These aliens have invaded earth to turn everything into white blobs because ‘everything should be the same in every way’ and it is up to the United Nations to fight the aliens off while being at risk of losing their national identities. Paint it white completely breaks away from the norm, and has a story about aliens invading earth. With Italy being the main character throughout, APH follows his story and everything that orbits around him more than anything else, though there are story lines about the America/Britain/France “special relationship” love triangle and about Soviet Russia (Canada, Cuba and China are in there as well at some point). Hetalia ‘Axis Powers’ refers to most of the first two seasons being about Japan, Italy and Germany and their encounters during and after the two world wars. The movie, Paint it White, sits in between APH and World series. The first two seasons are called Hetalia Axis Powers (APH) and seasons three and four are called World Series. It would literally take all night to go through every character and every stereotype, as there’s in theory one character per country in the world.įrance and England battle it out in the conference room just like the good old days.Īnyway, so far there are four seasons, one movie, and a season five in the pipeline. This would, for example, have Japan react badly to America, who in this rendition is a boisterous, loud-mouth fun-goer who likes to party and takes drastic political decisions, and then react positively to Britain, who out of all the British stereotypes they could have chosen is actually very conservative in his own way (despite being a secret punk). The idea, at its core, is that each country in the world is represented by one person who is drawn like a normal person from that country and has the personality of a stereotypical person from that country, (bare in mind here these are Japanese stereotypes for others and not our British ones, though the American dub did add extra bits to appeal to the English speaking audience) for example, Japan himself is pictured as a small, slim man with black hair which is cut so conservatively that it out-blues the Mediterranean sea, who loves cooking and traditional values. I like to see it as one of the most misunderstood satire pieces you could ever come across, as it focuses much more on politics than history, and I would class it as a satire rather than a comedy because at parts it is going out of its way to deliberately offend in a light, panel show style of humour. Hetalia is technically a historical comedy, though to say that would be a huge insult to both history and his greatness Hidekaz Himaruya who created the web comic the Anime is based off. I was originally going to report on modern Japanese culture, about how it has effected modern western civilisation and so on, but then I was struck shockingly by the realisation that I could use this opportunity to talk about one of my biggest guilty pleasures in all Anime: Hetalia.Įmbrace the magnificence that is the artwork of Studio Deen! (or not…)įor those who have never heard of Hetalia, frankly you have no idea what you are in store for. Mars men, wherever they are, must be jealous of our cultural diversity and ethnicity. We are all one and the same, and yet completely different, and that is what makes us as as a species great. With One World Week upon us, it is important to respect the customs, traditions, and mannerisms of each and every country out there in the wide, wide world.
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