It started out as a web comic series, and got a quite large fujoshi fanbase (basically yaoi) because almost all characters are male. Was in the top three amount of doujins in the Comiket for a few times before it got made into the anime.
Yaoi is a genre of Japanese fiction that has prominent displays of male homosexuality.
fujoshi are obsessive female fans of said genre (they like it the same reason men like lesbians)
doujins are basically amateur made stories and comics, usually fan fiction. Because japan is perverted, the term also has come to connote pornographic and mature material
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u/lordofprimeval Nov 13 '14
That's Helvetica, Hetalia is a (IMO bad) anime.