Book One: Air

:This article is about the first book of The Legend of Korra. For the first book of Avatar: The Last Airbender, see Book One: Water.
Book One: Air () is the first book of The Legend of Korra, created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. The nomenclature refers to the Avatar Cycle: water, earth, fire, and air. The primary focus of the season is Korra's attempts to learn airbending from Tenzin while defending Republic City from the Equalist revolt, led by the masked Amon.
The season began on March 24, 2012, with the online airing of "Welcome to Republic City" and "A Leaf in the Wind", and ended at twelve episodes on June 23 of that year with "Skeletons in the Closet" and "Endgame". It was followed by Book Two: Spirits, which began airing on television in September 13, 2013.
== Episodes ==
The episodes were released on individual box sets of DVD and Blu-ray on July 9, 2013.
Volume title 	Episodes 	Release date
Book One: Air (DVD) 	All episodes of Book One	July 9, 2013
Book One: Air (Blu-ray)	All episodes of Book One	July 9, 2013
The 2-disc DVD release contains the following features:
* Audio commentaries for "Welcome to Republic City", "A Leaf in the Wind", "Skeletons in the Closet", and "Endgame".
* A puppet short titled The Legend of Puppetbender Presents "The Making of a Legend: The Untold Story – Part 1".
== Trivia ==
* One of the most prominent references and inspirations for Book One was Shorpy.com, which gave the creators a glimpse of what child factory workers had to deal with in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This time period correlated with their use of "street urchins" in Republic City.The Legend of Korra—The Art of the Animated Series, Book One: Air, page 62.DiMartino, Michael Dante; Konietzko, Bryan; Dos Santos, Joaquim & Blum, Steve (July 9, 2013). "The Revelation" commentary. Book One: Air Blu-ray.
* The first two episodes were released online before airing on television.
* Nicktoons reaired Book One in July 2012 under the name Korra: Making of a Legend, with commentaries added from the creators of the show.
* The first two episodes were the most watched of the book, reaching 4.55 million viewers in the U.S.
* The Legend of Korra was originally intended to only consist of Book One, but the series was ultimately extended to four books. Additionally, this book has the least episodes, or chapters, across both series.
== References ==
== See also ==
* Book Two: Spirits
* Book Three: Change
* Book Four: Balance
* List of The Legend of Korra episodes
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