Kugelmugel (クーゲルムーゲル,Kūgerumūgeru) is a supporting character in the series Hetalia.
Appearance[]
Chibi Kugelmugel from 2022
Kugelmugel is a young boy with purple eyes and white hair worn in two long braids with an ahoge. He also has a mole underneath his left eye that is similar to Austria's. He wears a red beret and a white vest with a dress shirt with blue stripes on it. He also wears a small bow, purple shorts, tan leggings and boots. On both his vest and beret is an insignia resembling a coat of arms. He and Ladonia are equal in height to one another, and shorter than Sealand.
Personality And Interests[]
First color picture of Kugelmugel.
Kugelmugel a micronation located in Austria. He is an artist who Austria describes as being eccentric. He was seen in his debut hugging his knees and pondering whether revolution and Baumkuchen are art, and seems to believe many things are art, as he suddenly exclaims that declaring his independence is art as well. He also shows a desire to make things more artistic as well, such as when he asks to make his home bigger for that reason. He also once competed with Ladonia in making a clay deer that he deemed a more artistic version of what Ladonia had just made. It also is stated that "If it doesn’t register on his art sensor, his body rejects it."
His demeanor is shown to make other characters uncomfortable, such as when Sealand, Seborga, and Wy decide to avoid him after witnessing one of his outbursts. Germany describes him as "difficult to deal with" while Switzerland says he has a "dangerous aura" radiating from him. In a blog post it is stated that Kugelmugel and Iceland may be alike due to their similar appearances, but that if they were to spend time together Iceland would be thoroughly ordered around.
Relationships[]
Austria[]
- Main article: Austria
Austria is shown to be the caretaker/father figure for Kugelmugel, as the country the micronation was created in. He appears to hold responsibility for Kugelmugel and is aware of his eccentric attitude. As such, he is worried about him and warns the other micronations who want to approach Kugelmugel about this, saying that they need to take good care of him.
Ladonia[]
- Main article: Ladonia
Kugelmugel and Ladonia appear to bond and become friends during the meeting of the artistic micronations. After Ladonia makes a clay deer, Kugelmugel wakes up and makes his own clay deer that is sleeker and tougher looking. While Ladonia is initially shocked by this, he is ultimately impressed by it and enthusiastically declares that it's cool, and they continue to discuss it while Wy leaves.
Liechtenstein[]
- Main article: Liechtenstein
Liechtenstein and Switzerland are both taking a stroll together when they hear someone muttering "It's art..". Curious, Liechtenstein walks to the front to see Kugelmugel admiring a sphere. She politely greets Kugelmugel and says that he's absolutely adorable. The micronation wants Liechtenstein to make the sphere bigger, quoting that small things aren't art, living small things are.
In The Anime[]
Kugelmugel's official debut
Kugelmugel's debut in the anime is on It's a Pandora Box of Countries! - First Part, It's A Pandora Of Countries ~Part 1 where Sealand, Wy and Seborga are approaching other micronations to offer them to join their group to the UN.
Kugelmugel is the first micronation they come across. He is sitting in a thinking position on a bench just down an Austrian road. He is pondering about whether declaring independence, Baumkuchen and revolution are art and later when the micronations try to communicate with him, he begins to conclude that everything is art in a whimsical way, clearly indicating that he isn't aware of the micronations' presences.
They part ways quickly and left him to his own thoughts. However, they still let him to join them alongside the other micronations they sought for.
In The Manga[]
Kugelmugel makes his debut appearance in It's a Pandora Box of Countries, where Wy, Sealand, and Seborga come to his house to ask him to join their circle of friends. However, upon seeing him freak out by himself about art, they don't have the nerve to approach him and leave without interrupting. However, he appears to have been invited to join off-screen, as he makes a brief appearance among the group at the end of the story making a thumbs-down sign. He appears during a flashback in the Christmas 2011 event, where Switzerland and Liechtenstein encounter him outside his sphere-shaped house, shouting at it, and Liechtenstein introduces herself to him. This is followed by Kugelmugel asking his king to make his house bigger as "small things aren't art" (only small living things are). In one of the additional request comics for the same event, he appears alongside Wy and Ladonia at the meeting of the artistic micronations. He is asleep at the table, but wakes up when Ladonia finishes making a clay deer. He takes his own clay and makes a version that is visibly sleeker and tougher-looking, which he declares to have a "more artistic feel" and deems it "fine art". While he does not appear in the storylines of the Halloween 2013 event, he appears in sketches that show him in costume, and he declares that the first one isn't art.
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Trivia[]
- Despite Kugelmugel being a male, in Volume 6 of the Hetalia manga he is often referred to with gender neutral terms in the Hetascanlations translations.
- The real Kugelmugel is technically not a micronation anymore but has been adopted by the city of Vienna as a tourist attraction, hence why the character still exists.
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