The official Avatar: The Last Airbender soundtrack is finally being released this year on digital and vinyl!

After 15 long years, the much anticipated official ATLA soundtrack release is finally happening!

Check out the official announcement from Animation Magazine:

Nickelodeon and Republic Records: Kids & Family announced the long-awaited release of Avatar: The Last Airbender – Book 1: Water (Music from the Animated Series) on digital and vinyl. The album, featuring an updated and re-recorded score from the first season of the series, is now available to pre-order and will be released in November, with the first single, “Aang Becomes Ocean,” releasing on Friday, July 28. Emmy Award-winning composer and musician Jeremy Zuckerman, who composed the music for the award-winning animated Nickelodeon series, has expanded his original compositions and employed a full orchestra for Avatar: The Last Airbender – Book 1: Water (Music from the Animated Series). The original album artwork was created by Bryan Konietzko, co-creator and art director of Avatar: The Last Airbender and co-Chief Creative Officer of Avatar Studios. Nickelodeon’s Avatar: The Last Airbender is co-created by Konietzko and Michael DiMartino. The series ran for three seasons (61 episodes), from February 2005 to July 2008 and was honored with a Peabody Award and Primetime Emmy, along with multiple Annie Awards and Genesis Awards. Avatar: The Last Airbender follows the adventures of the main protagonist Aang and his friends, who must defeat Fire Lord Ozai and end the Hundred Year War to restore balance to the Four Nations. Pre-save Avatar: The Last Airbender – Book 1: Water (Music from the Animated Series) to Spotify or Apple Music here.

It's possible this was meant to be revealed at the Avatar panel at SDCC today, which was canceled due to the SAG-AFTRA strike.

AVATAR IN CONCERT (premiere in London)

This was so so beautiful, I cried multiple times (just like everyone else I could see), we had Bryan Konietzko introducing it, Jeremy Zuckerman closing it, and a special extra song at the end!! I think that was the first time secret tunnel had been played by an orchestra and sung by hundreds of people at once (apart from that concert in the Toph comic lol)

Avatar: The Last Airbender is one of my top favourite comfort show. So I figured I’d try my hand at drawing them. 💨🌊🪨🔥

The north and south water tribes are based on Inuit culture so I thought it would be amazing to showcase their traditional tattoos. Designs/meanings vary from different communities of course, but typically chin/v forehead tattoos signify womenhood. So that’s what I’m going with 🤞🏼

Michael Dante Dimartino and Bryan Konietzko confirms their favorite relationship on season 3:

Janet: What is your favorite dynamics or relationship to see develop in season 3

Mike: It will controversy, but it’s Aang and Katara relationship, you know, go to blossom to its full potential.

Janet: Great answer, but guess what: Canon controversy

(EVEN DANTE BASCO ADMITTED LOVES MAIKO)

Dante: Everyone likes zutara but i means watching Zuko and Mai I’m vibing.

(HELL YEAH FOR MAIKO)

There is a reason we cannot have nice things. Because people are biased, prejudiced, and hypocritical.

This is why.

Dave Filoni, my beloved.**

It was time for a rewatch…💦 🪨 🔥 🍃

**NOT MY ART. Couldn’t find artist; if you know who it is please send me a message

Today is the 18th anniversary of when Aang & Katara kissed in The Cave Of The Two Lovers!!!

💛💙

BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY IT’S THE 18TH ANNIVERSARY OF SECRET TUNNEL SONG!!!🎶 🎶🎶

I once described Damian's personality was being a less psychotic Azula from ATLA. And frankly, thats a horrifying image.

Braving the Elements season 3

The new season of the podcast Braving the Elements concerning the book 3 of the Avatar the Last Airbender started, predictably with the appearance of Mike and Bryan. They talked a little about how busy they are with “something” and a bit more about book 3 “Fire”. There was a lot of mutual admiration and general excitement, but we got some information as well.

- It’s been 20 years, and they don’t remember every detail of their thought process

- they remember some stuff, and are always happy to talk about their inspirations. Like Bryan talking about his trip to Iceland, his admiration for its natural beauty made by volcanic activity, and how Iceland photos became Fire Nation landscapes.

- or Mike telling about his trip to Bhutan and his awe at the Tiger’s Nest temple that became an inspiration for the Western Air Temple.

- they talked about how Ozai’s face reveal – that he is just a regular guy who looks like older Zuko whole we don’t see until Zuko meets him face to face – was initially thought to mean one thing, then it started to mean a slightly different thing, and it is fine.

- Dante was super excited to meet Mark Hamill when recording voices for Zuko and Ozai. (who wouldn’t)

- they talked about inspiration for the lion turtle they found in Korea, and that it really was meant to me there in the story from the beginning, and they tried to hide it while giving away glimpses.

- 99.9% of Air Nomads were airbenders. Because that’s how they invented that world, that’s why.

- Aang was never going to kill Ozai. Never ever. He is a monk and has monk ethics no matter what everyone was telling him.

