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People-I believe my Avatar work is done. Check out how the film is imploding. Insert Evil Laugh Here!!

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We took a jaunt to our local Barnes & Noble today and here’s the Avatar display that greeted us.

Okay–what are my issues with this? First of all, trying to mix the movie with the real Aang? It just doesn’t work.
Second, let me say one of the things that we, as a family, loved about Avatar. [...]

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The Last Airbender is coming. My family and I see the ads, and at a trip to Barnes & Noble the other day, looked at a shelf of Last Airbender Mad Libs, Movie tie-ins of all sorts, and The Lost Scrolls, a collection from the original series. The last, of course, was the one that [...]

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For those of you who have been reading this blog, or the Essentials blog, know that all of us at Japanistic are peeved about the whitewashing going on with Avatar The Last Airbender. If you want to get involved, and are in the LA area, check out what’s coming up soon:

April MANAA meeting.  MANAA is [...]

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Here’s an interesting piece from the Aang Ain’t White Journal on how the Avatar film set is further exposing the production as a racist whitewash. Here is a sample of the images they put up on their site:

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The folks over at People Against Racebending: Protest of the Cast of The Last Airbender Movie have got a petition they are asking people to sign to protest the casting of the title roles in The Avatar. I signed it and encourage you to sign it or at least read it. More information about the [...]

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For those of you following the adaptation of Dragonball Evolution, here is nice shot of the main actors at the opening at the Nippon Budokan on Tuesday night. What a nice looking group. From left to right they are: Joon Park, Jamie Chung, Eriko Tamura, Chow Yun-Fat, Justin Chatwin, Emmy Rossum, James Marsters, Megumi Seki and director [...]

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Thanks to HacaTV for this article on the ongoing mess known as Yellow-face and White-washing. I have shortened it for this blog. HacaTV speaks primarily to the issue that Hollywood should be making more animated films and fewer adaptations. I personally don’t mind the idea of the adaptation. What I care about is the fact [...]

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