Funimation Streams Hetalia Axis Powers

[Atria35]

One of my friends got her history teacher HOOKED on Hetalia. I'm definately going to have to watch this!

[Wyntre Rose]

The dub for the first four eps is hilarious, you guys...XD

Seriously, go check them out. Yay!! I'm SO glad Funi posted a few entire episodes dubbed. I'm even more excited about this, now.

[ChristianKitsune]

I was really surprised at the accent they gave Japan, haha it made me chuckle and I was like "Really Funi? REALLY? Bwhaahahahaa..."

It's hard to understand all of them when they talk at once though, like in Epi 1, but then it was hard to read all of them too haha!

[mechana2015]

I've been watching it exclusively in subs (after watching the first episode in english)...I'm really not fond of the choices they've made for the voice acting in english.

[goldenspines]

Now that I've seen the first two dubbed episodes (Funi decided to die on my for the third) I gotta agree with Mech, I'm not too fond of the dub choices. But I'll probably grow used to them over time (I don't think I'll ever get used to Japan or China's voice though. >.<; ). Oddly enough, I do think that Haberkorn matches Italy nicely.
Though, I think I know what Funi is trying to pull here. They are using the stereotypes of the accents for each country. Which makes sense since the countries' personalities are based off their stereotypes, but I think it's a bit much and sometimes a tad painful to listen to. >_>;

Overall, though, it's not horrible. I'm impressed that Eric Vale can talk so fast. O_O And Scott Freeman is probably doing the nicest job so far.

[Wyntre Rose]

It's a good week to be a Hetalia fan.

Funi just licensed the movie:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-07-30/funimation-adds-eva-2.0-hetalia-film-summer-wars
and The World Series Season:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-07-30/funimation-adds-hetalia-world-series-strike-witches-2
The Fourth Season has also been green-lit, featuring Norway and Denmark!!
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-07-30/hetalia-4th-anime-season-green-lit-for-september

[goldenspines]

Just as an official note to everyone interested in this series, you all should be aware that FUNimation has rated the dub as MA (Mature Audiences). I can't recall the exact rating of the original Japanese (if someone knows, please let me know), but I would personally rate it to 15 or 16+
There have been some rumors bouncing around as well as some actual fact that Funi has changed the script from the original Japanese script to something a bit more edgy, to say the least (which includes, but is not limited to racial humor). The original Japanese version did address a lot of these topics and areas, but not to this extreme and blatancy (that I recall), the humor was a lot more subtle in the sub.
But, I will be submitting a review of the subbed series (as well as of the dub episodes/clips as they are released) as soon as I can. If anyone wants to jump to it before me, though, is more than welcome.

Anyways, just wanted to clarify that just so no one is too shocked as you continue to watch the dub.