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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. >.>)

[just-shai.livejournal.com]

Where do you read your manga?

[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. :)

[eleature.livejournal.com]

Squeeeeeee!

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

[(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.

[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]

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?

[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.