26 CommentsHetalia Axis Powers, Ye Olde Days / 23th Nov 2009

Hetalia Axis Powers episode 44 (a bit earlier than usual for some reason)

Hetalia usu­ally comes out on a Monday and the gg usu­ally sub the thing Tues­day or Wed­nes­day. How­ever this week the epis­ode ran­domly appeared on Fri­day, way before it was meant to be released. Why? I’ve seen people say it’s because the mobile phone down­load always comes earlier and someone uploaded it onto nico (the Japan­ese ver­sion of you­tube, although most of them use the Japan­ese lan­guage you­tube any­way so I dunno why nico still runs…). That doesn’t make the slight­est bit of sense though. If this has always been the case then why did it take until epis­ode 44 for this to hap­pen? Why would gg decide to sub this ver­sion at epis­ode 44? My guess behind this is that it was acci­dent­ally leaked. Sim­ilar to what happened to fun­im­a­tion with One Piece, they just didn’t handle their secur­ity prop­erly. Either that or someone on the other side made quite the blun­der. Heads are rolling back in Japan over this mis­take. All very strange stuff it must be said.

Might as well review the epis­ode since it’s out.

Moe moe kyun~

Yeah I just dropped a K-ON ref­er­ence, how otaku am I? You know, the idea of Switzer­land get­ting all mushy over his moe little sis­ter Liecht­en­stein looks fant­astic on paper. No, I’m not refer­ring to the manga (Hetalia is a web­comic so tech­nic­ally wouldn’t be on paper any­way) but just that idea of itty-bitty Liecht­en­stein is some­thing that makes sense in your head. And yet when it comes out on Hetalia it’s just plain dull. There’s a small, shriv­elled up part inside me, the part that thought Clan­nad was pretty darn good, that likes these seg­ments. How­ever the rest of me looks at them and thinks ‘yawn, more moe non­sense. Next’.

This is such an awe­some pic­ture isn’t it? Their per­son­al­it­ies are such polar oppos­ites you have to won­der why these two haven’t pro­duced that much great mater­ial thus far. Their only seg­ment thus far was the two of them doing their post-Christmas activ­it­ies in what was a hope­lessly bor­ing epis­ode. It was espe­cially a relief to see these two guys faces show up after the moe moe kyun seg­ment. Heck, all Hetalia needed to do was show that above scene and I’d be happy. And yes, those weird multi-coloured cakes are the most unap­pet­iz­ing look­ing things that come out of America.

Next up was the almighty Canada, although almighty might be the wrong word do describe him. Canada may be a bit of a one-trick pony but that’s quite a fine trick he can do. Plus with every epis­ode he appears in he tries harder to con­front Amer­ica about his issues, with equally dis­astrous res­ults. I think I pref­ered Cuba’s angry bash­ing to chain­saw wield­ing Amer­ica but it’s a damn close con­test. The next epis­ode pre­view involved moe moe kyun trapped in the rain. Now while that might not be quite as bad as see­ing the holy roman empire fea­ture in the next epis­ode pre­view, it still doesn’t exactly fill me to the brim with excite­ment. Now if the next epis­ode pre­view fea­tured the Cuban Mis­sile Crisis with Amer­ica and Rus­sia glar­ing at each other with Cuba in the middle, prob­ably beat­ing up Canada again, then I would be excited. The thing is, the next epis­ode will be an even longer wait than usual. So any­one who was all delighted that Hetalia was out early now has to wait extra long for the next epis­ode to come out. What goes up, must come down.

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26 Comments

  1. Jan Suzukawa
    Posted November 23, 2009 at 4:21 am | Permalink

    Himaruya (Hetalia cre­ator) has a fas­cin­a­tion with the gar­ish multicolor-frosted desserts in Amer­ica. The fol­low­ing is one of his web­com­ics, and the pho­tos of cakes at the end were appar­ently taken by Himaruya himself:

    http://aph.starry-sky.com/amenihon.html

    Agree that the pre­view doesn’t exactly make one bounce up and down with anti­cip­at­ory excite­ment, but… we’ll see what hap­pens. ;)

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  2. heyheyho
    Posted November 23, 2009 at 11:05 am | Permalink

    I though this ep. was going to be bor­ing because of the Liecht­en­stein thing, but as soon as I saw the Canada thing I was delighted :D

    Aaaand I even made a video about it!

