Hetalia: Axis Powers 
TV Show
Animation
Anime
Comedy
TV Show
Animation
Anime
Comedy
Updated: 4 May 2022
No rape or sexual assault
Rape or sexual assault mentioned, discussed, implied
Sexual harassment e.g non-consensual grabbing, touching, cat-calling)
Sexual relationship between adult and teenager
Child sex abuse
Incest
Attempted rape
Rape off-screen or strongly implied
Rape on-screen

Description

S1E1: Holy Roman Empire aggressively asks a young Italy (known as Chibitalia) to "become one with him"; this is played off as an awkward confession of love as both are young children, but this is still upsetting to Italy. This dynamic is continued in later Chibitalia segments. S1E10: Holy Roman Empire lifts up Italy's skirt and looks at his underwear while trying to chase a mouse. S1E12: France, due to his leader pressuring him into it, proposes to England. When England refuses, France forces him to sign a marriage registration. When England further resists, France restrains England and forcibly drags him away (due to the nature of the scene, some viewers have interpreted this as a prelude to France assaulting England off-screen, but this is not confirmed). Later in the same episode, Italy gives Japan a surprise hug; Japan treats Italy as if he had made an explicit sexual advance, and demands Italy "takes responsibility [for Japan]". S1E15: Japan sees Italy and Germany undressed in public due to the heat; when Japan expresses discomfort with this and asks them to put on clothing, they refuse. S2E6: Rome, as a ghost, harasses Germany for details on his sex life, despite Germany making it clear he is uncomfortable with the conversation. Rome also asks Germany if he is attracted to young boys, noting that relationships between older men and young boys were common when he was alive. S2E9: France, wanting to start a nudist Olympics event, publicly undresses himself and encourages other people to also undress for the event. When England calls him out on indecent behavior, he starts forcibly undressing England and does not back down until a third party steps in. S2E11: after France sarcastically tells Italy to flash his buttocks to other people, Italy misinterprets it as a serious suggestion and flashes Japan without consent. S2E16: Belarus sexually harasses her older brother, Russia, and even destroys some of his property when he refuses to marry her. S3E1.5: Hungary, who Prussia mistakenly believes is a cis man, complains of throbbing pain in her chest. Prussia responds by groping her and joking that it is her "weak spot", however, upon noticing she actually has breasts, he reacts with shame while Hungary laughs him off. S3E7: France stalks Austria, muses to himself about how he finds Austria attractive, and says he wants to make Austria "French territory". Later in the episode, there is a flashback with Italy as a young teenager visiting France, who openly fantasizes about Italy belonging to him and then exposes him to pornographic material. S3E12: after Prussia conquers Austrian territory, Austria states that Prussia has "invaded [his] vital regions", with other characters expressing embarrassment at his wording. While no sexual assault is actually involved, this line became a fandom meme, often in jokes involving sexual assault. S3E15: another Chibitalia segment focuses on Italy accidentally flashing his underwear to Holy Roman Empire while trying to reach a pantry; When Italy gets stuck, Holy Roman Empire hesitates because he is afraid that if he pulls Italy out, he will think Holy Roman Empire is assaulting him. Ultimately, he accidentally pulls off Italy's underwear, but Italy is otherwise unharmed and unaware of the situation. S3E17+18: there are no sexual advances, but Sweden repeatedly gets physically affectionate with Finland and even calls Finland his "wife" (even though Finland is male), despite Finland being visibly uncomfortable with Sweden getting affectionate with him. S4E14: after Hungary is wounded in a fight, Prussia rips clothing from his crotch to bandage her up. She refuses the bandaging due to it being from Prussia's crotch, but he tries to force it on her regardless (and only backs down once he sees her breasts and remembers she is a woman). S4E19: after Poland agrees to marry Lithuania for political purposes, Poland demands that he sees Lithuania's penis, despite Lithuania's discomfort with this. S5E3: exclusive to the English dub: after seeing Hungary swim, Italy makes multiple sexually-charged jokes towards her without her consent (this is not present in the original Japanese dialogue). S5E4: in a segment depicting Russia and Ukraine as children, Russia asks Ukraine how to make people listen to him. She suggests that Russia shows people "[his] breasts", to his discomfort. S5E11: multiple characters are blackmailed into dressing in embarrassing outfits, many of which are skimpy or sexually revealing clothing. S5E12: America destroys a window to talk to Japan, who is currently naked and taking a bath. S5E19: an adult man flirts with a young girl, and tells her he wants to make a pass at her when she is older. Several webcomic-exclusive strips and web-exclusive supplementary material, especially holiday special comics, often have sexual assault references that are much more explicit than the anime. - 'April Fool's 2007' involves France encouraging Spain to strip naked to appease a fictional god; Spain consents to this, but it is quickly revealed that France was purposely deceiving him. Supplementary material published alongside the comic depicts France forcibly stripping and groping several characters, as well as taking revealing photos without their consent, in response to fan requests. - 'Christmas 2007' heavily focuses on France stripping and sexually assaulting several characters; furthermore, there is a scene where France says he is attracted to children, and poses with two young boys while naked. There is also a scene where France assaults Austria, and his wife Hungary is visibly aroused by the assault. - 'Christmas 2010' has a major plot point of finding a person with a mole on their chest to prevent an apocalypse. While it is later revealed there were no sexual intentions, a significant part of the comic focuses on several characters (including minors) either being kidnapped then forcibly undressed, re-dressed in sexually revealing outfits without consent, or undressing themselves despite being uncomfortable, all with the purpose of finding someone with a matching mole. - The strip 'Botticelli's Erotic Paintings' involves France and Spain forcing a child to strip, groping him, and fantasizing about having sex with him. - In 'Comic Diary 7', Spain asks two children (Romano and Italy) to marry him when they are older. As an adult, Romano conditionally accepts the marriage proposal. - A running gag involves webcomic-exclusive character South Korea groping and caressing other people's breasts without consent. - The supplementary visual novel ('Gakuen Hetalia'), involves two instances of sexual assault; England chains Seychelles to a dog collar and mandating that she submits to all of his demands. Later, France ostensibly defends Seychelles from England, but then follows this up with getting physically affectionate with her and trying to undress her against her will. Worthy of note: two popular ships in the fandom are America/England and Spain/Romano, and while neither are confirmed canon, there have been some hints in canon material about romantic relationships involving these characters (mainly in webcomic material omitted from the anime). However, these ships have been considered problematic by some viewers due to the fact that Spain and England were formerly parental figures to Romano and America as children, respectively, and England also considered America an adoptive brother (though it has been confirmed in the manga they no longer consider each other siblings). Additionally, there are multiple running gags throughout the show involving Italy and Romano: Italy often strips naked: it isnot his intention to flash people, however, he often unintentionally flashes people and runs around naked (to many characters' discomfort). Another running gag involves Italy sleeping in the same bed as Germany, often while undressed, even though Germany expresses discomfort with this. Italy and Romano have protruding hair curls that serve as erogenous zones; when their curls are touched, they will become aroused. There are multiple gags where characters run into awkward situations upon pulling their curls, unintentionally or otherwise (a notable example is S4E1, where an adult Spain pulls on a child Romano's curl).

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