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]

I would be extremely psyched to see it in America 83 Though I don't exactly have high hopes atm >.>

[cpuff94.livejournal.com]

aw luckys! maybe someday it will be published here!...well, probaly not

[radittz.livejournal.com]

why? American fandom is quite big so it should sell nicely D:

[badlucktuckxl.livejournal.com]

First, let me say congrats to Poland and his people for getting Hetalia published over there! :D

Second, the discussion thingy, I wonder if Hetalia will ever get licensed/published in the US. True, we have "freedom of speech" and we know how to "laugh at ourselves," but Americans are SO sensitive over the stupidest things! Hetalia teaches kids about WWII and other points of history, but SOME parent is going to complain about kids reading this because of the use of fascism and references to Nazis, and there have been some swastikas thrown in there, and boom! Hetalia is the new "controversial comic book!" on the evening news. America today is a place when you have to call "Christmas" parties "Holiday" parties so that no one feels left out (I know people with different or no religions and they don't care what it's called), the Pledge of Allegiance is being modified in some places, and where you can't really have "freedom of speech."

TL;DR - I think that America might license and publish Hetalia, but not without some sort of censor or whathaveyou.

Sorry this turned into a rant...orz

[piratelicker.livejournal.com]

I think the only problem ppl would have would be the mistake regarding Poland's birthdate...

[radittz.livejournal.com]

True, I hope that it wont be noticed - if you don't know that most of birth dates are from Independance Days, it can look like something random...
Anyway, there is no Poland in APH manga books so character himdelf isn't a problem in our case XD;

[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 -_-

[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]

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.

[bluubun.livejournal.com]

* A * !!!

haha i wanna go fly to krakow even more now and go to the stare miasto's rynek to that bookstore/any others around there just to see 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

[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.

[x-reggg.livejournal.com]

well, i can get the taiwan copies of hetalia in HK, so i'm happy ^____^

and i don't believe yasumoto hiroki and takahashi hiroki mentioned it during the special talk! ♥

[qualapec.livejournal.com]

I'm glad and pleasantly surprised that it was published in Poland before being published in the US :)

If it was published in the US...I don't know. One of my recurring nightmares is FOX News deciding to pitch a bitch about it. I can just fucking imagine what Glenn Beck would say about it...

:) Now, then I could only hope what Stuart or Colbert would say about FOX picking on a children's comic book, so it'd be cool XD

Ever so slightly off topic...but I would be VERY curious to see how it would be received in Germany (or Italy for that matter).

[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.

[radittz.livejournal.com]

Just go to one of Empik book shops - most of Polish mangas are available there :)
Have a nice time in Kraków, it's really beautiful city :)

[piratelicker.livejournal.com]

I think Feliks is a pretty harmless and like-able character. I don't think anyone would have problems with him, he's so fabulous~! :)

[seraphoftales.livejournal.com]

I'm more apprehensive really that the fanbase might... explode... I mean, not that more fans are a bad thing. But large popularity might equal an equal amount of criticism. Especially with the topic of WWII.

Make no mistake that I want to buy the comic myself. The only possible place I could ever get it from would be my local japan town. And that's pretty far. So yeah. I'd love to see it published here in America.

Ah... I dunno. Mixed feelings.

[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.

[bluubun.livejournal.com]

ahh i know that place ! * u * i love it so much haha /just got her CDs (ex: Iza Lach) from there via cousin
indeed it is~

[rebornhayatofan.livejournal.com]

i agree!

[seraphoftales.livejournal.com]

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

[jjblue1.livejournal.com]

I don't think someone will be brave enough to print it in Italy.
Manga and anime (who, despite the large and by now old fanbase, are still considered targeted 'for small kids') are the favorite target of a hate campain made by psycologists and media who also rarely have a sense of humour. Also there's a lot of people who's still sensitive about WW2 issues so, even if I would love to read it in my language, I don't even want to think at what will happen, were media to find out about it. -_-

[powderthefox.livejournal.com]

Wow, lucky you guys! Super congrats on that. :D

I wish it would get published in the US, but at the same time I'm worried. All it takes is one sensitive mother crying about a "controversial comic book" she just happened to find while tidying up her children's rooms--the media does the rest of the work.
Then again, god knows what the chances of a giant controversy are. Could be me being paranoid, but still. :S

[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