Confirmation of Petition

[squeaky-spooky.livejournal.com]

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.

Comments

[atiko.livejournal.com]

All that uproar over something as innocently-funny as Hetalia. :-(

I don't want to point fingers at anybody, but - 10,000 signatures? Did all these people actually read the comic, or did they just act on some distorted information that a Japanese manga artist might be insulting Koreans?

People have probably every right to be really, really jumpy about this sort of thing, given Japan and Korea's history. And hell, there ARE some offensive manga around that make my blood boil, too (has anybody heard of Kobayashi Yoshinori's "Washisumu" series? -__-). But really, protesting against Hetalia is like shooting with canons at sparrows.

I wish people'd get informed themselves before protesting. But even more than that I wish newspapers'd get their facts straight before making the issue even bigger than it probably is.

[xue.livejournal.com]

If anything at all, probably just those distorted strips that were on the Korean blog site (or whatever that was).

[shincaru.livejournal.com]

No one can seem to substantiate the 10,000 signature claim, so it's clear to me that it's all exaggeration and hearsay for X party's slow news day/trolling attempt. The only proof is that right-wingers are complaining from a right-wing 'internet news' site, but god, they always do. They'll complain about Japanese furniture and still use it to sit on and blog from.

TBH, I don't think Koreans could care less. 10 000 is A LOT, even for a highly-digitised country like Korea. I think most are more concerned with their Cyworld blogs. X0