The Last Airbender 2010 film Review

Title: The last Airbender
Release date:  2010
Written and Directed by: M. Night Shyamalan

Thoughts:  As I have mentioned in my past blog reviews about the Avatar series, I’ve been a fan of this series ever since I was in my elementary days. And when this movie was released in 2010, I am one of those children or fans who watched this work. I was satisfied that time (well since I never knew how the story went and as I’ve mentioned, I never had a chance to finish the whole series until recently.) I think I will have a lot of things to say about the positive and negative things about this movie.

I want to point out first about the good things about this film. First! I love how the characters or the actors were selected. I saw this comment, “The fire lord is an Indian hahahahaha!”. In the story of “Avatar: the last Airbender” it involves the people of the world and in the film they made a perfect line of actors for the characters. Yes in the movie, the fire nation consists of Indians and if you think about it Indians live in the hottest countries of the world while the Earth benders are all Asians, specifically Chinese. In the animation, the city of Ba Sing Se(In Earth Kingdom) is surrounded by a great wall and it can be represented “The Great Wall of China”. Make sense? So I think those kinds of racist comments has no point in talking bad things about the film.

Second! Appa and Momo are present! YAAAAY! I was actually worried that the movie won’t let us see those cute creatures. The best thing I can say about them is they looks really real. A big furball Appa and cutie Momo <3 <3 Third! The characters performed the martial arts really well. Though I am not knowledgeable about Martial Arts, I always knew how the 4 kinds of benders move while bending.  Like an Airbender is very free. A water bender has a graceful move . An earthbender is tough and solid. And a firebender is very offensive. They managed to take note of those and did it in the film. My favorite one was when Aang fought with Zuko. That was a quite short one but impressive.

Aang and Zuko's fight in the Northern Tribe war.

So here go all my negative thoughts about the film. FIRST OF ALL FIRST, WHY DID THEY MAKE A SAD AANG IN THE MOVIE?! WHY DID THEY MAKE ALL THE CHARATERS OUT OF THEIR CHARACTERS?! Okay I am really mad about this thing. I think of all of the characters, it’s only Katara and Yue cleared the character test if I made one. Seriously, we all know that in the book one, Aang is such a kid and never wanted to the Avatar, BUT HE NEVER BECAME AN IMMATURE KIND OF AVATAR WHEN HE CAME BACK FROM A HUNDRED OF YEARS TRAPPEN IN AN ICEBURG. In the animation, though he was sad about the death of his family and all the Air nomads, he accepted it as well as of him being the Avatar. He was strong and became more confident as he made his way towards the Northern Water Tribe. He even learned how to bend Water before coming to the North Pole! We expected an easy going and playful Aang like in the animation unlike an awkward loner sad kid that we saw from the movie, because that’s why we loved Aang so much.

Also Sokka, WHY DID YOU LET SOKKA APPEAR IN THE MOVIE IF YOU MADE HIM SO HELPLESS! But I will be mad too if there is no Sokka in the film. Sokka is the best strategist in the story. They should’ve made him like the one who planned the defense of the Northern Tribe and so on. WHY?! AND WHY HE’S NOT SARCASTIC AND FUNNY? BRING BACK OUR SOKKA! Zuko is supposed to be a hot headed prince, so where did he buy all of those patience that we saw in the movie? I would rather see his grieve in the absence of his honor BUT THE WORD ITSELF WAS ONLY SAID ONCE IN THE ENTIRE MOVIE! I also dislike how the firelord appeared in the whole movie. I was like, “Oh he’s here again.”, “There he is again” “HEY AREN’T YOU APPEARING MORE THAN ZUKO?!” I would more appreciate if they made the firelord secret and appeared at the last part wherein he talked with Azula.

Second, All those slow motions. I am not actually against it but it happened most of the time. It ate a lot of minutes in the film. They should have made more bending fights with the Avatar. I wanted to see more fight scenes but it disappointed me. I am quite disappointed too with small scripts or lines in each scene. Though I understand that the director made the whole Book one shown in one film and I know that it’s really hard to shorten the story while not leaving any important information behind (and they actually did it, good thing) but I would appreciate if they made more talks especially with the protagonists. I felt like these three, Aang, Sokka and Katara were not close enough to fight together in the Northern war. They make really awkward talks.