    FFFFFFFFFFF
    8D

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  3. blissfullynaive
    Posted November 23, 2009 at 11:45 am | Permalink

    D:

    Am i the only one who likes Liecht­en­stein? xDD

    Actu­ally, i like the manga strips of these. Since in the anime, it feels a bit dragged and slow. And i like how Himaruya placed notes at the bot­tom about Liecht­en­stein and Swiss rela­tion­ship. I dunno.. maybe it’s just me. xDDD

    The next epis­ode will pro­lly be about Liech’s past and how she almost ceased to exist, which is quite nice imo (but pro­lly not for every­one xD).

    Hahaha.. Poor Canada. I actu­ally like his char­ac­ter, but it sounds weird whenever Canada shouts.

    There are a lot of Japan&America strips in the comic. xD The other ones are fun­nier, so i hope Deen will show it.

    And Poland. ;__; Poland, please, Deen.

    (i guess this epis­ode is leaked. The phone ver­sions are actu­ally released around Fri­day. And someone uploaded it in nico, but has bad qual­ity com­pared to this (so, not good for subs). It was later removed. So i won­der about this. Haha.. xD)

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  4. Humanity_Cat
    Posted November 23, 2009 at 1:46 pm | Permalink

    *raises hand* I like Liechtenstein. ^ ^

    Ah! I for­got that you were read­ing the webcomic/manga ver­sion, Scamp! Do you like? ;D
    Unfor­tu­natly, some of the stuff they anim­ate over doesn’t keep the humor…like I love the strip about Ger­mania and Gram­paRoma dur­ing New Years eve, but I don’t think that’d anim­ate very well… ^^;

    ‘…it sounds weird whenever Canada shouts.’ (Blind­ab­il­ity)
    Aha, I love that. It’s like no mat­ter how angry Mat­thew is, he can’t shout above his aggit­ated whis­per. XD

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  5. blissfullynaive
    Posted November 23, 2009 at 7:43 pm | Permalink

    Yeah, i have to agree. Some strips are so awe­some in webcomic/manga form, but it fails when it’s animated.

    Hahaha.. Poor Matt. So, no mat­ter how angry or how hard he shouts, it won’t get louder than a whis­per? hahaha xDDD

    Can’t wait to see Liechtenstein’s back story next epis­ode. I hope they include that strip where Matt made “someone” cry, too. xD

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  6. Scamp
    Posted November 23, 2009 at 8:17 pm | Permalink

    @Jan Suzukawa

    Heh, that’s such a weird thing to have a hang up about. Makes me won­der if Himaruya is pro­ject­ing his own per­son­al­ity onto Japan.

    @blissfullynaive

    I saw the raw which had crappy audio but the subbed ver­sion was up to the usual stand­erd. It doesn’t really make sense.

    @Humanity_Cat

    I star­ted read­ing them but got side­tracked by Gintama. As funny as Hetalia might be, Gintama stands far above it

    @blissfullynaive

    I think that more often then not the anim­ated ver­sion of any­thing instantly becomes fun­nier, cooler, more action packed etc. I’m just a big anime nerd who can’t see the appeal with manga. Even try­ing to read some of my favour­ite series in manga form I just get bored and wander off to watch more Gintama

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  7. blissfullynaive
    Posted November 23, 2009 at 9:46 pm | Permalink

    Aye, i saw a few epis­odes and clips of Gintama, and i have to say that it is funny. OTL
    And i think it’s about time i’ll ser­i­ously watch it from epis­ode one till the latest (screw school xD).

    I just heard of America’s char­ac­ter songs. And.. it gave me a head­ache. xD
    Well, in my opin­ion, it’s not that great com­pared to the other char­ac­ter songs (Buono Tomato is still the catch­i­est, next is Pub and Go, and France’s songs. Boast­ing about Paris is amaz­ing hahaha.)

    Now i’m off to watch Gintama. Properly.

    This reminds me of SZS, and how i still haven’t watched the new sea­son. *crai*

    Still, i love how inform­at­ive the Hetalia web­comic is.

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  8. blogger
    Posted November 24, 2009 at 12:21 am | Permalink

    I’ve never been keen on the whole Liechtenstein/Switzerland thing. I don’t know if it’s me, but… I don’t really feel like I’m a massive fan of Liecht­en­stein– my friend likes her on account of cute­ness, hence why I wasn’t over the moon when I was watch­ing this in the end, although you’ve got to appre­ci­ate the way Aus­tria is clas­si­fied as a “stranger.“
    Amer­ica and Canada were epic though in this epis­ode. And I’d def­in­itely love to try some of America’s cakes…

    Nico nico… It man­ages to stay alive and is very pop­u­lar with the Hetalia fangirls because it provides numer­ous videos about dif­fer­ent pair­ings drawn by the Japan­ese fans, or maybe just Hetalia fan anim­a­tions which you can down­load, post on you­tube, and sub if you’re feel­ing generous.