- animating the scene where Aang and Ozai’s souls are fighting for the dominance during the energybending moment was rather challenging.

- In Bryan’s mind, Iroh is ten years older than Ozai. It is not a confirmed canon, more like idea. Iroh looks much older because of the life he lived, while Ozai has an amazing skincare routine.

- they don’t know any other Fire lords’ names. But you know, those names appear and will appear in various materials – novels, RPG, etc.

- Mike and Bryan love canon relationships – surprise!

- Dante admitted that while he ships Zutara, he started vibing with Zuko/Mai’s relationship as well as he was actually watching the show. Which is fine, and only serves to show his general attitude to shipping: it is a fun activity that keeps the interest going and in the long term helps him to earn money.

- Yes, Dante, there are good people in the Fire Nation, as you’ve been saying all the previous episodes. This time everyone agreed, since we are finally arriving to the Fire Nation.

- I probably forgot something, but you may listen to it – or, for the first time – also watch it on the Avatar the last Airbender official Youtube channel. At first I thought why? And then after I listened to the podcast I couldn’t remember what said Bryan and what said Mike. Not to imply that they are the same – they are very much not- but I have a trouble distinguishing voices I don’t know well. So I watched a bit – and really liked it. Whoever edited the video did a great job of adding some visual jokes and visual illustrations to whatever Janet, Dante, Mike and Bryan were saying. So we can see how Bryan’s photos of Iceland became the Fire Nation, and how Tiger’s Nest looks like.

And it is so easy to remember who was saying what! Mike is the one who looks like Aang, Bryan is the one who looks like Zuko, Dante is the one who sounds like Zuko. And occasionally talks as if he is Zuko.

I love kataang as much as the next person. They've been my actual OTP since '05. However, I will say that them getting together at the end of the series was a bit rushed. Do I like them together? Yes. Do I think they would have ended up together no matter what? Yes. But was their "getting together" sped along too quickly at the end? Also yes. They were both still kids, and they could have used a little time to sort things out before committing to each other. That's all.

I realize that we don't know how much time elapsed betwen the coronation and the scene at the tea shop, but from a viewer standpoint, everything got wrapped up so quickly, that I barely had time to process what happened.

Final writing credits for live-action ATLA Season 1 have been submitted; Bryke wrote two episodes

With the final writing credits now submitted, Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra co-creators and Avatar Studios co-heads Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino (“Bryke”) co-wrote two episodes of Netflix’s eight-episode live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender Season 1: episode 1 and episode 6.

We already knew about episode 1, which was co-written between live-action showrunner Albert Kim and them.

What’s new is episode 6, the story of which was by Ubah Mohamed and Bryke and the script (aka “teleplay” in the world of TV) by Emily Kim (Marvel’s Spider-Gwen), Hunter Ries (Nick/Netflix), and Bryan only.

“Story by” + “teleplay by” = “written by”, so all the other episodes besides episode 6 had the same people for both story and script, and “teleplay by”/“written by” credits are for when someone has contributed at least 33% of a script when it comes to an adaptation. This isn’t because Bryke are the creators of the source material-- their credits for that will be separate and unrelated to episode writing credits.

Here’s the updated list for the season:

Episode 1: Albert Kim and Michael Dante DiMartino & Bryan Konietzko

Albert Kim: showrunner

Mike and Bryan: ATLA/TLOK creators, Avatar Studios heads

Episode 2: Joshua Hale Fialkov

Young Justice (DC)

Episode 3: Christine Boylan

Cloak & Dagger (Marvel)

The Punisher (Marvel, Netflix)

Episode 4: Keely MacDonald

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (Netflix)

Episode 5: Gabriel Llanas

National Treasure: Edge of History (Disney+)

Episode 6: story by Ubah Mohamed and Bryan Konietzko & Michael Dante DiMartino, teleplay by Emily Kim & Hunter Ries and Bryan Konietzko

Ubah Mohamed: LA Law

Emily Kim: Marvel’s Spider-Gwen

Hunter Ries: Nickelodeon, Netflix

Episode 7: Audrey Wong Kennedy

Amazing Stories (Apple TV+)

Episode 8: Albert Kim

BIG NEWS LAST AIRBENDER FANS

Bryan Konietzko JUST announced this- the soundtrack for Book 1 IS FINALLY GETTING RELEASED IN NOVEMBER!!!! It's going to be available on DIGITAL and VINYL. IT'S ACTUALLY HAPPENING! Hopefully this means the other books will also be released, but for now, I'm getting excited!

Thinking about how the cancelled Invader Zim episode The Trial ended with Zim defeating the Control Brains by overwhelming them with his insanity and then Bryan Konietzko went on to create ATLA and ended it with Aang defeating the Firelord by overpowering him with his will.

Then he copied Jhonen's original shitpost comic ending from when the show was first cancelled for the ending to Korra.

Watching the live action ATLA, I can now see why the OG creators left the project.

Bryan Konietzko discusses the future of Avatar Studios in a new interview