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| "When I started developing the books, I thought that the first one should be involved about Hikar finally finishing the Avatar training, like his graduation year, and in time since he already is 18. I wanted to make a different kind of beginning for a whole lot of adventures so that's why I came up with the name of an element, though it's not a real separated element: metal. Back in book four, we saw metal could behave like a totally different element than earth from Kuvira, so I had the idea that, in allusion to the other book ones, I wanted the avatar to struggle in mastering one final element, and that came the name of "Metal"." |
| — AirMasterParker about Book One: Metal. |
New cover for Book One: Metal. Featuring Hikar in the center, surrounded (from left to right) with Shaila, Kensi, and Bultina. In the background we have a mysterious armored person on the left, near a mountain, and on the right we have Iruka and a muscular man. In the top we have the Red Lotus logo covered by a pair of cyan eyes, a red arrow, and two mysterious silhouettes.
Book One: Metal (金) is the first book of Hikar's Spiritual Chronicles, created by AirMasterParker. This book covers how Hikar Firestone discovers he's the new Avatar, and his first problems to deal with.
The season began to be written on August 16, 2016, as "Hikar Spiritual Force: Book One, Metal", with the publishing of the two-part pilot "New Cycle", and was first cancelled in the pre-finale episode, originally named "All Hail the Leader". It was later rebooted as "Hikar's Spiritual Chronicles- Book One: Metal", restarting from November 16, 2017, periodically rewriting a chapter every Friday, until the special finale release, premiered in Avatar Wiki in midnight UTC 0, February 24, 2018. It was re-started for the last time in Webtoon format on January 24th of 2019, premiering the prologue that day, and in November 24th of the same year, premiering the first episode. It will be followed by Book Two: Lightning.
List of chapters[]
| Chapter | Episode | Episode name | Airdate | Arc |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 00 | "Prologue" | January 24, 2019 | Prologue |
| 1 | 01 | "New Cycle, Part 1" | November 24, 2019 | New Cycle |
| 2 | 02 | "New Cycle, Part 2" | December 29, 2019 | |
| 3 | 03 | "New Cycle, Part 3" | March 8, 2020 | |
| 4 | 04 | "The Last Dance" | July 31, 2020 | |
| 5 | 05 | "Attachments" | April 25, 2021 | |
| 6 | 06 | "Testing the Waters" | April 23rd, 2022 (part 1) May 7th, 2022 (part 2) May 28th, 2022 (part 3) June 11th, 2022 (part 4) |
Starting Point |
| 7 | 07 | "Return to the City" | April 26th, 2025 (part 1) May 3rd, 2025 (part 2) May 10th, 2025 (part 3) May 17th, 2025 (part 4) May 24th, 2025 (part 5) | |
| 8 | 08 | "Breaking the Strings" | June 14, 2025 (part 1) June 21, 2025 (part 2) June 28, 2025 (part 3) July 5, 2025 (part 4) | |
| 9 | 09 | "Party of Sights" | TBA (2026) | Falling Petals |
| 10 | 10 | "Falling Petals" | TBA (2026) | |
| 11 | 11 | "TBA, Part 1" | TBA (2026) | |
| 12 | 12 | "TBA, Part 2" | TBA (2026) |
Music[]
Most of the soundtrack music is composed by the author himself, AirMasterParker, done with the music programs of Ableton Live 9 and Garageband, balancing between the genres of alternative rock, dance music and traditional Chinese and Japanese music. The soundtrack also takes inspiration from a couple of Jeremy Zuckerman's scores used in both original series, as well as other media soundtracks as well, such as RWBY, Naruto, or the Marvel Cinematic Universe between other.
Tracks[]
- "Prologue" - 1:49
- "Main Theme" - 3:46
- "Hall Investigation" - 2:43
- "Dragon" - 2:48
- "The Metallic Wolves' concert" - 6:33
- "Overview" - 3:52
- "Airbending Monster" - 2:39
- "Forest Crossing" - 2:59
- "New Horizon" - 3:19
- "Fight Time" - 1:35
- "Club Song" - 3:55
- "Trailer Theme" - 1:00
- "Kensi Theme" - 2:33
- "Raiding the Fields" - 2:02
- "Juniper" - 4:54
Trivia[]
- This book was originally going to be the original overarching story of Avatar Brek, later rewritten with more characters and a different plot, and affecting the rest of the new books planned.
- It was originally planned to release the first three episodes at the first time, but production delays made it impossible.
- This is the first book to feature a scene from the end in the start, and the one who spans the longest time internally, being 13 years, while the second longest was Book One: Air spanning over 12 years.
- According to a Canto fan, the character 金, previously used for the title cards in Episodes 1 to 4, means gold, while 鐵 is the kanji that actually means metal. This mistake was originally rectified but then was returned as it is a simpler kanji that essentially means the same.
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