User blog comment:Izzybizzy-aru/My First Blog Post/@comment-1271618-20100129031217

Hi there! Welcome to the wikia, hope you have fun here.

LiveJournal is sort of a good place for a start, but not all translations there should be relied on too much. Although they provided some nice profiles and translations early on, it seems there were quite the errors that made Japanese fans rather concerned (or downright mad) that Western fans may be misinterpreting the series. There are also some translation problems where something comes out sounding really weird too (like Latvia being a young drinker literally translated as "he's quite the python", which confused people that didn't know the slang).

The "APH Starry Sky" site is a good place for reading the comics easily. They even have the published version strips uploaded, as well as a story that Himaruya wrote and drew for a Hetalia doujinshi collection.

There used to be a Livejournal community for translations of Bamboo Thicket (the blog), but it unfortunately seems to be no more.

I'm quite curious about the Hetalia dub, and I can only hope the backlash won't be too big of a monstrosity. But from what I've seen in fandom itself, Hetalia fans can even be their own worst enemy. I also hope FUNi won't over-rely on just the "A" voice actors in their pool, but we'll see about that. There is always the sub track too. Hopefully they'll put in some fun extras, like perhaps the cast doing commentary (or even drunken commentary) on those damn repeated island segments.