What was Hetalia even about?? I never watched it but my friend told me it was about the countries but ppl??? Do u know anything? Bc ppl on here seem to hate it

so full disclosure as you may or may not know i didn’t actually watch anime like, as something that i could enjoy until about two years ago (i’m 22). so when like…weeb shit was going down in middle & high school, i was blissfully unaware of different anime discourse going on at the time. did i harass the anime club president? yes but that’s because he was a dick who’d watch ecchi and then act like irl PDA was horrible. idk man i just crashed the club for snacks and got called a tsundere or whatever the fuck

anyway. moving on.

from what i’ve gathered, hetalia is an anime/manga about humanized countries. which is cool except not because it’s very much based on stereotypes and just….not great. i mean it’s probably okay, to each ones own, but i’m like, an adult, so i try to consume content that actually makes me happy lol