~Story~ 0/10
Well, there is no story to begin with. Our main characters are Italy, Germany and Japan and most of the time they are 'fighting' in World War II, though our main character Italy isn't really fighting, he's just fooling around and interacting with the other countries. And that's it! Though it's quite interesting to see history this way, this anime could have been a lot better if it had a damn story. Also, sometimes it's just pure stupidity, the only way to watch and enjoy this anime is by putting of your brain. So that's exactly what I did and in that case every episode turns into 5 minutes of randomness, gay undertones and sometimes an interesting take on world history, but most of the time it's just jokes and randomness.
[CONCLUSION]
There is no story, only randomness. Because of this I can't give this anime points for the story.
~Art~ 4/10
The art is pretty bad, especially during the chibitalia parts. There is not much to say about it, it's not special or extremely ugly. It's just that it looked cheap and that the characters designs during the chibitalia parts were supposed to be cute, but it ended up looking really weird.
[CONCLUSION]
The art is bad. The anime looked cheap and the animation during the chibitalia parts was just creepy.
~Music~ 6/10
After watching this anime, I woke up at 3:00 or so and the very first thing that came to my mind was: 'Marukaite Chikyuu'. If you watch this show, please skip the ending song, because it will haunt you, it's so catchy and silly. And I promise you, if you give this song the chance to sneak into your brain you will regret it forever!
The Japanese voice acting is okay, but the English voice acting is one of the best things I've ever heard. Every country has it's own accent, this is really hilarious. One big problem, our main characters are an Italian, a German and a Japanese guy and their accents may be funny at first but after a while you're done with them.
[CONCLUSION]
The English dub is better than the original one, yes it's possible! Also the ending song is so catchy that it's not even funny anymore.
~Characters~ 5/10
Shallow, stupid stereotypes, that represent a country.... well, at least the characters are interesting. You have Italy, a weak coward who's stalking his friend Germany, the ultimate tsundere and there is Japan, a guy who seems to have no emotions and is totally done with his European allies. The are the Allies, England, who is superstitious and a horrible cook, America, who believes that his country is the centre of the world and eats way to many hamburgers, Russia, who is creepy, very creepy and China who hits people with his wok pan and builds Chinatowns everywhere and France, a pervert.
This is the main cast, ladies and gentleman, we have to deal with these retards every episode! And if you think those guys are weird enough already, just wait until you meet Belarus, Sealand, South Italy and last but not least Prussia.
[CONCLUSION]
Weirdest cast ever created, some stereotypes are on point, but some others are just racist or random. And no, I don't ship these countries, they are countries, how can this fandom ship countries?! Well, at least the cast is not boring.....
~Enjoyment~ 10/10
Yes, I enjoyed myself while watching this and it changed history lessons into pure comedy. It's stupid, random and there were yaoi-undertones for no good reason, but this anime is a perfect example of 'just put of your brain and enjoy the show'. This anime will not learn you a lot of things about history, but it will changes your view on history forever, but I'm not sure if it changes in a good way....
[CONCLUSION]
The enjoyment level is over 9000! It's not a good show, actually it's a bad show, but that doesn't mean that this Hetalia isn't hilarious. It's so dumb and stupid that it made me laugh out loud about the pure stupidity and randomness of the anime. Also the fandom is one of the worst I've ever encountered, they ship every character in crazy yaoi ships, it's actually really sad.
Should you watch this anime? If you want to keep your brain functioning in the right way, no. If you want to have mindless fun and you have a few hours to waste, yes.