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  9. Jan Suzukawa
    Posted November 24, 2009 at 2:20 am | Permalink

    I’m actu­ally OK with Switzer­land and Liechtenstein(sp?) — they’re just not my favor­ite char­ac­ters to spend a lot of time on when the eps are only five minutes long. I’d rather see Aus­tria or Canada (like in this ep) or maybe Prus­sia… I do think it’s cute that it’s Romi Paku and Rie Kugim­iya (Ed and Al from FMA) who do their voices (sib­lings once again!). ;)

    @Scamp
    I think Gintama looks good, but I hes­it­ate to get star­ted watch­ing some­thing that’s already over 100 eps. That’s a LOT of catching-up to do. ;)

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  10. Humanity_Cat
    Posted November 24, 2009 at 3:52 am | Permalink

    ~Bliss­fullyna­ive
    Oh! I remem­ber that strip…that’s a good one. :D
    America’s char­ac­ter songs are a little…weird. Not my favor­ites, but okay. *shrug* I totally agree with you about the Deli­cious Tomato Song, though.
    I used to watch all the epis­odes to the present one, but I haven’t found time since.…about epis­ode 26 of last season…maybe this break I’ll do that, since that’s about…let’s see…*40X5=200…220.…* holey shiz, over 3 hours?! Hmmm, I won­der if that’s right…^^’

    ~Scamp
    I’ve never watched Gintama so I can’t say a proper reply to that, haha. But at least you tried, right?

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  11. Scamp
    Posted November 24, 2009 at 4:39 am | Permalink

    @blissfullynaive

    You man­aged to get through the second sea­son of SZS? Didn’t the con­stant repeat­ing of the same blas­ted joke over and over get to you? Sorry, that second sea­son got to me in the end. Hetalia>SZS (although Gintama>Hetalia)

    @blogger

    Actu­ally a hell of a lot of Nico is Touhou related stuff. I’ve been read­ing a fair bit about Touhou recently and it’s phe­nomonal how much of fan-related Touhou stuff is on Nico.

    @Jan Suzukawa

    Gintama is the only long-running show I watch. The only other series I watched with over 52 epis­odes was Mon­ster. I like to use Gintama as a freshener between series. They tend to do little arcs of 2–5 epis­odes and a Gintama arc is a fant­astic way to cleanse your palete, anime style.

    @Humanity_Cat

    Woah you watch every Hetalia epis­ode over and over? God, I couldn’t ima­gine doing that. I don’t even re-watch my abso­lute favour­ite series unless I buy them on DVD.

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  12. heyheyho
    Posted November 25, 2009 at 11:50 am | Permalink

    Nope.
    Himaruya proyects him­self in Esto­nia.
    He even draws him­self resem­bling him, and ran­domly says he’s the coolest char­ac­ter in the series.

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  13. Humanity_Cat
    Posted November 26, 2009 at 12:48 am | Permalink

    ~Scamp
    What, no, not exactly…In the sum­mer (when there was lots on time) I would occa­sion­ally re-watch all the epis­odes, espe­cially if sub­bing was later, but it’s not a fre­quent thing. ;)
    Any­ways, I think I might do it for this Thanks­giv­ing break since I have the time.…it’s kind of like a Lord of the Rings mara­thon but not. Haha.

    Speak­ing of Lord of the Rings, does any­one else like Ger­mania because he looks like he could be in a Lord of the Rings movie? XD

    ~Hey­HeyHo

    Hell yeah Esto­nia is the coolest char­ac­ter in the series! *rps Estonia*

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  14. luffyluffy
    Posted November 26, 2009 at 9:26 am | Permalink

    SO, I’M LATE, BUT I BRING: OST, PLUS CHRISTMAS SONGS

    http://pharaoh-doll.net/doujinshi/omake/music/HetaliaAxisPowersSoundWorld.zip

    You need Win­RAR to open

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  15. blissfullynaive
    Posted November 27, 2009 at 12:11 am | Permalink

    @blogger: i did lol so much at how Swiss drew Aus­tria as the stranger. Hahaha..
    I dunno.. i love their inter­ac­tion and rela­tion­ship. xD
    It’s adorable.

