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

[abarero]

I really hope that an American company picks it up. Despite a lot of people's fears, no one really gets on the case of manga over here for things like that (Hellsing, anyone?).

Our matter more in lies in the fact that the current American anime/manga industry is struggling, so a lot of companies are only picking up super cheap licenses or really major major titles that run in Shounen Jump and the like.

I hope that manga companies over here notice the LARGE influx of Hetalia cosplayers at conventions and see it as a viable title to license. I mean, at AnimeFest Dallas, there was more Hetalia cosplayers than Naruto or Bleach- and so many people had no idea what we were from.

[haro.livejournal.com]

Word. The times of censoring manga and anime is in the past. The only stuff that gets censored now is the stuff that actually gets put on television, and even then '4kidsing' things is far less common than it used to be.

I feel like people are really worried about this kind of thing without reason.

[kasumicc.livejournal.com]

That may be true for anime, but I can remember quite well the censoring suffered by the FMA manga (including the infamous 'Greed in a cross' scene). And that was, what, 2 years ago? The same with the Bleach manga; at least, in the Shounen Jump version, it suffered some severe censoring.

But again, this may be a thing from publishers; it turns out that both FMA and Bleach are from Viz, so it may be just them?

That said, I'm completely supportive of a release on America, and I'd be even willing to import it here xD As long as it's a company with a good reputation...

[haro.livejournal.com]

More than two years ago, I believe. And that's the Shounen Jump version (Bleach), which ties into the aired-on-tv thing. Heavy censorship of manga is just not common anymore. I have no idea what they'd even censor in Hetalia.

I'm not a fan of Viz. But their problems come less from censorship and more from just poor translation.

[kasumicc.livejournal.com]

...I'm not a fan of Viz either xD And that's what I meant with 'good reputation'; while most companies don't apply censorship anymore, I've heard some of them still show some poor translations.

So, overall, I'm not worried about a possible Hetalia publishing because of being Hetalia. I'm just worried about how it will be handled, but that's something I'd worry on every manga, and not just this one.

[haro.livejournal.com]

Yeah, unfortunately there's nothing stopping a poor translation. :(

[abarero]

Yeah it's also up to the company. For example, to my knowledge, stuff like Hellsing goes completely uncensored and no media outlet has ever complained about it. And considering it has Nazis and lots of religious groups represented, it would be one of the first targets if mass media was going to go after Anime/Manga here in the US.

The fact is, the Americans that would complain about Hetalia are the Americans that have already sworn off all anime/manga as pure evil. (because they are uneducated about it, and therefore lump innocent things like Pokemon in with hentai) Anime/Manga fans here just tend to have a huge victim complex and flip out every single time a series is licensed (FMA anime wank anyone?) and get all paranoid that the fandom is going to be attacked even though that rarely, if ever, happens.

[kasumicc.livejournal.com]

Now that's a big truth. Besides the big Pokémon wanks (about 10 years ago), I've never heard of an organized attack towards an anime or its fandom.

I can imagine problems on other countries, but, America? Not at all =P

[awww-applesauce.livejournal.com]

Just because I got bored and wanted to find the same Naruto manga I had in Japanese in English when it came out. it not just that, Naruto was censored. They could show the Harem Justsu, and the Sexy Jutsu [which had BARELY any censorship]The moment Konohamaru did his Sexy Jutsu in the Shippuden where he changed into two girls it was censored [blacked out] I understood the Sasuke x Sai one on the next page, but the two random chicks confused me.

I think it just maybe a Viz thing. as far as censorship. but I also think they are trying to make the series geared towards the same age group as it does in Japan. and since Japan has different censorships than America somethigns get changed.

I just wanted to help prove your statement. =]