Hetalia
Hetalia is abbreviation of cartoon work of Japan by Hidekazu Himaruya and "Hetalia: Axis powers", and a Japanese mark is "ヘタリア".
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"ヘタリア" is a name cradled from the slang word that a military mania in Japan talked about weak Italy of prewar days ironically.
There was a slang word "へたれ = hetare" that meant "Mercy" and "It is weak" in Japanese, and "Hetare" and "Italy" were combined, and the name "Hetalia" arose.
The abbreviation is an alias for "Hetalia: Axis Powers" taken from the initials of "APH" also called.
The characters who personify the nation are drawing the history and the joke of the culture in this work with comedy that makes the history and the culture a motif by calm touch.
Characters are Italy, Germany in the pivot country, and chiefly Japan. The United States America, Britain, France, Russia, and China in the union country are centered. Other personified Europe and America, Asia, informal nation, climate, organization, city, and ancient state, etc. appear, too.
The name of a person besides it exists though the alias of the character is officially a name of a country, too.
It was initially created as an online webcomic, and so far three tankoubons have been published by Gentosha Comics.English translations of the first two volumes have been published by Tokyopop in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.
Wed popular comics on the Internet, further raised the popularity of the book form in 2008. Animation and dramaCD in 2009, the film also, even across North America. The Shingurupureigemu "Hetalia school"("学園ヘタリア") was also created.