#BIRZ

[shinjinrui]

[dailydefunctmangamagazine]

Monthly Comic Birz (月刊コミックバーズ) / Gentosha Comics (幻冬舎コミックス) / Jan 2014 issue

[coralcatsea]

I want to explain why HWS is more fitting for the series than APH.

APH doesn't represent the series as a whole very well. Hetalia may have once focused on that time, but it's always depicted other parts of history, too, like the American Revolution, the Seven Years War, the Chibitalia stuff, etc.

It makes sense that if Hima wanted to show lots of countries, cultural trivia, and moments in history then the name would change to reflect that, so the HWS rebranding makes a lot of sense. This series is about the world and all that happens on it, hence: Hetalia World Stars.

You can see this 'World' theme in all of the anime seasons' titles after APH as well: World Series. Beautiful World. World Twinkle. Then s7, World Stars.

So then why do we specifically use World Stars?

Despite how it may seem for anime-only fans, World Stars isn't a recent thing. The name was actually given to the series long ago.

APH is a webmanga that began as a oneshot in July 2006. It later continued as a full series that same year, and in 2008 began being adapted into printed manga tankōbon. In Sep 2011 the series began being serialized monthly in Comic Birz magazine, which ended in June 2013. In Sep 2014, the series relaunched in Shonen Jump Plus under the new title of Hetalia: World☆Stars.

This means Hetalia has officially been HWS longer than APH.

Hopefully I was able to provide some helpful information for those who didn't understand the shift! I look forward to the day most of us are on the same page. Less to tag that way, too.

[lietpolski]

when you have the chance, could you do a mischaraterization analysis on iceland?

sure!! i think the difference between him and nor is that people are more aware of the liberties they're taking with his characterization, so, disclaimer: i don't care how you characterize him and i don't think i'm better for sticking to canon. but let's talk about canon iceland!!

one thing that's a personal pet peeve is his age, and when he's portrayed as an adult. i've seen people saying that they don't even know if he's meant to be a teenager or not! but:

he's meant to be 16-17, as hima has said! now, i think it's fine to take creative liberties with most characters' ages. however, with iceland it's such a core element of his personality that aging him up just,, entirely changes him as a character!

iceland is meant to be a teenager. no, not in the emo tumblr user who loves memes sense (that interpretation was 90% of iceland content in 2015 haha), but like a teenager who because of his age can be immature, and struggle with his emotions, connections to others, and a lot of insecurity. you can see some of that insecurity in his need to be seen as mature, but also his embarrassment over his accent & being hot-headed (another aspect of him that's underexplored! people forget that side of him!)

"According to Himaruya (in a Comic Birz interview), Iceland tends to feel uncomfortable with his thick accent and hard to understand language, opting to speak in English when he can. This was further instated when it was mentioned in his Volume 5 profile that he tries his best to hide his accent.[17]"

but more specifically, i'd say that iceland's main internal struggle & driving force is his want to connect with and be close to others. but in response to him always been forgotten, being an afterthought, and falling behind, he's put up a front of indifference about it - "i don't care if people don't care about me"

but here's the thing! although he tries to act uncaring and fine being alone, he loves his overbearing family :,) and values the connections they give him so much!! in my opinion, him disliking how the other nordics act is just a front (except when he's being babied, which is understandable haha) and i think this gets kinda lost in fanon. just look at these interactions! (image order is left to right)

this one below makes me especially sad :,)

the other nordics being what stops him from being lonely is huge when you consider iceland's origins:

he was all alone, for years and years and years, with no one like himself to explain to him who he was, what he was, a little kid all alone and he was so lonely. that is, until his big brothers finally came over to his island to bring him home!

so yes, iceland does care about his family and does want them close, and he's not as indifferent to everything as he wants to act. he's a character with some deeply rooted insecurities, and he feels the need to hide them

and some quick thoughts: i don't have a lot of obvious examples, but iceland is an old-fashioned person! he's not as in touch with the rest of the world, he wears grandpa sweaters and cravats, he has an old ass phone, he doesn't at all strike me as internet savvy and i don't like that characterization of him

i've covered this in more detail with my denmark & norway rants, but he's super close to both of them, likes both of them, and sees both of them as brothers! in fact, he sees sweden & finland as brothers too!

