User blog comment:Laney30/Accents for the English Dub/@comment-1271618-20100524163359

I've heard that it was FUNi's sound director guy that was singing that entire placeholder song, apparently the parts for Italy and Germany too ("PASTAAAA" "Shut up!"). Though there are people swearing up and down they heard some Todd Haberkorn in Italy...yet then there are those saying "VIC!" so I think it's best to just go with the sound guy for all of it until FUNi clarifies.

We should be getting a cast announcement in the summer, I'm betting it will be at AX. But I wonder how many people will buy the series, since if the LJ community is an indication, there's quite a contingent of...snobs that want the series to fail just for FUNi getting it (seen this elsewhere too) and so World Series, movie, etc. can be "saved". I'm also hoping crap like the AnimeBoston stunt won't creep up again and give FUNi an excuse to drop it, though it'd likely be to salvage their image from the stupidity (but some would say they're stupid anyway for licensing Hetalia and not someone's super-cool niche obscure anime or something as tough as Gintama when it comes to translation).