Hetalia

[Ash]

Come on then all you anime and manga fans on this site, where does your loyalty lie, who is your favourite Hetalia character? Which characters do you not like and which countries do you most want to appear next?

My favourite character is England, I love his sense of humour and belief in magic. I am not a fan of Prussia but time will tell if the character grows on me and we need Scotland and Wales in the interaction between the UK characters would be brilliant.

 

[mystmoon]

Yay, another Hetalia fan!
I think my favourite character is currently tied between England, Japan and China (who I cosplay in my Hetalia group) although America is arguably one of the funniest, I like the serious types!
Prussia is one of those characters that I can deal with in small doses but he gets tiring rather quickly!
Do people prefer the sub or the dub? I personally liked hearing the accents in the dub, but I prefer the translation(?) in the sub if that makes sense?

 

[Tonyblack]

What's it about?

I did a bit of searching and it seems to be an allegory of the world during WW2, using characters to represent various countries. But how does that work?

 

[mystmoon]

Hetalia was originallt a webcomic, which someone did some short webisodes for. The comic got printed into a proper manga and it was adapted into an anime and film (i haven't seen the film yet though because it isn't released in england yet )
basically, every character is a personification of a country, (and somewhat of a stereotype eg america is always eating hamburgers and italy is obsessed with pasta) and the show is a bunch of short skits, some are based on historical events (such as the WWII shorts) others focus more on cultural differences between different countries (such as the America and Japan shorts)
this is the opening skit which shows a fair few countries
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGUQfJ7xfME
sorrry if it doesn't work, try typing in hetalia world conference
also, sorry, but it's the dubbed version, i couldn't find the sub just on it's own without the rest of the episode

 

[Tonyblack]

Thanks!

 

[mystmoon]

Ah, I found the original webcomics in english if anyone's interested? Here

 

[ShadowNinjaCat]

Thanks mystmoon,I was trying to check this out the other day,but couldn't find the site.

 

[mystmoon]

I found it through the chat on hetalia wiki, but i think it hasn't been updated in a while, so i need to find a more regularly updated one

 

[Ash]

I like the dubbed version, to me the voice cast they picked was brilliant, but I understand what you mean the sub version often has the better jokes.

 

[mystmoon]

i was worried that the dubbed version was going to hold back on the stereotypes a bit (4Kids made me paranoid) but if anytrhing, some of their stereotypes are even closer to the bone!
Seriously, on some episodes, I just feel like "...ooh, too mean, funimation, too mean"

 

[mystmoon]

ugh, u know you've watched to much hetalia when you have "poland" moments and "prussia" moments

 

[ShadowNinjaCat]

I looked at that site you linked and so far I'm really enjoying it

 

[mystmoon]

thank you! i was really worried someone would take offense to it! want me to link you to the anime?

 

[ShadowNinjaCat]

I started watching the anime on one site I found,but the voice timing was wrong .I'm trying this one now.I don't know this site, so if you know a better site please give me the link

 

[mystmoon]

u found the same site i use! although some of the episodes are still screwed up with the sound. u can try here for the dub (be prepared for ridiculous accents tho).
my friend just got series 1 on dvd and i'm so jealous! hetalia looks so much better on the tv than it did on my comp screen

 

[ShadowNinjaCat]

Thanks for the dubbed link ,but I heard one episode in English and the accents creeped me out.I usually watch the subbed versions when I watch anime.Something just always sounds weird to me when it's dubbed .What do you think?

 

[mystmoon]

I generally prefer the japanese as well, cos it's the original, but as dubs go, hetalias is not the worst, although it changes a few of the more japan-centric jokes that westerners wouldn't necessarily get. Although Austria's dubbed voice annoys me. I don't know why, it's just too whiny! And Canada's accent isn't strong enough

 

[Ash]

I agree, I can not wait until I can get the Series 1 DVD, apparently its not going to be long until they release Series 2 as well. Though I doubt we will get the movie this year

 

[mystmoon]

They have announced that America is definetly getting the movie in either january or february. So if you have an all-region dvd player, you're sorted!

 

[mystmoon]

New Hetalia episodes are up! With chibi awesomeness

btw, y'know how i said my favourite characters changed a lot? Canada (who? ) has become more interesting to me since i found this

so cute!