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According to Anime!Anime!, FUNimation acquired licenses of Hetalia Axis Powers season 1 & 2 and Seiken no Blacksmith. Hetalia DVD Boxset volume 1 of 2 will be released at the end of this year and Blacksmith DVD volume 1 will be released this autumn. Both of the titles will be subbed and dubbed in English.

Source: Anime!Anime!

Hetalia = smart purchase :D
Seiken no Blacksmith = not so much :/

Ah kick ass. Been loving Funi since their support for DBZ and Yu Yu Hakusho.

Cool, really good for hetalia~

Hetaria~

Detroit Metal City next
Any dub of this would be hilarious, less they censor it D:

Yay Hetalia

I'm kinda interested in how they'll handle the dub for Hetalia. :)

Hetalia =D Just hope the dub would be good.

Whoo-hoo for Hetalia!

I'll buy this one for sure. :D

actually quite predictable...

Yaaaaaay!!!!!
i wasnt expecting Hetalia ^^

Meh, it looks like this will be another year I won't be spending much on anime DVDs, though I can imagine the fangirls all over the internet rejoicing over Hetalia.

Now if some R1 company will have the guts to license Mononoke, Mouryou no Hako and Nodame Cantabile.

i know that the survey from last year had Hetalia in it, but i never expect they don't mind the sorta "racism" in it (which South Korea made a huge fuss about even if to japan, korea is south korea.)

this will be the only anime i will have the whole series of. :] i already got the manga and don't mind if the manga gets licensed, too, mostly since some of the Tokyopop staff love hetalia, but instead of hinting they will licensed manga, they give us "someone license this series!" as in the anime. And now that the anime is licensed, it's one step closer to the manga.

I hope you guys in the UK and other countries that Funimation doesn't distribute their titles to, don't mind your loss of Hetalia and Blacksmith. It's not like Funimation is actively trying to kill the fansub community which is often your only chance of watching anime in your native language.

Oh wait...

A week too late for FAL...

lol, would've helped me :<

Anyways, looks like I have to mass download Hetalia before Funi kills the torrents. <.<

In b4 massive fail. Can't trust funi with anything

...wasn't even thinking of that.
Damn it.

oh well..
Hetalia dropped

Hetalia~?
OH, GOSH YES.
/extremely happy

I'm so friggin' happy.

If this had happened in time, I'd be nowhere near third.

Still, Hetalia is a smart choice from what I've read on it, but I really think someone dropped the ball in the Acquisitions department on Blacksmith. Seriously, you had Nyan Koi!, Kobato (a CLAMP series, which almost always sell well), and a bunch of other great stuff from some previous seasons that are unlicensed and you go with Blacksmith?