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Genre: Adventure
System(s): PS2
ESRB: Unknown
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Avatar: The Last Airbender (known as Avatar: The Legend of Aang in the UK) is an American animated television series airing on Nickelodeon since February 21, 2005. Produced at Nickelodeon Animation Studios in Burbank, California, and animated in South Korea, it was co-created and executive produced by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko (the latter of whom also serves as art director and character designer).
Set in a fantastic, Asian-influenced world of martial arts and elemental magic, Avatar follows the adventures of Aang, the successor to a long line of Avatars, and his friends Katara, Sokka and later Toph, in their quest to save the world from the merciless Fire Nation, while avoiding capture by their pursuer Prince Zuko.
In the US, new episodes air Friday nights at 8 PM Eastern Standard Time in Nickelodeon's Friday Night block of programming. Repeats (though not necessarily of Friday's episode) air on Saturday and Sunday at 11:30 am EST, and Monday through Thursdays on NickToons Network at 6 and 6:30 PM as well. In Canada it airs on YTV at 11:30 am in the Vortex block of programming, It airs on the UK's NickToons TV weekdays at 4 PM (currently only showing repeats of series 1 at 7 PM Mon-Fri). It airs on Nickelodeon Australia Saturdays and Sundays at 4 PM in the SLAM block of programming. A consistently high ratings performer in the Nicktoons lineup, even outside of its intended 6-to-11 year-old demographic, Avatar is popular with both audiences and critics. The series' success has prompted Nickelodeon to order another twenty-episode season, which began airing on March 17, 2006.[1] The show is also available on iTunes.
Avatar is one of only a few Nicktoons with an on-going storyline.
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