It’s the mochis national anthem DUH.
Source: Hetarchive (Bamboo Thicket, eng trans., Dec 11th 2013).
Tag: mochis
Full disclaimer, a lot of what I’m about to show is inexplicable.
The mochis are supposed to be wacky, abnormal, and
irrational. There’s no clear-cut answer as to why exactly they exist in Hetalia. They’re simply a theme in the
manga that don’t have much sense to them.
On the other hand, despite how minimal it is, there are some
explanations I can offer about what the
mochis are.
What are the mochis based on?:
The mochis are otherworldly characters.
Ex: Estonia is brought to their world in his dreams.
Of course, their physical design is literally based off
Japanese rice balls. Each mochi represents the characteristics of their respective
nation. As such, they are also able to procure flags on a whim.
On top of that, it appears that Hima’s depiction of the
mochis is a play on words for emoticons and emojis.
They’re rice balls (mochis) that have personality (emotions).
Mochi + emotions = emoji [emochi].
Ex: The mochis are described as being based off an emoticon
Hima received in an email. [x]
Ex: Hima posted Hetalia-inspired emoticons made by fans on his blog. [x] [x]
Estonia’s involvement with them:
Estonia initially purchases the mochis off an online auctioning site.
The reason I believe that it’s Estonia who owns them is simply
because he’s an IT nation. A large area of information technology are computers
and the internet.
Ex: Estonia has a blog, “as befitting of an IT empire.”
If the mochis are living beings meant to represent emojis,
it would make sense that Estonia, as a nation that specializes in computer technology,
would be paired with them.
Some internet-related things would include…
Ex: Mochi Spain initially appearing with a speech bubble on
the side of his head, although this later turns out to be a cookie… (?)
Ex: The fact that the mochis swear so much. Perhaps this is
supposed to represent the unfiltered profanity of the internet. They do have
their own native language, though.
Other than that, there’s not much that I personally understand
about the mochis given how bizarre they are.
Things about the mochis that we’ll probably never make sense of:
The leader of the mochis refers to Estonia as Holy Bitch.
Amerimochi thinks that a head of lettuce is his father.
The mochis can have legs and arms.
You get 500 million experience points if you defeat a
mochi.
The mochis were weird enough to scare aliens. Hima’s fully aware of what he’s doing.
Much of the existence of the mochis, if I’m going by Hima’s trolling type of humour, is meant to be weird and inexplicable.
However, there is some logic to it and I’d be happy to explain what little there is that I understand about the mochis. All around, it’s just bizarre lol. There’s no clear-cut answer.
Post on the mochis coming up tonight!
I’ve heard some stuff about this going around that Himaruya confirmed that England was gay for America? Is this even a thing? Where did this even come about from? Also, favorite crack ships of yours that have little to no canon interaction? Mine’s Italy x America, but that’s just me.
All right. I’ve seen this pop up every now and then, and this
is what I have to say. I can’t find anything that would confirm this. You would
think that if Hima revealed something as
big as that, there would be screenshots to prove it. Any fangirl would leap
at the chance to prove that their ship is ‘better’ than others.
That said, there is no evidence that Hima ever said this; it’s
all just hearsay with contradictory statements that don’t line up. Likewise, there’s been many similar
instances where fans make posts, claiming to quote directly from Hima. This is disrespectful
on so many levels, and I highly encourage that it stops.
However,
and this is a big however, I’m pretty sure I know where these rumours came from.
Some fan likely used the transcript of this video
made my Hima and changed it in order to promote their ship and spread false
information.
In it, Mochi America says, “He is a British, and he is gay.”
Can you see how easy that would be to manipulate?
Watch the video here: http://www.hetarchive.net/scanlations/nonlinear.php?omochi
Personally, I wouldn’t consider America x Italy to be a crack ship at all 😊.
They get plenty of interaction together, and even share a few commonalities.
For example, there’s the running gag that they’re both supposedly unable to
read the atmosphere.
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