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AnnoyedAnd therefore I will not only say this, I will gleefully say this, because I am a jerk with the sympathy of a molding cow, and if I were a video game protagonist, you'd wonder where the nearest spike pit to throw me in was.
I hate Hetalia. Do you want to hear why? No? Excellent.
Well, where to start. All I can really see in it is that it's full of stupid nyoro~n writing that isn't cool or funny, and just cute, and if it's just cute then I hate it because cute needs something to make it less bursting full of sunshine rainbows, which is why Pushing Daisies is so awesome (also it's creative with witty dialogue, music and general direction that would be extremely uncomfortable for me if I were born with my genitalia on the outside) and why Hello Kitty makes bits of my heart break off to go and cry, or at least try to cover everything with ketchup so that when I wake up bleary eyed and with a hungover tomorrow, I wonder what the hell happened last night and consider going into hiding from the FBI.
It really isn't so much a comic or a manga, it's more of an exercise in "hur hur national stereotypes", poor excuses in what constitutes as what I assume is supposed to be allegorical satire, and "oh look at us, we're manga/anime and oh so pretty."
Maybe I don't have a real reason to hate or at least really dislike Hetalia, just that every time I sit down and try to read it so that I can understand why everyone's all squeeing about it, all I can think of as to why I really hate it is that it's just so goddamn stupid and the only reason I can see why anyone would like it is that it's japanese and it's manga/anime and if it's japanese and it's manga/anime with cute little chuckles about how one country wants to shag another, well then here come the bloody fangirls, but bye bye from me, I'll sit in my corner with my Miyazakis and my Kare Kano, until all you people come at me with a pickaxe and a DVD of the anime so that you can beat me to death with it.
All right, so maybe someone somewhere, even you, like it for its subtle witticisms over "haha, France has strikes a lot, so it has BLOODY SCHEDULES FOR IT. I SAY, BRING ON THE LAUGHTER, CHAPS" and you genuinely think it's funny, which I guess, I mean I don't particularly enjoy certain humour but I know other people do, or perhaps you like it, but will admit that there are some issues with the characterisation that you have some irritations with like why isn't the United Kingdom a misanthropic, repressed asshole with an overblown sense of grandeur that likes kicking poor countries in the sensitive areas before using a chainsaw on its economical structure? But at the end of the day I am so filled with loathing for people liking it that I have to go watch something I hate even more, like Journey's End, or sit in a corner and think about the extent of the mysogynism in DW Series 5 is going to be or be pissed at certain comments made by Moffat and listen I'm just very angry at Doctor Who right now, or just sledgehammer my feet with only Zachary Beaver Came to Town and David Copperfield and Twilight next to me for entertainment, so that I can stop being annoyed at something I don't necessarily think is bad, but is so annoyingly mediocre that the fandom makes me want to stab myself in the arm.
Which isn't necessarily the problem, really, when I read a mediocre something that everyone has hyped up, I can certainly see why people like it and if that's the case then all right, I'm fine with it, I can see why it's so popular. But it has to be a good reason, and cutesy and cutesy funny isn't one so if people squee about Hetalia (or Twilight) to me, going about how it's so witty and how the author has done his/her research (or in the case of Twilight, how it's really deep and meaningful with good characterisation and loving relationships), I might just go out and kill a puppy or beat a baby seal to death with a newspaper that I bought just to be wasteful, and it'll all be your fault, because I might have done the deed, but YOU PUSHED ME TO IT.
That is my overly rant/bitch on dA to make up for no drawing, and I think I'll have a TF2 sketch up soon somewhere.
Molotov cocktails are on your right, I have painted a target on my arse. Come and get me, suckers!
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I do see a bit of subtle witticism but I think a lot of it is lost in translation. And overshadowed by the yaoi. Although, oddly, for a "yaoi" series it actually has nothing to do with the relationships. It's more a comedy with a lot of awkward moments.
But you're right, the point of Hetalia is mostly the squee factor (Chibitalia anyone?)
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I agree with you 100%
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"Allons-y!"-Tenth Doctor
Donna: "The plucky young girl who helps me out".
The Doctor: No policewomen in 1926.
Donna: I'll pluck you in a minute. -Doctor Who, the Unicorn and the Wasp
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I'd keep listening to what you have to say, but I also have the best interests of not becoming homicidal at mind, so I won't.
No offense, but seeing as this is written by a country that still edits out their country's involvement in the war, it doesn't surprise me.
You say research, but I didn't find it all very 'research'-y as a history weirdo (I can't say nerd cause I'm already every other type of nerd but I really like history so yay) making jokes about Japan being a hotspot for horror which I already knew, France having a lot of strikes, Italy having gone through a recession (once, possibly, I don't know, he interpreted as a cold, so maybe the country was exploding money through its nose at the time I don't know), you can read all this on wikipedia or you know, by glancing through a history book.
I didn't find the witticism at all subtle, and even if the witticism was lost in translation by being so subtle, then at least we didn't miss anything by him DELINEATING IT RIGHT UNDER THE COMIC. I wouldn't mind not understanding a joke, I'm rather thick and stupid, so much so that when Douglas Adams wrote that joke about "What's so bad about being drunk, ask a glass of water" thing, I didn't understand until about five years later, but when I got it, it was funny and because it was funny I appreciated it. Sure I felt stupid for not understanding, but I'm more irritated when the person feels to the need to tell me, which informs me quite clearly that he knows he's not being funny. All this is entirely hypocritical since I do it myself. Or at least trail off awkwardly and scuff my shoes. The humour is seriously more 'nudge nudge wink wink wasn't that quite clever' to me, the kind of humour that I hate because it's always quite strained as someone who's been inhaling British comedy since the age of two or something. Nothing about it makes me laugh. Maybe I smile. But it's not cause it's funny, it's just vaguely amusing and if you want vaguely amusing then yes it's the most vaguely amusing thing out there, but it has men probably shagging so who gives a crap.
I'm sorry for ranting at you, but if you go through the thing and cut out all my own similes and random tangents, I think you'll find it readable.
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I'd keep listening to what you have to say, but I also have the best interests of not becoming homicidal at mind, so I won't.
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I'd keep listening to what you have to say, but I also have the best interests of not becoming homicidal at mind, so I won't.
But then again, I also bet this so called historically accurate comic with its so carefully researchedness won't ever touch on how Japan brutally colonised Korea and tried to wipe out most of its history, culture and even language, but if he's Japanese I bet he doesn't even know about it. I'm not the one with the degrees here, but I like history and I like reading history books (even if it is an exercise in sinking of the USS Faith in Humanity), and Hetalia really got on my chest and throttled me in the neck with its foot by making everything to be a fun-loving, fun-happy time where economic recessions are interpreted as a rather bad cold.
So I guess our world right now is just going through a bad case of the flu, unless we find out its AIDS or something because all the volcanos explode.
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I'd keep listening to what you have to say, but I also have the best interests of not becoming homicidal at mind, so I won't.
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I'd keep listening to what you have to say, but I also have the best interests of not becoming homicidal at mind, so I won't.
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