YMMV / Axis Powers Hetalia Episode 23.5

• Awesome Art: The "screenshots" in simultaneously the best and worst possible ways. They look just like the original show...including the one where Japan and Germany are dissecting Italy.
• Nightmare Fuel: It's a creepypasta. It comes with the territory. The "screenshots" are a good start.
• Nightmare Retardant:
  • If you go by the interpretation that nation-tans are immortal, it's kind of hard for Italy's death to hold any weight, seeing as he's just going to come back later. Of course, there are also clear Who Wants to Live Forever? implications in there too.
  • The episode apparently immediately led into the next one as it would normally, which implies that it didn't skip the credits. The idea that this nightmare would immediately be followed by Marukaite Chikyuu kind of kills the mood.
• Tear Jerker: Italy's death was bad enough, but the part where he wakes up while Germany and Japan are eating his organs and starts panicking as he realizes what's happening is even worse.
• The Woobie: All three of the Nation-Tans present in the story.