hetalia | Confirmation of Petition

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Confirmation of Petition

Apparently the rumors about a petition in Korea to cancel the Hetalia anime are true:

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-01-13/korean-protests-call-for-hetalia-anime-cancellation

No plans to cancel it as of yet. Interestingly enough, there were never plans for Korea to be in the anime.

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There are a few "legit" sources on the entry above, if that's of any help.

And yes- a mod is watching (kind of).

Thanks for those. I probably wouldn't be so fussy is something like those were linked rather than ANN? oh well, I shouldn't let THIS bother me so much, right?

I don't think most people could read this, and I couldn't find it until some person on YouTube pointed out that it was in Yahoo! News.

And no- you shouldn't, since the general consensus here is that it's probably not going to be canceled.

Which I wholeheartedly embrace.

(And yes- I said YouTube. *gasps* XD)
Someone said something about it being on newspapers, so I used my new tactic on asking for a source... And they replied. I definitely thought they were going to ignore the question.

Oh! I'm not bothered by "news" of a possible cancellation, I'm bothered that other people won't let these useless rumors go.

I like your icons that accurately portrays what you're saying. XDD

Well, seems like it's not that YouTube/ANN/Spamific rumour that we thought it might be.

But it's okay, because in the end, it won't even matter.

haaa yes, with HK's cute face, who needs other icons!!

I just find these posts so irritating, especially when it has to link to putrid racist comments with little real facts of all things. I know nobody wants to be like that here (and basically no one is), but like-- can't we keep these discussions on f!s or wherever this is going down? I'm here to see some fanart and fic- not to discuss whether or not the anime is in jeopardy. I just feel like if these posts keep coming, we're gonna be overrun with "I HEARD HOLLAND IS PROTESTING TOO!! WHETHER OR NOT THESE CLAIMS ARE VALID LET'S POST ABOUT IT IN THE COMMUNITY!!"

but you're right~ :-j as long as people here are being respectful (and I could probably be a little nicer about it too...) I got no real area for fussiness.

I don't know. The fans do have a right to be concerned if the anime is going to be tampered in some way, which makes it relevant. It's a world wide of difference between the Netherlands protesting and Korea protesting though.

And the last place it needs to be is in F!S really.

Sorry to be ignorant, but what is F!S? D:

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Actually, the links in the ANN article are more complete that the two links listed above. The second link above is the edited version of the newspaper article that is missing the statement from the Hetalia anime's television station. That's why people here erroneously thought that the station didn't make a statement about Korea's planned omission, when it did.

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The Japanese sources never claimed the petition of 10,000 signatures, and I don't think they are the same kinds of articles other than the fact that both tell that Korea is insisting that Hetalia not hit air. ^^;

Maybe someone that knows Korean should find one of those "internet" petitions and then we'd actually make sense?

But then again... it's not even going to matter...

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10,000 is a shitty number... I didn't even know 10,000 people even know about this total in Korea... That does seem a bit much...

(Though apparently the printed mangas sold 500,000 copies... so I guess it's not THAT implausible... but then again, that's in Japan, where it was created...)

Especially since "those people" are supposedly against Hetalia, I don't know why they would even know about it in the first place; they obviously isn't following the manga...

The real Korean internet is too busy making lolcat-style macros of their president.

Lots involving babies grabbing his face and saying things like 'you're wasting oxygen'.

XD

Maybe I should lay off the Israel/Palestine thing for a while and move over to Korean news...

Israel/Palestine issue is depressing as hell. Korean news afterwards can provide excellent lulz, or you can just watch extremely gay (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNKa56ooOQo) Korean adaptations of famous Japanese manga (how is it that the Korean movie version is more true to the manga than the Japanese TV drama). :D

Seconded on the I/P issue although I haven't followed it closely. :X

....omgis that AB movie available with Eng subs?

It only came out a couple months ago, so probably as soon as it pops out on DVD (the Chinese will do it for us first, I think. Their bootleggers are very reliable!).

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Jesus, tell me someone is subbing this movie because OH WOW.

(Hell, it looks gayer than the original source. LOL. And dayum that Chikage is hot.)

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lol WTF?! XDDD
one of them DEFINITELY IS A GIRL. *___*

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LOL YES!!! It's that one guy from Coffee Prince! XDDDD

I second the subbing! ~~cuz my Korean is horrible~~

As listed in the ANN article now, here is the petition with the 10,000 (now over 15,000) names:

http://agora.media.daum.net/petition/view?id=65659

We have to keep in mind that these names are unverified, like in almost all online petitions. The Yomiuri Shimbun paper is a 134-year-old institution so it's not a tabloid of ill repute. But yeah, a grain of salt is still always recommended for any news source. Is there anything else you would like clarified?

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