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Axis Powers Hetalia 87 Anonymous
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Axis Powers Hetalia is a web comic drawn by Kitayume and depicts the story of actual countries as anthropomorphisms.

official site:
http://www.geocities.jp/himaruya/hetaria

a few scanlations are available here:
http://community.livejournal.com/hetalia/tag/scanlation

.rars of the images from most of the previous threads can be found here: http://www.mediafire.com/hetalia

Hetalia Kink Meme here:
http://hetalia-kink.livejournal.com/
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America as Cartman, hilarious.
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... XD
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Can I have the source for this please?
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http://rara13.fc2web.com/h/top.htm
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ILU Anon <33
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>>1099009

(from the last thread) A canonical example is this strip. A comment on this on the comm was, "A-Are they cute-ifying the Rape of Nanjing??"

whole thing is at
http://community.livejournal.com/hetalia/65361.html
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Source for this lovely thing?
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>>1100051

I'm certain that I have it somewhere, I shall find.

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I was kinda thinking that too. (I think he could have left out the panda out of the distant shot, and it might felt rather different) ... A fanartist can portray it in a somewhat more appropriately serious way... but I don't think someone seeking to publish something big in Japan could reference -certain- things, you know? Because of... er, yeah.

Serious discussion is serious. It's almost a little scary, as if fanwank is liable to appear at any moment...
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http://robert.suppa.jp/top.html
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OwO
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I kinda wish I remembered where the rest of this comic is...
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>>1099820
The very author of Hetalia admitted he had no idea what Japan had done in China and that, upon reading on the internet about it, he was rather freaked out.

But then again, I'm not surprised about this, what with Japan and its textbooks full of war-atrocity-denial.
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sauce pls
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Hmm, something's been bugging me for a while now... Is there any significance that Russia's drawn with a faucet/pipe sometimes?

Forgive my ignorance if this has been asked before.
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>>1100384
He picked it up outside germany's house I believe in one comic on the way to some meeting.
And yes it has been asked many times but in 87 threads it can be forgiven I suppose.
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>>1100237
Heh, somehow that doesn't surprise me?

I would prefer my hetalia straight up crack-ified, with maybe a few nodding winks at historical moments, or fanart of a specific moment, rather than any comics that show some kind of historically referenced, continuous narrative. The potential wank could be huge. Plus, it would be a cracked-out teleological depiction of 'history' anyway, so why not pull out all the stops and make it into a straight farce?

Sorry for irrelevant rambling.
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Totally agreed. I strongly prefer jokes about the Boston Tea Party and US/UK's gay breakup with an occasional foray into the serious than any straight up serious narrative about the American Revolution.
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And that's an example, though part of me wants to see some bloodied France in period clothes for his own set of Revolutions.
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Ah, guess it's just me. I have always been interested in world history and I tend to be more serious by nature... I probably should just enjoy the crack and not think too hard about it.

... Sunflora!
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Nah, I'm with you. I like the cute, general stuff too, but dark srs-bzns history Hetalia rocks.
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Sauce??
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http://afmountain.boo.jp/frame01.htm
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Does Anon have more of Sealand? He's adorable but I only have reposts...
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I think this may be the only non-repost Sealand I have.
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>>1099820

The canon strip is a bit... ehh... I suppose I would rather, if they're going to "cute-ify" something as horrible as that, I would rather they avoid it canon-wise and let fan-art bring out the more serious subjects. This also why I would never post about this on the main comms - wank would... just explode. I do love dark Hetalia stuff because... hmm, I really don't know. But I guess any depictions of serious subjects - especially those from WW2, which I consider still pretty raw - need to be handled well. (This is anon that brought this up in previous thread, by the way.) One of the pictures I'm having a friend do references the Holocaust - it's a barbed wire fence obscured in snow, because it's snowing, and Alfred on his knees with a shocked look on his face. Aka, US troops finding a concentration camp. Another picture is of most of the main countries, though I'm not sure of the posting/layout yet, with blood on their hands. I guess I just like the darker side of things - I certainly wouldn't expect most people to enjoy pictures with a dark subject matter, especially lighthearted Hetalia fans!

(and to the second post - one of the pictures I'm asking for is France in bloody revolution clothes... I will probably post them on whatever # thread we're at when she's done, if she lets me.)
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Good point, anon. I'm in the same boat as you in that I'm just really wary of how accurate or insightful. (in other words, SRS) any portrayal could be. I guess the origin of Hetalia as a cute webcomic will always limit how effective those depictions are for me - like even if a picture directly deals with darker moments, a part of my brain is continuously alerting me to the fact that this is Hetalia and that because the depictions are simplified into caricatures of different cultural traits, it will always feel like a pastiche of the more horrific events. Which is why I feel like historical moments are better as a single image rather than comic-form - because it openly deals in symbols rather than (hi)story. And also why I prefer the light-hearted stuff - because I'm too cynical to think that attempts to overcome the levity of the style will succeed.

That said, all the ideas being brought up on this thread are making me kind of change my mind. Revolutionary France? Hell yeah!
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(omg this got tl; dr, sorry!)

I think you hit the nail on the head with "historical moments are better as a single image rather than comic-form" - comics are very, very hard to do "seriously" with Hetalia (at least when representing events) because of the lighthearted nature of the original comic. For example the canon strip of the Rape of Nanking, and the picture someone posted of China crying while Japan is on top of him. The comic was just *too* lighthearted, while the picture, while not everyone's cup of tea, was more serious. That said, I do enjoy lighthearted stuff as well! I enjoy both the idea of the American revolution being a "break-up" between US/UK, and the more serious pics reflected on it, and I enjoy the most serious US/Japan pics (with them fighting, or the one with the chopped down cherry tree) and ones where it's silly/cute and the US is bringing a wounded Japan some flowers, aka 'helping after the war.' And I love all the craziness in between that isn't serious at all. Heh. Hetalia sometimes confuses me because part of my brain is saying "this was a serious event, millions of people died in this time period because of the war, this shouldn't be silly" and the other part sees it as fun, in a way, at different countries being represented in this simplified, but fun way. (I mean when before have we been able to say, "I ship US/Canada!"? :P )

Also having said all that, I honestly wish I could draw myself! I have a lot of more serious pics swirling in my brain and I don't always feel comfortable asking friends/artists to draw them. Or if they're just weird. I have an image of France cosplaying Marie Antoinette that won't leave my brain.
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Are there any more of these? I've been searching for quite some time now and I've only found two or three. I don't really know how to look for them.

Can I have one for Russia? If there isn't one, any other country will do. Thanks.
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I haven't any Russia though, exept this one.
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Does anyone else see Tamaki in Russia?
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Hair, maybe... aside from that, I think they're different. I don't see Russia doing princely. Or Tamaki being as creepy as Russia.
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I certainly don't. That's a really odd comparison, imo.
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post moar Prussai please
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new thread.