All It's Missing Is Creepy Crawling

[amarissia]

YAY, episode 51 of Hetalia Axis Powers is finally available subbed, here, and not only do America and Japan get interaction, which I love...they watch a scary movie together. How perfect!

Poor Japan, suffering from constant culture shock and always in danger of hugs...I want to squeeze him, but I suspect that wouldn't make him feel any better. I shall squeeze Zack in his place. *goes to do it*

Comments

[robonun.livejournal.com]

Silly Zack, she's not squeezing you because of your possible Japanese status, she's squeezing you because you're so gosh darn squishable just like Japan. Angeal will back me up on this.

Wow, epic freakout for America. That's gotta be a 7.0 on the Veneziano scale. :)

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

Zack: *pouts, sulks* "I'm Gongagan."
Angeal: *pets him*

I love how calm Japan stays. (And that he gave America survival horror games, just like Japan gives us!) American and the Europeans run around shrieking all the time, and Japan is just like *blink blink*. :)

[robonun.livejournal.com]

Yes yes yes, we know. Gongaga, jungle, kind of like Hawaii but with psychedelic frogs. Sounds like Gonzaga, which always reminds me of college basketball. Now shush and let us hug you before Angeal hauls you off to bed.

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

Zack: *smile* "Gongaga is awesome. Also, it's warm there, which means Amarissia wouldn't last ten minutes."

:(

It does sound like Gonzaga, which reminds me of Italian nobility...

[j-plash.livejournal.com]

*comments for once*

This makes me feel I really need to start watching Hetalia again XD

[chalkbutterfly.livejournal.com]

They should teach history in schools by letting us watch Hetalia. That way we might care enough to remember, and we would study during our spare time!
Japan, Gongaga, same basic principal! *hugs*

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

Yes! And they should play it at UN meetings. Either it will bring everyone together, or start a lot of new fights, but either way, it would be funny.

[chalkbutterfly.livejournal.com]

And during UN meetings, they should all be forced to cosplay as their respective countries.

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

Poor Italy. "DOITSU DOITSUUUUU! TASUKETEEEEEEE!" :)

[ayuka86.livejournal.com]

Zack, is August your hottest month? If so, you're from Japan. Period.

I remember this one from the hetalia comic and thinking it was so funny. American horror isn't really scary at all (just very bloody and shock based) while Japanese horror is phycological in nature. I remember after I watched Ju-on (the movie the Grudge is based on) I couldn't sleep. After playing Silent Hill games, I couldn't sleep. While watching the Excorsist or the Saw movies... well, I fell asleep half way through....

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

Zack: "I'm not from Japan! Nomura-sama is Japanese and he created us, okay, and maybe my voice is Japanese, but I'm not Japanese, even though I speak Japanese, which I don't very much because then Amarissia makes me repeat everything and asks me to psychologically analyze the Ringu movies. Agh!"

(Isn't August the hottest month everywhere? OOH, does this mean I'm from Japan too?)

Cloud: *chews chocobo plushie's ear* "Amarissia says I'm Japanese, and that people love me there! WHEE!"

I agree, we in the U.S. love (and continue to pilfer) Japanese horror because our own isn't scary. Or if it is, it scares you while you're watching it, while J-horror scares you for days afterward. From what I've observed, the rules are different. In an American horror movie, if you solve the mystery and don't have sex, you live. In a Japanese horror movie, if you solve the mystery and figure everything out, that's great, but once you're involved, you're still gonna die.

Also - SCARY CRAWLING. I will never forget the first time my older sister saw The Ring, the Ringu remake, that scene where the little girl crawled out of the TV. She literally fell off her chair and started screaming, it was awesome. :)

*continues to babble* Also, I think you're more likely to be scared when you don't understand the cultural references you're looking at. I can pretty much fly right through Fatal Frame now, partly because of practice, but I also understand the stuff I see in it a lot more. Whereas my sister, who loves horror games, is freaked out by the amount of dolls and the Shinto gates as much as she is the ghosts. :)

Urgh, the Saw movies, so gory...I liked the Exorcist, but it didn't scare me much, even as a kid... :)

[ayuka86.livejournal.com]

The ringu movies never really bothered me so much, even though the ghosts move very simular. The juon movies scared me more through the the sound the dead woman was making. And you're right, J-horror movies are like that. "You solved it? Good! You're still gonna die though..." followed by a "Look, it's like nothing ever happened and here comes some other poor smuck to relie the horror," shot at the end. XDD

Now that I think of it, August is a hot month for most of the northern hemisphere I guess. Japan is -MEGA- hot in that month and so is New York. I don't know where you're from but from what you said, I'm guessing it's the same there.

I wonder what Gongaga's hottest month is...?

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

EEEK, that noise from the Ju-On movies, so scary. My sister and I went to see the sequel to the remake, The Grudge, and afterwards we went out for lunch, and I started hearing that noise in the restaurant. I was about to run after my sister to the bathroom and tell her...then I realized I was the one making the noise by drinking through a straw. *facepalm*

Note to self: Avoid Japan in August. I'm in New Jersey, which I figure has about the same climate as NY, and yeah, August sucks. The whole summer is unpleasant, but August especially.

Zack: "Gongaga's not really hot."
Angeal: "Gongaga is extremely hot. Zack is just used to it, so heat and humidity don't bother him."

*grumble* Lucky...

[ayuka86.livejournal.com]

Yeah, even now sometimes I think I hear that sound late at night. It's only the heat though. But in my nightmares I see that type of ghost and it scares me a lot. I'm not sure why...

I heard a rumor once that NJ can actually get hotter than NY at times, but I'm not sure if it's true. I know you guys usually get a worse winter than us (especially lately with all the snow) so...

For some reason, I picture Zack not really minding Gongaga's heatwaves so much as the kind in Midgar because in my mind they are different. You know how smoggy cities can get really bad in the summer (that suffocating type of heat?) I can so see Zack complaining about that. More than that, if that's the case, then I feel bad for Angeal since his hometown is more slightly more nothern, right? I'm not a hundred percent sure...

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

OH GOD, maybe everyone who speaks Japanese has those kind of nightmares. I am not continuing until I get some kind of order of protection against onryou and yuurei and that thing that eats dead people. (Sephy won't let me on Wikipedia anymore, even for cultural studies.)

If I never see snow again, it'll be too soon. GAH, I hope it's over! :)

Zack: "Yeah, that's true. Gongaga is humid, and I'm fine with that, but it's different in a big polluted city. I still handle heat better than Angeal, though."
Angeal: "I prefer colder weather...and Banora has a more temperate climate. Genesis also complains a lot about humidity messing up his hair." *smiles*

[ayuka86.livejournal.com]

I can sympathise with Genesis on that front. In the summer, no matter how much I flat-iron my hair it still curls us, so I can understand.

[kamuinoxdream.livejournal.com]

Oh I so love that episode. I've waited so long for America/Japan interaction *_*

Only by reading your music-quote, I've got the song in my ear...and I'm at work!!! *sings quietly* maru kaite chikyuuuuuuu

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

That song never leaves your head once it gets in there. :)