User blog comment:Ceras SanMarina/Some rants!/@comment-1271618-20100613185830

Yeah, I both love and hate what the fandom can crank out. But what I've seen on TVTropes with the editwars/favoritism especially in the Hetalia stuff has shown more of fan elitism.

Japanese fandom and the others are actually a little..."special" themselves XD:. US/UK vs. UK/JP is quite the flamey matter in the Japanese fandom, to where anti-fans were getting videos of the opposite flagged and deleted on NicoVideo and harassing each other on Pixiv. Heck, the reason why a bunch of Hetalia art disappeared from Pixiv was because of the more homophobic Japanese users trolling pictures for their "homo" content and harassing the artists. On 2ch there are quite the anti-threads for Himaruya and Hetalia from time to time too, and the big issue is always the "homo" and how shameful it is as a manga work due to that.

Of course, Japanese fandom has yet to have something like AnimeBoston occur. I did see something that happened in the Finnish fandom that I was surprised DIDN'T blow up huge. There's apparently a longer version of that cosplay video with Pyramid Head (according to a German fan) that shows their offending "NAZI NAZI NAZI NAZI" chant to the Germany cosplayer while heiling them (I heard about that happening, but didn't see it on video). Add to that, the Germany cosplay had a gigantic version of the Nazi flag and...yeah. If that happened over here, it definitely would've been a huge blowup.

(Ahh, btw, are there any uniforms or pictures from the anime guide that we don't have here yet? I've seen some that are mingled with text that probably can't be used in the preview pics for it D: )