Honestly, I deeply enjoyed that men and women are able to partake in the action/adventure of this story in equal footing got me and kept me.

Bending (not magic) is explained and kept wherein I could follow the story without worrying about the annoying power scaling that I find in most anime.

So many wonderful things about this show but the best things is:

How well written the characters (male and female).

They are fleshed out with the sort of humanism I miss in animated media because most stories nowadays are just trying to one up each other to where humans aren't regular/even human anymore.