User blog comment:Ceras SanMarina/The Movie (Possible spoilers! No, probable spoilers?)/@comment-1271618-20100606020931

No problem! I bet it must be jarring in terms of animation though too, to go from the "advanced" animation in the film to the cheaper style for the episodes. Though it seems DEEN cut a bunch of corners in the upgraded style anyway, since the aliens make the world into a bunch of white blobs and scribbly lineart (and turned a bunch of the minor nations into those things too).

It makes me wonder how brief some of the minor characters' cameos are too. Switzerland and Liechtenstein (being super popular characters in the Japanese fandom, naturally) seem to get quite a bit since they didn't get blobbified, but simply sit around and have a picnic or something. I'm curious as to what Greece and Romano's parts are like, or just how the heck Holy Roman Empire and Chibitalia figure in (did they reuse Chibitalia clips too?)