Avatar: The Last Airbender (season 2)

Season Two (Book 2: Earth) of Avatar: The Last Airbender, an American animated television series on Nickelodeon, first showed its 20 episodes from 17 March 2006 to 1 December 2006. The season was created and produced by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko and starred Zach Tyler Eisen, Mae Whitman, Jack DeSena, Jessie Flower, Mako, Grey DeLisle, and Dante Basco as the main character voices.^[2]

In the season's beginning, the protagonist Aang and his friends Katara and Sokka started a search to find an Earthbending teacher, which finishes when they recruit Toph. Sokka finds important information concerning the war with the Fire Nation. Aang quickly becomes single-minded in looking for his kidnapped flying bison Appa. His search leads him to Ba Sing Se, the capital of the Earth Kingdom, where he uncovers the great internal government corruption of Ba Sing Se. At the season's end, Ba Sing Se falls to the Fire Nation and Aang escapes with his friends on a recovered Appa.

During the season's airing, the show received much critical acclaim, with praises such as, "As a flat concept, Avatar the Last Airbender is nothing special, but in execution, it is head and shoulders above other children's entertainment", and that "as a whole, the look of Avatar is consistently excellent."^[3] Season 2 has won multiple awards, including the "Best Character Animation in a Television Production" award from the 34th Annie Awards^[4] and the "Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation" award from the 2007 Emmy Awards.^[5]

Between 23 January 2007 and 11 September 2007, Nickelodeon released five DVD sets for the season: four sets had five episodes each, and a fifth DVD collection of all twenty episodes.^[6] All DVDs were encoded in Region 1. In the UK, only the season boxset was released without being released in four volumes first. The boxset was released on July 20, 2009.

1. ↑ "IGN: Avatar: The Last Airbender: Season 2". IGN Entertainment. Archived from the original on 29 September 2008. Retrieved October 22, 2008.
2. ↑ "Avatar: The Last Airbender Cast and Details". TVGuide.com. Retrieved November 26, 2008.
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4. ↑ "Annie Awards: Legacy - 34th Annual Annie Awards". International Animated Film Society. February 9, 2006. Retrieved April 26, 2008.
5. ↑ Cite error: The named reference EmmyWinners was used but no text was provided for refs named (see the help page).
6. ↑ "Season 2 DVD Information". TVShowsOnDVD.com. February 24, 2005. Archived from the original on September 30, 2012. Retrieved September 6, 2008.