An anime where they portray history with personified countries.
It'
s pretty stereotypical and moe.
Hetare (Japanese stupid, idiotic) and Itaria (Japanese for Italy) make up the title "Hetalia."
It'
s mainly focusing on Italy'
s cowardice in WWII.
Personally, I
love Hetalia.
I think it's a great doorway for
people to get interested in History and the world.
Plus it'
s pretty damn funny and the dub for it isn't even that bad. Personally, I prefer it over the Japanese version because the accents really give it life. And what not.
I also like it because it makes Japan /not/ seem like the best country EVARRRR in anime.
Though, basically everything comes with some crazy ass fandom. The phrase I DESPISE is "I learned my history for Hetalia!"
Hetalia is NOT a substitute for a history book.
I also just
don't get the pairings.
I
don't know about you, but shipping two countries together is just /wrong/
Perhaps I could understand the whole
Poland/Lithuania or Austria/Hungary to an extent since they were 'married'
Well, Prussia x himself is fairly understandable.