User blog comment:Ceras SanMarina/The Movie (Possible spoilers! No, probable spoilers?)/@comment-1271618-20100608024233

A bit of a silly update to all this DEEN silliness: I'm seeing fan suspicions that a DEEN employee is astro-turfing Yahoo.jp due to the higher reviews and some of them not seeming "legit". I think they're being a bit paranoid since different strokes and all, but it's a little amusing either way (and astro-turfing has happened with some companies before, I can remember a vague case on this end a few years ago). Bob Shirohata seems to have a pretty bad reputation as a director from what I'm reading too, that some are like "well, what did you expect from HIM?".

Seems like since Hetalia's not really a deep/serious thing, it getting snatched up by a cheap company should have been a given but this whole film controversy's generating quite the outrage on the Japanese fandom end. I like things about the anime, but there are other things that show that they could at least put a LITTLE more effort into it. But if fans will eat it up anyway, they just don't quite care XD:.