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I first watched Hetalia in 2011, and when I learned that after 10 years, my country, Portugal, was finally gonna get animated, I was ecstatic! It was a shame it was only half an episode, tho.

Everyhting else was typical Hetalia, the jokes, the cute animations... It's great!
I'm just surprised that after 6 years since the last season, they decided to do the series again, but only for 12 episodes.
It's something you watch really fast, it's relaxing, and you learn some cool stuff from it! Totally recommend, if you watched the other seasons, this one shouldn't be left out.

Though I do not know if this is the author's original idea, I believe that to enjoy this anime to the maximum you can't take it as a fantasy type anime with comedy elements to it, but instead you have to expect a gag comedy in a fantasy setting.

I remember in the early episodes a friend of mine complaining because he felt that a gag appeared to soon and ruined the characters' development and the more deep side of the anime, but I disagree and say that the more serious scenes in this anime serve only as a set up to the gag, in ... the way that the contrast of them both is supposed to make the gag funnier. Now, does it do it successfully? Not really. They repeat this formula too much, and don't really execute it that well.

At the end of the day, none of the characters are really remarkable, the art is okay, the background music is okay, but they aren't a big deal. This is those animes that you watch and within two to five years you won't remember that you watched it nor any of the characters in it. It's not necessarely bad, but it's not memorable either.

So, if you have free time, have already watched almost every single anime on earth and just feel like watching something light to chill, sure, go for it. If you have a 50+ Plan to Watch list, honestly, put it at the bottom of it, or don't put it at all.

PS: If you truly want to watch a gag comedy in a fantasy/ isekai setting, I'd recommend something more like Ixion Saga DT, and not this one.