For many months, we have waited and waited–and WAITED for Nickelodeon to do something with the show: The Avatar: The Last Air Bender. This was in the beginning a first for an American cartoon shop, as the style and story were more similar to their Japanese counterparts, than they were to typical American toons. This is part of the reason why this show, in my opinion, caught on so quickly.

Quickly isn’t always the best, as this was seen as the release of episodes from season to season and within a season began to slow at an extrodinary rate. So much so that you began to wonder are they going to keep it going?

For those who don’t follow Japanese anime, you typically find anime fall into:

• 12 episode
• 24 episode
• 52 episode
• 100+ esisodes

Given the number of episodes that the Avatar had and the power of the story, it would have been easy in my opinion for them to take this toon and carry it on for 100+ episodes. What American tooners aren’t use to are story arcs, arcs that divert from the main story line and come back or not, and intertwin and unravle and all kinds of things! This is what makes shows like Naruto be able to continue on for 250+ episodes with no sight in end as to when they will be done. Now keep in mind, that within those episodes there are episodes that you just want to pull out your hair and think to yourself, OMG won’t they bloody end these things!

But nonetheless, the show is now over. In an impressive last 4 episodes regarding Sozens Comet, the show came to a peaceful ending with most of the loose ends wrapped up. It’s what I would consider to be a fairy tale ending. Nothing compared to the heart wrenching ending that say shows like Full Metal Alchemist have, things that have reply values of LESS than 1! But are nonetheless AWESOME anime that are at the top of my all time favor list.