![]() "From the very first page I looked at Korra and said 'Oh, this is not Aang, there is nothing about this that is Aang,'" says Janet Varney, who voiced Korra throughout the show's four seasons. In some ways, she has more in common with shonen anime protagonists like Naruto (or even more aptly, Boruto) than Aang. While Aang was a reluctant hero, Korra is a brash, arrogant teenager who dives head-first into trouble and thinks she can solve anything with a fight. ![]() "The main thing we wanted to do was coming up with an Avatar that was different from what we had done," co-creator Michael Dante DiMartino says during an interview IGN conducted with him and co-creator Bryan Konietzko. Korra shows how bending evolves and changes as people start to look at different cultures and styles of bending." "Where over time the different arts started to blend and hybridize before ultimately the individual forms started coming to the forefront again. "I looked at as the Avatar equivalent of mixed martial arts," director Joaquim Dos Santos tells IGN. ![]() There’s even a professional sport that revolves around it! Likewise, the medieval aesthetic gave way to a 1920s steampunk-inspired vibe. Rather than the spiritual aspect of “bending” featured in the first series, The Legend of Korra takes a more industrial approach to that superhuman mastery of the elements. By jumping forward in time 70 years, The Legend of Korra presents a very different world than Avatar fans were used to.
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