After watching Axis Powers Hetalia again, I like this cartoon very much, but I feel that this cartoon has the feeling of cultural aggression, right?

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If I remember correctly, the great origin of the Black Pagoda comes from the "Biography of the Italian Army's Bravery" that once circulated on the Internet. At the beginning, it described how Italy did not do its business in World War II (some versions also included World War I). When talking about this history, many people look at it with jokes. Talking about Italy as a pig teammate does not mean that they support German ideology, especially Nazi ideology. This article has been talked about in East Asia for some time (it is even said that the original of "Biography of the Italian Army's Wu Yong" is in Japanese). Personally, I think it may be because the Asia-Pacific war zone itself is far enough away from the European war zone. For East Asia, making jokes about watching the fire from the other side of Italy does not involve much ideology and political stance. And Axis Powers Hetalia was born under such a background-its original Japanese name "ヘタリァァクシスパワーズ" is somewhat implied. However, due to the background of World War II, it is bound to involve the Japanese history of World War II, which is an unavoidable problem for Hidekazu Himaruya. And because of the "historical tendency", it will not only involve the history of World War II, but also a series of war problems in Japan after the Meiji Restoration. It is not once or twice to take the Russo-Japanese War as an example, and South Korea's attitude towards it is extremely radical.

so what kind of author is Hidekazu Himaruya? When Hidekazu Himaruya painted Axis Powers Hetalia, did he discuss politics and whitewash history?

Although I don't mean to lead a war, I still want to say that Hidekazu Himaruya and Lushan Chuang are two writers with different styles. If Lushan Chuang and The Advance Giant are "metaphors of politics as far as possible without involving politics" (it is estimated that everyone knows), then Hidekazu Himaruya and Axis Powers Hetalia are "laughing when it is necessary to talk about politics"-he does not respond positively to political events, but adopts an attitude of "trying not to provoke anyone". In the end, Axis Powers Hetalia used Web Comics to broadcast instead of being shown on TV, which is also a low-key and eclectic attitude of "no one wants to mess with"; Even I've seen the saying that I don't know whether it's reliable or not. It's also a compromise attitude for two characters in East Asia to voice Yuki Kaida at the same time ... If this statement is true, his attitude is still a bit interesting.

Rimaruya was born in Japan. When she wrote Axis Powers Hetalia and Little Diary, she studied at the School of Design in new york, USA (it is said that she has dropped out of school and turned into a full-time cartoonist). I once bought his one-legged diary. Judging from this cartoon created at the same time as Axis Powers Hetalia, he has a "cosmopolitan" attitude towards his characters-kindness and warmth cross national boundaries, and everyone can help each other regardless of nationality and race, and * * * lives happily together, and he also finds sufficient inspiration from this life (it can be said that "One-legged diary" Therefore, when he painted Axis Powers Hetalia, there were some benchmarks: to show the "interesting" and "peaceful" life as the main body, to show the goodwill and warmth between countries, and to try not to show the conflicts between characters positively. Under such a baseline, it is naturally impossible to "show the cruelty of war", but if we say that "the cruelty without war is to whitewash the Axis countries", I really feel … I don't know what to say.

Of course, as we all know, such a baseline is impossible in real life, even if it can barely be adhered to in comics. Talking about goodwill and warmth between international politics? Are you fucking kidding me?

This ultimately defines the "bottom line" that Axis Powers Hetalia audiences need-to know the difference between domestic/international politics and cartoons. To paraphrase a famous quote he quoted in Stern's book yesterday: Revolution is not about inviting guests to dinner, making an essay, painting and embroidering, so it cannot be so elegant, so leisurely, so gentle, so gentle, so courteous and courteous. Axis Powers Hetalia's attitude is to treat people to dinner, make a fuss, and paint and embroider. For comics, this is beyond reproach, but we can't equate it with facts. The differences between the audience of the Black Tower and the differences between the creations of the same people also come from this problem-at least when I was still posting on Baidu Post Bar, this argument never broke.

I can probably sum up as follows:

As far as a man with brains is concerned, reading Axis Powers Hetalia's original works is helpful to understand international history and international politics-it is only an assist, not a direct cause and effect;

But, just like any work, we can't stop people who have no brains from appearing in its fans. This is not only a problem of the Black Tower, but also a problem of any work, only it is more politically incorrect in the background of the Black Tower.

