How did you get into APH?

[FreeFallForAll]

Exactly what it says on the tin.

I got into it because one year ago today, to within the hour, my sister, my mom, and I went out for lunch at Marie Callender's to celebrate my last day of school. My sister mentioned hearing about it from her friend and told me a bit about it. I forgot it for about a month, and then I came across the thread on TS. I read through it a bit, realized, "Oh, that series!" and started lurking. Eventually I wanted to contribute, so in the space of one day I watched every episode that was out (at the time, there were only 18 of 'em), lurked the thread a little more, and finally posted somewhere around page 40-ish.

It's been exactly a year since I first heard of it. I don't regret a minute. /in the mood to make an over-the-top speech

[Kalina.]

A little over a year ago, back on oldTS, there was an Ivan roleplayer. I bugged her for a while, did a lot of insane stuff, eventually looked up the series and fell in love~ <3 Yeah. My story's not awesome~.

[The Mad Caker.]

I think it was also some time before boards1.0 went into death, the Hetalia thread was awesome and I started lurking. Then, when boards3.0 came about I started watching the thing and fell in love. It was also in June, yo.

[OldestWaifu]

I knew about the series awhile back when I read alot of people talking about it. At first I was WTF?! Then I actually watched it and read a few of the manga strips really really liked it.

[wyoming]

My friend, Merv, was a big America x Belarus lover, and my two other friends, Cecil and J, were in the fandom until college started up.
I heard a lot about it, but I would avoid it, because I mainly hung around the da fandom, where it seemed some were obsessed with the yaoi. Being much more anti-yaoi back then, I seemed to keep more and more away from aph, afraid it was only there for boys love.

I did read a few strips, and watched a few episodes.

But when I saw the Canada and Ukraine strip by Kelly-Bean of da, I decided to join in, and try to learn more about my heritage.

And here I am : )

[Child-Like Ninja]

I heard about it on a fanfic site, and looked up the anime. I watched a few episodes, decided it was pretty good, and got out of it for a while. A few months later, I remembered it, started re-watching it, and got into it for good.

[Lunagel]

A year ago around March-April I was really into pokemon, and I followed this person on dA called Zhampy who did pokemon fanart. One day I noticed some Hetalia fanarts she made and got interested. I then noticed that she made a journal saying that it had an anime with 5 episodes. The rest is history! /shotforlamepun

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(Its dangerous to go alone!)

[Koreans Do It Better]

Hm...I remember lurking on my Youtubes, while I was still in love with Naruto. I'd get to one of the less popular videos, and a 'Prussia x Hungary' or 'America x England video would pop up, and I clicked on them once or twice, and I didn't really ever watch the videos...xD
But then, I decided to look it up, when I got bored of Naruto, and just...fell hard.

[flyingmintbunny]

umm... about a year ago I was in my school's anime club, and we were shown the world conference from the 1st episode as an example of a comedy anime. I didn't get that the characters were the actual countries, I thought they were just the countries leaders or something. ^^;
Anyways, so then a few months later I was bored and I came across this amv: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfmuuP6Kr58 And decided to start watching it. I started reading the webcomic when I'd finished devouring the anime
[shadow=red,left,300]And then came the fandom O.o[/shadow]
Dun dun duuuuuunnnnnn!!!!

[magichobohat]

I was reading a Cracked article and they were saying how horrible it was and how it takes the mickey outta history. I ended up checking it out, thinking I'd hate it XD

[FreeFallForAll]

^Beloved Characters Ruined By Japan? Yeah, I ranted about that article in the Vent section awhile ago.

[magichobohat]

Oh yeah. I really think Cracked is going down hill though, even if it already was a crap website.

[Kaen the 604st]

Hmmm.. I think I was at the Japanese bookstore (you know, the one in New York) and I was trying to find a Death Note nendoroid or at least a Gurren Lagann DVD, and I saw the untranslated Hetalia on a shelf. I'd heard about it before, through Tvtropes, but this was the first time i had seen anything to do with it irl. Unfortunately I had no money, so I finished watching Tengan Toppa Gurren Lagann first. One month later, I found the scanlations site. Also, while i was browsing the /cm/ board on 4chan, I found the thread. And saved it. Eventually I started reading the series and browsing the kink meme. And then I found the Twilightsucks Picspam thread.

It was really a bunch of stuff happening in a short one month frenzy of joy that became a four month thing of awesome that is still continuing. I like to draw fanart.

TL;DR: 4chan.

[Lunagel]

Oct 13, 2010 13:41:27 GMT -5 magichobohat said:

I was reading a Cracked article and they were saying how horrible it was and how it takes the mickey outta history. I ended up checking it out, thinking I'd hate it XD

Ha, nice!

tbh, I do like Cracked, but I don't leave the science/sex/music sections. FOR SCIENCE.

My first sight of the fandom came from the LJ community. There were pretty cool guys. But the weird thing is that I don't even know how I found that place!