![]() As an an Indian (South Asian, non-diasporic) student of English Literature who was (and is) often engaged with online, predominantly Anglophone media fandoms, and with interest in East Asian popular cultures, I was able to appreciate to some extent how singular Avatar was: an English-language anime-inspired American cartoon that didn’t have any white people at all, but was, in fact, populated by characters based clearly in Asian and Amerindian/Inuit cultures. ![]() While I wasn’t immediately gripped by the show itself– looking back it’s a little hard to believe– I was compelled to file it away for future reference. I’d become interested in the original series pretty late in the day, in early 2009, and watched a few episodes out of order. viewers, but you could also not be one and still get to keep up if you had a reasonably fast internet connection. and webcast on the Nickelodeon website for U.S. ![]() ![]() The first season of Legend of Korra, the follow-up to the ground-breaking animated show Avatar: the Last Airbender (2005-2008), ended just last month. ![]()
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