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Andrew ([personal profile] fh14) wrote in [community profile] hetalia2010-10-05 09:17 pm
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[Official Site] Himaruya deletes some strips [Updated: False Alarm. Sorry.]

It was brought to my attention a few hours ago that several Hetalia strips have been removed from the official site (the pages that hosted the comics are still up, its the image files themselves that are gone)

All the comics and images that were removed have already been scanated just FYI.

Strips that have been removed
"For some reason they sleep naked"
"Germany and the drug store"
"England's plan to be the strongest"
"Japan has a cold"
and a pic from "Comic Diary 4" labeled "charasyo.jpg"

What is weird about this is that a couple of these strips has been adapted into an anime segment. Or maybe more? My memory is fail today.

This isn't the first time Himaruya has deleted stuff from the site. A few Hetalia comics have been removed in the past and material from several other webcomics as well (most notably the majority of Advance! Kitakou Broadcasting Club Pure).

UPDATE: It appears the images have been put back up. Odd. Maybe it has something to do with that organization chasing Himaruya? >.>

Though the answer may be simpiler than that - The original location for "For some reason they sleep naked" is - http://www.geocities.co.jp/himaruya/nazene.htm and now its located here - http://www.geocities.jp/himaruya/nazene.htm

The only image that appears to still be gone is "charasyo.jpg" from "Comic Diary 4"

Sorry for the scare! I'm gonna go crawl in a hole and die now kthx

[identity profile] carooh.livejournal.com 2010-10-06 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
EHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH??
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
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[identity profile] carooh.livejournal.com 2010-10-06 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
oh yes
God VS Angels

[identity profile] curlee1029.livejournal.com 2010-10-06 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
<Wasn't there an episode in the anime where America was dragging a car? I forget the exact number, but I think it involved England trying to become stronger or something. Or is this just to have solid proof that there was a strip for that bit originally?
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[identity profile] curlee1029.livejournal.com 2010-10-06 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
I would love to have THE POWEEEEER, too. Sounds like fun!

Well, I guess we'll all just have to wait and see.

[identity profile] kobalto.livejournal.com 2010-10-06 01:31 am (UTC)(link)

[identity profile] curlee1029.livejournal.com 2010-10-06 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
Why????????
If most of them were in the anime, there's no reason for them to be deleted due to offensiveness or something like that.

[identity profile] watashinoekiben.livejournal.com 2010-10-06 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
YO GUYS.

Maybe he's re-drawing them.

[identity profile] mochironnai.livejournal.com 2010-10-06 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
Didn't think of that. Hmmm...

[identity profile] it-has-been.livejournal.com 2010-10-06 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
my thoughts exactly

[identity profile] nupinoop296.livejournal.com 2010-10-06 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
I like this bright-sided-ness! :Db

[identity profile] bei-kun.livejournal.com 2010-10-06 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
I'd like that to be the case.
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[identity profile] bei-kun.livejournal.com 2010-10-06 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
FUCK YEAH
YOU PULL DAT CAR, ALFRED UNF
yeshelookedsoankward

[identity profile] curlee1029.livejournal.com 2010-10-06 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
TRUE!!!! I didn't think about that......

[identity profile] iroh-fancier.livejournal.com 2010-10-06 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
That's what I thought, too.

[identity profile] joatamon.livejournal.com 2010-10-06 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
Hopefully leading to more of America's bulging muscles!

[identity profile] vysnia-cerasus.livejournal.com 2010-10-06 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
More like, it looks like Himaruya dun goofed. I had the same problem with viewing those strips a while ago and didn't notice they were linked at "co.jp" at first.

Now both manga pages seem to have the ".jp" address for them, so fixed?

[identity profile] vysnia-cerasus.livejournal.com 2010-10-06 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, this is pretty odd. I'm not sure if I can remember what that last missing picture was, but at least two of those four strips have been adapted into the anime adaptation. Did he remove them by accident when clearing out files? Did he delete them for Old Shame reasons like the content or his art style?

It's kind of odd. I mean, with the Botticelli strips and the original start to chapter 3, there were clear reasons why they had to be removed from their content alone. And he just didn't seem to put other strips up on the main page, leading to other "lost" strips (just discovered that Switzerland/Japan one is actually in Comic Diary 5, but somehow it's been skipped over in scanlations!).

