User blog comment:Ceras SanMarina/Silly persistent fan-rumors./@comment-1271618-20100331175258

Alright, gonna comment here to save some article space or something: I'm getting a little irritated by the people insisting that Asia3 IS Philippines and even editing the Asia3 section on the characters' article. I've also been hoping to nip the season 3 hoaxes about Philippines that keep spreading about in the fandom, but it seems people like to perpetuate them more.

I'm kind of sick of seeing some people on the Livejournal community bash this place for incorrect or useless information. It does not help when people like that insert such things (or trolls, which we seem to be having a problem with lately). I've seen people say we should cite every damn Himaruya source, but do you know how tough it is? Very tough. This isn't like your standard but bare-boned Hetalia wikipedia article. They don't go as indepth into the characters and Himaruya has yet to produce any more guidebooks other than the one that came with volume 2's special edition, so it's not like we could just easily pick up a book and say "Here's where that came from!". We have to really rely on his words that are scattered all over the place.

The thing is, I can find info on things that he deleted and what he hasn't thanks to 2ch and some fans better in the know (like Eruraito), so I can spot BS. Japanese fans don't know who Asia3 is, but a few suspect that she's just a sketchy Vietnam. Nevertheless, I'm keeping Asia3's blurb until we get some sort of idea. If you try and bring up the idea of her being Vietnam to some fans on this end, you get answers like "No, she looks too mean to be her!" "She's not pretty as the original sketch!" etc. so it'd be a headache. If she turns out to be? We can take the blurb down.

If she's Philippines? Good, fine (same thing goes if she's Indonesia). But the fact is that Himaruya has not said any of these things that the hoax-spreaders have claimed he has about her. All we know of her is that sketch. If he actually made posts about her that he deleted, the Japanese fans would have copypasted text and saved it (or took a screencap that you know, has grammar and speech patterning consistent with his and that had a believable timestamp).