Avatar: The Legend of Korra

The Legend of Korra (also known as Avatar: The Legend of Korra) is an animated television series that premiered on the Nickelodeon television network on April 14, 2012. It was created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko as a sequel to their previous show, Avatar: The Last Airbender, which aired on the same network from 2005 to 2008. Like its predecessor, The Legend of Korra has received critical acclaim, notably for its animation, setting and mature themes, although the plot's pacing has been criticized. Initially conceived as a miniseries of 12 episodes, The Legend of Korra is now set to run for a second season of 14 additional episodes.

Like its predecessor, the series is set in a fictional world inspired by Asian and Inuit cultures, some of whose inhabitants can "bend" – that is, telekinetically manipulate – the elements of water, earth, fire or air through gestures similar to Asian martial arts. Only one person, the "Avatar", can bend all four elements. Reincarnating in turn among the world's four nations, he or she is responsible for maintaining the balance in the world. Korra, the series' 17-year-old protagonist, is the incarnation of the Avatar after the death of Aang of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Set seventy years after the first series in Republic City, a metropolis that recalls a fictionalized 1920's Manhattan and Shanghai, the series follows Korra as she learns airbending and faces an anti-bender revolutionary group, the "Equalists", led by the masked Amon.