Axis Powers Hetalia
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Axis Powers Hetalia is a show that mainly revolves around the three characters Italy (Veneziano), Germany (Ludwig), and Japan (Kiku). So far, there are forty episodes posted online. Axis Powers is very random and does not often follow one theme only. It jumps around, and never seems to to stay on one subject. Every character in the anime is named after some country. Some other characters that you will see are the Allied Forces, which has America (Alfred Jones), England (Arthur Kirkland), China (Wang Yao), France (Francis Bonnefoy), and Russia (Ivan Braginski).
Character Description Axis Powers North Italy (Veneziano) Jap. Name: Itaria Age 20 Italy is a cheerful Latin boy who loves pasta and women and can be a little bit of a crybaby. He relies on Germany a lot but doesn't really listen to what he says. He has a physiological phenomenon of sometimes leaking out the mysterious sound "Ve". He gets his aesthetic sense from Grandpa Rome, causing him to very much love painting, singing and designing clothes.
Germany (Ludwig) Jap. Name: Doitsu Age 20 A young man with a too-serious personality and a pessimistic nature.His hobbies are reading, making sweets and taking walks with dogs, and he also is very by-the-book, thinking that something very unpleasant will happen if you don't rely on books and navigators. He likes cleanliness. He also has no other ideas for recycling. Everyone thinks that him having 3 dogs is really tough. Even nowadays he seems to be telling Italy things and looking over him.
Japan (Honda Kiku) Jap. Name: Nihon Age Unknown The country of floating soldiers in the Orient. Quiet and serious, but because he's a little straight-laced his surroundings are kind of show-off-y. He's good at messing with machines and drawing. Including the fact that even though he is an island nation, the reason he had a time when he stayed indoors always was because he wanted to keep the uniqueness of his culture and atmosphere.
Allied Forces America (Alfred F. Jones) Jap. Name: Amerika Age 19 A young man that's cheerful and powerful, with a strong sense of justice. Because he's young and has an excess of power, he often can't read situations and has a habit of running around quickly, making his only friends England and Japan. His Boss is an alien and his friend, and he messes around with UFOs a lot, but even though he's such a strange country, he can't see England's unicorns and fairies. His hobbies are archeology and quick draw. He also likes filming movies, but he often receives nothing but criticism, so he never wants to share them with England. He got his sense of taste from England, so he loves strangely-colored sweets. Lately he's just been inventing lots of mysterious utensils for dieting.
England (Arthur Kirkland) Jap. Name: Igirisu Age 23 America's former care-taker with an obstinate and sarcastic personality, who has lots of rain and was a former delinquent. He likes cooking but he doesn't have any repertoire, and his food isn't edible to begin with. He's good friends with fairies and ghosts, tries black magic and summoning and is a bit of an occultist. (Even though America calls them illusions...) His drinking habits are strangely bad. He likes black tea and embroidery. Also, now and then he likes to paint portraits of axles.There's also that one bit about how, ever since forever ago, he's been fighting with France.
France (Francis Bonnefoy) Jap. Name: Furansu Age 24 A young man who does things at his own pace and has an abundance of affectionate expressions. He has no hesitation in bragging about French being the language of love. He brags about being a gourmet, but his food is pretty fierce. He loves culture and the arts, as well as paintings and clothing and people, and, well, anything that's beautiful. He'll go for beautiful men and women of any age, and maybe even some non-human beings. Ever since forever ago, he's fought with England, but he thinks, "As long as it's quiet, it's fine right?" But he loves himself so much he won't learn English.
China (Wang Yao) Jap. Name: Chugoku Age 4000 (immortal) Seeing him like this makes you think he’s a grandpa or an immortal or something. Here and there, he tries to act like an older brother, but he isn’t treated like one at all. He’s a vacation spot for the world, but he’s always trying to run away from Korea’s house. He’s strangely good at drawing beautiful humans, but when you see his animal characters, you get the feeling you’ve seen them somewhere before. He’s currently obsessed with using strange Japanese words for candy.
Russia (Ivan Braginski) Jap. Name: Roshia Age Unknown Russia has a kind face, but has mentally cracked from the strain of his bloody history. The other nations are terrified of him, especially the Baltic Trio (Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia), whom he loves to both physically and emotionally abuse. Occasionally, he stalks others, especially China, while in a panda costume. Russia also has two sisters: his older sister, Ukraine and his younger sister, Belarus. He becomes gloomy and depressed when either of them is on his mindbecause Ukraine has extremely large breasts (which makes him uncomfortable) and because the sadistic Belarus is obsessed with the idea of forcing him to marry her. She seems to be the only other country which Russia fears. Russia happily promises that eventually "all will become one with Russia". Another favorite phrase is "kolkolkolkol", used when he is angered. Russia is often seen carrying a metal faucet pipe. |
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