The Last Airbender - Summer 2010

[Kholi]

lololol -inside joke-

 

[spidey]

can the guy make 4 bad movies in a row.. lets watch.

 

[dcloud]

Korean or Taiwan, it's still the same people who animate THE SIMPSONS... Has nothin to do with race or nationality, Anime just isn't American. You can easily spot Cartoon from Anime. And Avatar is Cartoon . That's cool, nothing bad about that, just saying.

Avatar is drawn Anime style in US cartoon tradition. It's very well made totally different animation technique

You must not watch a lot of anime. It's quite easy to hit youTube and show you a simple fight scene in an anime that outclasses the entire series animation of avatar.

I would disagree.
as someone who has been in the animation industry, avatar outclasses most of animes out there in terms of animation.

Samurai X is probably the worst example of Anime to date. Again, I'm not sure what "traditional anime" you're talking about other than circa 1970, it's gone far beyond that since late-to-early 80's - 90's.

As far as Cartoons go, well yeah... that's because Cartoons are generally American made and don't have one unique storyline to tie every episode together. Teen Titans is a light exception to this, please see SLADE chronicles.

But as far as ANIME goes, which isn't "Cartoons", there are several, and I do mean several, series that see main characters age and even switch poles (bad guy, good guy, antagonists to protagonists). Of the most recent Naruto and Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagaan, which probably is licensed by Bandai or someone by now given the immense popularity.

I'm not a great fan of naruto in terms of animation. its mostly consists of characters talking with their mouth covered, lots of hold/still frame, cycling animation, etc. etc.

Im a big avatar fan, I think its one of the few well made cartoons out there. Great story, well made animation (no hold frames or cycles, fight scenes are well thought out), researched well, great Voice actors, great music, great character development

Im also a big M Night Charlatan detractor after seeing the casting in the last airbender. and ofcourse watching his past films