Hey Hey!

[akatsukino.livejournal.com]

Hey guys! Well Im new to joining the livejournal Hetalia community but definitly not new to Hetalia OR this community. Ive been watching and reading both Hetalia and the group for as long as I remember ^_< I just couldnt put off getting an account so here I am.

I had a few questions I wanted to ask since Im already posting,

1) We all know America's glasses are named Texas. He got em somewhere around the war with Mexico but does anyoen know if its actually shown somewhere? is there a specific scanlation with Texas?

2) and another thing Im sure everyone knows "Iggy" is America's nickname for England. Again, is it shown somewhere or did this lil' cute nickname just pop up somewhere and we've all just grown to love and cherish it?

~Aka Tsukino

Comments

[arialyn.livejournal.com]

Not sure about Texas...
But I suspect that the nickname "Iggy" came from England's Japanese name, "Igirisu," though I don't know for certain.

[akatsukino.livejournal.com]

At first I though its from when America was a baby and maybe couldnt pronounce "Igirisu" and just shortened it to Iggi

[seraphoftales.livejournal.com]

Well from what I heard, in Japanese, chibi-America was saying "Igirichu" which is a childish way of saying Igirisu.

And I think to get the point across, that America was being all cutesy and childish, by making it Iggy which is the English equivalent(?) for baby talk...

Or I could be wrong

[kisaragifan.livejournal.com]

1) Texas is from the author's notes. So there wasn't a comic regarding US and Mexico. Though I wish Hidekaz does make a Mexico.

2) Iggy is the nickname the Japanese fans used. It's short from Igirisu (United Kingdom in Japan). As a nod to that Hidekaz has a comic entitled Iggy Iggy Annoyance. America using it as a nickname is just popular fanon used by the western fans.

[aoi-aka.livejournal.com]

Actually Igirisu is Japanese for England, not United Kingdom.

[akatsukino.livejournal.com]

yes i know this thank you C: i was just wondering if there was a comic where England is called that

[kisaragifan.livejournal.com]

http://www.eudict.com/?lang=japeng&word=igirisu


It's United Kingdom.

[ihavebeen.livejournal.com]

1) I seem to remember a strip, but I have a notoriously bad memory, so...

2) I don't know if it's shown anywhere, but it's because Iggy is short for Igirisu, which is England in Japanese, if I'm correct.

[violathornhaven.livejournal.com]

1) I'm not entirely sure where it is (Does anyone know? link plz), but Himaruya-sensei made a couple sketches of characters and what some things meant on them (such as Hungary's flowers standing for Lake Balton, or Austria's ahoge standing as Mariazell). On America, his glasses were labeled as Texas and his ahoge was labelled "Nantucket".

2) "Iggy" does come from "Igirisu", which is Japanese for England.

[ihavebeen.livejournal.com]

Oh, if that's all, that's here. http://i49.tinypic.com/2mx2250.gif

[violathornhaven.livejournal.com]

Yes, that! Thank you!

[akatsukino.livejournal.com]

Thanks :)! same thing for America's 50 on the back is for the 50 states and then the star is for something too..

I just cannot remember for the life of me where its from, I'd love to see the original sketch Himaruya-sensei drew though :)

[violathornhaven.livejournal.com]

*points up to the link above and down* Both take you to similar things. The first is just the picture I mentioned, and the bottom is the entire source.

[lovelylurker.livejournal.com]

1) I've wondered that myself.

2) "Iggy" is short for "England" in Japanese.

Speaking of questions by new people, I myself have one.

WHERE THE HELL DID THE FIVE METERS = PRUSSIA THING COME FROM?!

[kotakia.livejournal.com]

Someone made a batch of icons with the characters with the average penis size in each nation. Since Prussia had no data, they said Prussia's was 5 meters. It's caught on since then.

[tinishyuuga.livejournal.com]

Yeah, since Prussia is awesome, he probably has 5 meters anyway >8DDDDD

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[cherishedsaulie.livejournal.com]

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[akatsukino.livejournal.com]

oh im so sorry I honestly thought I tagged it

[fivedayslater.livejournal.com]

1) There was a sketch in comic diary 2: http://aph.starry-sky.com/nikkimanga2.html

2) France called England that in the Christmas Bloodbath. Don't know how America got a hold of it...

[akatsukino.livejournal.com]

thank you so much for the link!!!

[siriuscanid.livejournal.com]

I agree with fivedayslater, France called England like that when he was looking for him, I think it was in Japan's house.

[hagane-no-mame.livejournal.com]

Iggy is not America's nickname for England, it's mostly the fans' nickname for him. America never calls England Iggy in canon, but apparently it's popular for him to do so in fanfics and such.

[akatsukino.livejournal.com]

I havent really though about it thank you!

[kotakia.livejournal.com]

1. It's from a pic Himaruya drew somewhere mentioning what trait on the nations was to certain characters. For the life of me I can't find it when I need it it seems.


2. There's a comic called 'Iggy Iggy Annoyance' but it doesn't revolve around America in the least. In my mind America calls England Iggy because Himaruya drew a picture of England in America's coat and the photourl was 'Ameriggi'

[shuuichi-chan.livejournal.com]

I think when America was little he mispronounced his name "Igirichu" so I don't think it's related to the Iggy thing.

[epicfail1211.livejournal.com]

1. It's not shown in a strip. I'm pretty sure Himaruya mentioned what the glasses represented in a traits list.

2. No one has called England Iggy in canon except for France.
There was also one strip entitled "Iggy-Iggy Annoyance."
But America has never used that nickname.


Boy I'm late ;_;

[akatsukino.livejournal.com]

its all right C: thank you for commenting anyway! ;)

[m-dono.livejournal.com]

Since the link for America's glasses have already been provided, I'll just give you a link to the whole Iggy thing.

Like epicfail1211 said, no one in the series has ever called England Iggy save for France. "Iggy-Iggy Annoyance" is a name for one of the strips though. So if you read a fanfic/comic/art that has America calling England Iggy, it's more or less inaccurate fandom-wise. If anything it should be France calling him so, but instead the (western?) fandom France calls him Angleterre.

I've asked the question regarding France before: http://community.livejournal.com/hetalia/5591546.html Here I wanted to clarify if America once called him thus in case I missed something. Feel free to go through it.