Story: 7/10
Story wise, it's all over the place. But that's Hetalia. Each episode being only five minutes long gives you very little time to put anything good together, yet somehow Hetalia has managed to not only put on one, not two, but even three strips all into a five minute long episode. That's saying only to the later half and previous seasons of the series. You can tell both pacing wise, and angle wise the first half has less of an impact from the first episode or so to the episode which should have been an epic and hilarious fell flat as the cold setting it took place in.
Art: 8/10
Yes, it's a huge bump from season 1-4 like it's predecessor, but unlike it's predecessor, somehow the characters themselves were more like an imitation. But only for the first half. All artists have their own styles, and not everyone can draw the same way as others, however as an animator, the ability to copy is a necessity, yet somehow they managed to botch that up. It's especially clear when seen in the Nordics! But that was only visible in the first half.
Music: 9/10
The music is fine. It's the same as usual.
Character: 8/10
Characters are all over the place, raging from the super powers of the modern world, to the unacknowledged representations of micronations, and still more to be revealed. And like the show so are the personalities. If it sticks to the source material there's rarely anything you can complain about, other than the characters themselves.
Enjoyment: 7/10
Rather than a six, I'll give it a passing 7. The first half wasn't great, that's obvious. But it wasn't completely terrible, scene arrangement and pacing could have been better. If only that can be fixed for the dvd release, that would totally awesome but I doubt it. Other than that, the second half and pretty colors is enough to boost it up to a seven.
Overall: 7/10
Overall, kinda obvious, the first half needs some work, if it weren't 15 episodes long and the mess up episodes don't equal to half the season then I would have given a better score. But if DVD don't make sales a season seven may not be possible. And now waiting on the english release, I don't usually watch it english, but here's to finding a new Britain.