    @Humanity_Cat: Whenever i recom­mend Hetalia to a friend and they watch it right away (after i give them the link), i some­how watch it again too. “Are you at epis­ode 3 now?” “Yeah!” “Oohh.. tell me if some­thing doesn’t make any sense. I’ll try to explain the His­tor­ical side..“
    xD

    @Nico nico stuff: Woah.. so there’s a lot of Touhou vids at Nico?
    I never got caught of the whole Touhou fan­dom, although i played one game of it (can’t remem­ber what it was). But since that was a looong time ago, and the game i DL’ed was not trans­lated, i kind of not played it again. Haha.. But the char­ac­ters do seem inter­est­ing. Quite oppos­ite of Hetalia since it doesn’t have that much male char­ac­ters (only one, right? Plus those who are just men­tioned and not really shown).

    @heyheyho: Oh, really? I didn’t know that. Hahaha.. Well, Esto­nia looks really cool. :3

    @Scamp: uhhh.. i love SZS. xDDD Some of my friends don’t like it. But i love it. Always will. Together with Hetalia, of course, and Baccano(and pos­sibly with Gintama. Haha..)

    @luffyluffy: I saw the post@LJ. I DL’ed it right away. It’s AWESOME. I love the OST. <3

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  16. Scamp
    Posted November 27, 2009 at 1:10 am | Permalink

    @heyheyho

    Esto­nia? The coolest country…that’s random

    @Humanity_Cat

    Lord of the Rings is amazing!!!!!!!!!!

    (you awakened my LOTR fanboy)

    @luffyluffy

    Oh yeah, you were going to write a char­ac­ter song post some­time soon, I almost for­got about that

    @blissfullynaive

    I’ve never played a touhou game. In fact I didn’t really under­stand what it was until pretty recently when I actu­ally decided to do some research into it. It’s a really bizarre part of fan­dom. I remem­ber a while back I said that Hit­man Reborn inspired doujins was the most pop­u­lar doujin for females. Well, for males it’s Touhou by an abso­lute mile.

    I liked SZS at the start but I got sick of the thing when it car­ried on into a second sea­son with no real new mater­ial for jokes. But Bac­cano is the greatest fuck­ing anime ever made!!!!!!
    (you awakened my Bac­cano fanboy)

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  17. Humanity_Cat
    Posted November 27, 2009 at 2:24 am | Permalink

    Scamp’s fanboy-ness is awaken­ing! o.O

    And there you are, Luffy! I was won­der­ing what happened to you, heh.

    ~Bliss­fullyna­ive
    Lol, yeah, one of my friends think she’ll start to watch it and I’m try­ing to not be crazy and swarm her with Hetalia stuff, haha. I recom­men­ded Bok­uat­chi no Blog though. ;)

    ~Scamp
    Hell yeah it’s amazing!

    Happy Thanks­giv­ing! (if you’re on that time zone/holiday, if not, than happy Thursday! Whoo!

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  18. luffyluffy
    Posted November 27, 2009 at 2:27 am | Permalink

    Sorry guys, I havent been watch­ing the web­cast much lately, hahaha~ I HAVE star­ted the guest post, and I fin­ished Germany’s CD a few minutes ago, but school has REALLY taken up my time, and I really havent been.. want­ing to watch lately. Sorry, eheheheheh

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  19. blissfullynaive
    Posted November 27, 2009 at 3:56 am | Permalink

    @luffyluffy: Hi there~! :D You’ve seen the Belarus epis­odes already, right? I hope you get back to watch­ing Hetalia~! Yay! <3
    Can’t wait to read your review~! :D Yay!
    Oh, and could someone review Hetalia Fantasia too? Haha.. Kid­ding though. But it’s the most awe­some CD drama thingy of Hetalia~!!!!

    @Scamp: I remem­ber that i was laugh­ing at almost every SZS epis­ode. I dunno.. i love the ran­dom­ness. Haha.. And whenever i men­tion that, i tend to men­tion some of my other favor­ites, which is Bac­cano. And to mimic and agree with you, IT IS THE GREATEST F*CKING ANIME EVVVAAAARRR~!!! *spazz* Dam­mit, i miss it soo much. My sis­ter was watch­ing it a few weeks ago (finally) and i was like spazz­ing at her side haha. I should fin­ish read­ing the nov­els OTL.
    Yeah, Touhou seems to have a huuuuge male fan­base. And does have a loooot of fan­made stuff (fan­art, doujins, etc). I’ve been mean­ing to get hooked with it, but it doesn’t seem to be my call­ing (haha..)

    Oh, and i just have to say this to every­one: IF YOU HAVEN’T LISTENED TO HETALIA FANTASIA, GO LISTEN TO IT NAAAOOO~!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8hA2Lk4G3E&feature=related

    You know when you laugh too much that tears form in your eyes, and you cry while laugh­ing? Yeah.. France made me laugh to tears. That man is amazing.