(+ that image i showed earlier saying that he looks up to sweden as an adult, and how he calls them all nicknames! dan, svi, fin, nor!)

one last thing about his relationships!! people seem to think that him and hong kong are an entirely fanon thing, when actually they have at least 2 manga chapters where they interact and seem to be friendly! here's one of them :)

i hope you found this long rant interesting, he's one of my favourites!

[seyyahe-iavare]

1 ve 2. Gün/ 1-2 Ekim

İkinci 40'ın besmelesini dün çekmiş bulunduk. Her iki gün de vaktinde uynılmıştı. Bugün birz daha erken uyansam da olurdu. Niyet ettim Allah rızası için kalbimi eğitmeye, nefsimi körelmeye diyeyim en baştan.

[fumblingmusings]

francis and matthews relationship is so interesting cause in the show at least francis is more supportive than arthur for the most part but he still frames himself as the cool older brother you can get advice from and absolutely NOT a father.

It's really hard to say because we have so little 1 on 1 panel time of Francis and Matthew versus him and Arthur.

I tried to find the original strips but I think most of the Birz ones have been wiped from online so orz if I have missed any important Arthur/Matthew/Francis ones apologies...

But I remember that the earlier strips which was all mini Canada tales were so hilariously mean spirited - everyone forgets him, people sit on him, Alfred is just glib and pushy and awful, and Kuma is also just like... ragging on the poor guy. But at least Arthur apologises to him (rare show of an Englishman admitting he was wrong) whilst Francis implies that everything that sucks about Matthew is the bits that ties him to Arthur. And also in another strip Arthur is the only one who notices he's not there????

Like okay fine in the early ones he can't remember who's missing but at least he feels Mattie's not there. However, yeah, Francis another time does remember him and quite sharply chides Arthur for it, even though in the G8 one Francis didn't have a clue.

I do love the arguments between the brother's though, fucking brutal.

The modern strips are a bit different, with Francis paying lip service to being Canada’s protector only to give up after 15 minutes. Compared to Arthur who immediately proclaims himself to he Matthew's family, gets in a right messy state fighting for him, asks after his emotional welfare during the War of 1812, makes Matthew homemade marmalade, and is apparently very content to have the baby sleep on his lap to pass the afternoon. And its sort of like, no wonder Matthew stays with Arthur. The guy who is the first person to see him as a baby and not a set of resources. Not historically accurate perhaps but the nations aren't mean to represent their governments or politics really. The way Arthur treats Alfred and Matthew does not match up with English Imperial Policy in the slightest.

Babies...

This is versus Francis, who says, if I win, I will let you be my little brother. I don't know. I think there's a distinction there. Arthur goes from now on you're mine. Francis is just a smidge more conditional. Though to be fair to Francis, Arthur had won when he made that pronouncement half dead on the floor so... pedantry.

I like the comparison between Arthur proclaiming to be Alfred's family - which he almost immediately rejects even as a baby and then again upon independence and again in WWII - versus Matthew where Matthew is like yep. I'm your family. Ride or die. Becoming the man who looms over Arthur's back like a spectre. And he sticks with Arthur enough where Arthur thinks of him as his only comfort following Alfred leaving (wooft more apologies from the Englishman... when it rains it pours, eh), and enough to try and bring Alfred home for Arthur's sake (I cannot find this one... but it's the box of food he sends to tempt Alfred... it must have been in the published volumes) and enough to kick Alfred out again for Arthur's sake.

He's not like Oz and NZ who still refers to Arthur as a big brother, but he's always been more formal. But it's pretty much confirmed that Arthur loves Matthew just as (almost?) as much as Alfred, it's just Alfred will not be ignored so it comes across as if Arthur doesn't.

This may just be a bias - Arthur and Matthew have more strips together by a country mile so you know what his relationship is like with Arthur, and... it's pretty good. And with things like in modern day NZ still calling Canada big brother even though that imperial connection isn't really there anymore... I think he got a lot more validation and a social net with Arthur then he did with Francis.

But I suppose it's like... how much do you say the old strips are still in play, since no-one has forgotten about Matthew in like... ten years at this point. Also, to be fair to Francis, Arthur also is explicitly not a father in canon either. It's just fun to drag out these threads right?

I need more Francis and Matthew interactions, is what I'm saying.

