No.156
>>155Based. I liked germancest. Also you just restored parts of my lost memories holy shit. It was in cute fun though, even though it may be cringe, the fanarts and stuff was super cute.
No.160
>>159>Also I hate how the modern Hetalia is countryhumanswhat the fuck is 'countryhumans'
No.163
More than a decade later GerIta still owns my ass, I've yet to see another pairing strike that dumbass comedy duo/wholesome husbands balance as well as they do
>>155Good times. Hetavision too.
No.172
>>170>Hetalia was my peak middle school fujo weeb obsessionIn middle school my friends and I used to roleplay as hetalia characters DURING school with the shitty fake accents and all and we were all semi homo with eachother due to us shipping characters and being in character
I still wince at remembering me saying 'Doitsu' in a shitty italian accent in the hallway cause I wasn't good at accents so I just sounded like Mario
No.173
>>172Yesssss oh my god same! I was also the Italy of my group. I know I should cringe, but I only feel warm, fond nostalgia when I look back on those days.
No.174
>>172>roleplay as hetalia characters DURING school with the shitty fake accentsYou're one of these latecomers who only discovered Hetalia because of the horrible American dubs and absolutely ruined the fanbase for everyone normal? Please say no.
No.175
>>173I am cringe but I am free
>>174Idk this was all like 11 years ago we were just dumb teens
No.177
>>175I take that as a yes then… As long as you weren't one of these people who were spamming crazy shit in normal conversations on lj and on forums like cosplayers doing a nazi salute in front of jewish fans or in front of graves or spamming horrible fanarts of Norway everywhere when the mass murder with 70 students happened I guess it's not too bad.
Unrelated but I regret not getting all the volumes of the manga when I was in Japan just because I didn't have enough space left in my suitcases. I should have avoided buying big artbooks I ended up selling later, I guess I will buy them next time as soon as I arrive in Tokyo.
No.190
>>172Kinda had a similar experience, minus the accents. We assigned everyone in our friend group a different country and I remember being Britain. I remember when my friend back then, who was America gave me a kiss on my cheek and I couldn't stop thinking about it. In my mind I just told myself I thought about it so much because I used to ship UsUk so much. In the end, I used my hetalia ships to project my own crush/es I had.I really liked UkCan, but there wasn't that much content of it.
On another note, newer fans lose their shit over ships like UsUk and FranCan because it's seen as a sort of incest lol. If only they could have seen how it was years ago…
No.193
i remember roleplaying as hetalia characters irl with a friend. not larping but, we would pass notes in the gym during lunch (kind of like, collaborative story-telling/d&d, except we were writing out yaoi smut lol).
No.195
>>174>horrible American dubsI love the English dubs as much as the original Japanese. They took so much liberty with the script that they are basically two different shows, kind of like Ghost Stories.
No.252
>>195Saying this as someone with huge nostalgia for the original Japanese version of the anime and who snobbed the dub hard when it first dropped, the dub is the best way to experience the Hetalia anime imo.
Even in the original version it changes and omits so much stuff from the source material to begin with, you might as well watch the balls to the wall insane dub version for shit and giggles and then go read the webcomic fanslations if you're interested in Hetalia's actual canon.
No.317
>>163>>164same here, I rewatched Axis Powers and World Series not long ago and I was surprised to find out that I still loved GerIta. They're cute and goofy!
When I got into the series back in the day, I yearned to go to one of those Hetalia Day get togethers, but was too scared to go.
I might not have been able to stomach the latest season, but it's still dear to me. It's the first series that made me look up for doujins. I still think Arthur in the Dark to be one of the best out there and UsUk isn't even my cup of tea.
No.351
>>345You have reminded me that I turned in Hetalia comics for assignments in history class. I’m sure the teacher loved my use of anime chibis to explain war and other serious historical events.
No.354
>>345>>351oh my god in 9th grade we had to read an english book and do a presentation about it in our foreign language class and i chose Auf Wiedersehen Sweetheart. i don't even know why i did it i could easily pick another book that wasn't… y'know.. fanfic. or gay.
we ended up not doing any presentations (for reasons unrelated) but i did tell about it to my teacher and that's how i discovered my favorite teacher was homophobic.
allthough i do find these memories cringe i still hold the characters and anime very dear to my heart. i have never been able to find anything like this
No.392
>>390not to get
too political here, but i tend to be pretty sensitive about nationalism, especially japanese nationalism, in media. i don't watch attack on titan precisely for that reason.
that's my own choice, though. i don't like the series and i'll tell people why i don't like it, but i really don't care what you think of it as long as you don't make it political yourself. if you like attack on titan because you think levi is hot, so be it; if you're going to argue with me that it's some paragon of anti-fascist literature, i'm going to exit the conversation as fast as i can. in the end, it's just anime. it only becomes a problem when you make it more than anime.
the other thing is, there's media out there that's way more blatant about its political leanings than any of those series. consider that one light novel where the main character was proud of his kill count in the nanjing massacre, for example. the yellow reply in that image really is right: all this is doing is just watering down the meaning of such terms.
No.398
>>390Isn't it incredible how a couple of pictures of some dumb teen-aged cosplayers are still ruining the fandom for everyone else almost ten years later?
I could go on and on about this topic but to keep it simple, most of the criticism Hetalia gets is warranted as it does have some pretty cringe-worthy and biased takes, but thinking just because something is flawed or problematic it shouldn't exist is black-and-white purity culture nonsense and it's only creating more toxic environments online. I really hope this trend of "media shouldn't require a single ounce of critical thinking for it to be good" dies as soon as possible so we can start openly talking about cute country-tans on main again.
