Out of the Loop;

[alfredjones1776]

It's been a few years and some months since I've done anything remotely Hetalia-interesting. Ever since my group on Youtube flopped I have kind of been away from the genre and wanted to get back into it, but I don't know what has gone on

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[icelilly]

Hi there! You came back at an excellent time. I unfortunately can't help with the downloads but I can with everything else!

- Several new nations have been introduced including Romania's younger brother Moldova, India, Luxembourg, and Portugal (Sorry! No wiki bio for him yet but have an image of him). Though not a new character per say, Bulgaria has gotten a fair amount of spotlight in the last few years as well. In the last few months, we've gotten some ancients introduced as well and many Roman Emperors.

- Hetalia: The Beautiful World (season 5) ran in 2013 and the dub was released on DVD last summer. This series is unique for the updated art style. Compare these two images with Estonia to see the difference! This one features the old style, this one with the new. Another batch of character CDs for the Axis and Allies were released during the end of the season's run.

- Sadly no other movies have been made since "Paint it White."

- LOTS of things! Like I said earlier, you came back at the right time as we're getting new things weekly. Here's a quick run of what to look forward to:

- Hetalia: World Stars has been running weekly since September 2014 through Shonen Jump+ and can be viewed freely on their website. New strips are posted on Mondays and Fridays (JST). HetaScanlations has all the translations and are crossed-posted to Hetarchive.net. A volume compiling some of these chapters was released in February.
- That being said, after a few false starts, Himaruya looks like he's back to his old ways and is updating his blog again on a regular basis. As always, HS has translations and is crossed-posted to the blog mirror run by Hetarchive.net.
- A new season of the anime will be running this year called "Hetalia: The World Twinkle." We don't know yet when it will run but considering the ending theme will be released in late July, I theorize we'll get it in late-spring or early-summer. The ending theme is titled "Hetalian☆Jet."
- Another batch of character CDs will be released this year starting in late June. This format will be a little different. The previous CDs had two songs for each character, this time there's only one and are paired with another character's song (ex. Volume 1 features one song for Italy and one song for Japan). For this batch we are getting the Axis, Allies, Nordics, Prussia, Estonia, and Hong Kong.

Since you said it's been some time since you've been around, we've had a few other volumes of the manga released (all available in English for purchase on RightStuf) and some events through Himaruya's blog. I can provide links for you if you're interested in getting caught up. C:

[alfredjones1776]

That is indeed a lot of information to try and get caught up with. Portugal looks like the best character design out of them all and would be awesome to cosplay at some point. Considering my skin tone, facial features, etc. Not sure if I have Portuguese blood in me though :/

Interesting to see a lot has happened since my last journey to this site. Would love to get some links if at all possible please :) I cannot buy anything at the moment, and if there are sites that have the Volumes as either a download or readable that would be awesome too.

Guess I will have something to update with this week. Too bad I cannot go and download the season of World Series. Also assuming we won't get World Twinkle until beginning of 2016 to mid if it's coming out in the late Spring or Summer.