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Netto Azure
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 Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:50 pm Post subject: Axis Powers Hetalia |
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| Quote: | In heaven, the police are British, the lovers are Italian, the food is French, the engineers are German, and the whole thing is run by the Swiss.
In hell, the police are German, the lovers are Swiss, the food is British, the engineers are French, and the whole thing is run by the Italians. |
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AxisPowersHetalia
| Quote: | Once upon a time, the Roman Empire ruled the Mediterranean. Then it collapsed, leaving his grandson Italy in his place. But all he wanted to do was cook, draw, and flirt with women.
Cut to World War One. Germany waits at the Italian front, ready to face the heir to the mighty Roman Empire...
He finds Italy hiding in a tomato crate. Poor Italy is scared and has NO idea of what the Hell is going on, so Germany takes him under his wing, where he remains until World War II. At the same time, the "Allied Forces" are getting ready to counter attack... if they can reach an agreement, that is.
A popular Japanese series that is an allegorical tale of the history of Europe, especially during World War Two, with anthropomorphizations of different countries and the various stereotypes associated with them. Axis Powers Hetalia is at once educational, irreverently silly, occasionally touching, and potentially offensive. Starting off as a webcomic, Hetalia garnered a strong fan following, and was eventually published in print form. A series of drama CDs were made later; an anime adaptation has been released, but broadcast on television was canceled in favor of alternate means. The word Hetalia is a portmanteau of hetare and Italia (Itaria), which means hopeless Italy, as Germany soon discovers. Hopeless in a cute way. You know, with the Axis powers, it's not bad to be bad at being bad. |
As you guys will probably know. I do have fallen in love with this series due to my love of history. I know, the fans are rabid. But aren't we all? ;D
So apparently the series has been licensed by Funimation for both subbing and dubbing of seasons 1 & 2 (52 Episodes)
And seriously will anyone subscribe to that?
Anyway's sadly with the Censorship police sniffing around, this might lead to another "South Korea controversy" as people might take offense at it. But hey one can hope~
Oh well, I really do like this news as the fandom (Big as it is already) will get more attention, and hey I want High Quality Subs. I'll definitely buy it.
And...there's the issue of dubbing. The running joke since Friday's announcement has been "Will there be accents for each country?" Now that would be a bit cheaper than the average anime dub as the series is only 5-minutes long. :O
I hope we get a History channel broadcast. >B:3 |
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Unknown Neo
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| Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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I will say this, It certainly is a different idea. Although I've seen the countries as people before, but that was girls. Sounds odd-teresting though.
And great joke. |
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Netto Azure
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| Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 12:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Unknown Neo wrote: | I will say this, It certainly is a different idea. Although I've seen the countries as people before, but that was girls. Sounds odd-teresting though.
And great joke. |
What? You haven't heard of this? XD
It's been quite famous in the internet fandom lately. XP
And yes, I've heard about that girls as countries series before. But I forgot what it was. :/
And Afganistan-u is another series similar to this.  |
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Unknown Neo
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| Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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No, I've heard of it, I just didn't know it was about this.
And Afganis-tan is what I was thinking of. |
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Netto Azure
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| Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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Oh, I also like Afganis-tan.
Sadly the Author went into hiding. :/
Oh well Hetalia still tops my fandom for now~ |
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marihikari
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| Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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Hetalia's funny and cute ^^. I've seen up to episode 20 so far X3.
I like Italy and his pasta making! and America and his burgers XDD.
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Thia
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| Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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| I heard of Hetalia, I might watch it sometime. =) |
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