[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

[youkofujima.livejournal.com]

*nods* I see what you mean, and it seems like a majority of the members in the community feel that way, too, because of the hilarious implications of the actual nations interacting as opposed to a representative character from each nation, which is what the human names do--it separates the character from the nation.

It really is true that people will get offended by anything, even if we try to make it politically correct--which Hetalia really isn't to begin with.

I really hope that we won't have to go that far, and so far there doesn't seem to be a necessity to do so.

[aphelion-orion.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm really glad that most people agree, because Hetalia was about making fun of stereotypes to begin with - and for the countries I know, those I've been to, those whose people I met... I have to say that many of these stereotypes are, to some degree, hilariously correct.

Yeah, unfortunately. But I assume stumbling upon Hetalia by accident is nigh impossible - you probably won't run across it if you aren't a 4channer (heck, I didn't know it existed until a friend pimped the fandom to me), and if you're a 4channer and get offended at something like that... that's pretty damn funny. XD

On a totally unrelated note... completely independently, I more or less started my own Hetalia a few months back, before I knew this fandom existed. In the Guilty Gear game, all characters have a different nationality, and a friend and I took great pleasure in referring to them by country name and photoshopping maps together. Like this (http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj111/h3d0n1st1c/graceofgod.png). I am insanely amused by this coincidence.