Hetalia animé of Anthropomorphized Nations Gets New Series 

Hetalia Anime of Anthropomorphized Nations Gets New Series

magazine is announcing on Saturday that production on the anime

will start unveiling new information in the following issue.

manga. The manga takes the archetypal characteristics of countries and regions throughout the world, and anthropomorphizes them as (mostly)

published the first two manga volumes, but it shut down its North American publishing operations in 2011.

announced in 2012 that it partnered with the Japanese publisher Gentosha Comics and

to release the manga, and it has published the six volumes released so far.

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