Board Thread:Misc./@comment-30211992-20170416232434

Maybe it has already been mentioned, but having watched Avatar: The Last Airbender again this week I can say for sure that AoT has been inspired by it to some degree.

Firstly, the context of war. Two nations (Marley and Eldia, Earth Kingdom and Fire Nation) fighting each other in a hundred years war. The war is sure to be in a stalemate until the series take place (Marley's invasion or Sozin's comet).

The structure of Ba Sing Se is really similar to that of the Walls. It has a big outer wall designed to host agriculture (like Wall Maria and Rose) and an inner wall (like Sina) that is a lot more densily populated. Even Ba Sing Se divides this inner wall into three spaces (like the AoT walls themselves) corresponding to class and function.

However, what struck me the most is the Dai Li/Church of the Walls resemblance. Both of them preserve a semingly state of peace and tranquility between the territory, and take out anyone who talks about the outer war. The population of Ba Sing Se does not anything about the situation of the conflict outside the walls but that the Fire Nation is at war with them (they do not know how the tides are turning upon them), as the Eldians do not known anything but that they were being attacked by titans for 100 years.

What do you think? 