Axis Powers Hetalia

[akeru]

Recently, I'm quite addicted to it after my friend gave me some files and now I started to repeat some of the episodes I liked. I would like to share my Hetalia fandom. x3 At first I thought it was a boring action anime then it turns out to be a comedic one. I need to heal my ignorance nowadays. I noticed that even though it's popular(?) no one attempted to start a thread about it.

[Lunagel]

That's mostly cause toku is about 90% guys, and Hetalia is, let's face it, marketed to girls. I watched a few episodes but couldn't really see what the hype was about. Maybe it's one of those things I'll have to watch with friends.

[akeru]

That's mostly cause toku is about 90% guys, and Hetalia is, let's face it, marketed to girls. I watched a few episodes but couldn't really see what the hype was about. Maybe it's one of those things I'll have to watch with friends.

Well, IMO some episodes are totally funny (in my standard). I didn't see that coming but oh well. Guys dominate here in TV-N. I cannot force them though xD

[Darkster]

If it's too girly, I can't watch it. If it's funny or has action, I'll give it a try.

[Nexus_Schwarz]

If it's too girly, I can't watch it. If it's funny or has action, I'll give it a try.

It's not exactly "girly", but it's at times bromance-tastic rather than pure yaoi. (It's on Funi's stream site if you're curious to watch. They're only five minutes long each, so it won't hurt to try.)

It makes history really fun to learn and even puts human terms to things such as merging countries being considered like marriage, which is hilarious when France had no other choice to marry England because he couldn't survive on his own. (Forget that real-world event, but lots of parallels happen.)

[Shado Kabuto]

kinda reminds me of Vampire Knight it had that bromance hilarity and action and it's a pretty awesome series to boot.

Hetelia seems to be interesting as well.


Oh you should give Angel Beats a try it's really good

[Darkster]

I'm not into bromance. The sub team I'm in actually does Angel Beats! so I'd thought I'd give it a try, but after 4 episodes or so, I couldn't keep watching it. I felt like it lacked a point.

[Sho-saka]

I watched Hetalia and I quite enjoyed the hilarious banter between the chatacters.

Until that is a selection of rabid yaoi fangirls decide to post disturbing fanart/fanfiction/fan comics/ fan videos on the 'net and made me put off watching the rest of the series, even reading a selection of the mangaka's web comics (yes, that's where Hetalia originated from). Sorry Hetalia fans.

BTW, is it true that Hetalia received some sort of controversy with South Korea or something that explains it wasn't broadcast in Japanese TVs? Can't seem to remember now.

Oh yeah, one last useless trivia: You know the person who provided the voices on both North and South Italy? Well he's also voiced Speedor from Engine Sentai Go-onger, unless you've already watched that S.Sentai and immediately/gradually recognised his voice from the start or something.

[Nexus_Schwarz]

Man, I curse the fandoms sometimes for killing the fun for me for some series. For example, I was going to watch Lucky Star until I realized that there was both direct and indirect references to Haruhi which I also can't stand due to its fandom. (Putting both references to both the character via the seiyu/VA being the same and then putting the seiyu herself in there? You can do better for a cashout, Kyoto...)

BTW, is it true that Hetalia received some sort of controversy with South Korea or something that explains it wasn't broadcast in Japanese TVs? Can't seem to remember now.

Yes, there was controversy because South Korea thought that the persona was a stereotype and protested against showing it on TV...when he wasn't even in the first two seasons (not sure on the third, but I don't think there's a chance now).

If anyone, I'm sure that Italy would've protested because...well, look at those two. They're hilarious but stereotypes as well. In fact, that's the whole point of the series: the countries' basic population quirks given life, with human analogs to actual events like the marriage thing I mentioned last time.

Oh yeah, one last useless trivia: You know the person who provided the voices on both North and South Italy? Well he's also voiced Speedor from Engine Sentai Go-onger, unless you've already watched that S.Sentai and immediately/gradually recognised his voice from the start or something.

Yeah, he's in a lot of stuff but not really toku (Deka, Magi, and of course Go-Onger). And apparently he's directing a movie with other toku seiyu/Sentai as well as starring in it.