Official Polish version of Hetalia manga

[radittz.livejournal.com]

My publisher friend finally finished Polish version of Axis Powers Hetalia and it's going to book shops tommorow. If you are interested I can write a short review of it :)
I hope that we wont have situations like in Korea, actually thanks to Hollywood movies, like "Enigma" or "Defiance" we got used to strange image of our country in WWII so I don't expect bigger affair with APH even if our WWII history isn't something funny.

Anyway, I think that if it wont have problems here, it wont have them anywhere else. What do you think about publishing it in your country?

Comments

[kakkobean.livejournal.com]

Oh, no doubt the fandom is really big--but right now there's an extreme reactionary trend in politics right now where people get butthurt over the stupidest things. There was this report that Glenn Beck made complaining about the apparent communist message in the mural at the Rockefeller center and how that makes every building within it a scion of commie propganda, without actually recognizing that a.) the Rockefellers complained about the mural a loooong time ago and got the original super-communist mural that was made by Diego Rivera destroyed, and b.)that Fox News aka where he himself works is also located in Rockefeller center. It was a sad day for American journalism -_-

[haro.livejournal.com]

TBH, I highly doubt that Fox News or any outlet of a similar sort, even in its crazy paranoia, would even notice a little Japanese comic book about funny personifications of countries.

I don't think there's any risk in licensing it.

[kakkobean.livejournal.com]

*crosses fingers* Hopefully the only person who would notice would be Stephen Colbert because then people would write more Colbert/America fanfiction

[haleybare.livejournal.com]

ohgodyes.

[seraphoftales.livejournal.com]

I don't know... Media is very touchy business. With a pretty wide reach. And it was already said that Hetalia has a wide fan base. So, you just never know.

[haro.livejournal.com]

Why would Fox News even care? Unless they did research into it and found out how much homosexual subtext the original webcomic has, it doesn't really fit under their crap-we-blow-out-of-proportion-and-criticize-ridiculously-umbrella.

[seraphoftales.livejournal.com]

*shrugs* True. True. I don't know. I'm just really paranoid about that.

[qualapec.livejournal.com]

Other than the fact that it doesn't vilify Germany or the WWII Axis powers.

This is the same network that criticized "Liberal" school textbooks for not saying that "all terrorists are Islamic" and "not mentioning the 9/11 attackers were Muslim until five paragraphs into the intro".

And RUSSIA! OMG...Glenn Beck would jump right on the idea of "making Communists cute to indoctrinate children".

And to answer your question, they would care because they need conflict to fill their air time. 24-hour news has made it so people make money off of creating conflict where they would otherwise be NO controversy. Things like this, which otherwise wouldn't be a very big deal, are blown way out of proportion so they have something to talk about.

[haro.livejournal.com]

Seriously? There are far more controversial anime, manga, and American comics that the network hasn't even touched on. Anime and manga is hardly a dot on the radar to mass media. It's barely ever even mentioned. Where is all this imaginary drama over anime and manga that I've missed? There have been a few isolated incidents, and of course, some crazy stuff with Pokemon (a hugely mainstream title), but that's about it.

My god...

[qualapec.livejournal.com]

*shrugs* I don't know, maybe I'm just terribly cynical. But I really wouldn't put it past them to make a big deal out of a comic book.

Comic books have been a touchy issue for a long time. People would often blame comics for corruption of the youth and encouraging violence.

I think a lot of the fear here comes from video games (at least for me it does) which is a very good example of Mass Media taking something and blowing it WAY the FUCK out of proportion. Personally, I just think it's a matter of time before the anime/manga subculture comes under scrutiny. ESPECIALLY yaoi.

And I think the Hetalia community has particular reasons to be concerned about backlash like that, mostly because of how it was received by the now-infamous South Korean nationalists who complained enough to get it pulled from TV.

[radittz.livejournal.com]

As I wrote in my comment - we got used to being not respected by others in WWII topic and of course as a nation who lost the biggest percentage of it's population that period is traumatic, but not that strong to not laugh watching 'Allo 'Allo! series or enjoy WWII based computer games. We had good relation with Germans now and nobody see them only as "bad enemies" anymore.
Actually only one thing is very touchy now - problems with Russian gouvermant who works on revision
Soviet history - esp about Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact and invasion of 17 September 1939, but in Hetalia this part is historically accurate so it shouldn't be any bigger problems with it.

[mitsukirox101.livejournal.com]

in my opinion, axis powers would have been calling out for trouble, i'd atleast think they'd call it "hetalia" since it doesn't sound much... im glad they rejected it though