The world is separated into four nations: the northern and southern Water Tribes, the Earth Kingdom, the Fire Nation, and the Air Nomads. The Legend of Korra is set in the fictional world of Avatar: The Last Airbender, 70 years after the events of that series. The Legend of Korra concluded with the fourth season. Beginning with episode 9 of season 3, new episodes were first distributed through the Internet rather than broadcast. These episodes are grouped into four separate seasons ('Books') composed of twelve to fourteen episodes ('Chapters') each, with each season telling a stand-alone story. The series was expanded further in July 2012 to 52 episodes. Nickelodeon declined the creators' pitch for an Avatar: The Last Airbender follow-up animated movie based on what then became the three-part comics The Promise, The Search and The Rift, choosing instead to expand Korra to 26 episodes.

The Legend of Korra was initially conceived as a twelve-episode miniseries. The series follows Avatar Korra, the reincarnation of Aang from the previous series, as she faces political and spiritual unrest in a modernizing world. Only one person, the 'Avatar', can bend all four elements, and is responsible for maintaining balance in the world. Animated in a style strongly influenced by anime, the series is set in a fictional universe in which some people can manipulate, or 'bend', the elements of water, earth, fire, or air. It was created by Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino as a sequel to Avatar: The Last Airbender, which aired from 2005 to 2008. The Legend of Korra is an American animated television series that aired on the Nickelodeon television network from 2012 to 2014.

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