>>95558459I'm not exactly a /co/ regular but did they ever make a show as mature as AtLA that was still intended for children?
As a kid, to me this series was the only one that stood out from the other cartoons airing at the time. I mean, it wasn't about an American kid for starters. No school, no bullies, no grounding from parents etc.
But also in the way it was written. For the first time you actually had to watch all the episodes in order since there was actually some progression made.
Plus a mature story about war, oppression, travel and discipline, instead of a story about the peaceful life of the MC who would usually get to sleep in his own bed by the end of each episode.
Stuff like how Aang burned Katara the first time he tried to firebend since he was being careless, and it backfired and he became scared to work with fire.
And Jeong Jeong talking about how important it is to control fire, and how he'd really rather be a waterbender since they can heal people. That's the kind of deep stuff I have never really seen in other cartoons, before or after the series.
It's also the kind of stuff they left out of Korra sadly.
So TL;DR: Are there any western cartoons made before of after Avatar comparable to it when it comes to the complexity and maturity of the writing?