Let me put it in a less friendly way: in every circle, brain damage is always normally distributed, and you can't help it ...

Let's talk about Black Tower's colleagues again. The definition and significance of the Black Tower for the circle of peers is almost epoch-making. In the description cited by the subject, I personally think it is not accurate to compare the Black Tower with the East. After all, there are clear character connections and inheritance settings in the East, but the Black Tower does not. The characters in the Black Tower have almost only painting images and some superficial features (such as mouth addiction and food hobbies), and even some characters don't even have names (one of the creative traditions I have experienced in the Black Tower is probably to replace the country name with a person's name and further nationalize and ideologize), which rarely involves deep personality characteristics, and the relationship between characters has been minimized-after all, "relationship between people" corresponds to "relationship between countries". Who says that there is always an eternal honeymoon between countries?

This design gives a great space for fan creators, who can set the deep personality, historical experience and interactive relationship of the characters at will, who can create in strict accordance with historical development, who can adopt the perspective of living local conditions and customs, and there is no particularly big problem in carrying out large-scale aerial work, and it is not easy to fall into the stereotype. The biggest constraint in Heita's fan circle is not the "original", but the "setting" (speaking about fans and copyright issues (semi-academic articles)), so the dispute on copyright is also the smallest, which can be said to be the most fan -friendly circle. In this context, excellent fan works emerge in an endless stream in various forms. In addition to traditional fan comics and novels, video clips, radio dramas, song adaptations and cosplay dramas are also very popular. It can be said that there are wonderful works in various cultural circles and from all angles.

However, just like the level of the audience, in the circle of people in Black Tower, brain damage is also normally distributed. I have seen the situation that the little sister of Juyao Group is crazy, and I have also met the situation that the Luzhong Party came to our place to fight-this is also a big reason for me to get out of the pit; In some specific CP's, the thunder spots of excessive overhead and rewriting history also appear frequently. Politics is discussed in the overhead context of depoliticization, and depoliticization is shouted in the historical context of limited politicization. As the "setting" that is the biggest constraint in the circle of black towers, it is sometimes thrown out of the clouds by some creators. It may also be because of this reason that there is such a cry of "wake up". However, this does not prove that the black tower fan circle is inferior to other fan groups: if we study it carefully, the situation of pinching CP, OOC and making brain damage will appear in every fan circle, and there are always some people whose IQ is relatively low in any circle. We can see that the IQ and level of a circle are low, and we can't assert that the whole circle is the same. The problem in the circle of Heita is not because there are more brain-dead people, but because its politics is more sensitive. If something goes wrong, it will directly rise to ideological mistakes in the eyes of outsiders. As a matter of fact, some people I personally contact who have rolled around in the Black Tower circle and are not brain-dead, can be regarded as high-quality members of the fan circle. Influenced by the political correctness of the Black Tower and the "strict distinction between overhead and reality", they can strictly distinguish the difference between the fan and the original, do not impose their own will on the interpretation of the original, do not hold individual fan works as "beyond the existence set by the original", and strictly separate the fan setting from the real characters when sprouting RPS. This is probably some contributions of Heita to the circle of peers.

finally, let me talk a little about the black tower's CD. Although it has been out of the pit for a long time now, I will often listen to several role CDs of Heita as a model of "how the Japanese express or misinterpret the music styles of various countries in pop music". If the cartoon and animation of Black Tower inevitably carry ideology and national politics, then the media CD plays down the former two, and mainly puts forward the characteristics of "national customs", "lifestyle" and even "music tradition". American-style screaming pop music, the separation between Japanese traditional music and modern idols, British pop rock (well, I'm talking about Coldplay), Russian folk songs such as "Red Berry Blossom", contemporary eclectic ancient style in China, and traditional musical instruments of various countries can all be reflected in the role CD of Black Tower. If I don't agree with the contents of Axis Powers Hetalia's cartoons and animations, I still try to recommend the theme songs sung by various characters in music CDs and DVDs, at least the focus of these songs is definitely not "defending the evil deeds of fascism in World War II".

that's about it.