Hetalia Axis Powers
- Format
- ONA
- Episodes
- 52
- Duration
- 5 min
- Status
- Finished
- Season
- Winter 2009
- Studio
- Studio DEEN
- Source
- manga
- Popularity
- 40,751
Synopsis
Based on a popular web-released manga series by Hidekazu Himaruya, this has been described as a "cynical gag" story set in Europe in the years between WW1 and WW2 (1918-1939), using exaggerated caricatures of the different nationalities as portrayed by a gaggle of bishōnen. For example, the Italia Veneziano character is into pasta and women. The Deutsche (German) bishi loves potatoes and sausages, and Nippon is an otaku boy. Installments of the manga have jumped back and forth in setting from the ancient times to modern-day geopolitics. The manga's title comes the Japanese words for "useless" (hetare) and Italy (Italia).
Characters
Italia
main
Nihon
main
Doitsu
main
America
main
France
main
Igirisu
main
Russia
main
Chuugoku
main
Austria
supporting
Lithuania
supporting
Sweden
supporting
Poland
supporting
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