Third, WHY DID THE DIRECTOR MAKE AANG AS IF HE’S A FAILURE?! In the scene where Yue brought the Moon spirit’s life back, Aang should be in the Avatar state due to his anger BUT WHERE THE HELL WAS IT?! I was actually looking forward to it! Now it looked like it was Yue who saved the Northern Tribe cause she became the moon and waterbenders need moon. Yes, I know that’s actually the way it is but should’ve been Aang saved the Tribe first before Yue became the moon? Aang looked like a real failure. You loner sad kid is a failure to mankind!

Fourth, It was great that dealing with the spirit world was in the film but why Aang kept on talking with Avatar Roku’s dragon? It’s supposed to be Roku though, giving the present Avatar wisdom for the success.

Aang's Avatar State making the ships of the Fire Nation to back off

Cinematography: 8/10
It was actually great for a film from 2010. No negative reactions for here.

Soundtrack: 7/10
I would appreciate it if they made an old kind of music for the background like the animation.

Overall: 7/10
The characters are actually the thing that disappointed me in the movie. Seeing in the first part of the movie, stating the words “Book One: Water”, it seemed like they’re gonna make another movie for book 2. Please don’t. 

Gintama Review

Title: Gintama
Genre: Chanbara, Comedy, Science Fantasy
Written By: Hideaki Sorachi
Episodes: 328 episodes
Synopsis:  Twenty years ago, Edo-period Japan suffered a great cultural shock—the aliens called Amanto invaded the Earth, overpowered the nation's government, and outlawed the carrying of swords by the once proud samurai. Moreover, the aliens took the people's jobs and are currently running Japan as a sweatshop using the natives as laborers. In this strange new era are Gintoki Sakata, an eccentric samurai whose personal trademarks are his naturally permed silver hair, his love of anything sweet, and his addiction to Shonen Jump; Shinpachi Shimura, the teenaged heir of the Kakido-Ryu style; and Kagura, an incredibly strong alien girl from the powerful Yato clan. The trio are self-employed in an odd jobs shop called Yoruzuya Gin-chan, which offers to do almost anything for a price, from finding lost kittens to saving the world. Unfortunately, the jobs rarely go as planned, or pay enough to cover the pain and suffering the employees encounter—never mind their rent.
(source: MyAnimeList)

                                                                        

The Shisengumi was having a problem on people who doesn't pee properly when Captain Okita made a plan.

Thoughts: This anime is one of my favorites! The humor is unique and even though there are a lot of characters in the story, they did a great job in making each character unique. I love how Gintoki treat the people he meet in every episode. Even though some words coming from his mouth are straight and sharp, he means no harm but an advice or enlightenment to the person. No wonder a lot of people wants to stick with him and he's so loved.

As I have mentioned, the humor was very unique. Well, first most of the jokes in this anime are adult jokes. Not a double meaning or something but a straight forward adult jokes. Now, who says anime is for kids? HUH?! Another form is humor in this anime are parodies. This anime suffered a lot of cases of copyright infringement due to many anime parodies in the story. Most of the animes have parodies like, SKET Dance, Prince of Tennis, Detective Conan and Gundam. I searched for all the anime's parodies and it's actually nearly a hundred parodies inside Gintama. But since the viewers liked it so much, it never became the reason why they will stop airing this anime.

Parodies of Bleach, Dragon Ball and One Piece in Episode 50

This kind of anime have a sloppy characters, perverts and bunches of idiots for instance, the Vice Chief of Shisengumi who are feared by his people is a mayonnaise addict while his boss is a stalker but when the sword battle begun, everyone can be so badass. A little cute girl who always picks her nose was actually stronger that the main character and the strongest ninja in town is a masochist. A shogun (Take note: IT'S A DAMN SHOGUN!) who likes to wear only his white underwear while taking a troll in his city.These kinds of characters makes this anime more hilarious. 

The battle of Umibozu (Father) and Kamui (Son) who both came from the strongest clan in the universe, Yato Clan.

