【Simple
Character Introduction】 (note: Some of these translations are inaccurate, and most of the grammar is kind of wonky...since I kind of did them really late and really quickly. I might update them eventually.)
(You can also check the massive collection of Volume 2 scanlations here for better translations.)
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Italy (Veneziano)
Feliciano
Vargas, Age 20, 172 cm
In the story, Veneziano is very different
from his older brother.
He's a cheerful Latin boy who
loves pasta and women and can be a little bit of a crybaby.
He relies on Germany a lot but
doesn't really listen to what he says.
He has a physiological
phenomenon of sometimes leaking out the mysterious sound "Ve".
He gets his aesthetic sense
from Grandpa Rome, causing him to very much love painting, singing and
designing clothes.
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Germany
Ludwig, Age 20, 180 cm
A young man with a too-serious personality
and a pessimistic nature.
His hobbies are reading, making
sweets and taking walks with dogs, and he also is very by-the-book, thinking
that something very unpleasant will happen if you don't rely on books and
navigators.
He likes cleanliness. He also has no other ideas for recycling.
Everyone thinks that him having
3 dogs is really tough.
Even nowadays he seems to be
telling Italy things and looking over him.
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Japan
Honda Kiku,
Age secret, 165 cm
The country of floating
soldiers in the Orient.
Quiet and serious, but because
he's a little straight-laced his surroundings are kind of show-off-y.
He's good at messing with
machines and drawing.
Including the fact that even
though he is an island nation, the reason he had a time when he stayed
indoors always was because he wanted to keep the uniqueness of his culture
and atmosphere.
Him thinking that that's normal
is pretty not normal.
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America
Alfred F. Jones, Age 19, 177 cm
A young
man that's cheerful and powerful, with a strong sense of justice.
Because
he's young and has an excess of power, he often can't read situations and has
a habit of running around quickly, making his only friends England and Japan.
His
Boss is an alien and his friend, and he messes around with UFOs a lot, but
even though he's such a strange country, he can't see England's unicorns and
fairies.
His
hobbies are archeology and quick draw.
He also likes filming movies, but he often receives nothing but criticism,
so he never wants to share them with England.
He got
his sense of taste from England, so he loves strangely-colored sweets.
Lately he's just been inventing
lots of mysterious utensils for dieting.
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England
Arthur
Kirkland, Age 23, 175 cm
A young man with an obstinate and sarcastic
personality, who has lots of rain and was a former delinquent.
He likes cooking but he doesn't
have any repertoire, and his food isn't edible to begin with.
He's good friends with fairies
and ghosts, tries black magic and summoning and is a bit of an occultist.
(Even though America calls them
illusions...)
His drinking habits are
strangely bad. He likes black tea and
embroidery.
Also, now and then he likes to
paint portraits of of axles.
There's also that one bit about
how, ever since forever ago, he's been fighting with France.
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France
Francis
Bonnefoy, Age 26, 175 cm
A young man who does things at his own pace
and has an abundance of affectionate expressions.
He has no hesitation in
bragging about French being the language of love.
He brags about being a gourmet,
but his food is pretty fierce.
He loves culture and the arts,
as well as paintings and clothing and people, and, well, anything that's
beautiful.
He'll go for beautiful men and
women of any age, and maybe even some non-human beings.
Ever since forever ago, he's
fought with England, but he thinks, "As long as it's quiet, it's fine
right?"
But he loves himself so much he
won't learn English.
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China
Wang Yao, Age
4000 (immortal)
Seeing him like this
makes you think he’s a grandpa or an immortal or something.
Here and there, he
tries to act like an older brother, but he isn’t treated like one at all.
He’s a vacation spot
for the world, but he’s always trying to run away from Korea’s house.
He’s strangely good
at drawing beautiful humans, but when you see his animal characters, you get
the feeling you’ve seen them somewhere before.
He’s currently
obsessed with using strange Japanese words for candy.
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Russia
Ivan
Braginski, Age unknown, 182 cm
A varied and huge
northern country. He loves Vodka.
He has the simplicity
of a country bumpkin and the cruelty of a child mixed together.
A young man that,
even without saying anything gives off an intimidating air.
He pulls out water
pipes and puts stuff that you shouldn’t normally put in there inside them,
like rice balls, which he then eats like its ordinary.
A long time ago,
under the warmth of the sunlight, he spent his time surrounded by
sunflowers.
When will be the day
that he realizes how he yearns for this lifestyle…?
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Spain
Antonio
Fernandez Carriedo, Age 25
Formally the country
of passion where the sun never set.
He has a cheerful and
passionate personality, with a big heart and can be a bit (significantly)
thickheaded.
It’s a bit easy to
run circles around him.
He can be pretty
random sometimes, but if he were to describe himself he would say he’s
recklessly burning with passion through and through.
He’s strangely
affectionate to Romano.
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South Italy (Romano)
Lovino Vargas,
Age 22-23
The pasta-and-women-loving,
kinda grumpy-looking older Italian brother.
