Warning: EPIC (shortened already) WALL OF TEXT AHEAD. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. For those of you who have my type of attention span >>> TL;DR: Avatar was awesomesauce. Why didn't I finish it earlier?

Fine! I'll admit it! I'm apparently not the anime fan I thought I was, seeing as my new favourite animated series is one of those series stuck on the border. "Do we call it anime?" "But it was made in America!" "Uh, lots of the people involved were asian though!" "Americanime? But that's the name we give to failed anime-wannabes like Martin Mystery!" For the record, I don't know what to call it, so I'll simply call it my favourite animated series.


Talk about being late to the party. In my defense D< I totally caught the first episode, the first time it aired and watched through the whole first season and a half...until university came around. Curse you post-secondary education!! As a culturally identified banana, Avatar felt. so. freaking. familiar. I'll always be the first to say it: I'm not that well learned in the asian-half of my cultural identity. Regardless, I've had enough exposure to certain elements of it that, if you're going to pass your series off as a "chinese martial arts series", you'd better do. it. right. And Avatar did just that. (For the record, Forbidden Kingdom did NOT do it right. Really. It wasn't ok. Wiki lies.) It had those wonderful rhythmic actions with the perfect pauses in between all their moves and stances. Heck, it HAD stances....and distinct fighting styles. It had old people! Who were cool! It had convoluted plots that occured simultaneously. It had all the important characters always doing something, instead of conveniently disappearing and reappearing. It had a cliche epic fight conclusion complete with giant shiny ball of light reaching to the heavens. (Ok. I lied. That's not usually part of chinese martial arts series.) More or less, Avatar was like a typical chinese martial arts series, minus the horrid CG beams. Yes, horrid CG beams are a staple of the genre, comes with the territory. Anyways, thanks to Nickelodeon and those two guys whose last names are too foreign for me to remember XD. Being OCDish, I just searched 'em up >> Dimartino and Konietzko. Thanks for a greattttt seerrrieesss. And curse you guys for having so many cliche things similar to ParaShi. Now all our fans will think we're copycats 8D. Naah, I still love you, my beloved Avatar series. D: Here's to hoping for Avatar 2.