I'd say it's a Western anime, just like how there's Western hentai. Does it have to be made in Japan for Japan to be called an anime? Naruto is made in Korea and exported to Japan. Avatar is made in Korea and exported in America. So what's the big deal? When you think about it, they're both Korean-made cartoons about teenagers who have mystical powers aligned with the natural elements and star a young boy who is (at the show's beginning) too unskilled for the challenges which he has been destined to confront for a century. Seem pretty darn similar to me!![]()
... come again? Aang ... discovers he's the Avatar ... after 100 years have passed? And what did you say? "Lone Avatar," was it? As in, "in our movie universe, there were once many avatars who coexisted, but now Aang is the last one" !?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?Air, Water, Earth, Fire. Four nations tied by destiny when the Fire Nation launches a brutal war against the others. A century has passed with no hope in sight to change the path of this destruction. Caught between combat and courage, Aang (Noah Ringer) discovers he is the lone Avatar with the power to manipulate all four elements.
I don't think the movies are going to be able to hold a candle to the series. Never minding the actors' ethnicities, the official trailer's website has text on the iPhone page which reads:
... come again? Aang ... discovers he's the Avatar ... after 100 years have passed? And what did you say? "Lone Avatar," was it? As in, "in our movie universe, there were once many avatars who coexisted, but now Aang is the last one" !?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?
I can only hope for the theater audiences that this text was written by someone unfamiliar with the series and that what they really meant to write was that Aang is the last Airbender and that he reveals himself to be the Avatar (to Katara and Sokka) after his 100 years-absence.
$50 says though that Shama-llama-ding-dong introduces either Zuko or Ozai has being another Avatar, i.e. a master over the four elements, by the end of Movie #3. And if I'm right? And I'm $50 richer because of it? The movies are going to blow hard.