#hetalia scanlations

[zakuramochi]

I translated this chapter for a few friends on a discord server, but since I don't see a translated version online yet I thought I'd post it here! Please enjoy this new special chapter of Hetalia World Stars, Gangsta! (That's really the title) I'm really sorry if there are typos, the grammar is wrong or if it seems low-quality and unprofessional;; I did my best to get it across!

[postagescanlation]

Google Drive Link [ENG] // Google Drive Link [JPN] Title // 「Smooch!」 Artist & Circle // アマリ Fandom // Hetalia Pairings & Characters // Russia x America Genre // romance, partially historical Rating // SFW Summary // Russia and America reflect on their relationship, including a past incident.

[goojinscanlations]

Do You Know? Don't You Know?

Our group's first scanlation project is: "Do You Know? Don't You Know?" by Namaiki/いあ.

Link to the Scanlation

Namaiki's/いあ's Pixiv

[ok-scans]

The World's Strangest Fairy-Tales: Snow White

Happy German Unity Day!

Title: The World's Strangest Fairy-Tales: Snow White Circle/Artist: Morbid+Lovers Pairing: England/Germany Rating: PG Original Scans: okfan Zip: https://okfan.livejournal.com/54225.html

[eyk-hetaart]

Republik “I Don’t Give A Piss” Österreich when asked about Brexit: you’ll never believe what my opinion is

[secondshark]

America x Tony - UFO by Tannowa

Featured in the Hetalia anthology RIGHT HERO by ミギガワHERO

[dawnlitbouquet]

! i was going to post this in the replies, but this got a bit long after i decided to compare the raw version and the hetarchive translated version,,, this is in regards to italy acknowledging germany trying to pursue a relationship ^_^'

ON THE BUON SAN VALENTINO STRIPS

i originally remembered the strips as veneziano not even realizing that germany was proposing to him, so i went back to read the strips again - and in the scanlation, that impression is maintained all the way up until two specific lines; 'but if you're giving me flowers, does this mean...' + 'i appreciate your feelings, really, but...'

so i thought for a second 'wait, i was wrong??? vene really did realize germany was proposing to him???'

but it gave off a different air from the previous lines which sounded more like italy still had 0 clue what germany was doing, so as a person sloooooowly learning japanese i took a look at the raw text. and

making it clear, i'm not GOOD at japanese and am struggling through my classes - but at least in the literal sense, the second line were looked a bit more like;

'I understand your feelings... Really...' - yoku wakaru is used here

while the first line... this is where my blatant inexperience hits me in the face, since i had to search up 'nante' and 'nanka' on the dictionary app even though i know that the nan (何) is likely to be a question

for people with better japanese than me, the exact line is [ でもドイツが俺に花くるなんてなんかこれってむ ] so do tell me if i've gotten the impression right; it reads more like 'but germany giving me flowers is / somehow, something like that / this is...'

it's still uncertainty, but it's incomplete in the sense that veneziano is trailing off

(the ios translate app directly translated it as [ but it's kind of that germany is giving me flowers ] which makes it sound like it skipped over a word.

google translate, meanwhile, translated the line as [but germany giving me flowers is a bit weird...] which doubles down on the impression, but. given google's increased reliance on generative AI which has a track record of making stuff up, do you want to rely on google translate. do you. it's definitely skipped over punctuation and words when i used it on jp tweets in the past, and there is no word for 'weird' in the original line, so. it's possible that it's a common phrase in japanese, but it's also possible that it made a word up??? i think it's possible either way given the semantics i've been taught regarding the word 'chotto...' in class, but i don't trust google translate that much... see the next paragraph for clarificiation on chotto though)

making it clear, what i've been taught so far in jp class is that manners-wise, it's not really straightforward in refusal and it gets reflected in the language a lot??? so for showing we can't do something, the first thing my sensei + the textbook tells us is 'ちょっと。。。' which, when literally translated, means 'that's a bit...' so it's entirely possible that there's cultural cues i'm missing to indicate that veneziano was trying to refuse, but.

from what i can tell, it sounds very possible that my initial impressions still hold, and that veneziano never figured out that germany was trying to propose to him??? the way the lines were originally translated gave off the impression that italy actually understood germany's intentions using words like 'does this mean...' + 'i appreciate your feelings, really, but...'

but if i read it right the original was A LOT MORE ambiguous and, combined with the scanlation of italy's internal monologue, sounded more like veneziano:

1. had 0 understanding of why germany was being so nice to him and saw the flowers as an extension of that strange behaviour and

