The Award winning Avatar: The Last Airbender has finally come home in the form of an completed collection. Coming in premium packaging, new cover art, and a whopping 16 DVDs, this collection provides owners with all three glorious seasons of the series that may have changed Nick’s entire perception on the action genre being aimed at children.
Avatar: The Last Airbender is an 2005 action/adventure series, it is produced and developed by Nickelodeon. It is currently available via streaming services and DVD.
Avatar is one of the few animated series not aimed at adults that has a special place in my heart. Having watched it since it premiered in 2005 (yes literally 10 years ago), I was impressed by how far the series could go for a program on Nickelodeon, especially given Nick wasn’t exactly crazy for action oriented cartoons aimed at children during that time, but Avatar was full of it, as well as emotion, drama, and some seriously dark themes for an Nickelodeon cartoon. Perhaps the certain levels of darkness series creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko were allowed to use was one of the main reasons why so many easily fell in love with the series. The amazing animation for it’s time, writing, and characters were also enticing to many over it’s three season course.
THE GOOD: Avatar: The Last Airbender the complete series, includes every single episode of the entire three seasons, 61 episode ran series. The excellent animation & action gave off some fun anime vibes, which was appreciated among many of the fans of the series. The series (being a coming of age themed cartoon) knew when to go dark, and pushed just how far it could go with it’s tone and rating.
THE BAD: Speaking o the actual DVD set itself, there was zero new content, which was somewhat disappointing.
OVERALL THOUGHTS: Avatar: The Last Airbender the Complete Series, brings the excellent series home again in a new collection. While there was no new content present, which was a disappointment, for newcomers of the series who started with The Legend of Korra, or have completed avoided the franchise altogether it’s hard to skip out on the new bundle. The excellent writing, action, animation, and plenty more to bring old fans back, and newcomers in, is too tempting to miss. Otaku Dome gives Avatar: The Last Airbender the Complete Series an 89 out of 100.
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