Animation: 8/10 for Season 1 and 2; 9/10 for Season 3

Well, this anime is kind of old. It started since 2006. Some fights are not clean but when Gintama 2017 was released, this anime's animation became better. One of my favorite battle in this anime is the battle between Umibozu and Kamui who are the strongest members of the strongest clan in the universe. I consider this one of the best epic battles in anime. This scene is very intense that it makes me scream like "wooooooooooooooaaaaahhhhhhh~"

Soundtrack: 8/10

The background music was good and it always fits the atmosphere of the scene.

Overall: 10/10

This anime is so good that I can even re watch the whole 300 episodes again! No boring episode I assure you. Every episode makes your stomach hurt because of too much laughing and also we can learn things from Gintoki too. EXCEPT! This is NOT recommended to be watched with children around. There are so many adult jokes (like I posted at the upper part) which are not good for kids. While watching this anime, please give guidance to your children.

The Legend of Korra Review

Title: The Legend of Korra
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Written By: Brian Konietzko, Michael Dante DiMartino, Tim Hedrick, Joshua Hamilton
Synopsis: Continuing the Avatar: The Last Airbender, the scond season tells the story of Korra who is the next Avatar after Aang after 70 years. With the help of her friends, Mako, Bolin and Asami, they fight against the villains who are after the balance of the world.

                       

                       

Representing the four elements

Thoughts: After I watched the Avatar: The Last Airbender series, I immediately watched this season. I don't know how to explain this but I got a little disappointed of the plot.Yes, I am aware of Avatar Aang and Fire Lord Zuko's mission of having the Republic City for all the equality of the world but the timeline that they started was so far. It's hard to adopt the kind of story of The Legend of Korra because of the advance technology (since it's been 70 years after Avatar Aang). Maybe it's just the matter of time that I should watch the series that's why I still have the Avatar: The Last Airbender feels. I got disappointed too that Avatar Aang has the least appearance of this show. I was hoping that Korra will always seek help to her previous Avatars like Avatar Aang did but she didn't. Well she did once, I think.

A little disappointment too with a little flashbacks after the 100 year war. I was hoping to have an episode about the lives of the original Team Avatar after 10 or 20 years. I just wanna take a look who's going to marry whom, how many children etc. but this series has too little scenes about the past.

Despite of those little disappointments, this show still shows great lessons for all like the previous season. This time, more family love and romantic love (though I didn't like it cause it looked like they were just playing around with their boyfriends. But anyway, they are teenagers, that happens lol). I love how Mako and Bolin loves each other so much. Brotherly love hurray! Also how Korra stick to her parents so much. I got to know how wonderful Tenzin's family is. It shows full of care and love for his family. Relationships of Tenzin, Kya and Bumi and Lin and Suyin are so surreal. Jealousy in the family always happen and they taught us how to deal with it. Tenzin's problem about succeeding his dad's legacy was a true pain for him too but I liked the way how Aang cared for him even in the Spirit World. I also love how the former Team Avatar appeared in the series. For example, Katara is still a kind person having a sharp tongue, Toph is still an ironic woman and sadistic and Prince Zuko, having awkward scenes. Too lonely, this series didn't talked much about Sokka's life. I wonder who married Sokka. I'm too happy that promises from the first series was shown here like Avatar Aang's promise to King Bumi to name his first son after Bumi's name and when Sokka praised Toph about her metal bending, Toph asked to always mention it. Fortunately, this series told the story of Wan, the first avatar and how it started. It has two episodes and is my favorite in the series. I also like how the villains was describe in this series. They actually wanted peace, equality and harmony to their home, it's the way they handle to do things were the problem. This series has no darkness at all to teach to viewers.

Korra's fight against Zaheer at the Book 3 episode "Venom of the Red Lotus"

Animation: 10/10 (can I give 11/10?)

Surely this series has an AWESOME animation but I think this series is not for children.Everything is so detailed especially during battle scenes. There are bloodshed during fights and brutal deaths. Anyway, my favorite is at Book 2, battle between Raava and Vaatu. I can't say anything to explain how best the animation of this series was. It's just AWESOME!

Soundtrack: 8/10

Most of the background music during battles are dramatic which is not making me hyped during battle scenes. Maybe a little thrilling sounds is better.