[luanna801]

Noteworthy in this respect is the statement of Rabbi Elijah Gaon on the verse, “But Esau I hated” – “this refers to the peripheral part of Esau, but the essential part of him, his head, was interred with the patriarchs.” It is for this reason that the man of truth and integrity, Jacob, said [on his reunion with Esau], “I have seen you, and it is like seeing the face of G-d.” (Gen. 33:10) His word shall not go down as a vain utterance. The brotherly love of Esau and Jacob, Isaac and Ishmael, will assert itself above all the confusion that the evil brought on by our bodily nature has engendered. It will overcome them and transform them into eternal light and compassion.

-Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook in a letter to Rabbi Pinchas HaKohen Lintup of Birz, 1908

Quoted by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks in Covenant and Conversation, 2008

[bblookyyy]

Hetalia, a masterlist (incomplete):

so i’ve always made a list of links and order of seasons when i watch an anime that has an awful lot of seasons and they’re all named (like sailor moon), and recently i’ve decided to rewatch all of hetalia but my old links were outdated so i made an updated version.

the anime links are all complete and accessible, but i haven’t found links for the manga yet. i’ll update this when i do lol

list under the cut 👍

📍Anime

——

2009

⭐️ Season one (ep 1-26)

⭐️ Season two (ep 27-52)

Hetalia: Axis Powers (1-52)

https://9animetv.to/watch/hetalia-axis-powers-1763?ep=22648

——

2010-2011

⭐️ Season three (ep 1-26)

⭐️ Season four (ep 25-48)

Hetalia: World Series (53-100)

https://9animetv.to/watch/hetalia-world-series-1218

Specials (ep 1-4)

https://9animetv.to/watch/hetalia-world-series-specials-1379

——

2013

⭐️ Season five (ep 1-20)

Hetalia: The Beautiful World (100-120)

https://9animetv.to/watch/hetalia-the-beautiful-world-1319

Specials (ep 1-5)

https://9animetv.to/watch/hetalia-the-beautiful-world-specials-1320

——

2015

⭐️ Season Six (ep 1-15)

Hetalia: The World Twinkle (121-135)

https://9animetv.to/watch/hetalia-the-world-twinkle-2157

——

2021

⭐️ Season Seven (ep 1-12)

Hetalia: World Stars (136-147)

https://9animetv.to/watch/hetalia-world-stars-17229

Specials (ep 1-3)

https://9animetv.to/watch/hetalia-worldstars-specials-17811

📍Movie

——

2010

Hetalia Axis Powers Movie: Paint It, White

https://9animetv.to/watch/hetalia-axis-powers-paint-it-white-2805

📍Manga

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2006

Original Web version

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2007-2008

Doujinshi / Independent Publishing

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2008-2013

Hetalia: Axis Powers - Gentosha Comics (6 volumes)

The first four volumes consisted primarily of republished or redrawn versions of comics from the original webcomic alongside new material. The final two volumes were largely comprised of comics serialized in Comic Birz. (wiki)

——

2014-2017

⭐️ Hetalia: World Stars - Shounen Jump+ (4 volumes)

Hetascanlations (Tumblr):

https://hetascanlations.tumblr.com/chapters

[defnekalbim96]

Oha biliyo musunuz instagram hesabımı dondurdum ve bugünü biraz toparladım eve gelince uyudum birz.... Ama en erken 2ye kadar derslere yumulucam cidden genel yorgunluğun üzerine fiziksel yorgunluk da eklenince hayat hic cekilmiyor arkdsshlar büyüyorum galiba

[dailydefunctmangamagazine]

Monthly Comic Birz (月刊コミックバーズ) / Gentosha Comics (幻冬舎コミックス) / Jul 2017 issue

[pialews]

defalarca izlemis olmama ragmen sinema filminde izleyince aglamadan duramadım cok seviyorum bu kadını ay bi de kimse arkadaslık bilekligi vermedi kırgınım birz mlsf

[seyyahe-iavare]

Annemler gelmişti yılın ilk günü bugün gece İstanbul'a gittiler sabahtan beri yatak yorgan kenarda toplanmış duruyordu elim varmadı nevresimleri söküp yıkamaya...Şimdi kendiminkileri de söktüm bi nevi kendimi kandırma hepsini yıkayacağım nasılsa diyorum kendime ama içimde bir yerde bir ses kokuları birz daha dursaydı evde diyor

