Ok, so my question didn't get answered in the podcast (No. 58) so I'm putting this thread here to let you know about a little show called Hetalia: Axis Powers, and here's a clip from the show to show you what I mean when I say... What the Hell, Japan...
Anyway, I think it's funny but for my Italian forum comrade I showed this to on another forum... not so much. He thought it oversimplified the reason why Italy lost World War II. Basically the Koreans are angry about how Korea is depicted in the manga version of this, and there's this big controversy about it, but to me it is a very amusing show.
Joel, Josh, tell me what you think of this show from the video I posted, and any of you other Fancy Bastards can play too. More people need to know about this crazy show, and not just because it's crazy. It's the sort of anime show Terry Pratchett would write, I mean the anthropomorphic personification is straight outta Discworld *hopes N.W.A. writes a Discworld nerdcore rap album*.
I remember all the drama and "controversy" over this show a while back. I check out some of it and like what I saw, just never followed up on that. Thanks for reminding me.