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[askerian]

-Naruto manga: Once again, I have nothing much to say except for eeeee uzumaki/namikaze family. ;^; waugh.


-Bweee!! They're making a sequel to Avatar the Last Airbender -- and I don't mean a second live-action movie, I mean the original authors are coming back with the story of the next avatar after Aang, who is a girl. She looks really badass from this... okay, this lone concept picture which might be totally misteading. But! Water Tribe avatar! IN A STEAMPUNK WORLD. AND PEOPLE PROTESTING BENDERS. be still my heart. God please make it not suck. *_*

Q: The new “Avatar” is a woman. What inspired you to change the sex of the protagonist of the series?

Michael DiMartino: It’s not so much about changing because we had Avatar Kyoshi before Aang. We’d established that the Avatar can be male or female and we just thought let’s explore one of those more in depth, because Kyoshi was a popular character with a lot of fans and it seemed like a great opportunity to not retread what we’d done with Aang, who was a great hero, we all loved him, but we really wanted to try something different. And we have so many great female fans out there, who really responded to Katara in the first series, we thought we have the fan base who are really going to enjoy seeing the Avatar be a female.

Konietzko: Mike and I, we love those characters too, and we’ve encountered countless fans who are male who really like those characters too. We just don’t subscribe to the conventional wisdom that you can’t have an action series led by a female character. It’s kinda nonsense to us.

nnngh ♥♥♥♥♥♥


-... no, you know what, i'll make a separate post for this one. >______> i've got drabbly silliness on the brain.

Comments

[heeroluva.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I'm not sure what to think about this.

[theodosia21 (from livejournal.com)]

I'm excited! ^_^

[(Anonymous)]

I wonder if the son/daughter of Zuko and Mai's son/daughter will show up too. Grandaddy!Zuko would be the greatest thing, as would Grandmama!Mai.

[jena13.livejournal.com]

I am SO EXCITED about the new Avatar! The fact that she's a girl is sweet icing on a kickass cake.

Amusingly enough, the link that I found about it first was titled something like "Sequel to The Last Airbender due out in 2011" and I was like "aww man they're making a sequel to that awful movie? ffffuuuu-" and then I clicked on the link and read the article and started squeeeing for joy. It was pretty awesome. ^-^;; Though I think this artist (http://jena13.deviantart.com/#/d2ujzcd) may have had the best reaction.

(I'm also secretly snickering at the anguish so many hardcore Zutara shippers are probably feeling right now, but that may just be because I'm evil. >.>)

[askerian]

XD I like zutara, but I don't get why those people can't just imagine fanfics where aang and katara break up and call it a day. Maybe it's my yaoi mindset. Anyway they'll be old and wrinkled so I doubt they'll still be shippable. IDK, they could imagine they had a lifelong affair or katara broke up with aang right after she had the kid or something if they absolutely HAVE to ship them in the new series too.

(then again my fave ship is jet/zuko, so. YEAH, HALF OF MY SHIP IS DEAD YOU BITCHES, STOP COMPLAINING. >((( )

[mikkeneko.livejournal.com]

On the other hand, remember that Katara's grandma and her teacher Paku got together when they were both old and wrinkled, sooo yeah. XD

[just-shai.livejournal.com]

Where do you read your manga?

[askerian]

mangastream.com for naruto and bleach. all others i read at onemanga.com, but it's closing. waugh.

[just-shai.livejournal.com]

I usually read at OneManga. Was DEVASTATED that they're closing. Very much wish they would open up a pay-site if they're so worried about profit. I wants my manga! D: D: D:

[askerian]

uh, where did you read they were worried about profit? they're closing because the manga publishers are talking lawsuits at them, there's not exactly a choice there. if you mean the manga publishers should open a paysite, well, perhaps, but that's not gonna happen for a while, and also it would be way too easy to save the pics and redistribute them anyway so in the end that wouldn't change much for them.

[just-shai.livejournal.com]

Sorry, misplaced phrasing. I did mean the publishers. I thought it might work like ePubs for eBooks, but I'm really not very familiar with the technology/whathaveyou. I just know I'm greedy and don't want to wait a year or more for the (lost the word here..) booky things to come out.

[m-a-foxfire.livejournal.com]

Eee eee eee Mike and Bryan are kind of my new favorite people.

[tephra]

There's a hi-res version of that teaser image out there, in case anyone else wants it for a wallpaper. :)

[askerian]

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. *SAVES*

ohh, i love her stance SO HARD. roarr.

