Avatar The Last Airbender is a television cartoon show that is regularly displayed on the Nickelodeon channel. The show emphasizes Chinese fighting techniques (e.g., Ba Gua, Tai Chi, Shaolin, etc.) and use of elemental manifestations. It is pretty much a combination of styles from Asian animes and styles of a normal cartoon. Having spawned many toys and movies, the cartoon has been a huge success here in the United States (and elsewhere); phenomenally, also, it has been nominated for many awards, including an Annie Award and an Emmy Award. In brevity, the show is about a young boy named Avatar Aang who is destined to become an avatar (i.e., the “spirit” of the entire world in a single human being), to save the world from an evil firelord name Ozai and his two children: Azula and Zuko. Aang goes through many trials and tribulations on his journeys, meets a plethora of friends, and completes a variety of tasks. Interestingly, although the show has been a target for individuals in their early teens, many older teens and adults watch it. Thus,records show that Avatar: The Last Airbender is a large success and phenomenal production.
Aang himself, the main protagonist of the series, is an “air nomad” (i.e., someone who is fluent with “airbending”) and the current avatar. As an avatar, Aang has the potential to master all the “bending skills”, i.e., Airbending, Waterbending, Earthbending, Firebending, and the unique “bending” skill, Energybending. Aang was trapped in an iceberg for one-hundred years making his chronological age one-hundred and twelve, although, biologically and mentally, he’s actually twelve. When he “awakens” from the ice cube, he sees that the world is dominated by war, and that the fire nation, under the leadership of firelord Ozai, has declared war on the other nations. Unfortunately, in waging the wars with the other nations, Ozai managed to destroy all the other air nomands, thus making Aang unique in being the “last airbender”. Aang, then, realizes that it is up to him to put an end to the fire nation’s domination of the world by mastering the other “bending” talents. Despite having lost all of his comrades, he keeps a calm, humorous, aloof demeanor. In helping him overcome the fire nation, he befriends many individuals, some of whom he has known for awhile, including: Appa (i.e., his trusty bison), Monk Gyatso (i.e., a fatherly figure who teaches him the ways of fighting), Kotara, Sokka, Toph and, interestingly, Zuko (i.e., the son of the fire lord), et al. Despite the difficult tasks, Aang and his comrades defeat Ozai and establish Zuko as the new peaceful and harmonious fire lord of the fire nation.
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