August Updates

As of August 12, there have been 48 meetups submitted to the directory. Countries with meetups include Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Peru, Portugal, Russia, Spain, United Kingdom and United States!

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“But there’s still no meetup in my city!”
Again and again, I will remind you that most hosts start their planning during September and October. (If you really can’t wait, you can organize your own or submit your city to our “Hetalia Day Wanted Here” page.)


And speaking of Hetalia Day Wanted Here

There have been numerous requests for (more) Hetalia Day meetups in the following countries: Australia, Belgium, Canada, El Salvador, Germany, Malaysia, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States and Vietnam. For which cities in those countries, please visit the page.

Meanwhile, the cities/locations with the strongest demand for a Hetalia Day meetup (according to that list) are:

  1. Canton, Ohio USA
  2. Phoenix, Arizona USA and Cary/Raleigh, North Carolina  USA
  3. Trondheim, Norway
  4. Avondale, Arizona USA
  5. Vaughan, Ontario, Canada

Hetalia Day 2013: directory now open for meetups!

In case you missed it: Hetalia Day 2013 is going to be held on the 26th of October, a Saturday. As always,  it is just a recommended date.

The directory is now open for your meetups! Email your Hetalia Day details (where, when, website) to [email protected]. (For more info on organizing your Hetalia Day event, check out the updated FAQ.)

There’s also a new section in the site called “Hetalia Day Wanted Here!”. This can be used to check if there’s enough interest for a Hetalia Day in your location.

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I’d like to thank  rosel-d who lent us his fanart for this year’s banner. His style is reminiscent of Himaruya’s so it easily caught my attention. Visit his deviantART for more Himaruya-esque Hetalia fanart.

(If you’d like to use the banner above for your meetup, here is the template as a PSD.)

Upgrade, and Hetalia Day 2013

Two things…

1. Hetalia Day 2013 will be on the 26th October 2013. As usual that is just the ideal date. If  it’s not possible to hold your event  on the 26th, it’s okay.

2. The site is now on WordPress (I should have done this a long time ago). I’ve just finished importing old entries from Livejournal/FC2 – those pages will be still be up as backups. Old pages will no longer be visible, but most of the old content will still be here somewhere. (I’ve yet to import those pages so you’ll probably encounter a 404 error page more than usual.)

Lastly, I’d like to apologize if your photo is *still* missing from last year’s album. I have it in my inbox and will upload it.

Hetalia Day 2012 is on 20 October, Saturday!

Hetalia Day 2012

The poll for the date of this year’s Hetalia Day is now closed, and the winning date is 20 October 2012, a Saturday.

As previously mentioned, from past experience not everyone is able to hold their Hetalia Day event on the same day, so October 20 is just a recommended date.

If you are an organizer, you may now submit your meetup for inclusion in the directory.

Send the following to [email protected]:
[1] Your Hetalia Day location (country and province/state/city)
[2] Your email address (if for any reason your email address doesn’t appear in your email)
[3] Your Hetalia Day webpage

All news will be posted on the blog and most of them will be cross-posted on Tumblr/Livejournal/etc.

Please note that it is only July, and that it’s around August-September that most organizers plan their meetups. So don’t be discouraged if there are only a few meetups for now.