Book One: Air | |
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Country of origin | United States |
No. of episodes | 12 |
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Original network | Nickelodeon |
Original release | April 14 | – June 23, 2012
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Author | Dave Marshall (ed.), Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko |
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Publisher | Dark Horse Comics |
Publication date
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23 July 2013 |
Media type | Hardcover |
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The Legend of Korra: Original Music from Book One | ||||
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Soundtrack album by Jeremy Zuckerman | ||||
Released | July 16, 2013 | |||
Genre | Soundtrack | |||
Label | Nick Records | |||
Producer | Benjamin Wynn | |||
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Book One: Air is the first season of the U.S. animated TV series The Legend of Korra created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. Consisting of twelve episodes (called "chapters"), it was initially intended to be a stand-alone miniseries before the series was expanded to four seasons ("books") and fifty-two episodes ("chapters") total. Book One: Air aired from April 14 to June 23, 2012 on the Nickelodeon channel in the U.S., and is broadcast in other countries beginning in June 2012.
Book One: Air follows seventeen-year-old Korra from the Southern Water Tribe, and the successor of Avatar Aang from the preceding series Avatar: The Last Airbender, as she travels to the metropolis of Republic City to learn airbending and faces an anti-bender revolutionary group, the "Equalists", led by the masked Amon.
Before the series premiered on television, it was announced that the first two episodes would be pre-released online if "Korra Nation", an online social-networking platform for the show, reached 100,000 likes and shares. The goal was reached and at midnight on March 24, the first two episodes were released on a Viacom-owned website. They remained online for the duration of the weekend.
Book One: Air aired on Nickelodeon and Nickelodeon HD between April 14, 2012 and June 23, 2012. For U.S. residents, the episodes were available for free viewing on the channel's website and for purchase through digital download services. Nicktoons re-aired Book One, with a few minutes of commentary from the series's creators during commercial breaks, from July 9 to July 20, 2012 under the name Korra: Making of a Legend.
This series debuted in Canada on channel YTV on June 9, 2012 and on Nickelodeon Canada in late 2012. The series also premiered on Nickelodeon UK and Ireland on July 7, 2013.