Hetalia Axis Powers Episode 3: Axis Powers: Episode 3
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2 Ratings
EPISODE REVIEWS
In my opinion, this episode is better and much funnier than the previous one. It starts with a song that Italy wrote for Germany, which perfectly reveals how he feels about the latter on top of revealing more of his personality. He's a glutton, which is why he sings about Germany's good not being "nasty like England's". Later, the episode also shows how Germany is forced to work excessively to pay off his debt to France after losing in WWI. It's a nice historic fun fact, which also gave an opportunity to sneak Italy in the scene for a gag and to strengthen his relationship with Germany, who thinks Italy "really was a strange guy". It also shows the beginning of WWII and how Germany and Italy became allies, including the beginning of their dysfunctional friendship. This episode animation is also quite nice, besides it created a few gorgeous frames that are good enough to be used as a desktop wallpaper. The only complaint I have about it are two scenes in a lazy-drawn stickman style, they really can throw you off. Overall, a really funny episode with a few historic elements that establishes the relationship between the two characters, whom we'll be seeing very often.
The pacing is much too fast, and the visual gag where Italy is flung away as a stick figure in black and white is funny, but it would've been better in colour and not as rudimentary. The song Italy sang to Germany was very funny and expresses very well how Italy feels about Germany. The sneak peak of Japan leaves me interested for the next episode.
10