    (Hetalia Fantasia is a drama cd where some Hetalia char­ac­ters play this online game made by Japan and Amer­ica. They are appar­ently inside the vir­tual world and well.. France is funny as heck. xDDD)

    And yes, that’s offi­cial mater­ial. Himaruya even wrote the script lolololol.

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  20. luffyluffy
    Posted November 27, 2009 at 8:51 am | Permalink

    ALRIGHT, GUEST POST IS TYPED UP AND READY TO BE SENT!

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  21. Humanity_Cat
    Posted November 28, 2009 at 3:09 am | Permalink

    Oops, I still have to do mine, don’t I? I’ll try and get that done today… ^^;

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  22. ksfwolfe
    Posted November 29, 2009 at 6:01 am | Permalink

    I per­son­ally thought this epis­ode was a bit dull. not the greatest epis­ode. Though that one pic­ture of Japan and amer­ica did make up for a rather a lot of it. ^^

    Poor Canada. Keep on try­ing, my coun­try! SOMEDAY WE SHALL RULE THE WORLD! KOLKOLKOL…

    Erm, I mean, what? Evil? Canada? Nooooo…

    I demand a Cold War epis­ode. Being the his­tory geek I am, I could think of so much for an epis­ode like that…I can’t even read any­thing about the Cold War these days without won­der­ing where all the fan­fic­tion has gone. Sad. Really sad.

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  23. Scamp
    Posted November 29, 2009 at 7:17 am | Permalink

    @Humanity_Cat

    I do have a fan­boy side. It nor­mally only comes out for ass-kicking anime though…although Horo from Spice and Wolf…

    @blissfullynaive

    If you like Bac­cano then I’m guess­ing you’ll also be look­ing for­ward to Dur­arara. Looks abso­lutely fan-bloody-tastic

    CRAPPY SUBS!!! I can’t watch that Fantasia thing with those subs. I’m pretty picky with subs

    @ksfwolfe

    Yeah there’s been an unusual lack of cold war. Himur­uya tends to skirt around some of the really dodgy his­tory but it’s kinda hard to ignore the Cold War.

    (BTW I heard some girls chat­ting behind me on the bus the other day and they were talk­ing about how they never heard of the Cold War before. Bloody 20 year olds never hear­ing of the Cold War? Get thy­self to a Hetalia naow!)

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  24. Humanity_Cat
    Posted November 29, 2009 at 9:30 am | Permalink

    Yessss, a Cold War epis­ode would FTW. There’s an artist on devi­antArt who does a lot of Russia/America fan­art, and quite a bit of it’s Cold War related…

    This is one of my favor­ites that’s about the end of the Soviet Union…

    Link–> http://waterylt.deviantart.com/art/APH-1991–01-Alfred-and-Ivan-141262247

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  25. blissfullynaive
    Posted December 3, 2009 at 12:11 am | Permalink

    @ksfwolfe: They say there are hints of Cold War in Hetalia Fantasia.

    Rus­sia: Aww.. they (Eng­land throw­ing a Brit­an­nia Beam attack at France) look so fun together. I wish we could do that.
    Amer­ica: Nah, you get mad so eas­ily.
    Rus­sia: Ahahaha..*
    Amer­ica: Ahahaha..*
    *awk­ward laugh

    @Scamp: Yeah, i have to check that one out (as well as other series.. OTL)
    Aww.. sorry for that vid. I can’t actu­ally find a video of that with proper-looking subs. How­ever, there’s a trans­la­tion pos­ted at LJ. But it’s a huge wall of text, so it might not be that con­veni­ent. Hetalia Fantasia is actu­ally quite fun. Haha.. Hetalia + RPG. I can’t get over France’s over-the-top entrance.

    And woah, those girls should def­in­itely watch Hetalia. xDD

    @Humanity_Cat: Wow, that’s a nice fan­art!!! Good find.
    Hmm.. I don’t think i want to see a coun­try die. @__@ It seems more.. sad. Than humans, that is.

    Oh, btw, every­one~! Ep 45 is out! :D
    I have a feel­ing you guys might not enjoy it that much. But i really hope you’ll enjoy it as much as i did. :D They’re soo cute.

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  26. Humanity_Cat
    Posted December 3, 2009 at 12:21 pm | Permalink

    It’s a cute idea~ I love her art… ^ ^

    I’ve never seen Hetalia Fantasia.…guess I should get going on that, haha.

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