Yeah, I'd stay far away from this one. It has every power of WW2 personified as an anime boy. If I had the word hate... you know the rest. Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan shouldn't be turned into anime boys.
France (フランス, Furansu) is an overly-romantic, carefree man. In the series, he is shown to have a long-held rivalry with England. He makes sexual passes at many characters. France explains away his long history of military defeats as a joke from God, but he believes he is gifted with his "charms" and his supreme cooking skills.
Kantai Collection (KanColle) – A Japanese browser game (later anime) where WWII-era Japanese warships are personified as girls. Hugely popular in Japan around 2013–2016. KanColle started mostly with Imperial Japanese Navy ships, but later added foreign ones. For France, the characters are:
Richelieu – Personification of the French battleship Richelieu.
Jean Bart – Battleship, Richelieu’s sister ship.
Commandant Teste – Seaplane tender.
Azur Lane – A Chinese mobile game (also with anime and manga) that includes warships from multiple countries (Japan, USA, UK, Germany, etc.) as anime girls. This one has a more international cast compared to KanColle. Azur Lane has a whole French faction called Iris Libre (Free Iris, based on Free France) and Vichya Dominion (based on Vichy France). French shipgirls include:
Richelieu – Battleship, leader-type character (Free Iris).
Jean Bart – Battleship (Vichya Dominion, later joins Free Iris).
Le Malin – Destroyer.
Le Triomphant – Destroyer.
Algérie – Heavy cruiser.
Béarn – Aircraft carrier.
Saint Louis – Heavy cruiser.
Gascogne – Battleship (super prototype type).
Dupleix, Émile Bertin, Vauquelin, Kersaint, Forbin, Surcouf, etc. – Various cruisers, destroyers, and subs.
PS: those two games I had in mind immediately, but I used a bit of AI to put up those lists of characters, added some links manually (for other characters just swap the character name in query)
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Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz · 20 pts · 350d
Pepe Le Pew is the first character that comes to mind for France
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 350d
Jean Pierre Polnareff for me.
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org · 18 pts · 350d
Polandball
khannie@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 350d
Hon hon hon
Red0ctober@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 350d
Not specifically French, but Hetalia is straight up countries as people.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1356878/
FerretyFever0@fedia.io · 2 pts · 350d
Yeah, I'd stay far away from this one. It has every power of WW2 personified as an anime boy. If I had the word hate... you know the rest. Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan shouldn't be turned into anime boys.
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website · 12 pts · 350d
Asterix
ace_garp@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 350d
and Obelix
Echolynx@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 350d
Scandinavia and the World (comic)
Infrapink@thebrainbin.org · 4 pts · 350d
It even has two Frances!
litchralee@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 350d
Does a webcomic count as a franchise? https://satwcomic.com/
And here are all of France's appearances: https://satwcomic.com/the-world/france
Ephera@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 350d
Polandball would be another web comic like that. Although the characters are just circles with flags in them, so no idea how useful that is.
jxk@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 350d
It's only a matter of time before they make "The Polandball Movie"
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 350d
Pepe le Pew?
Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz · 6 pts · 350d
Flight of the conchords is 100% your typical New Zealander
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 350d
Oh good, I thought they were Australians...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2gii2nenUg
Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz · 3 pts · 350d
The Kiwi / Aussie rivalry is great, we rip each other to shreds, but will stand up for one another if anyone else tries it.
Mora@pawb.social · 4 pts · 350d
I mean the Expedition 33 cast is basically French people.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 1 pts · 350d
Zis game, so tight!
__siru__@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 350d
Maybe I am completely misunderstanding, but wouldn't Marianne be the main character representing France?
Wiki Entry
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 350d
Dexter's Lab but only for one episode.
SmoothIsFast@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 350d
Omelette du fromage!
Hugin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 349d
Hetalia: Axis Powers is this during WWII.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 3 pts · 350d
Civilization?
Frostbeard@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 350d
Girls und Panzer
Marty_TF@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 350d
https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Non-player_characters#Francis_the_Talking_France
LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 350d
Punch-Out! Wii has you fighting caricatures of various nationalities
lencioni@midwest.social · 1 pts · 350d
Street Fighter
AmidFuror@fedia.io · 1 pts · 350d
Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room with Pierre and Suzette.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 350d
How about these happy little friends?
Phryges - Wikipedia https://share.google/xdlE0TIy1sNRHC8Yr
JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 350d
While not about France, the prominent example that comes to mind is Star Wars personifying the United States as the Empire.
MBech@feddit.dk · 1 pts · 350d
I thought it was supposed to portray the Soviet Union as the empire?
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 1 pts · 350d
Return of the Jedi with the Ewoks fighting the Empire is a direct reference to the Vietnam war.
Although the easier to see reference for the Empire is Nazi Germany.
hisao@ani.social · -4 pts · 350d
PS: those two games I had in mind immediately, but I used a bit of AI to put up those lists of characters, added some links manually (for other characters just swap the character name in query)
AmourDeFrance@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 349d
Richelieu is beautiful hehe