Eyecatch

Eyecatch is a particular scene that happens just before and after a commercial break. Eyecatches are normally present in just about every anime that airs on television, though they are not present in movies. Although there are no commercials during an episode on a DVD, eyecatches are still present.

Because Hetalia is not aired on television and instead aired through cellphones and the internet (as well as its 5 minute air time), eyecatches are often used to switch scenes. For example, in Episode 31: Academy Hetalia Christmas, when the Axis Powers are finished interviewing America and turning down his offer to try his cake, an eyecatch of America plays and switches to a new scene where the Axis Powers are interviewing Russia.

Eyecatch Debuts

Episode 03: North Italy
Episode 06: Germany, America, and UK
Episode 07: France
Episode 09: China
Episode 12: Japan
Episode 13: Russia
Episode 31: Finland
Episode 32: Rome
Episode 33: South Italy
Episode 35: Canada
Episode 42: Ukraine and Belarus
Episode 43: All three Baltics (Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia)
Episode 44: Switzerland and Liechtenstein
Episode 47: Poland, and a two-character eyecatch featuring France and UK
Episode 48: Austria
Episode 53: Prussia
Episode 54: Greece
Episode 55: Turkey
Episode 56: A single eyecatch of Lithuania, and a gag "Shieldtalia" one with Chibitalia
Episode 65: Hungary, in her maid outfit

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During the first season, eyecatches of only the Axis Powers and the Allied Forces were present. In the second season, new eyecatches featuring the other characters were added and played during select episodes. A Hetalia eyecatch consists of the Hetalia logo and a character popping out from behind the logo, saying "Hetalia" in a high (but not too high) pitched version of that character's normal voice. It is the voice actor that plays their character in the eyecatch (For example, Noriaki Sugiyama voices UK in the eyecatch as he does in the series).

Note: These images are not limited. The character can pop out anywhere from behind the Hetalia logo. These images are just examples of what can happen in an episode.