User blog comment:Ceras SanMarina/Season 2 thoughts/@comment-ponderings thus far/@comment-1271618-20091102221525

The reason why I'm thinking "Austrian Succession" for 46 has to do with how it took place at the same time as "Battle For America", and how England's character design labeled for it seems to match up with that period. If it were "Medieval" England, he'd be a lot younger unless they were to significantly change the story around (of course, there is what they did to ":) In The World"...).

The character design released of Poland in PASH seems to match up with his Pact Of Steel/Lietuvis appearance, clothing-wise, though I do wonder if they plan on animating the flashback sequences as well.

Chibitalia-wise: I'm surprised they brought that story back, yet kind of not. Even though Chibitalia did poorly on the character polls, they figure Chibitalia and HRE are the "cute" ones and probably use them as a draw for merchandising. They seem to like putting Chibitalia in the different colorspreads of the Axis too, along with England and America popping in (the two most popular of the Allies, no doubt).

"Japan And The Footsteps Of Westernization" is supposedly another story for this last stretch, according to designs that Japanese fandom saw in the DVD 5 booklet.

The Sweden issue would be interesting if true, yet also disappointing. I've actually seen at least one or two people in the livejournal community express thoughts similar to that, that DEEN couldn't handle the "wife" thing. It's pretty odd how he had his voice actor announced, then appeared in that drama CD and 14, then nothing else. And then on the Sound World cover, him and Korea (the one who is "banned" for sure) are replaced on the globe by Ukraine and Canada.