2. thought germany was mad at him for something and was trying to acknowledge that fact (keep in mind germany got mad at italy at the start for sweet-talking women since they were supposed to be on a date while italy didn't know that + in the next panel italy literally goes 'i'm sorry for doodling on your face' before germany starts suddenly wiping italy's face due to phony instructions in the guidebook he was using)

so based off of this. i sincerely think that. veneziano still isn't aware that germany was even trying to propose to him by the end of buon san valentino and continued to think that he was being weirdly out of character with no discernable cause. in the first place, it's extraordinarily hasty to skip to proposal on the first date, so while he definitely wasn't picking up on certain social cues germany kind of fumbled in the communication department himself

and by that notion, italy had ever actually directly rejected germany in the raw version of buon san valentino. again, it's possible that i'm missing key social conventions in japanese but i'm also aware that there's been gags based on lingual misunderstanding before, so if it was written to sound like a refusal it was probably in a way that sounded like italy was refusing but wasn't?

i think the original scanlation largely maintained that ambiguity too, it's just that those specific word choices threw me off

the thing is though, i'm not. i'm not good at japanese. i'm struggling hard with my jp classes, to be honest

if possible, i'd appreciate if someone else who can read japanese would help me look it over? i don't have enough ability to go through every single buon san valentino line, those two parts just jumped out since they sounded different from what the rest of the lines had implied. the raw and scanlated version are both available on hetarchive if anyone is willing to help me

One more Hetalia new years post lol.

I wonder if it’s ever crossed Italy’s mind that Germany looks similar to HRE. He shows absolutely no indication of this unless Im missing it somewhere.

Germany x Italy has been my ship since day 1 over a decade ago in 2014. And yet here we are still no confirmation about Italy’s thoughts on Germany and even though it’s almost pieced together, no explicit explanation on HRE’s relation to Germany. It’s so frustrating. Hima is such a tease. I wonder if he ever will reveal it and if he does, how he would change the dynamic between Germany and Italy?

Also think it’s kinda crazy that Germany was all in for a romantic relationship with Italy and this was just never brought up again. And Italy is never shown acknowledging that Germany was ready to pursue a relationship with him lol. Like I wanna knoooooow the aftermath.

Also, I love that Hima has to point out Germany is a virgin every chance he gets lol, first being shamed by Grandpa Rome for not having girls in his bed, and then having to admit to Austria he has absolutely no experience in the BSV strip. It’s not a lot but it’s still funny it happened at least twice.

I do think it fits his character pretty well though. Assuming he is HRE reborn, he kept his old self’s promise to Italy, that no matter how many centuries pass by he will always love him the most ❤️

That makes me think though, maybe HRE knew he would be reborn so he never said goodbye to Italy because he knew he would meet him again and was confident he would love him in that life too?

I headcanon Italy is waiting for Germany to say smth first about HRE

[hetascanlations]

Hetalia World ☆ Stars - Chapter 509 Original

Translation: spaghettifelice // donamoeba Scanlation: nekotalia // eosonera

[keiksy-cake]

Hetalia Gangsta Chapter 541 (me!!)

The people have requested that I continue suffering, so please appreciate this scanlation that is made up of my tears and shame /j

Hetalia Gangsta Masterlist

Btw I'm pretty sure the google street view of their house is not what Prussias looking at but just for our view and the lore

And here is the link for all the cleans again! (They're lazy and horrible this time but I decided to still include it in this post...)

[goldammerchen]

(2011) baby austro-prussian war lud (click for fran+pru)

that's... 1866, before the unification (1871), before the north german confederation (1867). the german confederation is way too back, 1815, congress of vienna—psst, the hre was dissolved in 1806.

does hima use 1848 (or little after) as lud's birth year? or more like did, this hws chapter that shows his birth after the austro-prussian war was made years later (2014): does this count as a ret-con?

i still think that the GER48 joke could also be a reference to 1848, besides being a joke about a j-po.p band.

more of my thoughts: while born surrounded by his brothers in canon is cute, i like [vague hc] him shooting prussian soldiers in 1848 lmao, going to find pru later, perhaps around the time of...

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Otto-von-Bismarck

...meanwhile, 1871 is perfect for him being born as an actual baby, not with an already existing body of who knows who (lmao)

[undercover-witch]

you don't have to answer if you don't wanna but i wanted to ask: i remember back in the day you did a lotta hetalia doujin scanlations... whatever happened to the masterpost you had on your blog before+are the contents of it still accessible somewhere else?

Hey. Yeah, sure I remember, I had so much fun!!!!! I dunno where you can read the smut doujins, which were deleted after the porn ban, but the rest are still here: categories page.

