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

[qualapec.livejournal.com]

I think, more than anything else, people would basically complain about how Germany isn't vilified. They wouldn't come right out and say that, of course, but that would be the gist.

Hopefully it would stay under the radar, but if FOX put their hive mind to it it could be the new "SEX-Box 360".

That's not even counting the people who would be offended at America's portrayal. I imagine people who would find The Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, or South Park hilarious would be offended by America. We're funny and hypocritical like that XD

[haro.livejournal.com]

This would hardly be the first thing released in America that portrays a German character during WWII as not a villain.

[qualapec.livejournal.com]

Yes, but generally they either crossover to the Allied side or are civilians. There ARE stories of sympathetic German soldiers, but I find they're few and far between. But even in the case of German soldiers who are protagonists...it's always fairly obvious they're Nazis in a Nazi world. One thing that I personally have always liked about Hetalia is that it glosses over the fact that Germany was under the control of the Third Reich at that time, just because there are SO many more stories who portray Germans in WWII as heartless killing machines. I just don't think that kind of "glossing" would go over well here.