User blog comment:Watermint/Hetalia Season 4 Greenlighted/@comment-1271618-20100730163705

@Watermint (on and off this, gonna have to get off soon again I'm sure): They took a lot of liberties with episode 7, Romano's lines are VERY different and the script seems to differ heavily. But it's Italy's ending line that sealed the wank.

He attempts to cheer Romano up, and in his explanation for why Germany's a good person, he says "and he's whiter than anyone I know, and that has to count for something in this day and age" and something about keeping liquor stores out of the neighborhood. Paraphrasing since I don't have the audio/video on me at hand, but it's on YouTube and their blog. But yeah. There are people livid at FUNimation for "promoting white supremacy" now, combined with other reasons people are offended by the line (me? I'm uncomfortable because it seemed to feed into some fan controversial/edgy headcanon that Italy's just that racist and should actually look down on everyone who's not as white or Italian as him. Yes, that's the Northern stereotype, but I have to hear about it enough and ffff, hearing how some Northern stereotypes of Southern Italians have even colored my mother's ignorant bias against them...yeah, I'm probably overthinking this. I've still attempted to be neutral in the debates and try to point out to people how neither side is completely wrong or right about their feelings, but it's a lost cause). There's a campaign to boycott the dub now, but someone suggested that letters should be sent to the reps. Others reject that idea, since it's rejecting their freedom of speech to rant.

The dub supporters HAVE been as outrageous though, too. If you're not a racist for buying the dub, you're an offended pansy who had no sense ever liking Hetalia, so say the extremists. That's not to mention the smaller vocal faction of people who were worried that FUNi would ruin Hetalia in the first place due to Vic Mignogna and him possibly "forcing rewrites to take the gay away", seems their worries were in the wrong place now.

@Fluffy: ANN says 24 episodes for WS season 2. WS season 1 is also that number, going by the official DVD solicitations.