[scanlation] Blood Sunday 1905

[youkofujima.livejournal.com]

As promised, here is the other scanlation that I did for Hetalia, this one being the Bloody Sunday incident in 1905.  Seriously, with a history like that, it's hard to blame Russia for going completely insane.  (I have my theories/opinions about Russia, but...that'll come later)

Translations by me, comic taken from the site.  Enjoy!




Also, this is one of the strips that solidified my love for the Russia/Lithuania pairing XD;

Comments

[daniela-lynx.livejournal.com]

Woah. I've spent the past hour browsing about this webcomic like mad. It's awesome, thanks for translating it! /o/ *Joins the comm*

That said... w-wow. I'm not exactly sure on characterization here X'D Being the history nerd I am, it's... how to put it. Russia (the country) was totally not right under the Tsars, that was the reason for Oktober 1905's Revolution. Why is Russia (the character) acting as if this was an unfair, unprompted riot?

[youkofujima.livejournal.com]

You're welcome^^

<sub>Well...Russia (the character) is, in a word, batshit. Or rather, at this point he was probably just unstable. I think one reason why he's acting as though this was an unfair riot was because these nation-characters are representatives of not only their population but also the government of it (their "bosses" are the leaders/government of said land. So UK's would be the Queen as well as the Parliament).

Therefore, he might very well think that he is in the right for the way he was conducting the lands and that he followed his boss' orders. Russia (the character) is like a child, as the artist says--so one way to interpret this is that Russia is like a child who wants really bad to please his superiors and follows the rules that his superiors give him but end up having the entire class hate him. That sort of thing?</sub>

[cookie-faerie.livejournal.com]

...This comment, and one of the other above about Russia going crazy...ahhh it explains everything so much ;_;

My love for Russia is 38579834% bigger now i'm a sucker for yandere