No.411
>>390I don't listen to what tumblr says
And honestly all this "Hetalia is racist" talk that started to surface last years in really stupid because it just means that the people who make these posts completely miss the point that APH is a light-hearted satire series not meant to offend anyone
No.417
>>390I don’t care anymore if people think I’m a white supremacist or racist or any other -ist. If anything, these types of people made me that way, not silly shows like Hetalia.
No.602
>>390I agree that hetalia was WIDLY offensive before it got serialized but i don't remember the series ever being antisemitic. At least not the original japanese version, i don't think jewish people or nazi are ever mentioned.
Also, do you guys think himaruya pretended to be male all this time? I'm like 90% sure she's a fujoshi using a male pen name.
No.607
>>602>i don't think jewish people or nazi are ever mentioned. I agree with you but to play devil's advocate here, what people are complaining about is a character based on Nazi Germany existing at all. Yeah, he represents the people and not the government and yeah, you can avoid calling him nazi outright in the show, but there's still this big fat elephant in the room that he
is Nazi Germany and never portrayed as being in the wrong, so I can see why someone would take offense to that.
I actually think part of the problem is people walking into the show believing it's just gonna be cute humanized country shenanigans (so what Hetalia became after getting serialized), when in reality early-Hetalia was very focused on taking the piss out of the military and warfare strategies specifically, so people don't realize WW2 being tackled isn't a political statement.
>Also, do you guys think himaruya pretended to be male all this time?I'm starting to believe the "he's actually multiple people" theory, with the artist being a woman. Imo that would also explain how he's apparently been pretty much all around the world multiple times and knows at least one person from almost every country, I refuse to believe a single Japanese mangaka has that much money and free time, let alone social life.
No.609
>>607Himaruya studied in NYC for at least a year didn't he? And if he lives in a big Japanese city and stayed in touched with the friends he made in NYC I can believe he knows people from all over the world.
No.610
>>607I still can't bring myself to forgive them for the way they portrayed s.korea and france in the earlier strips but i'm glad that they at least tried to redeem themselves with the serialization. The series still has a grip on me to this day because I find the character designs extremely cute and thanks to being based on real events and countries you can ship almost anything and it would still be canon-adjacent. I think it's also the first series where i enjoyed a pairing antis would call "incest" (usuk, although at the time i didn't consider it like that cause they aren't related).
No.650
hetalia fans help me out a little bit, i'm trying to think of all the instances the characters were shown to have very blatant gay feelings for each other
right now i compiled
germany -> italy
italy -><- hre (mutual)
sweden -> finland
spain -> romano (i know this one and the prussia one might have been retconned but they were canon one-sided feelings at some point)
prussia -> italy (both of them)
france -> everyone?
that one scene where it was heavily implied japan and greece had sex
and some of the more debatable ones:
france -><- england ? (i mean the sexual tension is clearly done on purpose and it has too much pandering to be purely rivalry so it's semi-canon to me)
england -> america (this one is the most debatable one BUT i think himaruya knew what he was doing here and england gives him chocolate for valentiens day in the same strip that made germany feelings for italy canon)
norway -> iceland (i always thought this is brocon pandering)
romano -> spain (debatable because romano is a huge tsundere)
do you guys remember anything else?
No.656
>>650I was getting canceled long ago for shipping France and England together, they weren't even my main ship to begin with and the reason was because France was creepy so they accused me of being just as creepy as he is irl. Weird times.
No.657
>>656>canceled for shipping france and englandthought you can only be cancelled for shipping usuk these days? if we go by that logic literally all the hetalia ships are problematic to some extent because they fought in wars, owned colonies, tormented each other, are related etc. you can even twist it that gerita, which is generally seen as a very vanilla ship, is incest because italy said he has germanic blood too lol
No.658
>>657It was on deviantart even lol, lost like 3 of my deviantart Hetalia friends and then got spammed by different hetalia accounts that I'm disgusting, I only had like 10 watchers so that hurted me as a 15 year old. It still doesn't make sense to this day
No.661
>>658gosh that sounds rough, you were probably caught in those weird fruk/usuk wars. the kids on deviantart were rather intense about it but fun fact, nowadays is more socially acceptable to ship fruk
No.665
>>662heck as if himaruya gives a shit about incest when he made belarus the biggest yandere brocon
No.671
>>390>tumblranyway this is like saying everyone who watches south park is racist, homophobic, pedophilic, the works. it's just a silly little cartoon lmao.
No.672
do you guys think there is a chance of himaruya redesigning s.korea and making his portrayal more accurate/less offensive? I would love to see some funny strips about kpop
No.1525
>>1513I have multiple ships in Hetalia and it was the first series where I really got involved in shipping.
But weirdly enough I can't think of the characters as hot or attractive because I have been into it since I was a kid. So I kinda see them as family members.
I have no problem joking about their sex lives and shipping them with each other but I can't bring myself to read r18 doujinshis and fanficition of them. My inner 11 year old gets embarrassed. Hetalia is the only franchise where I feel like this
No.1526
>>1524Cute, I love AsaKiku.
No.1546
>>159I used to absolutely love this ship
One of my first gay anime ships
No.2133
>>2080Well drawings of humanized countries have always been a thing. Like all those old political cartoons.