Hetalia Axis Powers episode 25

My local Bor­ders, the only book­shop near me that had a decent selec­tion of manga, is shut­ting down. Luck­ily that means all their books are at 50% off so I guess it’s shop­ping I shall go! Hope­fully I’ll find some­thing funny because Hetalia isn’t really doing it for me any more.

Hetalia hasn’t made me laugh prop­erly in a while now. In some ways this is because it’s a com­edy that’s com­ing to the end of it’s tether. This usu­ally hap­pens with any com­edy, even great ones like Cro­martie or Hare+Guu. The thing is that these epis­odes are only 5 minutes long so they really shouldn’t be run­ning out of mater­ial already. So it’s not because Hetalia is get­ting old yet. It’s because it isn’t even try­ing to be funny any­more. It’s busy being ‘cute’ and I just don’t like cute. Don’t give me bloody moe and don’t give me chibi’s, give me Ger­many try­ing to train Italy to become a world beater and fail­ing miserably.

The epis­ode con­tin­ued the story of Liech and Swiss, which was never funny in the first place. It’s not exactly touch­ing either. What made the America’s stor­age clean­ing sorta work was because we knew the char­ac­ters already so it was see­ing a dif­fer­ent side to them. We’ve only seen Aus­tria appear in one epis­ode where he played the piano in the middle of the sea and as for Switzerland…the only time he’s appeared was for about a mil­li­second in the first epis­ode where he yelled at Japan.

I guess I just need a break from Hetalia. Of course now would be the ideal time since the first sea­son of Hetalia is fin­ish­ing but instead of a little break they’ve decided to air the second sea­son straight away. I sup­pose it is an Inter­net release so they don’t have to worry about get­ting a TV spot or any of that but a break from Hetalia for a few months would have done me the world of good. In the end it comes down to those Koreans again…heh heh heh.