[mod post] Another Hello

[youkofujima.livejournal.com]

Hello, everyone, this is your community moderator.[Poll #1217657][Poll #1217657]

And in case you're wondering, the human names of the nations are:

Turkey=Sadiq Adnan

Prussia=Gilbert Beilschmidt (aka: Gil)

Canada=Matthew Williams (also, his bear's name is Kumajirou)

Sealand=Peter Kirkland (nickname: Sea-kun)

Belarus=Natalia (I can't find her last name)

America=Alfred F. Jones (aka: Al)

UK=Arthur Kirkland (nickname: Iggy Iggy)

Germany=Ludwig (family name unknown)

Japan=Honda Kiku (or, in the west, Kiku Honda)

Italy (north)=Feliciano Vargas (nickname: Veneziano)

Italy (south)=Lovino Vargas (nickname: Romano)

Austria=Roderich Edelstein

Hungary=Elizabeth Héderváry

Spain=Antonio Fernandez Carriedo (nickname: Oyabun)

France=Francis Bonnefoy (nickname: Oniichan)

Switzerland=Vash Zwingli

Greece=Heracles Karpusi

Egypt=Gupta Muhammad Hassan

Russia=Ivan Braginsky

Lithuania=Toris Lolintis (thanks to herbalriver)

Estonia=the closest I got was "Edward"

Lativa=Raivis Galante

Poland=Feliks Łukasiewicz

China=Wong Yao (Yao Wong in the west.  Nickname: Nii-Nii/Aniki)

Korea=Im Yun Soo

Finland=Tino Väinämöinen

Sweden=Bernard Oxenstierna (nickname: Su-san)

Sweden and Finland's dog=Hana-tamago

For nations that don't have human names, their names are made to sound like nicknames.  For instance, Hong Kong is currently known as Hon-kun or Hon-tan.  Taiwan is Tai-chan, Cuba is Qba, etc...

If you have any questions or concerns, please leave a comment or send me an LJ message!

Comments

[failouch.livejournal.com]

If ensuring that people won't get offended easily is the only reason for enforcing people names, then I don't think it's necessary to make everyone use them instead of the country names. If there are any legal issues then I understand, but I'm pretty sure Hetalia falls under the entertainment category (in the US, anyway--and while our government might be dumb they certainly aren't THAT dumb to not quickly realize that this is a work of fiction).

It was because I saw people using the country names that I got interested in Hetalia, because it was amusing even to see my own country act the way it does. I know this is the same for other people as well, and I haven't once seen someone get offended by the portrayal of their country.

Plus, it's taken me this long and I still haven't put faces to all the country names yet..hahaha T_T

But if I'm unaware that this is really a problem and not just a superstition, then by all means, don't let me stop you from enforcing this rule.

[ekmisao.livejournal.com]

(nods)

[youkofujima.livejournal.com]

*nods*

I have yet to see people get offended just yet here, though there has been some offense taken before when I had posted scans on scans_daily, and non-Hetalia fans have even gone as far as to really, REALLY complain about the portrayal of certain nations (the most common complaint I heard was how predominately MALE the cast was).

So I guess it's really a...us (Hetalia fans) versus them (non-Hetalia fans who get offended easily). It's more common in the JFen that people start screaming and being offensive, though the hope is that they'll turn away and not say much of anything if they come here?

[failouch.livejournal.com]

(...I wonder if they took into consideration how predominately male WWII was.)