For episode twenty-nine of Hetalia: Axis Powers, we get to spend plenty of time with Russia, from jumping out of a plane with no parachute (while shouting "Vodka!" no less, as you might expect) through to quite literally keeping Baltic states such as Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia down, much to their terror and, indeed, horror. A pretty apt social commentary on Russia both then and now I suppose, with a rather lash dash of national sterotyping thrown in for good measure.
Still, it isn't only Russia who gets that treatment here, with America falling victim to a leap to snatch some ice cream and France referred to as a "wino". Not one of Hetalia's sharper episodes in terms of comedy in all honesty, and thus also not one of its funnier instalments. Still, it looks like there's more to come from those Baltic nations, so who knows what we'll be regaled with next...
No comments:
Post a Comment