User blog comment:Ceras SanMarina/Season three!? Seriously?/@comment-1616397-20091211111757

Gee, Ceras, when you mentioned in your edit about someone not being happy about more Chibitalia, I wonder who that could be?

I would be happy at this point for them to end off the plotline, preferably with a very solid resolution. In other words, is he or isn't he? Let's know one way or another. This way, some fangirls can salivate at the prospect of putting me on Wank Report again.

Here's a short list of what I don't want from Season 3: A complete lack of those would make me a happy camper.
 * Chibinausea...no, let me rephrase that: Chibi-anything
 * HRE
 * America (so no Lithuania's Outsourcing, please)

It's pretty obvious they're closing up the main storyline (under the presumption that 52 would be the final episode), so that means we'll have to draw from the Diaries and Extra Stories for Season 3, since this is going to predate Volume 3.

Let's be honest: now would be a good time for new material. The rule of thumb seems to be that Hidekaz's shorter stuff is of lower quality than the long-form material. We're running out of long-form material. I don't know how much resonance the Maria Theresa strips will have for the target audience...oh, wait, Prussia and "vital regions" are in there. Mark that down as a definite for Season 3. But you get my point.

In fact, if you think about it, Season 3 starts in March. Volume 8 comes out at the end of March. We all know about the "recent appearance" policy for MKCs. Anyone want to join me in calling Episode 54 as the first Maria Theresa episode?

My wish list:


 * Adult Romano only. No Chibimano.  I don't want to get rid of one monstrosity to replace it with another.  Yes, that means eliminating the Boss Spain strips.  Good.  I don't like Spain that much.  They can change my mind by doing an entire episode of Spain slamming his knees into America.
 * Turkey and Greece, except for Chibinausea beating up Turkey.
 * Rome and Germania, with both getting MKCs.
 * The Nordics, but everyone wants them. Do the two Nordic 5 strips and avoid the potentially controversial Su-San and Me stuff (like they haven't disregarded set-up strips before).
 * An anime-original story with Belgium and Netherlands.
 * An anime-original Sealand story, disregarding his sale/adoption. Again, I have this feeling that it's the whole gay-couple aspect of SuFin that's preventing Sweden from getting in the show and getting Sealand more screen time.

My MKC pairings:
 * Latvia and Estonia
 * Rome and Germania
 * Turkey and Greece
 * Belarus and Ukraine

Like I said with the last Birz entry, let's see what we get for 50 to 52, then start thinking.