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Inspired by a post made by Zor,
In 1955 Michael D.B. Konietzko made a Book based on the series of Avatar: The Last Airbender The Boy in the Iceburg, 1957 Avatar: The Burning Earth, and in 1959 Avatar:The Phoenix King. The Books are very accurate on the adventures of Avatar Aang and the Gaang, Later on in another two or so years The Legend of Korra was released telling the adventures of Season 1. Both books have a map of the world and telling the stregnths and weaknesses of bending.


How would these books be viewed to people of the day??
 
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Inspired by a post made by Zor,
In 1955 Michael D.B. Konietzko made a Book based on the series of Avatar: The Last Airbender The Boy in the Iceburg, 1957 Avatar: The Burning Earth, and in 1959 Avatar:The Phoenix King. The Books are very accurate on the adventures of Avatar Aang and the Gaang, Later on in another two or so years The Legend of Korra was released telling the adventures of Season 1. Both books have a map of the world and telling the stregnths and weaknesses of bending.


How would these books be viewed to people of the day??
making them a series of short stories would make more sense. Either that or we lose a lot of filler. Oh, did I say "either"? I meant "hopefully*."


*I'm looking at you, "the Great Divide"
 
The only way they would have been made in the '50s would have been as a South Korean or Taiwanese Manwha, with chapters pumped out either monthly (roughly two episodes of story material) or weekly (roughly 1/2 episode of story material, except for "Tales of Ba Sing Se:" each tale would take a full chapter or five chapters in total). There are simply too many Buddhist themes in the work for it to connect with any Western audience before the late '60s.

Aside from export to other SE Asian countries with large Chinese minorities (Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Phillipines) and possibly bootleg copies in the PRC and North American Chinatowns, it remains obscure until finally translated into Japanese in the early '80s and published by either Shonen Magazine, Shonen Jump or Shonen Sunday. Some Japanese, or maybe even Korean animation studio animates it, and it's either syndicated in the U.S. by DIC or Harmony Gold, or else picked up by Nickelodeon and shown as part of a block along with Spartacus and the Sun Beneath the Sea, Belle and Sebastian, and The Mysterious Cities of Gold.

Naturally, Moral Guardians will be outraged. The Moral Majority will be up in arms about a cartoon that regards war to be a nescessary evil at best, and pointless destruction at worse. The idea that ecological carelessness has severe consequences will be seen as even worse!

Oddly enoungh, in Japan, I see the anime version having a profound influence on this one young boy named Kishimoto Masashi...
 
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The only people who don't like The Great Divide are the ones that erroneously think it was filler…

The creators said themselves they don't consider 'The Great Divide' canon. They even made a joke about it in the episode 'The Ember Island Players'. Don't get butthurt about it. It was certainly filler.
 
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