In essence: one of the best ideas I've ever heard, and executed worse than I can imagine.
Instead it just shows the general attitude countries have towards each other while the countries' personalities are shown (such as America eating too many hamburgers) in horribly impertinent ways (america is introduced eating burgers during WWII?). It could display the relativistic goods and bads in a way people could understand more readily than reading mountains of history books. It has the ability to convey to people the inter-country politics of history. The show is pretty educational too, and has a lot of facts about the history of each country. Axis Powers Hetalia Episode 1 English Dub The show is hilarious, this is because of its crude humor, it provides a huge amount of comedy, a touch of drama, and a tad bit of action. First of all, the concept of it is brilliant, a country is personified, and their habits are stereotypical.īe warned, if you are easily offended by foul language or stereotypical comments about countries, then you won't like this show at all. Usually, animes don't appeal to me, but I got absolutely addicted to Hetalia.
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Given how short the episodes are I'd certainly recommend checking out a few to see if you like it especially as it can currently be viewed legally on Funimation's YouTube Channel along with the next series which is known as 'Hetalia World Series'. While I wouldn't recommend using this as a way of learning history it does mention events and countries that might inspire viewers to learn more about the real countries and events. With a few minor exceptions all the countries are male and while there is nothing overtly sexual going on between them viewers could be excused for thinking their friendships could have gone that way. Some times the change in times can be a little confusing but there are usually historical notes explaining if a new story line is beginning. While most of the stories take part in this time period we also see Italy's childhood with his friend Holy Rome, England finding a young America and even an appearance by poor unrecognised Sealand.Īfter the first episode I didn't think I'd bother with the rest but after a few months returned to the series and watched the second episode which got me hooked.
Meanwhile another group of countries, including America, England, France, China, Russia and Canada are getting together to fight against them this gives Italy plenty of opportunity it wave his white flag. This series of short episodes where each character represents a country and national stereotypes are to the fore could easily have caused offence but for the most part managed to avoid that by making all of the characters likable although it might seem that way to me because the worst thing said about my country was that it can't cook! Most early episodes follow poor cowardly Italy as he tries to befriend Germany, they are later joined by Japan.
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