No exaggeration here – Avatar is easily one of the finest Netflix live-action series ever created. The narrative follows a young Avatar on a quest to restore balance to a world torn apart by war, mastering the elements of water, earth, fire, and air along the way.
If you’ve binge-watched all three seasons and find yourself yearning for more captivating adventures, here’s a list of the ten best shows to fill that void.
Yu Yu Hakusho (2023)
From a troublemaker teenager to a defender of the living world, Yusuke Urameshi’s afterlife is full of surprises. Yu Yu Hakusho is a series where the POV character Yusuke gets a second shot at life, but only if he chooses to become a Spirit Detective. This new job will have Yusuke battling fiendish foes who are hell-bent on destroying the tranquillity of the human world.
If you’re looking for a live-action series that doesn’t compromise with both supernatural and actions, Yu Yu Hakusho is a must-watch.
One Piece (2023)
One Piece is a show where your dreams will be as massive as the open sea! In a nutshell, the live-action adaptation of the highly successful manga ‘One Piece’ charts the voyage of Monkey D. Luffy, a rubber-bodied pirate with sky-high ambitions to become the Pirate King.
Luffy gathers a motley crew, and together, they seek the legendary treasure known as the ‘One Piece.’ But it is not just about finding treasure, but also freeing towns from clownish pirates who think they rule the seven seas.
Sweet Tooth (2021)
In a world where the sweetest faces have antlers, ‘Sweet Tooth’ is a post-apocalyptic parable with a soul! The series is set in a world where a virus named ‘The Great Crumble’, has left the world teetering. Not just that the world only births hybrid children, part-human, part-animal. The POV character is Gus, who is a half-deer boy with big eyes and bigger dreams.
His most important one is to find his his mother in Colorado. Sweet Tooth is a show that gives meaning to the saying, “Even in ruins, humanity finds a way to bloom.
His Dark Materials (2019)
The main character, Lyra exits in a world where every human’s soul manifests as an animal daemon. When children start vanishing, Lyra learns of a conspiracy tied to the mysterious Dust. For answers, Lyra and her daemon, Pantalaimon, embark on a dangerous mission that fulfils a prophecy and questions the ones who make all the rules and whatnot.
However, the show isn’t just about finding answers but facing witches, bears that are clad in thick armor, and specters.
Wednesday (2022)
The show is set in a school where your classmate could be a werewolf, or your history teacher might be a witch who uses a broomstick to commute. The show chronicles Wednesday Addams, a student at the Nevermore Academy who, one day, out of the blue, stumbles upon the dead body. Thereafter, Wednesday makes it her mission to find the killer, armed with just her mettle and psychic powers.
Sandman (2022)
What if you’re trapped in a bottle for years with no hopes of getting out until one day you do? At the center of the series is Dream, who is the master of the dream realm. After breaking free from the bottle, Dream goes on a cosmic scavenger hunt so he can get back his powers.
The series is a benchmark in the mega-budget fantasy TV era and is still considered one of the greatest adaptations ever created.
The New Legends of Monkey (2018)
Five hundred years ago, Monkey King was locked away by his enemies because of his mischievous antics. Jump to the present day, Earth is in trouble, and is being attacked by demons, who want to rule it.
Tripitaka, a fiery young monk, and her mismatched crew of fighters decide to free the Monkey King and find the powerful Heavenly scrolls so they can save the world before it is lost. Similar to Avatar, this one also doesn’t compromise with action, ancient lands, and ancient secrets.
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018)
The show takes you to the spooky town of Greendale, which is a place where nothing is as it seems. The heart of the series beats around Sabrina Spellman, a teen torn between her witchy roots and her human life. As her 16th birthday approaches, she must make a different choice to either become a full-fledged witch or continue to live as a human.
At first glance, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina might look like a usual coming-of-age, but it is much more than that.
Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005)
Imagine a world where people can control the five elements, which include water, earth, fire, or air, and now imagine one special person who can control them all, but when the world needs him most, he disappears from the face of the Earth.
Fast forward to one hundred years later, we see two siblings finding a boy frozen in ice. The boy is revealed to be Aang, and he can control all the elements. With his friends, Aang sets out to end the war the Fire Nation started, and he must also confront the Fire Lord, who wants to disrupt the world’s balance.
Cowboy Bebop (2021)
Even though this show includes bounty hunters that chase targets for a payday, it isn’t a typical space adventure. The series is built around Spike Spiegel, a gunslinger who almost never misses a shot, Jet Black, a redemption-seeking retired cop with a robotic arm, and Faye Valentine, a charming gambler who loves keeping secrets.
However, the Bebop crew isn’t just hunting criminals. They’re also chasing their own shadows. Spike’s past haunts him, and Faye’s memories are fractured and hard to make sense of.
So there we have it, our 10 TV show alternatives to watch when you’re finished watching Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender.
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