US cartoon series, that it had fairly grand narrative and took itself seriously it the world it developed. Premises wise, yeah its fairly generic with the "youth destined to save a world/nation/whatever with his band of friends". But execution is often what saves or kills a series and Avatar was very well done. Not to mention it was good enough to make it to its intended ending. Few series with narratives in the US make it to the end.

It took a while to develop its joke deliveries but the series was well written, a detailed world and with its defined set of rules, and good animation and attention to detail. Probably the only down side was that he was still a little bit limited to being a kids series so jokes had to find their pacing (something that makes the kids laugh but like LeanGreen points out, doesn't insult their intelligence), and the intensity of its potential action probably had to be held back compared to what you would be use to in the average Shonen series. But working within its broadcasting restrictions and genre expectation, it was a very well done show. Especially for the US.

I enjoyed the series overall. Especially once you get into the later half of the first volume when the show starts to find its groove. I look forward to the new series. Avatar Z baby.
 
Avatar is proabaly the best thing Nick produced in terms of animation since Rugrats and The Fairly Odd Parents honestly(Spongebob should be condemmed to the lowest level of hell). As a a series, it just executed itself really well. Even though I was only 11 or 12 when it first came out, I was like the rest of you, expecting it to be generic good vs bad, awesome power propoganda, However from the first episode I could tell right away they were going for something more. The episodic adventures of Season 1 though annoying at times, really allowed the viewer to get the feel that it IS a war-torn world in the series, and everyone has their issues with it. I honestly preferred the much larger step in narrative, taken in Books 2 and 3 though as they didn't beat around the bush with new characters and storyline development, and they incorporated twist that actually felt like plot twists(I don't think anyone expected Book 2 to end the way it did).

Now as for this new series, I'm pretty excited, Yes the storyline doesn't seem like anything new, but neither did the initial outline for the first series. I am going to enter it with slightly higher expectations than I did with the first because I now know the creators can indeed write a good story, but I don't expect to be blown away by the first 2 minutes of the thing. I am looking forward to new characters though...especially Aang's son...
 
Like LeanGreen and DuelLadyS point out, it's a rare product of the US cartoon series, that it had fairly grand narrative and took itself seriously it the world it developed. Premises wise, yeah its fairly generic with the "youth destined to save a world/nation/whatever with his band of friends". But execution is often what saves or kills a series and Avatar was very well done. Not to mention it was good enough to make it to its intended ending. Few series with narratives in the US make it to the end.

It took a while to develop its joke deliveries but the series was well written, a detailed world and with its defined set of rules, and good animation and attention to detail. Probably the only down side was that he was still a little bit limited to being a kids series so jokes had to find their pacing (something that makes the kids laugh but like LeanGreen points out, doesn't insult their intelligence), and the intensity of its potential action probably had to be held back compared to what you would be use to in the average Shonen series. But working within its broadcasting restrictions and genre expectation, it was a very well done show. Especially for the US.

I enjoyed the series overall. Especially once you get into the later half of the first volume when the show starts to find its groove. I look forward to the new series. Avatar Z baby.
 
Avatar: The Legend of Korra

I can't think of any way they can make it any different from what they have already done but just have to wait and see.
 
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