[tephra]

Nice strong stance, nice strong figure... I keep clearing my desktop to look at her. ♥

[tephra]

In a post on atla_fandom over on JournalFen. No idea where they found it since that's the only place I have seen the link.

[eleature.livejournal.com]

Squeeeeeee!

I think I love those two (the creators of the serie).

[askerian]

I think I would have as well if I still cared about iruka XD;;; as it was, it was a sad part anyway, i wish i could have gotten the personal zing of specific attachment. XD;; then again the rest of the chapter made up for it. wauuuugh.

[(Anonymous)]

My, that's pretty. I'd seen the teaser before, but I didn't realize it was of a woman, and the Avatar. That's pretty interesting.

-- Guile

[nothri.livejournal.com]

I hate to be a huge downer here, but regarding the whole action series and the female character being the lead actor and so on...well, there actually is a trend like that- you have series like She-ra which involves an action cartoon and a lead character. Know what that has in common with this? Its essentially a female version of a male character- in the case of She-ra, He-man came first, was popular, and got this as a spin-off series. And now here we have a female version of Avatar....I feel awful saying this, but I kinda feel like this isn't particularly groundbreaking. The devil's advocate in me wants to take on an ultra feminist stance and point out that- yes, you aren't subscribing to the conventional wisdom that you can't have an action series led by a female character. You are subscribing to the conventional wisdom that you can't have an action series unless their female character has had a male character version of herself test the waters first and prove its safe and viable for marketing.

[askerian]

That's still infinitely better than no female main character at all. Which is what we'd get, if we went "oh but this girl hero is just a copy of a boy hero so she can't happen, nevermind let's cancel it", which means there wouldn't be the potential success of the girlhero-following-a-boyhero as an encouraging precedent for an actual original-series girlhero, and people could keep whining "but there's a reason there's so little female heroes, it's because no one watches them !"

I'm not saying brykke are genderblind or magically all-feminist and aang just only happened to be a boy because they flipped a coin (though far as we know, it could have happened because yes, boys are just about one half of the world out here and it's not automatically evil to go with a non-girl, especially with he'd been incarnated as a woman before) -- but complaining of gender fail in this? God, so many other places to look first. How about all those other hundreds of action series where the women aren't even good, engaging sidekicks?

They said themselves they weren't interested in revisiting Aang. I seriously doubt she's going to be Aang with boobs. The setting is going to be different, even the universe surrounding them has evolved. It's not "the genderflipped gAang's adventures". Likely there will be themes in common because they're the same authors, but it just so happens I liked a lot of the themes I saw in the first run. The rest I don't care about. Avatar is a fascinating universe and usually has good character building, and I'm not going to complain that she wasn't the hero of the first run, because she's the hero of the second, and for all we know it could be even better than the first.

[okamikaze.livejournal.com]

:de-lurks:

Bweeeee for Avatar sequel. I'm totally excited. Knowing how well they handled strong female characters, I'm so totally excited for the new Avatar to be awesome and not a Mary Sue.

[mikkeneko.livejournal.com]

Insofar as a protagonist can be a Mary Sue.

[okamikaze.livejournal.com]

Not sure what you're trying to say here. I'm just saying that the creators do a very good job of portraying strong female characters really really well, which is really hard to do sometimes. I admire their character development.

[mikkeneko.livejournal.com]

My bad for actually reading the comments on ONTD, but from this guy who wanted Joss Whedon to direct a new movie: He proved with Firefly that he could handle an Asian-heavy future-verse

...oh, did he really?

[askerian]

... -___-;;; that's the one where the ...lots of white people and the two black people main cast throw out chinese words here and there on a background of vaguely asianized western and there's not one asian person to be seen in the main or secondary cast?

I love firefly, but seriously that part was rather hella headdesky. At least half the main cast should have been eurasian or plain Chinese, but what a coincidence, none of them were.

[mikkeneko.livejournal.com]

The very one, yup. I mean, not that I'm saying Joss Whedon wouldn't have done a better job of an ATLA movie than M. Night did, but man, don't try to point to Firefly for proof.

[sour-idealist.livejournal.com]

EEEEEEEEEE you have gotta be kidding me! Seriously?! And... girl-Avatar! And Aang's son! And we'll get to see what happened! And...sorry, I'm clogging up your comment box now, but YAY.

[ticktocktober.livejournal.com]

what

WHAT

HOW DID I MISS THIS FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF-

The muscles, oh my god SHE HAS MUSCLES. [insert excessive squealing, flailing, drooling, etc.] And so much love to the Chica who linked the hi-res version, it's my new wallpaper. <3 <3 <3

P.S.- God help them if they fuck this up, man. But hey, still good that they're trying.