School Time Shipping, the first short, featured the characters from the show preparing for a school dance. The shorts were done in a ' super deformed' style. These include three animated 'shorts' and two recap episodes. In addition to the show's three seasons and an unaired pilot, there have been five specials since its premiere in 2005. Zuko was scarred in a duel with his own father, the current Fire Lord, and is obsessed with trying to capture Aang to regain his father's favor and in doing so restoring his honor. There is also a strong secondary focus on Zuko, the banished and disinherited crown prince of the Fire Nation. The series then primarily follows the adventures of Aang and his companions, Sokka, Katara, and later Toph and Zuko, as he tries to master all four elements and defeat the Fire Nation. The series starts with Aang being accidentally freed by Katara, a waterbender. The Avatar, trapped in ice for 100 years, knows nothing of the war. The series takes place 100 years after the Fire Nation declares war against all other nations and has killed off all airbenders in search of finding the Avatar, who has been reincarnated as an airbender named Aang. The Avatar is also born into one nation, and after dying, is reincarnated into another nation following the pattern of Air, Water, Earth, and Fire. However, the Avatar is a being able to manipulate all four elements as well as communicate with the spirits. Not everyone can bend an element, and those that can can only bend one.

Along with the four elements, there are four nations that correspond with each element. In the Avatar: The Last Airbender universe, there are people who are able to manipulate, or 'bend', the four elements: Air, Water, Earth, and Fire. The entire series has been released on DVD in Region One, Region Two and Region Four. The second and third were released with the Complete Second Season Box Set DVD. The first self-parody was released via an online flash game. The first recap summarized the first eighteen episodes while the second summarized season two. In addition to the three seasons, there were two recap episodes and three 'shorts'. The show's first two seasons each consisted of 20 episodes, while the third season had 21. Each 'Book' takes its name from one of the elements that Aang, the protagonist, must master: Water, Earth, and Fire. The Avatar: The Last Airbender franchise refers to each season as a 'Book', in which each episode is referred to as a 'chapter'.

It first aired on February 21, 2005, on Nickelodeon with a one-hour series premiere and concluded its run with a two-hour TV movie on July 19, 2008. Avatar: The Last Airbender is a 61-episode, Emmy Award-winning American animated television series written and created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko.

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