[zakuramochi]

As requested, here's a translation of the bonus page from the newly-released Volume 8 of Hetalia World Stars! Please enjoy!

[postagescanlation]

Google Drive Link [ENG] // Google Drive Link [JPN] Title // 「ダンス・ウィズ・ミー1」 "Dance With Me 1" Artist & Circle // Mog (Kazu) Fandom // Hetalia Pairings & Characters // Russia x Prussia Genre // some romance, angst Rating // SFW Summary // Russia reflects on how his relationship and trust with Prussia has changed over the years.

[hetadoujinarchive]

Hetalia “Fairy In My Mind” [Censored]

Characters: France, England, fairies

Pages: 43

Translated by: moy moe scanlations

Vibes: cute, romance, drama

CW: originally nsfw, I have removed those pages although they are still shirtless for a bit

Summary: France suddenly gains the ability to see fairies, bringing him closer to England

English backup on mrm

Clannad vibes

[clockworkspider]

I just read this post on 2010s nerd culture and I feel like it's probably referring more to late 2010s as well as a very different side of nerd culture than the one i'm familiar with.

Cause like... to me nerd culture and fandom has always been... not quite the same but very very connected. So to me early 2010 nerdom was singing les mis aloud on the street. It was grey-painted teens spotted in down town. It was hetalia fans just cosplaying at the park. It was recognizing anime fan merch (**FAN** MERCH!) on people's bags and being like "I'VE SEEN THAT! I RECOGNIZE THAT!"

And honestly there was nothing more genuine and sincere than that.

And there's something to be said about the fact that the major defining fandoms of that era were hetalia, homestuck, nightvale, and superwholock. (Marvel and HP were there but they stuck around longer and aren't specifically 2010s.) We all cringe at a lot of these but 3 of those listed started as indie works. And superwholock was NOT A THING marketing wise, fans on tumblr just organically decided to... respond to everything with gifs from 3 unrelated fandoms consecutively. (Contrast this with Barbenheimer, which was also started organically by fans, but the marketing team of Barbie deliberately leaned into it to milk the hype, which incidentally ended up causing controversies in Japan.)

Most of these fandoms were almost entirely fan-driven. Homestuck and Hetalia fandoms had a LOT of fanfics of fanfics. Most Hetalia fans barely even watched or read the source material. (For the better, in this case.) Fans of these fandoms owned more fan-merch than official merch, and were really... fans of fans. Fan works were often based on other fan work. This is a sharp contrast to Star Wars fandom which came both before and after.

This was also when like... anime fandoms got really big but fans were watching fansubs and reading scanlations. So you had all these fandoms that were most definitely considered nerdy and very passionate, but wasn't really making anyone much money. (Besides a few indie creators and big name fans.)

Nerd culture, at that point, despite growing mainstream, was still counter-culture for the very aspect that they weren't market-driven. They were fan-driven.

I feel like it's really when it got closer to 2020 that both fandom and nerd culture became a lot more market-driven. I think we have MCU and Netflix to thank for that. If you look at Barbie, which is a decent movie, the "fandom" was completely propped up by viral marketing before it even came out. You get this with AAA games too, see Cyberpunk.

So like... I'm hesitate to call umm... the majority of 2020s media fandoms nerd "culture" nowadays. And if, by nerd culture, you mean gamers who line up for PS5 and star wars fans with graphic tees, then... idk if that's quite... correct. Once our attention has been SEO-ed there's no real... culture. You know. Like... the "cultural" part of it simply isn't very there if participants=consumers. And that's perfectly fine for people on an individual basis! I don't mean to revoke anyone's nerd cred or shame anyone personally for participating in consumer culture in a consumer society, I'm just being pedantic.

People still nerd about yarn and crafts tho, and DND. I think those areas has never stopped being nerdy.

[ziashetalia]

Do you still remember when you and nyo america still were best friends in imperial Russian era? Did you find her annoying even back then?

Actually as a RusAme fan I love to see Imperial Russian - USA as best friends like you said and...annoying is not really how I choose to describe a best friend lol (though maybe you could say annoying but endearing at the same time for a best friend haha)

But yeah I'd love to see Hima portray Imperial Russian - USA bestfriendship more in depth / in more serious tone lol.

But I guess this is the best we can get (for now) for that:

Ivan bypassing Arthur's naval blockade to America:

Ivan volunteered army to America:

Basically it's clear hima shows Ivan supports Alfred's independence from Arthur, though it's unclear if he thought of him as annoying back then. Sorry if this is not the nyotalia version but imo you could change Ivan to Anya and Alfred to Amelia and it will be the same (at least in my opinion bc history should be parallel between canon and nyotalia version)