Overall: 8/10

I like Avatar: The Airbender more than this series but it doesn't mean that this show is not good. I'd still recommend this show to everyone. Maybe it's not just what I expected after watching the first series. I believe this became my opinion since I didn't read the comics after the 100 year war. But I am just giving my opinion as a viewer.

Avatar: The Last Airbender Review

Title: Avatar: The Last Airbender/ Avatar: The Legend of Aang
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Written By/Created By: Michael Dante DiMartino, Brian Konietzko
Synopsis: An Avatar is the only person who can master the four elements which are the fire, earth, water and air. In this series, the avatar named Aang vanished when a war against the invasion of the Fire nation took place. After 100 years, Katara and Sokka found a big ice berg and discovered Aang inside. With the three of them including Appa, Aang's flying Bison, they traveled the world to help Aang master the four elements and to save the world.

                   

Presenting the four elements

Thoughts: I've mentioned that I am a fan of Japanese dramas and animes but this is my very first post. This show was actually my turning point to create a blog. After I watched the whole series (including the second season), I thought of giving a review for this amazing show.

This animated show was part of my childhood. I've been watching this on TV since I was grade school but unfortunately that channel didn't air the last book of this series. I've always wondered what was the ending of this story. Since a close friend of mine gave me a copy of the whole series, I watched it again from the start though I already knew what happened on each episode. When I was a kid, I was just amazed on how the good the plot was. Like it's so cool to have a bending skill right? But now I've re watched the whole series, I realized that this show has a lot of lessons to present for young kids. Lessons about life, failure, friendship, love and hope. There are also a lot of good lines from Iroh that we can use or can inspire us in our lives. Deep stories that gives good thoughts to the viewers. Beside on that the humor is very good. Sokka's bad jokes, Toph's blind jokes. Prince Zuko's awkward jokes, it makes me think that even though you have a big problem to carry (like saving the earth lol), these bunch of people trying to save the world are still kids and needs to play around too.

Prince Zuko and Princess Azula's Agni Kai

Animation: 9/10 for Book 1; 10/10 for Books 2 and 3
In Book 1, it's a good animation. Well, making bending movements makes a lot of frames and even though it's an old anime, surprisingly the animation of the fight scenes are very clean. It's making me very hyped especially at Book 3's episode of the "Sozin's Comet". That was a hell of an animation. Aang having the 4 elements and the avatar state as well fighting to the Fire lord Ozai, it was one of the most epic battle scenes I've watched. Also with the battle scene of Prince Zuko and Princess Azula. Since the comet makes a fire bender's power on it's peak, this battle was very badass.

Soundtrack: 9/10
Of course!! The theme of the plot is like a history of Aang and they made the most suited music for the show. I wanted to emphasize the background music of the battle between Prince Zuko and Princess Azula. It was an epic battle but the music was sad and tragic.Fighting between siblings maybe normal but those two have a deep wound carrying in their hearts. The music made me cry, though it was like a chaotic battle.
(to listen to the soundtrack, please go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFnnNijn_OI)

Overall: 10/10
I might be bias cause this show is part of my childhood. I was overwhelmed with the story. I recommend this so much and even adults can watch this. I am an adult but this show gave me a lot of lessons in life.

Introduction Post

Hi there readers! I am ERI. A great fangirl of the JPOP fandom. I have been living with my fandom since 10 years ago and I am still attached in this wonderful fandom. I was a fanfiction writer and a frustrated cover dancer and singer. Now I am starting to have a blog. I thought of last night to create a blog about all the shows, dramas or animes that I've watched and tell all my thoughts about it. I might be late (since it's been 10 years since I started in this fandom) and I already watched a lot of shows but I think this is the best time to make reviews on anything I watched, played or read. 

I am proudly an Otome gamer, an Otaku and a JPOP Enthusiast specifically in Johnny's Entertainment's Johnny's WEST having Kotaki Nozamu as my ichiban (bias). 

In this blog I might spoil some shows or stories that you haven't watched or read so proceed with caution 'kay?

and also please excuse my grammar.

NOW LET'S GET STARTED.