Hetalia Axis Powers
ヘタリア Axis Powers
ONA · 2009 · 52 eps · Finished · Score 6.5
Genres: Comedy
Themes: Parody, Historical, Slapstick, Primarily Male Cast, Educational, Cute Boys Doing Cute Things, Male Protagonist, Politics, Anthropomorphism
Studios: Studio DEEN
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).
Voice Actors
- Noriaki Sugiyama as Igirisu
- Katsuyuki Konishi as America
- Yuki Kaida as Chuugoku
- Daisuke Namikawa as Italia
- Hiroki Yasumoto as Doitsu
- Yasuhiro Takato as Russia
- Hiroki Takahashi as Nihon
- Masaya Onosaka as France
- Rie Kugimiya as Liechtenstein
- Atsushi Kousaka as Estonia
- Gou Inoue as Bulgaria
- Romi Park as Suisse
- Ai Orikasa as Sealand
- Aki Kanada as Chibitalia
- Akira Sasanuma as Austria
- Hozumi Gouda as Ancient Rome
- Keikou Sakai as Sweden
- Yuki Masuda as Ukraine
- Daichuu Mizushima as Finland
- Jun Konno as Holy Roman Empire
- Urara Takano as Belarus
- Ken Takeuchi as Lithuania
- Kokoro Tanaka as Poland
- Michiko Neya as Hungary