(L) Hetalia Axis Powers (all seasons)

[blue skies]

I have a crazy idea. Let's just use this thread to focus on the adorable silliness that is Axis Powers Hetalia! Some people are taking this way too seriously. No more politics plzkthx.

Originally Posted by unasuvas

Spoiler for Just a cute strip of the North American brothers as babies:

D'awwwww. Could they be any cuter? If I could, I'd reach through my computer screen and hug them. So freaking adorable.

[jennkei]

Cute images are awesome~~

From the community LJ: Chibitalia!

Spoiler:

So cute with HRE. -coughs- Hehe.

[aohige]

Originally Posted by Leo_Otaku

Check out South Park I bet it is aired all over the world ithas so much worse themes >.> anyway....

Matt and Trey have a spine. A rather large one, I must say. And so does Comedy Central.
Japanese broadcast stations does not. They never have, and they never will.

I do feel that the "Japan" character could have used a little bit more offensive stereotyping. From the little I've seen of the comic strips, I think our own stereotypes were much tamer in depiction than other nations.
What's great about Simpsons and South Park is that as much offensive jokes they make of others, they make double that of their own culture.

[Sterling01]

I don't even get America's stereotype... I mean why does he not look down on everyone

[DonQuigleone]

I did know some koreans, and in fact they did claim they invented a lot of stuff (like moveable type), and made a fuss over it. Whether they did or not is another matter, but what few Koreans I met (and they were all nice people) have generally been pretty nationalist, I don't think the korean character is as off as any other character.

[Terrestrial Dream]

You know I have a questions to you guys? Why are you upset that the show won't air? The show is still going to be available via stream and other means. Most of you are not even going to watch it on TV and most likely you will just torrent it or watch it online through stream. So I don't see why some of you guys are upset.

[jennkei]

Originally Posted by Terrestrial Dream

You know I have a questions to you guys? Why are you upset that the show won't air? The show is still going to be available via stream and other means. Most of you are not even going to watch it on TV and most likely you will just torrent it or watch it online through stream. So I don't see why some of you guys are upset.

You aren't quite getting the point here. -wry- It could be the reason it's not airing that fans don't really care for. Also, if it airs on TV, there's more exposure...which could result in more fans appreciating Hetalia. ^^ Of course, negative publicity might well have done that. :P

The show will only be available via streaming on animate.tv, and mobile streaming. Seeing as how I'm not in Japan, the latter's out, and there hasn't been much info about the former...personally, I'm kind of worried about whether I can actually view the streams. Hopefully they don't block it by region, too (animate is a Japanese site, I'm not gonna wrack my brains looking around)...I remember when I wanted to stream Heroes and it wasn't 'available in my region'. Similarly, if fansubbers have trouble getting to the streams, they might just not do it...

[CPOK]

Originally Posted by jennkei

And Australians would be bogans wearing flipflops and scaring tourists about drop bears. -sniggers-

*Snerk* I would love to see them animate that! (and yes, I am an Aussie)

[relentlessflame]

I deleted a lot of posts that didn't get my earlier hint. This is a show that satirizes international politics and stereotypes, but we should be discussing the show and what it presents, rather than discussing the meta-politics around a makeshift controversy.

[Dagger]

Thank you very much for cleaning things up around here.

Maybe we should follow JP fans' lead and use the character's names (instead of saying America, Germany, etc.) so that people understand that we aren't conflating them with entire modern-day, real-life political bodies....

[gaguri]

Originally Posted by Magus IX

Thank you very much for cleaning things up around here.

Maybe we should follow JP fans' lead and use the character's names (instead of saying America, Germany, etc.) so that people understand that we aren't conflating them with entire modern-day, real-life political bodies....

Please don't feel pressured to do that. I think most Koreans here, well at least in this forum, understand that there's no hatred found in the way different races are portrayed in this anime. I wish to avoid any further misunderstandings that might arise from such a proposal. Unless people want to use characters' names of course, then by all means.

[Hourai]

Speaking of the character names, is there a list of which country has what name?

[Dagger]

Found this list on Facebook, of all places:

Spoiler for Character names, ages, heights:

Italy (Veneziano): Feliciano Vargas, Age 20, 172 cm
Italy (Romano): Lovino Vargas, Age 22-23
Germany: Ludwig (Last name unknown), Age 20, 180 cm
Japan: Honda Kiku, Age secret, 165 cm
America: Alfred F. Jones, Age 19, 177 cm
England: Arthur Kirkland, Age 23, 175 cm
France: Francis Bonnefoy, Age 26, 175 cm
China: Wang Yao, Age 4000 (he's immortal)
Russia: Ivan Braginski, Age unknown, 182 cm
Austria: Roderich Edelstein
Hungary: Elizaveta Héderváry
Spain: Antonio Fernandez Carriedo, Age 25
Switzerland: Vash Zwingli, Age 18
Poland: Felix Łukasiewicz, Age 19
Lithuania: Toris Lorinaitis, Age 19
Latvia: Raivis Galante, Age 15
Estonia: Eduard Von Bock, Age 17
Korea: Im Yong Soo, Age 15-16
Turkey: Sadiq Annan
Greece: Heracles Karpusi, Age 27
Egypt: Gupta Muhammad Hassan
Sweden: Berwald Oxenstierna, Age 21
Finland: Tino Väinämöinen, Age 20
Prussia: Gilbert Weillschmidt
Canada: Matthew Williams
Sealand: Peter Kirkland, Age 12
Belarus: Natalia (Natasha) Alfroskaya

[ritalman]

Funny that America and Canada don't have the same name if they're brothers... Maybe Canada is using an alias

[domino]

Originally Posted by ritalman

Funny that America and Canada don't have the same name if they're brothers... Maybe Canada is using an alias

The character names aren't official. They're just more of a "what if..." kind of thing to give each character a name that comes from their country of origin. They're never used in the actual series, though; just by fans when they want to be cautious about speaking about the series in the presence of people who may be unfamiliar with it (so no one will be accidentally offended).

[Apathy]

The character names aren't official. They're just more of a "what if..." kind of thing to give each character a name that comes from their country of origin. They're never used in the actual series, though; just by fans when they want to be cautious about speaking about the series in the presence of people who may be unfamiliar with it (so no one will be accidentally offended).

I think that the names used to be on the author's old (now-deleted) blog, or the like. I'm not sure if they've shown up since, as I'm still pretty new to the fandom, but if they are used, they seem to be used in fandom.

[FireChick]

I don't necessarily see why a Korean character in a manga is a bad thing. I don't see anything bad about having a Korean character in a manga. I mean, look at Kamichama Karin for example. That has a Korean character and there was no prejudice about it at all. I'm not being mean or anything. Heck, there are even English and Italian (Gunslinger Girl) characters in anime/manga and they aren't prejudiced in any way. Just making a point.

[Natsuki Hyuga]

Of all the countries in Hetalia (those who has appeared in the strip at least... Just mentioned also seems to count ), only Prussia, Canada, Belarus, Sealand and Turkey don't have their own Profile Page/Pictures. So I guess those 5 are either fan-name or unannounced names :x

All other countries' names are official names from Himaruya (sp.?), the author

[Klarr]

Today is the day!! I hope they upload it soon ^^

[Koroku]

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=MFBC-1 First DVD is up... will have episodes 1-7


Hmm, appears that you can get it on cellphones now, but it won't appear on animate.tv until the 26th? "1/26 16:00 animatetv" :x