[identity profile] vysnia-cerasus.livejournal.com 2010-10-06 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
Please excuse the "odd" redundancy btw, mind's wandering a little.

[identity profile] i-boudicca-i.livejournal.com 2010-10-06 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
Perhaps it's obvious and I'm just missing something (quite possible!) but what are the Botticelli strips?

multi-tasking is fun

[identity profile] vysnia-cerasus.livejournal.com 2010-10-06 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
"Italy Scribbles" (aka "Botticelli's Erotic Paintings") was a comic that he most likely drew around late '06 during the early days of Hetalia, maybe early '07 at the latest. He deleted it later, but it got referenced in a doujin called Chicory.

It involves...um, France, Spain, and Chibitalia. Or rather, Chibitalia's butt. There's a scanlation of it under memberlock somewhere XD:. But with what the guys say and do (and think of doing), it's really no wonder it's one of the Old Shame stories.

Re: multi-tasking is fun

[identity profile] i-boudicca-i.livejournal.com 2010-10-06 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
Oh yes, I do remember that after all... (somehow, the overwhelming pedo-ness overshadowed the fact that it mentioned Botticelli!) That one I can see why he deleted it! XD

[identity profile] alors-indikaze.livejournal.com 2010-10-06 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
The site is there but the images aren't? Almost seems like it's a glitch. There's no pattern to the removed strips either. Some are in the manga/anime, some aren't.

[identity profile] monelisa.livejournal.com 2010-10-06 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
...? For some reason they sleep naked, (http://www.geocities.jp/himaruya/nazene.htm) is stil there. And they animated it, there's no reason why it would be deleted if it was inappropriate in Himaruyasan's mind.

...wait, also, Germany and the drugstore (http://www.geocities.jp/himaruya/kusudoi.htm) and England's plan (http://www.geocities.jp/himaruya/toreigi.htm) are still there. But I don't remember which one the "Japan has a cold one" was about and yes, the image link to charasyo seems to be broken, but not removed. Cuz if he did intend to remove it, I mean, why would he keep the error pic on there...

Where did you check these 'original' links?

[identity profile] vysnia-cerasus.livejournal.com 2010-10-06 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
It appears Himaruya had them linked wrong on the manga page, looking over your links now with the versions that were from the accessed one. Then again, for some reason the Hetalia manga page reverted back to its '07 look and you have to click the "Manga" section to see the current version.

Looks like he forgot to change the links over to the new-server ones. Or something @_@.

[identity profile] vysnia-cerasus.livejournal.com 2010-10-06 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
Should mention that some links still go to "geocities.co.jp" and weren't edited over to the shorter "geocities.jp", so yeah, Himaruya really needs to do some cleaning sometime soon.

[identity profile] miezen.livejournal.com 2010-10-06 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
D: b-but I love "For some reason they sleep naked"! I hope the theory that he's redrawing these is the case.

[identity profile] joatamon.livejournal.com 2010-10-06 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
DON'T SCARE US LIKE THAT

...WHY DO I NOT HAVE AN ANGRY ICON?!

[identity profile] joatamon.livejournal.com 2010-10-06 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
*pet, pet, pet, pet*

[identity profile] joatamon.livejournal.com 2010-10-06 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
...This has Abe written all over it btw.

[identity profile] peridottears.livejournal.com 2010-10-06 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
...Wait, organization chasing Himaruya?

[identity profile] joatamon.livejournal.com 2010-10-06 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
Yep. HIS BUTT IS NOT SAFE! (http://community.livejournal.com/hetalia/8994734.html)

I should really be studying more right now but can't resist

[identity profile] vysnia-cerasus.livejournal.com 2010-10-06 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
He should probably put his butt away now, if he can.

Re: I should really be studying more right now but can't resist

[identity profile] joatamon.livejournal.com 2010-10-06 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
On confrontation, his best course would be to out-and-out disavow the very existence of said butt.

[identity profile] peridottears.livejournal.com 2010-10-06 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
Oooohh, I see. Thanks~

[identity profile] germanne03.livejournal.com 2010-10-06 10:35 am (UTC)(link)
Ugggh... I'm still out of sync.. what's up with that organization-chasing-Himaruya thing?? :\