User blog comment:Ceras SanMarina/Season 2 thoughts/@comment-ponderings thus far/@comment-1616397-20091031220750

I wouldn't gamble on Austrian Succession being adapted. Extend the principle of "recent appearance" that you demonstrated with the characters that got Volume 5 and Volume 6 MKCs to Volumes 7 and 8, both of which will be released after Episode 52, and you have all the justification you need for three of the four characters in question. That is, if you still accept my theory about Season 2 ending off with Lietuvis.

(Those MKCs are one of two main reasons why I posited this. The other, naturally, is that this is where Himaruya ended off the main storyline.  If this is really it for the anime, then it seems only natural that the anime end with that story.)

Let's take Episodes 51 and 52 being Lietuvis as a given. Poland, Lithuania, and Austria all appear in Lietuvis. Therefore, they'll have that "recent appearance" criterion which seems to have dictated the Season 2 special MKCs. So where does that leave the one character they would not have justified? Well, we are talking about the one character that is unequivocally loved by nearly every fan of the series, a character that's so popular he got something that no other character in Hetalia has: his own drama CD. He's so awesome that his MKC doesn't need to be justified by a "recent appearance".

That being said, I could be wrong and Austrian Succession could be Episodes 49 and 50 (which would be more appropriate for the "recent appearance" criterion than 46 and 47). I hope that it is. I'd love to see it adapted. I'd much rather see that than any more of Never Has Been Germany And Never Will Be and Chibinausea. Sorry, but I hate seeing those two as much as you (and everyone else here) hates seeing the island.

So if Young England is scheduled for Episode 46, what could that be? Probably Medieval England's Clothes and Hair. Studio DEEN have been a bigger bunch of FrUKers than the requesters on the Kink Meme lately.

As for why the Sweden hate...I don't like to say this, but if you bring in Sweden without doing an original story, there's no avoiding the Elephant In The Room of "He's my wife". I can't prove it, and I don't know if I've ever seen this posited elsewhere, so it may be my imagination, but there may have been a rethink at DEEN after the Korea Incident. I'll lay you odds that they had something in store for Sweden post-Episode 14, but decided to back away from anything that might be remotely controversial, and that would include Sweden being anywhere near Finland. And since Sweden doesn't really have a story without Finland...well, connect the dots.

Let's see what 46 through 50 bring us. Then we can start putting together our wish lists.