[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

[neon-geisha.livejournal.com]

I really don't think we should use the character names as a rule - I have nothing against using them, but I think the country names make it a lot more fun. It kind of makes me feel a little sad that the J-fen seems to dislike that Hetalia is getting a Western fandom - I don't know if it's paranoia that we'll be offended, or xenophobia (I really hope it's not the latter). I mean, even though Hetalia is trivializing things like war (which I can see how it might offend some people who don't exactly frequent 4chan), it's also not blatantly offensive, at least to my mind. Characters aren't portrayed with outrageous ethnic stereotypes or anything, and it doesn't even really take sides, but instead portrays every country/character as having both good and bad traits. I can definitely see where some Americans might be offended that it is AXIS POWERS Hetalia, but I for one am not (and my father fought in World War II, so that should say something!). I wish we could just make the J-fandom understand that we're not offended by this, and we like it just as much as they do.

...Egypt's name is Gupta? For real? This Egyptian is making a o.O face at the screen in RL, because that is definitely an Indian name (and a surname, at that). Muhammad Hassan sounds right, but I have no idea where or how they got Gupta. XD