He often charges at
the questionably bad Germany who is often between the two siblings, but compared
to his appearance, he’s a coward and a useless crybaby who can’t do anything
important.
Because of the time
when Spain was his leader, he kind of takes after Spain on culture, customs
and religion.
Because he’s
undermined by the Mafia, he sees the world in a very slanted view.
He’s pretty frivolous
in front of girls, but as for guys…
There’s the
physiological phenomenon when you pull on his curl and he says “chigigi”.
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Hungary
Elizaveta
Héderváry
Opposite of her
appearance, she is a gallant girl who used to be a nomad.
She’s a lovely older
sister-type whom you can rely on if you call for her. But she’s scary if you become her enemy.
Usually she behaves
very gracefully, but sometimes a face that shouldn’t appear, appears.
She’s probably the
manliest in this comic.
Even now, she still
does a lot of things with Austria.
She and Romania are
like cats and dogs.
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Austria
Roderich
Edelstein
A “young master” that
likes music and cake. He seems showy
but he’s a frugal person.
Austria’s glasses are
kind of like his music. If you take
them off, he seems pretty simple.
The one hair that
sticks out is Mariazell, so it changes sometimes.
His personality is,
for better or worse, very “young master”-ish, so his expression doesn’t
change much.
When he stood on top
of the Holy Roman Empire, he was pretty aloof at first, but as the years went
by one by one he gently went in a strange direction, got married too much and
was dragged into many burdens, being kicked out and taken in and being a generally
busy person.
He’s hopeless when it
comes to direction.
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Prussia
Gilbert
Weillschmidt
A country that was
born to fight the same battles as Austria, but opposite of Austria he managed
to avoid any marriages and do nothing but fight, so he’s kind of a hooligan.
He’s very loyal to
his leaders, and loves Old Man Fritz.
A young man who’ll
use any means to become strong.
He affectionately
calls Germany “West”. Also, he hates
Russia.
※ St. Maria Order → Teutonic Knights → (Some other stuff) → Prussia
→ is basically how it went down.
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Lithuania
Toris
Lorinaitis, Age 19
Poland’s partner.
It feels like he’s
usually just dragged around by him, but he has a good time.
He’s pretty serious
with a lot of patience, but he usually thinks too much, gets depressed and
gives himself a stomachache.
During the time of
the Soviet Union, it was like waking up to a strange theme park being built.
Anyway, after gaining
independence from Russia, he’s currently rehabilitating with Poland.
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Poland
Feliks
Łukasiewicz, Age 19
Lithuania’s partner.
Although he seems
pretty goofy, if you think about it, he’s also got some varying parts.
He has a fierce anxiety
towards strangers, and upon first meeting will have trouble talking and act
very shy.
Once he gets used to
you, it’s bad. He’ll never let go.
Also, he’ll be very
forceful with his opinions.
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Latvia
Raivis
Galante, Age 15
A boy who is a bit of
an introvert and a withdrawn crybaby.
You get the feeling
he’s been involved in a lot of strange things.
When his dependence
on Russia was at its highest, he tried
and tried and failed at trying to cut ties.
Right now he just
wants a close friend.
He looks as such, but
he’s pretty much a heavy drinker.
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Estonia
Eduard Von
Bock, Age 17
The Baltic honors
student who has avoided many a problem with an eternity of wit.
Usually in front of
people he acts calm, logical, and businessman-like, but in private he’s
pretty calm.
With Finland he
usually has some strange festivals and gets all pumped up.
His dependence on
Russia is low. He’s awesome with IT
(Information Technology).
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Belarus
Natalia
(Natasha) Alfroskaya
Russia’s younger
sister who has a bit of a harsh atmosphere.
She keeps sending
Russia her deep love, but it’s never really returned.
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Ukraine
Russia’s older sister who
always recklessly gets dragged into a mess.
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Switzerland
Vash Zwingli,
Age 18
His territory is a mountainous
area blessed with crops, and because he’s held between strong nations in
every direction that all followed a history of hardships, he tries to hold a
different sort of honor and involvement.
He’s always cool and
undisturbed, but Germany and Italy keep throwing him off his groove.
He’s very loving
towards Liechtenstein.
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Liechtenstein
A young lady under the care of
Switzerland. She’s very clever.
She has a very humble and adult
personality, but she will always clearly state her views.
She’s pretty high-tech.
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Finland
Tino
Väinämöinen, Age 20
Moimoi. A
gentle young man with simplistic tenacity.
He seems very
adult-like, and if you start talking with him it’ll last forever.
Also, he’s strangely
strong in the cold. But he also loves
saunas.
His awesome strength
at the scene of a fire isn’t half-assed.
He likes to have
really strange festivals.
But his friend Estonia
snatched the Leader position from him.
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Sweden
Berwald
Oxenstierna, Age 21
A guy with an intimidating
air who doesn’t talk much and is difficult to understand.
On the inside he’s
playful, but it doesn’t show at all and he just seems scary.
There was also a time
when he was called the Supreme Ruler of Scandinavia, but nowadays he’s calmed
down and put a lot of strength into welfare.
