Aventia

Aventia is a 2021 indie anime series. Created by the same mind behind Quest of Bluefire, the series was originally intended as a reboot of the Quest of Bluefire series, but became repositioned as its own series due to its intention to tell a different story than that of Bluefire's. 
The series pilot episode was released on December 11, 2020, and the series officially debuted on April 4, 2021. 
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== Plot ==
The plot of Aventia differs much from the original series. A Great Cataclysm has struck the Earth, killing about 50% of the Earth’s population and, as an act of defense, sending at least 300 humans far away from Earth and blasting them into another, fantastical world, known as Aventia. Teenage brothers Billie and Ace Ignivento are among these humans sent far from Earth. After having received the awesome power of the Aventian God’s Crystals, now with the ability to control fire and wind respectively, and meeting a girl named Hanako Gotokuji, who also happens to be a fellow person banished from Earth, they set off on a journey across the Aventian world, with the end goal to return home to Earth. 
== Development ==
In June 2018, after cancelling Quest of Bluefire, LFZ decided that a refresh/revival of the series was needed both to help re-introduce the characters as well as to address Bluefire criticism. Spending over a year experimenting with new takes on the old series, LFZ decided to humanize the Firesouls to make them more relatable to viewers. 
The working title of the series was Firesoul Power, and then LightFighterz. The series was originally intended to be a story about teenage superheroes defending the world as well as living normal teenage lives in high school, in a similar vein to My Hero Academia which was popular at the time, but LFZ lost his enthusiasm and felt "this wasn't Bluefire." There were originally 5 main characters, however LFZ found it difficult to characterize all 5 effectively at the beginning and cut it down to a trio. Eventually, LFZ got the idea of humans from Earth suddenly awakening in an alternate world far away from Earth with no memory of how they got there, and the basic premise shaped itself into the modern Aventia, which as opposed to the superhero centric plot of LightFighterz, had a plot and general fantasy vibe that was closer to the original Bluefire series. LFZ says "LightFighterz evolving into Aventia is basically the equivalent to Bluekid's Adventure evolving into Quest of Bluefire". 
During development of the LightFighterz era, some others who worked on the original Bluefire series had input and actually did some work on the pitch for the new series. When the project shifted over to Aventia however, aside from LFZ, it was entirely a new team. 
While the previous Bluefire series was inspired by both western animation and anime, the anime influence for Aventia is much more prominent. The general style was mainly inspired by shonen anime such as One Piece, Dragon Ball, Naruto, and Yu-Gi-Oh, with some inspiration from shoujo anime like Sailor Moon and Powerpuff Girls Z. Some of the animation was influenced by Panty and Stocking. It was at this point that LFZ decided this new series, despite being heavily inspired by it's predecessor, would be unrelated to the first one story wise. Though it still was promoted as a "reboot" of Quest of Bluefire for its' first 2 years, starting in 2023, Aventia would become its own franchise at that point, for it no longer needed Bluefire to help boost it. 
Aventia aims to please both fans of the old series and new viewers who have no prior knowledge of the Quest of Bluefire series. With this, the Bluefire concept was revived and it had become a more popular series than the original. 
== Differences from the original series ==
* The original Quest of Bluefire revolved around the Firesouls, anthropomorphic beings that were literally made of fire. However, Aventia changes them to human versions. The 3 leads for the most part seem to carry on bits and pieces of their original counterparts. This really mainly applies to Billie, as the other two have changed way more compared to him.
* The lead, Billie, is just a normal teenager who seemingly had a normal life prior to being blasted into another world, instead of being the prince of a powerful nation like Bluefire. 
* There is no longer a Green character on the team.
* In the original series, Pinkfire and Purplefire had purple and blue hair respectively. Aventia's human takes on these characters has them with pink and purple hair to match their color coding.
* People are not born with superpowers in this series, however they are instead bestowed upon people who break God's Crystals to gain the powers. 
*The anime influence in this series is much more prominent than in the first series, with the opening and ending themes being Japanese songs. Notably, this series also has an intro and credits sequence, which the first Bluefire did not have, with the exception of the last episode.
*Whereas some characters on the original team could fly using their special powers (Bluefire and Purplefire could not fly, however Greenfire using his tech and Pinkfire using a spell could), all members of the Aventia team can fly as a standard ability to their God's Crystals. 
*Whereas the original Bluefire started out with just him and resulted in him making his friends over the course of the series, in Aventia, Billie and Ace are brothers and as such the two start their journey together. As well as this, whereas Pinkfire meets Bluefire and Greenfire in her debut episode, Hanako does not meet Billie and Ace in her debut episode and instead meets them in the episode after. 
*Ghoster and Wolfshock's Aventia counterparts, Ghoston and Grimmwolf, have a third member in their team that wasn't in the original, a reaper named Lavigne. 
*Whereas Ghoster was introduced first and Wolfshock was introduced in a later episode, both Ghoston and Grimmwolf make their first appearances in the same episode. Additionally, whereas Ghoster attacked the school he was attending, Ghoston was never shown being a part of a school, although Ghoston still has the personality of a stereotypical high school bully. 
== Trivia ==
* LFZ confirmed that Aventia and Quest of Bluefire do not occur in the same universe and that both incarnations of the characters exist independently of one another. However, the old series does make cameos in Aventia occasionally.