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    Avatar: The Last Airbender

    2005 · Action · 3 seasons

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  2. Avatar: The Last Airbender, also known as Avatar: The Legend of Aang in some regions, is an American animated fantasy action television series created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko and produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio.

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    Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko began work on the series at NickelodeonAnimation Studios in Burbank, California. According to Bryan Konietzko, the program was conceived in the spring of 2001 when he took an old sketch of a balding, middle-aged man and re-imagined the character as a child. Konietzko drew the character herding bison in th...

    Aang (Zachary Tyler Eisen) is the fun-loving, 112-year-old protagonist of the series, who is biologically twelve years old but was frozen in an iceberg for one hundred years. He is the current inca...

    One hundred years before the start of the series, a twelve year old airbender named Aang learns that he is the new Avatar. Fearful of the heavy responsibilities of stopping an impending world war and with the impending separation from his mentor, Monk Gyatso, Aang flees from home on his flying bison, Appa. During a fierce storm, they crash into the...

    Ratings

    When the show debuted, it was rated the best animated television series in its demographic; new episodes averaged 1.1 million viewers each. A one-hour special showing of "The Secret of the Fire Nation" which aired on September 15, 2006, consisting of "The Serpent's Pass" and "The Drill", gathered an audience of 4.1 million viewers. According to Nielsen Media Research, the special was the best performing cable television show airing in that week. In 2007, Avatarwas syndicated to more than 105...

    Anime or cartoon

    1. Main article: Influences on the Avatar franchise#Anime The debate over Avatar being considered an anime is a controversial one; one reviewer commented that "Avatar blurs the line between anime and (US) domestic cartoons until it becomes irrelevant". Avatarhas many features typical of anime, such as a color palette distinctive from most American cartoons. According to an interview with the artists of Avatar, Appa's design was based on the Catbus in My Neighbor Totoro, due to the peculiar ta...

    Promotion and merchandising

    1. See also: Merchandise Avatar's success has led to some promotional advertising with third-party companies, such as Burger King and Upper Deck Entertainment. Avatar-themed roller coasters at Kings Island and at Nickelodeon Universe in the Mall of America also appeared. During the show's runtime, Nickelodeon published two special issues of Nick Mag Presents dedicated entirely to the show. Various members of the Avatar staff and cast appeared at the 2006 San Diego Comic-Con International conv...

    Feature film

    1. Main article: Film:The Last Airbender On January 8, 2007, Paramount Pictures' MTV Films and Nickelodeon Movies announced that they signed M. Night Shyamalan to write, direct, and produce a trilogy of live-action films based on the series; the first of these films encompasses the main characters' adventures in Book One. The film was in a dispute with James Cameron's film Avatar regarding title ownership, which resulted in the film being titled The Last Airbender. It was released on July 1,...

    Games

    1. See also: List of Avatar games A video game trilogy about Avatar has been created: Avatar: The Last Airbender, the video game, was released on October 10, 2006; Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Burning Earth was released on October 16, 2007, and Avatar: The Last Airbender – Into the Infernowas released on October 13, 2008. The three games were loosely based on seasons one, two and three, respectively. Players can select characters and complete quests to gain experience and advance the stor...

    All three books of the series begin on a vessel of some type: Sokka and Katara are first seen ice fishing in "The Boy in the Iceberg"; a cutter sailing ship carrying Master Pakku and Team Avatar is...
    Giancarlo Volpe has stated that the production had to change the title of the show from Avatar to Avatar: The Last Airbenderin 2004, as James Cameron already held the rights for the first name.
    Influences on the Avatarfranchise
    The graphic novels bridging the seventy years between Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra
  3. Avatar: The Last Airbender is a series produced by Netflix in partnership with Nickelodeon, aiming to retell the story of Avatar: The Last Airbender in a live action format.

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › AangAang - Wikipedia

    Avatar Aang ( Chinese: 安昂; pinyin: Ān Áng ), or simply Aang, is the titular protagonist of Nickelodeon 's animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender (created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko ), voiced by Zach Tyler Eisen.

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