[c0rpsedemon]

LITERALLY NONE OF THE INFORMATION IN THIS POST IS CORRECT

first of all, dungeon meshi isn't released bimonthly? it ran in harta, a magazine which, while originally bimonthly changed to a monthly schedule w two hiatuses a year in february 2013, a full year before dungeon meshi began publication in february 2014. if dungeon meshi really was published bimonthly, it'd finish publication in 2030, and it should go without saying that that isn't the case bc it finished last year.

second of all, WEEKLY PUBLICATION IS NOT THE FUCKING INDUSTRY STANDARD, esp not in the shoujo, josei, and seinen (which is most relevant bc it's the one dungeon meshi belongs to btw) demographics. (for the uninitiated there are four main manga demographics which each target a diff age+gender group, shonen is targetted at tween/teen boys, shoujo is targetted at the general idea of girls, seinen is young men, and josei is the general idea of women, seinen, and shonen tend to draw a line between themselves but shoujo and josei tend to bleed into each other and josei can err towards more of a subsection of shoujo than its own thing, also worth noting that there's a significant overlap between shoujo and seinen which is why shoujo will be used as a point of comparison more than shonen will). once or twice monthly publication schedules are far more common. while there are a lot of weekly manga magazines and they appear in every manga demographic, the vast majority are in shonen, and thus not that relevant to the discussion at hand bc it should be obvious that there's a p big difference in quality concerns between manga targeted at 12 year old boys and manga targetted at actual adults (big disclaimer that this is not a knock on shone and my all time favorite manga is a shonen series goes here). also, a series running in a weekly magazine doesn't necessarily entail it having a new chapter in every issue, the number one example i can think of off the top of my head is the current state of one piece which publishes a few chapters and then takes a week off.

apart from harta, a lot of other seinen magazines run on a monthly schedule, such as young ace (publisher of bungou stray dogs) and its digital counterpart young ace up (publisher of the summer hikaru died), monthly birz (publisher of rozen maiden), and monthly big gangan (publisher of the manga adaptation of the apothecary diaries). as do magazines catering to other demographics, off the top of my head i can point you to THE shoujo magazine of all time, hana to yume (publisher of yona of the dawn, fruit's basket and kamisama kiss) which publishes twice monthly, shoujosei magazine cookie (publisher of nana) which publishes bimonthly, monthly shoujo magazine lala (publisher of ouran high school host club, natsume's book of friends, and snow white with the red hair), and the shonen magazine monthly gfantasy (publisher of black butler and toilet bound hanako kun). harta isn't fucking special for its publishing schedule.

now, we move to the statement "Imagine Dungeon Menshi qualify manga as a rule not the exception" and i'd like to ask the class what it's called when you lump an entire medium from a specific country together and dismiss it as low quality slop (oh but i guess this one good one is an exception)? that's right! racism and xenophobia! as someone who, unlike op who, from an inspection of their blog, seems to only have interacted w dungeon meshi and no other japanese or even east asian in general media, has actually read other manga, i caqn confirm that this is wildly untrue. followers will note that i've spent the last several months pointing out the similarities between dungeon meshi and the apothecary diaries (or more specifically, their protagonists laois and maomao) so that's the obvious comparison to make as i guarantee you if you liked the one you will probably like the other, but i can rattle off at least 10 other manga of an equal quality writing wise and why they are as such off the top of my head (which i will do under a cut as i value your dash space and didn't realize how long of a tangent that'd be, and if you don't want to read all that but are willing to just trust that i know what i'm talking about, let's keep going).

now that you've scrolled down and have decided to read yona of the dawn or have decided to just take my word for it, back to the specific manga at hand. i find it incredibly insulting to ryoko kui to boil the quality of her work down to her schedule and not her own talents as a writer. a monthly schedule doesn't necessarily mean work will be good quality, fucking black bird, one of the trashiest manga i've ever had the displeasure of contact w, ran on a monthly release schedule. and, vice versa, running on a weekly schedule doesn't necessarily lower a manga's quality, weekly manga include chainsaw man, kaguya sama love is war, and goodnight punpun, all of which are widely beloved award winning series.

