Based on a popular web-released manga series by Hidekazu Himaruya, this has been described as a "cynical gag" story set in Europe in the years between WW1 and WW2 (1918-1939), using exaggerated caricatures of the different nationalities as portrayed by a gaggle of bishōnen. For example, the Italia Veneziano character is into pasta and women. The Deutsche (German) bishi loves potatoes and sausages, and Nippon is an otaku boy. Installments of the manga have jumped back and forth in setting from the ancient times to modern-day geopolitics. The manga's title comes the Japanese words for "useless" (hetare) and Italy (Italia).

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Cast

Igirisu

Noriaki Sugiyama

America

Katsuyuki Konishi

Chuugoku

Yuki Kaida

Italia

Daisuke Namikawa

Doitsu

Hiroki Yasumoto

Russia

Yasuhiro Takato

Nihon

Hiroki Takahashi

France

Masaya Onosaka

Liechtenstein

Rie Kugimiya

Egypt

Hiroki Takahashi

Estonia

Atsushi Kousaka

Bulgaria

Gou Inoue