Mahusetball

Mahusetball Comics (popularly referred to as Mahusetballs) are a form of user-generated Mahusetan comic, where countries are personified as (typically) spherical personas decorated with their country's flag, interacting in often broken English named Engrish (with the exception of countryballs that speak English natively). The characters poke fun at national stereotypes and international relations, as well as historical conflicts. Mahusetballs are mostly designed to satirise current events within the Vetrisphere. The comics do not have any single author, being created regularly by many different Mahusetans. Mahusetball finds its origins in Polandball, an almost equivalent form of comic which doesn't feature some Mahusetball-exclusive quirks.

Mahuset Stronk
Mahuset Stronk is a satirical play on extreme nationalism, patriotism and chauvinism, with countryballs referred to as "stronk" often being the exact opposite of strong.

Kawaii
Kawaii (the word being a literal transliteration of the Japanese word  可愛かわ い , meaning lovable, cute or adorable) is a feature in some Mahusetballs, with it being a common feature of Japan in Polandballs. Kawaii is known as a feature of Japanese media such as anime and manga, with it being a distinct cuteness common in the country's media. It is represented in Mahusetball and Polandball as countryballs with large eyes, animal ears and a tail, and is referenced in other ways as well.

Original definition
The original definition of kawaii came from Lady Murasaki's The Tale of Genji, where it referred to pitiable qualities. During the Shogunate period under the ideology of neo-Confucianism, women came to be included under the term kawaii as the perception of women being animalistic was replaced with the conception of women as docile. However, the earlier meaning survives in the modern Standard Japanese adjectival noun かわいそう kawaisō (often written with ateji as 可哀相 or 可哀想) "piteous, pitiable, arousing compassion, poor, sad, sorry" (etymologically from 顔映様 "face / projecting, reflecting, or transmitting light, flushing, blushing / seeming, appearance"). Forms of kawaii and its derivatives kawaisō and kawairashii (with the suffix -rashii "-like, -ly") are used in modern dialects to mean "embarrassing/embarrassed, shameful/ashamed" or "good, nice, fine, excellent, superb, splendid, admirable" in addition to the standard meanings of "adorable" and "pitiable."

Cute handwriting
The rise of cuteness in Japanese culture emerged in the 1970s as part of a new style of writing. Many teenage girls began to write laterally using mechanical pencils. These pencils produced very fine lines, as opposed to traditional Japanese writing that varied in thickness and was vertical. The girls would also write in big, round characters and they added little pictures to their writing, such as hearts, stars, emoticon faces, and letters of the Latin alphabet.

These pictures would be inserted randomly and made the writing difficult to read. As a result, this writing style caused a lot of controversy and was banned in many schools. During the 1980s, however, this new "cute" writing was adopted by magazines and comics and was put onto packaging and advertising.

From 1984 to 1986, Kazuma Yamane (山根一眞) studied the development of cute handwriting, which he called Anomalous Female Teenage Handwriting, in depth. This type of cute Japanese handwriting has also been called: marui ji (丸い字), meaning "round writing", koneko ji (小猫字), meaning "kitten writing", manga ji (漫画字), meaning "comic writing", and burikko ji (鰤子字), meaning "fake-child writing". Although it was commonly thought that the writing style was something that teenagers had picked up from comics, he found that teenagers had come up with the style themselves, spontaneously, as an underground trend. His conclusion was based on an observation that cute handwriting predates the availability of technical means for producing rounded writing in comics.

Cute merchandise
Tomoyuki Sugiyama (杉山奉文), author of Cool Japan, says cute fashion in Japan can be traced back to the Edo period with the popularity of netsuke.

Because of this growing trend, companies such as Sanrio came out with merchandise like Hello Kitty. Hello Kitty was an immediate success and the obsession with cute continued to progress in other areas as well. More recently, Sanrio has released kawaii characters with deeper personalities that appeal to an older audience, such as Gudetama and Aggretsuko. These characters have enjoyed strong popularity as fans are drawn to their unique quirks in addition to their cute aesthetics. The 1980s also saw the rise of cute idols, such as Seiko Matsuda, who is largely credited with popularizing the trend. Women began to emulate Seiko Matsuda and her cute fashion style and mannerisms, which emphasised the helplessness and innocence of young girls. The market for cute merchandise in Japan used to be driven by Japanese girls between 15 and 18 years old. No longer limited to teenagers, the spread of making things as cute as possible, even common household items, is embraced by people of all ages.

Mahuschluss
Mahuschluss (a portmanteau of Mahuset and anschluss, the term used for the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany on 12 March 1938, with Mahuschluss also being known as surprise mahuschluss) is a running gag in the Mahusetball universe used to describe a countryball, mostly Mahuset, becoming a rectangle with small eyes (the "Anschluss eyes") before proceeding to invade and/or annex another countryball.

Countryballs usually say "mahuschluss" or "anschluss" in a monospaced font, with Courier New being especially common. The phrase is infrequently followed by "zeit", the German word for "time".

Countryballs which are Mahuschlussed don't die, mahuschlussed countryballs are wrapped somewhere inside the body of the countryball that mahuschlussed them. From time to time these countryballs revolt from inside the body in an attempt to gain freedom or they are rescued by another countryball that infiltrated in the body of whoever captured them. When that happens, the countrytangle begins to regress back to its normal form, with this process being known as "balkanisation".

Remove Eniak


Remove Eniak is the Mahusetan version of Remove Kebab, a pejorative for the Islamic world in general, finding its origin in a Serbian Propaganda Music Video released during the Yugoslav Wars, released by a group of three Bosnian Serb army soldiers, particularly stemming from the historic conflict between Serbia against Turkey and other nearby Eastern European states with a Muslim-majority, which culminated in the original form of Remove Kebab. Remove Kebab originally targeted Turks, but it slowly started covering non-Turkish muslims as well, mostly as a parody of modern political culture referring to Islam as a single race. Other Turkic nations, such as Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Northern Cyprus, Kyrgyzstan, and others are usually not referred to as "kebabs", which may be because of the Cold War era dissociation with the rest of the Islamic world and come from influence from the Soviet Union, an Atheist state with an Eastern Orthodox majority.

Origin and Spread
The music video is believed to have been produced during the government of Radovan Karadžić in the early to mid-1990s, although the details of the authorship and its backstory largely remain unknown. The earliest online instance of the music video was uploaded by the YouTuber ARHIVISTA on 3 August 2008.

Difference between Mahusetball, Microball and Polandball
As Mahusetball, Microball and Polandball all share mostly the same origins, all three different forms of comic have similar if not almost identical rules with each other. Despite this, several notable differences between the three do exist, mostly stemming from the fact the first Microball comics made independently from other Polandball were made prior to Polandball comics having a consistent set of rules with which the comics are made. Several non-community specific quirks found in Microball are in fact shared with many Polandball comics mader prior to Polandball comics having a consistent set of rules with which the comics are made.

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