America: Maybe if I keep speaking faster and if my words make less sense, they won't notice how much money I'm taking from the poor suckers...
England: ....I'd tap all these asses if I were still an empire.
France: How is it possible that Greece has more sex than I do...? Oh look, former territories.
Spain: SUNSHINE LILLIPOPS AND...RAINBOWS~
Romano: I hate you, you, you, you, you're cool, you you....
Italy: I will touch everyone's hair, so help me god, someday.
Japan: Pon pon wei wei wei.. wow this song is really gay.
Russia: I'm glad everyone's here in my soon-to-become-one-with-Russia group..!
Belarus: That booty..
Ukraine: Why is she staring at my butt?
Lithuania: Estonia, why won't you notice meee...?!
Latvia: Fuck these peasants...I hope they can't read minds..
Poland: I look fabulous and nothing hurts.
Germany: But the question is...am I gay?
Canada: Don't think of moose porn, don't think of moose porn, do- OH GOD DAMNIT...JUST SMILE..SMILE...YESS, THAT'S BETTER. Calm down Canada, you'll soon take over the world (or maybe just the continent) soon....Yes... just smile and act sweet....
Belgium: That Canadian ain't got nothing on my waffles.
Netherlands: ....No.
Cuba: Russia said he'd call, but he hasn't...why?!
Monaco: I'm feeling sexy and freeeee~
Greece: How many people have I fucked this week...7? Not enough.
Turkey: Once I get home, I'm going dancing. I don't care.
Egypt: I'm too old for this shit.
China: Better make more missles, Russia's getting creepier at the moment, aru...Why do I say aru? What is aru, aru? ...Damn it.
Hong Kong: These posers ain't got no fashion sense.
Taiwan: Soon, Japan-senpai...soon...
Australia: I hope England didn't find the giant spider I put in his tea this morning..
South Korea: *doesn't think, just gangnam styles on the desk until he's kicked by either Japan or China in the ass*
Every countries' inner-thoughts at a World Conference
I just found this dA group and I can’t stop laughing
Eh, because I don’t think I’ve gotten enough hate in my inbox I’m going to take the bait.
Hetalia isn’t a bad series. It is actually very unique and clever and educational if you look at it from the perspective of adding a human aspect to history. A lot of the time kids don’t enjoy history because they cannot relate to it. They don’t care so much about wars and dates and political leaders. And yet Hetalia brings an element of human emotion to things like the death of a leader or the conflict of war.
As I said to my friend a couple of days ago Hetalia relies on the viewer’s ability to read what isn’t shown and to analyze what is and isn’t being said.
Yesterday we saw a post over Germany seeing a child Italy in his dream and we talked about how dreams work, and how nothing in a dream can be conjured from nothing. This adds a new perspective on what was previously a cutesy scene in the anime.
The thing that people who look at the Hetalia fandom don’t realize is that honestly, Hetalia doesn’t place emphasis on the things that you are taught in school, like the body counts and horrors of wars. They don’t talk about German concentration camps other than a couple of references and they certainly don’t talk about British Imperialism.
Why? Because it is assumed that the viewer was already taught at least a loose understanding of those events and concepts.
This anime was actually made from a webcomic made for adult males, it would be assumed that they would catch the references to the darker parts of history, while instead adding on new and much gentler and even fun information, like Busby’s Chair, the Cafe Du Pain and the silly references to Germany’s porn collection.
Hetalia is not meant to be educational in the traditional sense of the word. It is meant to give a human element to a study that has been stripped down and treated with clinical gazes. History relies on people, on cultural change and stability, it relies on the different perspectives and understandings that people will display or see. Hetalia brings that element back to history. It gives us a personification that feels very human emotions and yet has the responsibility of representing an entire country with all their quirks and human nuances.
I do admit that I myself, even being a part of the Hetalia fandom, am not a fan of the fandom. There are a few fics I enjoy and of course we have some amazinging artists, but in general I tend to stay out of the fandom, or at least attempt to be impartial to the shenanigans going on in it. But that doesn’t mean that everyone does that too, or even will consider it. There is no problem with fangirls, there is no problem with people being enthusiastic and excited. If you focused only on the people who “ruin” a good work then people wouldn’t be so enthusiastic about Sherlock, Doctor Who, Supernatural, Homestuck.
You can rag on the fans all you want, there will always be shitty fans in every fandom, but don’t for a second think that the series doesn’t have depth and knowledge that can be learned if you look past the conventional idea of history.
Yes. Good comment!
I’m a history mayor myself and I find a lot (and I seriously mean a lot) of hidden and less hidden history trivia in the manga which are hard to get for people who know less of history.
//THIS IS THE FUCKING GIF SET I’VE WAITED MY WHOLE LIFE FOR AND DIDN’T KNOW I NEED UNTIL I SAW IT.
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*cries out of beauty*
aph: advanced placement hetalia
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