22: Do you think Hetalia sugar coats/numbs actual historical events?
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[ABSOLUTELY. I mean it’s not mean to be like “realistic gritty!” kind of thing, and as of late Himaruya has touched on the more ‘serious’ sides of history, such as some of France’s history, etc. But I don’t think we’ll ever see a nation looking out onto a battlefield of slaughtered corpses or about those “horrors of history” such as the Holocaust or 9/11 or the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution.
P sure that Hetalia started with Himaruya fucking around doodling in the corners of his notebooks in uni and turned it into some shitty webcomic that took off, and then suddenly people were demanding more of it. Hence the very humourous light on something considered one of the darkest times in modern Western history - World War II
Nor that I want it to suddenly change, frankly. Canon is so goofy that it would throw off everything. It would be interesting to see a very serious take on the concept of Hetalia; something as bloody and unfiltered and traumatic as history can be. Like a serious, adult anime adaption similar to the new Castlevania or Hellsing. It would have to be done right, though.]











