Korra isn't slim, she's thicc.
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The only good thing about LOK.
I never understood why people think the Fire Nation is some 1:1 expy of Feudal Japan. Barely anything about it is distinctly Japanese-inspired in the show other than a few superficial elements like some bits of architecture or the Blue Spirit's kabuki mask.
I think it the vaguely japan-esque robes that they wear, as well as their obsession with "HONOR!" added to the mix. It is not an expy but it is a close enough match, just as the air nation is inspired by buddhists and the water nation by eskimos.
You can also draw a bit of parellels between the Korra seasonal enemies being communists, conservaties, anarchists and nationalists all taking it to the extreme, with the show even going to the length of giving each and every villain a somewhat understandable motive, something that most left leaning shows don't really bother with.
Indeed two out of the four villains start out on good terms with our "thicc" heroine, oddly enough the right leaning ones. One of them is being a villain from the start though, while the other is a genuine protagonist.
Zaheer did nothing wrong. Korra violated the NAP by giving him airbending powers against his consent. He was just defending himself.
I wholeheartedly support this because of all the delicious weeb tears it will produce. Soyboys will break their tiny wrists handwringing over how the arrow on aang's head is backwards or whatever and I am here for it. Hopefully this finishes the job based M. Night (PBUH) started.
If it was animated it could work, Baki 2018 imho is a masterpiece considering it's a Netflix series but they have to follow the manga so that's probably why.
Then I remember no point in remaking a series that already started as animation and ended well enough.
Then I remember no point in remaking a series that already started as animation and ended well enough.
The Water Tribe also had some elements of Far Eastern Siberian tribes such as some of the architecture in the North and Eksi, The crazy water tribe women. Anybody with knowledge about how fucking crazy some of these people such as the Chukchis were can have a good laugh at that fact.
I don't think any one nation can be sourced to just one influence save for the Air Nomads but we only ever saw the southern Air Nomads, who knows how different the other Air Nomads were.
To be fair aren't the Inuit-Aleut cultures related to the far eastern Siberian tribes? Most of them just crossed the Bering Sea during the European middle ages?
Honestly I wouldn't say it is. It's more like Qin-era China but with steam power than anything else. Even Firebending is distinctly Chinese.
That's something everyone says but I always thought it was off-base. Almost every civilization in world history has gone through a phase of aggressive expansion and colonization.
Yes they're very related which is why it's not out of place for an asianic setting to have the Inuit.
Eh, I can see the Japanese elements. They're powered by the Sun, they're technologically advanced compared to their neighbors, and they're fighting against a cripplingly corrupt and broken state and suffering from the strategic depth of their targets. They even got the war crimes element down.
It's not a dint against the show though.
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I mean, it's not like the current cartoon-universe comics have been doing any better. They turned Zuko's mom into an abandoning selfish bitch and made Aang take a backseat compared to everyone else's drama.
The Korra comics are even worse, what with Fire Lord Azulon/Sozin both apparently having death camps for gay people or some shit.
The Korra comics are even worse, what with Fire Lord Azulon/Sozin both apparently having death camps for gay people or some shit.
"This scroll says faggots burn in hell!"
"The Final Cremation"
"Firebending up the owens"
The weirdest part of the whole Burn the Homos thing is in the show the Fire Nation is by far the most socially progressive society.
"This scroll says faggots burn in hell!"
"The Final Cremation"
"Firebending up the owens"
Plus as I understand it the cultures they were based on didn't have the Catholic and Jewish attitude towards homosexuality.
