It’s taken 48 episodes of blood, sweat and tears but finally we have witnessed the end of an era. Much like how people celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall as the modern world maturing, I shall today celebrate the maturing of something else. For this is the last time we ever have to watch [...]
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Episode forty-eight of Hetalia: Axis Powers begins with a game of Name That Tune hosted by Austria... seriously, answers in the comments if you know the classical piece being played, let's see how culturally aware you guys are...Anyhow, that aside this particular episode is book-ended by the birth of Italy proper, as Chibitalia grows up (thank goodness) - A state of affairs which brings with it
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You know I was slightly worried before this episode that Hetalia had fallen into a bit of a rut recently, as can quite often happen with this show. When this episode kicked off with chibitalia I thought my fears had come true. But no! When France is tossing about his fabulous (and now no longer strangely deformed chibi version) self [...]
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The latest episode of Hetalia: Axis Powers begins with a brief reappearance for Chibitalia, for reasons that I can't quite fathom - Indeed, this instalment is book-ended by her, although at least in terms of the episode's closing few seconds there is a little more entertainment to be had.Sandwiched between those appearances is England and France's attempts to get Poland onside with them prior to
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Looks like Italy is having a hell of a time! Artwork by: kstn @ pixiv. Just when the second season had ended sometime ago, it seems that the third season is going to be aired pretty soon! It was recently announced that the series will be getting a third season of anime, and is set to be [...] Related posts:Hetelia Axis Powers Getting Film AdaptationA Second Serving of Pastaaaaaaaaa!Sengoku Basara 2nd Season To Air In 2010
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The official website of Hetalia Axis Powers have unveiled that 3rd season is set to launch in Summer 2010. Hetalia Axis Powers uses the satire and often a comedy aspect to retell some of the lesser known facts of World War where the countries are represented by characters potrayed in a funny and cute way.
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Hetalia Axis Powers is really that rare creature: although it's a series of shorts aired on the web, it's still a full-scale anime production by Studio Deen...and yet it's cleary doing pretty damn well. A third season was just announced at Animate.tv , and the series will begin in March 2010. The Hetalia anime has an odd history. Based on a manga revolving around personified nations, a flurry of whining from South Korea about the character based on their nation resulted in the shorts going web-only, as opposed to the TV airing that they were supposed to get. In spite of that, or perhaps in part because of it, Hetalia has its own fandom within the fandom that always surprises me-- they're not super LOUD fans, it's not like you run into them all the time and they evangelize the way fans of Naruto, FMA, and other fandom-within-a-fandom types sometimes do...and yet, I remember at Anime Expo seeing this whole big circle of girls in Hetalia cosplay doing a song and dance that was sort of their own sub-sub-niche equivalent of Hare Hare Yukai. So, you kinda always know the Hetalia fans are there, but their vehemence surprises you when you see 'em since they don't make a big fuss all the time. Which is kinda cool.
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Animate.tv has written an article announcing a 3rd season of 「Hetalia Axis Powers」. It’s slated to begin March 2010. [Source]
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After my last Hetalia post involved me pissing about with peoples comments and generally acting the idiot, time for me get back to my critical dissertation of the latest episode of Hetalia. Or I could just prat about like I usually do. You know, I actually didn’t find this episode that funny. In fact I found [...]
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Sending Italy on a stealth mission into Russian territory is never exactly the best idea in the world, yet that's exactly what Germany attempts to do in the brief opening to this episode. Needless to say, said mission doesn't go exactly to plan...From here, the rest of this episode of Hetalia: Axis Powers concerns itself with hair styling, Middles Ages fashion, and in particular chronicles
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Well that was a long wait wasn’t it. That’s what happens when an episode gets released earlier than scheduled. The original pleasure of getting the next episode early gives way to the extra-long wait for the next episode to arrive. All things considered, I’d like my episodes to be released on time. No later. No [...]
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After taking up part of last week's episode, Switzerland and Liechtenstein manage to dominate episode forty-five of Hetalia: Axis Powers entirely, with the story of how Switzerland saved Liechtenstein at its time of poverty after World War I, despite hardly being in a fantastically stable position economically or otherwise itself.That's actually all there is to this episode, making this
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Hetalia Axis Powers second original soundtrack – Hetalia: Sound World This OST contains 27 tracks, intros and outros, each of the Axis and Allies’ theme bgms, and a special bonus track “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” by the Axis Powers. Lots of awesomeness ♥ ♥ ♥ Tracklist: 01 – [...]
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OH LAWDD!!! OOOOHHHH LAAAAAAAAAWWWWWD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Y SO AWESOME? SO AWESOME CAPS LOCK IS NEEDED FOR THE AWESOMENESS. *heart explodes of pure happiness* It so epic… Yeah, it’s not intended to be musically great, but it’s just amusing and addicting omg. America’s such an adorable dork~. God I love America!!! He indeed [...]
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Switzerland and Liechtenstein kick off Hetalia: Axis Powers' forty-forth episode - After a brief vignette about how border control between these two countries works, we see Switzerland trying to teach Liechtenstein about the dangers of the world, a lesson made rather difficult by the distractingly cute nature of Switzerland's illustrations.From here, we jump to a very brief section where Japan
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Between blogging Hetalia, writing season previews, discussing animblogsphere shitstorms and god knows what else, it seems I spend far more of my time discussing anime than actually watching the stuff. Ah the humble anibloggers life is a harsh one. But hey, it’s fun so I’m not complaining. While I’m really enjoying these episodes of Russia’s big happy family, I [...]
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Following on from the last episode of Hetalia: Axis Powers, this latest instalment of the series continues its focus upon Russia and the trouble he has with his siblings. Of course, this means more disturbing footage of Russia with breasts look-a-like Ukraine, although I am highly amused by the breast jiggling sound effects employed throughout. Yes, I am that easily pleased sometimes.In essence
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Episode forty-two of Hetalia Axis Powers introduces us for the first time to Russia's two sisters - Ukraine and Belarus. And rather a disturbing turn of events it is too...For starters, Ukraine looks suspiciously like Russia in drag with huge breasts (complete with comedy sound effects every time they move), while even Belarus looks a little too Russia-esque for my liking even before proving to
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Propaganda and morale seem to be the buzz words of the day for Hetalia: Axis Powers' forty-first episode, with the Allies looking to get one up on both enemies and colleagues alike.So it goes that America hatches a cunning plan to paint Mount Fuji red to demoralise the Japanese, and even more cunningly puts in an order to Russia for extra large condoms - A plan which backfires thanks to Russia's
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I watched this latest episode of Hetalia on Youtube. I thought I had long since moved on from watching anime there but the site I direct download my anime from seems to forget that the latest episode of Hetalia airs quite often. I would be using BitTorrent but the University blocks file-sharing. I could scour the internet for [...]
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