Avatar: The Last Airbender is an American animated series released on Nickelodeon in 2005 that ran until 2008. The series focuses on Aang, a powerful Air bending being who had been frozen in time for hundreds of years. In that time, he became the last of his kind, while other elemental-bending tribes of fire, earth, air, and water carried on with their civilizations. The series follows Aang and his gang as they attempt to revive the air-bending way of life and restore balance in the kingdoms.