10 Reasons You Must Watch Avatar: The Last Airbender

For all this talk of dealing with difficult topics and deft appreciation of cultural influences, Avatar: The Last Airbend perfectly balances this all with fun, humour and downright goofiness, making it perfect for viewers of every age!

It can be funny and silly in one moment, and then thought-provoking and philosophical in another.

Where so many children's animated shows tend to simplify heavy topics, Avatar takes the time to carefully flesh them out instead with genius story-telling and, all importantly, time. This makes them accessible for young kids and interesting for adults at the same time.

But it balances this by not being too adult with its humour and stories as well, which many anime tend towards.

Aang is the Avatar, the bridge between the real world and the spiritual, and the person destined to bring balance to a world battered by war. But at the end of the day, he's also a twelve year-old kid who just wants to have fun, make friends, and feels love, fear, anger and pain like anyone else.