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

[vysnia-cerasus.livejournal.com]

It'd be nice to see it make it here, if only to have a legal and nice copy of the manga and the anime DVDs in my own room. Sadly, I doubt it'll happen for quite a while.

FUNimation was considering Hetalia, but rejected the license due to the "Hetalia" part (supposedly they were to call it just "Hetalia" until they realized what a slur the name sounded like) and supposedly due to the BL reputation from what I've heard other places, and I remember someone in a past thread on the community said that once one company rejects the license for controversies, others will reject it. Media Blasters would be interesting, but there's the chance of them dropping the series if it doesn't sell enough and it never being completed over here.

The manga might be a tricky deal too. I could MAYBE see Del Rey getting it if they'd dare, but it would probably be a shrink-wrapped release due to the "controversies".

I was amazed when I first heard murmurs of Hetalia being published in Poland, as it's pretty cool for one other country to get some version of it outside of Japan.