Avatar: The Legend of Korra – News & Updates

Yesterday afternoon, Grey DeLisle (voice of The Dark Spirit and an unknown Book 3 character) used Twitter to rejuvenate a fan base that has been left in the dark for almost a year now. The tweet, full of puns all referring to The Legend of Korra, was a direct message to the fan base explaining that a “treat” should be expected this Summer. Did I mention that the tweet was deleted? I love it when executives get in the way with voice actors/actresses tweeting. All it does is confirm that we’ve been exposed to some high level news. You can see a screen shot of the tweet at the bottom of the post.

By the time this news broke yesterday afternoon, I had already posted about the Book 3 storyboard art depicting Asami and I was just about on my way out the door to enjoy my Friday afternoon/night. When I got home at around midnight, I checked my phone to find numerous e-mails/tweets essentially telling me that Book 2 would air in the Summer.

And what was the basis of this “confirmation?” The tweet, of course! I wrote a post earlier talking about how The Legend of Korra fandom will pretty much take any release date they may hear about and run with it – no matter how unrealistic it may seem. Though a Summer release date is realistic, this is probably just another one of those cases.

Let me bring all of you down to Earth.

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Forget Book 2 – Bryan Konietzko has already shifted some of his attention over to Book 3. After releasing numerous screen shots and story board art pieces from Book 2, Konietzko used Tumblr today to release story board art from Book 3. It simply amazes me how despite the fact that we’ve hardly seen a glimpse of Book 2, Mike and Bryan are already so far along in the season after. The story board art depicts a picture of Asami Sato holding some kind of rod-like object in her left hand. *All the boys laugh uncontrollably* Real mature, guys.

The story board art doesn’t give very much away in terms of the plot, but it does give us some detail on the current production status of Book 3.

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After another day of driving my teachers insane, I came home to some interesting news. The Track Team used Twitter to announce that some “exciting news” will be “coming soon.” They didn’t really elaborate much more than that, so this news could pertain to just about anything. Assuming that this news is even Korra-related, it could very well be the release date for Book 2. Just as the voice actors have been constantly badgered, the Track Team has also been flooded with questions pertaining to Book 2’s release date. With the summer season almost upon us, it looks like we’re only about one more season away from Book 2’s release – assuming that Book 2 does debut in the fall.

The Legend of Korra fandom has been deprived of news enough lately, and it’s only a matter of time before Nickelodeon snaps and reveals some information about Book 2.

But even though an announcement for Book 2’s release date is possible, it’s important to keep yourself grounded and look at more realistic options. When it comes to the Track Team, they’re all about music. One thing that Avatar Fans have been begging for has been a Soundtrack for Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra.

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A few weeks ago, we received an update from the voice actors confirming that voice work for The Legend of Korra was still underway. We weren’t really told whether or not they were working on Book 3 of Book 4, but I speculated that work on Book 4 could very well be underway. Of course this was just another one of my baseless assumptions, but assumptions are all we can really go off of as long as Nickelodeon decides to keep everything under wraps. Surprisingly, it turns out that my assumption was correct.

According to Bryan Konietzko’s latest Tumblr Post, Book 4 is currently in production. But that doesn’t mean Book 3 is almost complete. Mike and Bryan are currently working on Books 2, 3 and 4 simultaneously, but they are all in different stages of production.

But wait Keval, what about Book 2?

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When I was browsing Netflix Instant yesterday after school, I came across something rather shocking. Netflix announced that they would be removing Avatar: The Last Airbender from their Instant Streaming selection on May 22^nd. The reason why this comes as a surprise is because Avatar: The Last Airbender has been on the Netflix Instant for years now. Not seeing it under my favorites anymore will be a bit strange on the 22nd. It looks like I’ll need to find another source for my Avatar Marathons. Hulu, perhaps?

For Netflix, removing Avatar: The Last Airbender from their Instant Queue was probably a move they’d been planning for some time now. When Netflix loses the license to a show, they have to decide whether or not they want to renew it. That decision is heavily determined by how many people are actually watching the show on Netflix. If only a small population is watching the show, Netflix generally tends to not renew the show.

Losing Avatar: The Last Airbender from Netflix Instant may seem like a surprise to us, but if you look at the situation from a technical perspective, the move probably made a lot of sense.

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