I’ve been watching Nickelodeon’s original animated series called “Avatar, The Last Airbender” lately, and found it very amusing. It combines action and comedy in a choreography of artistic martial arts and beautiful elemental effects.

But a better review of the series will be saved for later…

For people familiar with the series, this character will be quite familiar to you. His name is Uncle Iroh, the happy-go-lucky, fun-loving uncle of the Prince of the Fire Nation, Zuko. He became the father figure to Zuko when he was exiled by his own father in the series.

What saddens me is this image I saw in the 15th Chapter of the 2nd Book:

I was recently informed that Mako was actually the voice actor of Uncle Iroh. He was also the voice of Aku in Samurai Jack, and Master Splinter in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie.

He died July 21st, 2006, a day after he was given the confirmation that he is the official voice actor for TMNT. They might be able to find a replacement for the voice of Uncle Iroh in Season 3, but I don’t think it will ever be the same…

I’ll miss you Uncle Iroh. T_T Even if you are a fictional character. T_T

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