..and recently the history geek in me has started to come out
Posted by Emma Hryniewicz
Some online friends introduced me to Axis Powers: Hetalia at the end of winter break. It's a webcomic by a New York college student under a Japanese pseudonym that has since turned graphic novel and anime that satires the whole of history.
It's actually currently being battled against by Koreans who feel that they are treated poorly in the creation, though it is marketed as a satire of history and quite a few of the countries personified are treated with an exaggeration of their stereotypes.
I'm enjoying reading the side stories for the East Asian countries. Some of them I can recognize without being able to understand the characters in the text because of my studies in East Asian Studies over the past few years. I do have access to fan translations, but I like trying to read from the images too sometimes.
I also feel a lot more patriotic about America too, his personification is rather charming.
Posted: January 30, 2009 11:01 pm | 1 comment
Tags: history, japanese webcomics