tl;dr not how the manga industry works, there's a decent amount of dungeon meshi fans who've never touched any animanga before, actively look down on it, and thus feel the need to justify why they like this one specific series by making sweeping statements about the creative output of an entire country bc of it.

ultimately, while it is the instinct of my fellow seasoned otaku to point and laugh before looking at the 56k+ notes from ppl who actually believe this and begin to slowly die inside contented only by the knowledge that you know better, i'd like to ask you if you've ever made a sweeping statement abt the mecha genre while having only seen evangelion, or abt mahou shoujo while only having contact w madoka magica, or visual novels with doki doki literature club, or actually said anything generalizing shoujo manga as just romance, in which case you are no better and it's important to remember that anyone can fall victim to this line of thinking fairly easily as long as you remain averse to trying new things

also it's shocking that almost 57k ppl were willing to take the word of someone who can't even spell the title correctly as an authority. i'd usually let this one slide but i really can't when in combination w everything else there's it's not 'menshi' there's no n it's spelt meshi.

if you've made it this far read yona of the dawn you'll like it

first there's my dearly beloved, source of my blog url yona of the dawn, a long running shoujo action adventure series w a mature approach to worldbuilding and fantasy politics (sigh. which is similar to ryoko kui's approach if that sweetens the pot enough to get the most widely beloved still-running shoujo series some eyes from non-shoujo readers), then there's my all time favorite manga, black butler, which despite its piece of shit anime adaptation and rocky first few volumes caused by originally being allotted a short run as a comedy manga which then got allotted more chapters due to positive feedback until eventually gfantasy just decided to let yana toboso loose to do whatever she wanted for as long as she wanted, which ultimately lead to a slow burn mystery series w supernatural elements and some of the most precise foreshadowing i've ever seen leading up to a twist that is shocking regardless. there's goodnight punpun, an incredibly insightful coming of age seinen series w gorgeous art and a fascinating character study, there's nana, a shoujosei (its demographic is hotly debated) drama w a v mature view on interpersonal relationships, there's 7 seeds a post apocalyptic shoujosei (it switch magazines mid-publication) w several different storylines happening concurrently and a massive web of 35 different characters w complicated relationships which all manage to be strategically and expertly balanced (and a v bad anime adaptation which ruined everything), there's the summer hikaru died, a seinen bl horror series with stunning visuals and an incredible sense of tension and atmosphere abt a boy in conservative small town japan w a longtime crush on his best friend who sounds and acts and looks like himself but has been replaced by... something... that came from the mountains. there's chainsaw man, a shonen action series all about autonomy control and the lack and violation thereof, there's the rose of versailles, an incredibly culturally important historical fiction shoujo manga which revolutionized and shaped manga as we know it, natsume's book of friends, a supernatural shoujo series about a boy who can see yokai w an incredibly compassionate and empathetic outlook on the world, kaguya sama: love is war, a hilarious seinen romcom w a complex view of teen relationships and class dynamics based on one of japan's oldest folktales, and finally snow white with the red hair, a fantasy shoujo series w a vividly immersive world (and a special attention paid to food which readers of this post might find appealing.

“Omg dungeons menshi is so good! The characters and the worldbuilding and the art and the hu—“

It’s because the author had TWO MONTHS between publications instead of the usual week. 8X the amount of time to plot her story and see where she had been and where she was going and figure out how best to get there. Imagine if this was the industry standard instead of the crushing gears of weekly publication which grinds the minds, bodys, and souls of mangaka to dust until there is nothing left. Imagine Dungeon Menshi qualify manga as a rule not the exception. Imagine stories that did not destroy their creators. Imagine—

[godofhyperlife]

my accent i would say is a slightly british variant of the General Australian accent, except every now and then ill say a word that i learned from my grandparents and it will be in a thicker croatian accent like my dide had (eg. i usually say 'birz-deh' instead of 'birthday')

and also sometimes my R's go croatian if my brain feels like being silly

rb this and tell me what ur accent is. this has no purpose except the fact i just realized i could have like... mutuals with cockney accents or newfoundland accents or something and thats just wild

[dailydefunctmangamagazine]

Monthly Comic Birz (月刊コミックバーズ) / Gentosha Comics (幻冬舎コミックス) / Feb 2014 issue