amandaoneill:

yachtpartysuicide:

pussifoot:

kylo:

kylo:

hetalia was so obviously fucked up how did we as a society allow that fandom to reach the magnitude it did

it’s…quite literally called “Axis Powers Hetalia” and like. no one batted an eye. axis powers is right there in the name

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Lots of people batted an eye at the time.  Anti-hetalia backlash, especially from Jewish anime fans, was fucking huge.  And it didn’t stop them from invading convention spaces, showing up dressed as nazis, etc.  I heard a story from a friend that while they were at a convention a Jewish kid had a panic attack over a group of Hetalia fans that were dressed as nazis and heiling and shit and the Jewish kid got kicked out of the con for “making a scene.”  I don’t remember the con, but it was in Minnesota.  Hetalia has a large part of the blame for the modern “anime right.”  It certainly didn’t directly cause them, hell, most of them probably aren’t Hetalia fans, but it’s because of Hetalia that they learned they could be openly and brazenly fascist and the American anime community would protect them for it instead of shunning them.

hey the Jewish person was actually one of my friends, this happened at Anime Detour in Minneapolis, MN. this is all true and it was terrible.