Recently in my interest in European history of war and affairs, I stumbled across this recent anime/manga called "Hetalia Axis of Powers." Some of you might be familiar with it and some might not be. Anyways I looked into it and read the plot and whatnot. To be honest I thought it was a neat and clever idea. Have each country represented by a character and act out their affairs through that character in a sarcastic tone.
They have the allies: The UK and the USA as arguing head strong relatives. I guess the UK plays the role of the bigger brother and the USA of the younger brother who recently got on his feet. The are both too arrogant as the USA thinks he is always the hero while the UK thinks he is still as strong as he once was. France is a gentlemen type figure who always carries a rose. Russia is an older looking man who is a hard worker and enjoys vodka.
The Axis: Germany is the leader of the group as he tries to help Japan and N. Italy become more strong in their little group. N. Italy is the son of the Holy Roman Empire or something and was expected to continue the rein, but all N. Italy seems to be interested in is cooking, painting, and singing.
They even have little side stories such as Prussia and Austria always fighting each other. Hungary is a womam who is Austria's girlfriend and ex- wife(Meaning Hungary's break off from the Austrian-Hungary Empire) in which they still maintain good relations. Prussia is kinda jealous that Austria has Hungary and lusts for Hungary himself. However Hungary only seems to have affection for Austria who is a well written gentlemen, while Prussia seems to be more of a ruffian.
If you are not familiar with history then catch up, because these characters are pretty much written from their historical counter parts in kinda of a funny way that should play out well.
I was thinking this should look decent or at least satirically funny. The show itself did prove to be that but I can never look at it that way when I discovered the fanbase of the show. Thats right folks, another anime is completely ruined by the fanbase it attracts.
I mean granted a fanbase shouldn't affect my opinion of the show but when you get so many homosexual fanfictions of two people that are suppose to represent COUNTRIES it gets sicking. Thats where the show falls. It is suppose to be about a satirical depiction of historical events of countries around WWII, with characters representing the countries. However the weeaboos managed to take this and ass fuck it completely with romantic fanfiction. They took it to the point where the characters were taken out of their context and put into their sicking Japanese love games, ignoring any point of comedy or satire.
This is the reason why I have and continue to lose hope for any good anime that will come out in the future.
They have the allies: The UK and the USA as arguing head strong relatives. I guess the UK plays the role of the bigger brother and the USA of the younger brother who recently got on his feet. The are both too arrogant as the USA thinks he is always the hero while the UK thinks he is still as strong as he once was. France is a gentlemen type figure who always carries a rose. Russia is an older looking man who is a hard worker and enjoys vodka.
The Axis: Germany is the leader of the group as he tries to help Japan and N. Italy become more strong in their little group. N. Italy is the son of the Holy Roman Empire or something and was expected to continue the rein, but all N. Italy seems to be interested in is cooking, painting, and singing.
They even have little side stories such as Prussia and Austria always fighting each other. Hungary is a womam who is Austria's girlfriend and ex- wife(Meaning Hungary's break off from the Austrian-Hungary Empire) in which they still maintain good relations. Prussia is kinda jealous that Austria has Hungary and lusts for Hungary himself. However Hungary only seems to have affection for Austria who is a well written gentlemen, while Prussia seems to be more of a ruffian.
If you are not familiar with history then catch up, because these characters are pretty much written from their historical counter parts in kinda of a funny way that should play out well.
I was thinking this should look decent or at least satirically funny. The show itself did prove to be that but I can never look at it that way when I discovered the fanbase of the show. Thats right folks, another anime is completely ruined by the fanbase it attracts.
I mean granted a fanbase shouldn't affect my opinion of the show but when you get so many homosexual fanfictions of two people that are suppose to represent COUNTRIES it gets sicking. Thats where the show falls. It is suppose to be about a satirical depiction of historical events of countries around WWII, with characters representing the countries. However the weeaboos managed to take this and ass fuck it completely with romantic fanfiction. They took it to the point where the characters were taken out of their context and put into their sicking Japanese love games, ignoring any point of comedy or satire.
This is the reason why I have and continue to lose hope for any good anime that will come out in the future.
