The Legend of Korra
The Legend of Korra ( Original title: The Legend of Korra ) is an American fantasy animated series whose premiere took place on 14 April 2012. It is a continuation or a follow-up series of the hit series Avatar - The Last Airbender. The series will include a total of 52 episodes and then stopped. The German Original Air Date was on 26 August 2012 in Nickelodeon Germany / Austria.
Action
The series takes place about 70 years after the end of Avatar - The Last Airbender. The former colonies in the Earth Kingdom Fire Nation are. Efforts through of Avatar Aang and Fire Lord Zuko into an independent kingdom, the United Republic of Nations, become, in the capital of the Republika plays most of the action
Book 1: Air
In the world of Avatar, some people have to curb the power of the four elements, that is to submit to their will ( in the original English, the term is to bend - bending, so turn / tilt / arch instead of volume used). Only one person, known as the Avatar can tame all four elements. He or she must keep the balance between the four Bändigervölkern in balance.
Korra, the hotheaded independent protagonist of the new series is the next incarnation of the Avatar after Aang. It comes originally from the southern water tribe and travels at the beginning of the series after Republicans to the fourth element of learning curb air for water, earth and fire. There is a revolution of Equalisten, Nichtbändigern who demand equality in progress. This use Qi stagnation, to defeat their opponents. Korra learns in the first season of Curb air Tenzin, the youngest child of Aang and Katara. However, it can be quickly from the trend sport professional Restraining, compete against each other in the Bändigerteams, fascinate and distract. She encounters the brothers Mako and Bolin, who accept on their Pro -Bending team, and is involved in the revolution, kidnap as Equalisten Bolin. She joins a task force of city council Tarrlok that is to fight the Equalisten. However, when she realizes that Tarrlok is only on his retention of power and let others take responsibility for failures, they tried using Mako, Bolin and Mako's girlfriend Asami stop the Equalisten. Tarrlok she warns him to get in the way. As Korra will prevent him from arrest some Nichtbändiger, he lets Mako, Bolin and Asami arrest. It comes to a fight, overwhelmed and kidnapped in the course Tarrlok Korra by blood Curb. However Tarrlok is shortly afterwards Amon, the leader of the Equalisten, surprised. Amon takes Tarrlok the ability to tame and then locks him up, but Korra escapes. Later it comes to the final encounter with Amon, which turns out to be Tarrloks brother Noatak. Amon takes Korra their Bändigerfähigkeiten, but they awakened a short time later their Luftbändigerfähigkeiten and defeated so Amon. Amon flees. He leaves his brother Tarrlok free again and ask him for forgiveness. Together they flee in a boat. While driving Tarrlok chasing the boat with him and Amon in the air. Korra falls into a deep depression due to the loss of their other skills. She learns the fact that one must first fall deep to climb again. Through this knowledge they gained spiritual unity with the earlier avatars and Aang gives her back her skills by curbing energy. Now they can play all the victims of Amon their Bändigerfähigkeiten and finally reach the Avatar state. It comes together with her love Mako, because he has realized his love for her.
Production
At the Comic - Con 2010 was first announced that Nickelodeon on a sequel to Avatar: The Last Airbender working. Originally planned as only twelve episodes comprehensive mini-series, The Legend of Korra has been extended for a further fourteen episodes in March 2011. To have no great break between the broadcast of the two "books" called half seasons, the start of the series from October of 2011 to mid-2012, has been postponed. While the first book is titled Air ( air), is called the second book of Spirits ( ghosts ) and thereby for the first time, no element in the title. The broadcasting of Spirits began in the U.S. on 13 September 2013. In July 2012, Nickelodeon ordered 26 more episodes, which would constitute the " books" three and four. After broadcast of 52 episodes, the series should be completed.
All episodes of the first " book" was written by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, was directed by two former employees of the original series with Joaquim Dos Santos and Ki Hyun Ryu. For the production of the following "books", the production team was greatly enlarged. Since the production of a sequence between ten and twelve months lasts, the production phases overlap considerably. So the first storyboards for book 4 have been developed during the last episodes of Book 2 were not ready animated in July 2013 already.
On November 21, 2012, announced that the third book will be titled Change.