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Confessions of a Failed Anime Fan

Wed Jun 24, 2009, 2:10 AM
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.

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:iconchibiinu11:
I never watched it... I don't have television/cable/whatever you use to connect with television stations these days, so I only watch stuff easily available online. (Unless it's Doctor Who, in which case I make an effort.)

I never made an effort because that Aang kid sounded...really annoying. Hyperactive karate child turned me off big time.

That and the first episode I ever saw was the season 1 finale. The whole time was: "What the hell is going on!? Who are these people!?"

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:iconbassara:
Ah. XD Wellll I like to watch Aang kick butt with his skills..but I wouldn't say he's my favourite. He's a likeable enough main character though, so I was fine with it. And yeah :D plot actually HAPPENS in this cartoon, so watching all the episodes is probably necessary :). All in all, a good action-adventure series IMO. Though if you're not into martial arts series, then run far far away. :D

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:iconlionxlamb:
Glad you like the series, i did too :iconiloveitmoreplz:
Yet- I'm not too sure about the movie thats coming out, some of casting just..sucks.


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:iconbassara:
I watched the trailer and the best thing about it was...um. The CG effects of the fire from the fleet of ships ==U. Whoever they're getting to play Aang doesn't seem to be very good at martial arts....that and they changed all the nations' symbols...WHY?

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:iconlionxlamb:
I know. He's not what I was really hoping for. :iconidontloveitplz: None of it really is..And what's the point of even changing the symbols? I mean really..

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:iconkoreto-chan:
ah! avatar is awesome! >.< better late then never, i guess ^-^ i'm glad you've come to the aang side.

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:iconbassara:
Keke. I side with whatever satisfies my action-adventure needs D< and lately, all my typical shounen anime have been rather disappointing.

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:iconkoreto-chan:
yeah, it's very rare to find a good shounen. i'm more into kuroshitsuji at the moment but avatar never failed to impress me.

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:iconakikomiyahara:
I'm pretty sure there isn't going to be an Avatar 2.
Unless, like the conversation I had with my friends happens; Avatar: A Mother Of A Search, where Zuko goes to find his mom :D

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:iconbassara:
Welllll..it doesn't have to be about now :D They could flash back to the first Avatar. Or do a time skip.

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