He likes being a “weekend
carpenter” and decorative arts. He
also likes arguing.
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Iceland
A mysterious boy with
a cool exterior and a hot interior.
A very different
country compared to the rest of Europe.
Because he’s recently
caught a cold, he’s been suspicious of Russia’s extreme gentleness.
Until his fever goes
down, he’ll accept the kindness, but…
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Turkey
Sadiq Annan
A masked uncle with a
lively personality who speaks like a Tokyoite.
He’s absurdly
passionate, friendly and merry.
But he’s kind of
stubborn about some weird stuff.
Oddly, he likes sweet
things, baths, and entertaining tourists.
He doesn’t get along
with Greece at all, and his competitive nature makes him always compete in
stuff.
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Greece
Heracles
Karpusi, Age 27
Inside his seemingly
carefree head, he’s endlessly thinking about philosophical things, cats, and
naps.
He loves cats.
Also, he has the
world’s longest national anthem.
He really hates
Turkey. Even as he’s reluctantly made
peace with his surroundings, they’ll quickly fight again.
If you dig in his
garden, you’ll find lots of precious historic ruins from his mother, so he
doesn’t build any subways or modern buildings.
Lately, Albania has
just been coming over to his house arbitrarily, so he’s been worrying about
some sensitive things.
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Egypt
Gupta Muhammad
Hassan
An individual young man
with a mysterious atmosphere.
He’s got various good
conditions and is pretty stubborn, but in reality he’s friendly and family-minded.
Like Greece, if you
dig you can find lots of mementoes from his mother, so he thinks it’s fine if
he can’t really modernize.
You can’t really
observe him talking.
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Belgium
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Canada-san
Matthew
Williams
An easygoing, softhearted and
gentle young man.
The polar bear Kumajirou is
always with him.
They’ve been together for so
long without even knowing about each other, so he can’t remember his name.
He hates being mistaken for
America, so he tries to show the appeal for Canada in various ways, but…
He hates fighting, but his
neighbor is his neighbor, so when will he be able to live in peace…?
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Cuba
A good-humored, nice big
brother with strong emotions.
He doesn’t get along with
America, but with Canada he’s pretty friendly.
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Taiwan
A strong-willed and fashionable
girl. Lately she can’t stop worrying.
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Korea
Im Yong Soo,
Age 15-16
A young man who shouts “~da
ze!” and is always “Going My Way”.
It’s a daily occurrence for him
to try and claim he is the origin of things.
He usually says “da ze!”, but
for the custom of cherishing your elders, he uses very polite language for
people above him.
His hobbies include studying
abroad and watching dramas. Seems like
he also likes Canada…
He loves the internet and
games.
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Hong Kong
A recently returned, previous
English colony.
His personality is that of
which you can’t really tell what he’s thinking, and his way of talking is a
mix of English and Japanese, making it seem a little Gyaru-o.
When he was under control of
England, he often lit firecrackers at festivals, startling him and thus
getting a giant scolding.
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Seychelles
A beautiful island floating in
the Indian Ocean that is often called “The Last Paradise”.
She’s a southern country girl
with the characteristics of light brown skin, black hair and red ribbons, and
a personality of a maybe-too-big heart and a little bit of sloppiness.
She’s achieved 0% self
sufficiency with food, and often laments over her high cost of living, but
she’s visited by France and England a lot so she’s still living pretty
carefree.
She speaks a mysterious
language that has French, English and various other languages mixed in
together.
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Sealand
Peter
Kirkland, Age 12
The miracle tiniest nation
(still unrecognized) that was an aftereffect of England’s out in the ocean
and became a country at some point.
A boy that runs around kind of
recklessly and uses the expression, “~na no desu yo”.
He’s got a small body, but it’s
entirely made of steel so he can shoot a Rocket Punch and also boast at a
probably unreasonable level.
Lately, he’s been selling Noble
Ranks to America and Japan, but he’s still been doing pretty good.
He prefers a pleasant
internet. Seems like he’s selling his
Prince, too.
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Grandpa Rome (Rome-jii-chan)
The lively supreme ruler of the
Mediterranean Sea. He has a lot of
stupid grandchildren.
He loves painting, sculptures,
music and the arts exceedingly, and also young, cute girls and delicious food.
When he sees a strong dude, he
overflows with excitement.
He had so much love, he fell in
love with both Greece’s mom and Egypt’s mom at first sight.
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Germania-san
Holy Roman Empire and others’
Grandpa.
He had unpleasant ties to
Grandpa Rome, where they rotted too much and became nothing but bones.
His personality is rough, and
the number of words he says is low. There
was also a time when he was Rome’s guard.
He delivered the fatal blow to
Grandpa Rome, and the many years that passed are lost in the darkness.
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Holy Roman Empire
The aftereffect of Germania-san. He seems pretty strong, but he has a weak
constitution.
He ran around very earnestly
for about a hundred years.
He loved Italy so much that his
house crumbled and he didn’t even care.
Thanks to Austria’s leaders he
was able to recover, but because of frequent hardships, he himself began to
crumble.
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