Japanese: ハヤテのごとく
English: Hayate The Combat Butler
Type: Manga
Volumes: 48 +
Chapters: 546 +
Status: Publishing
Published: Oct 6, 2004 to ?
Genres: Action, Comedy, Parody, Romance, Shounen, Harem
Mangaka: Hata Kenjirou (Story & Art)
Serialization: Shounen Sunday
Synopsis: An unfortunate high school student, Ayasaki Hayate spends his days working at part-time jobs to support his extravagant parents. After incurring a debt of 150 million yen, they disappear, and Hayate was left holding the bag. Whilst running away from the debt collectors, he tries to kidnap a girl for ransom (however, the girl misunderstands his intentions and thinks he is confessing his love to her). Almost immediately, he botches the kidnap attempt but then manages to save her from other kidnappers, causing her to fall in love with him. The girl, Sanzenin Nagi, is actually the daughter of a millionaire family. In recognition of his services, she hires Hayate as a resident butler and even pays off the debt collectors.
This is how Hayate becomes a combat butler. In order to serve and protect his mistress, Hayate's life-or-death butler life begins.(MAL)
Baka updates: Hayate Ayasaki, 16, the world's unluckiest boy. Working hard as a child for food and school fees, his unemployed and indebted parents sold him to the yakuza for his internal organs. After temporarily escaping the criminals and contemplating the benefits of a life of crime, he was saved by a wealthy young girl; who now employs him as a live-in butler.
Related Manga
Side story:
- Hayate no Gotoku! 0,
- Hayate no Gotoku!
Alternative setting:
- Hata Kenjiro Shoki Sakuhinshuu: Hayate no Gotoku! no Mae
Adaptation:
- Hayate no Gotoku! Heaven Is a Place on Earth,
- Hayate no Gotoku! Cuties,
- Hayate no Gotoku! OVA,
- Hayate no Gotoku!, Hayate no Gotoku!!
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Licensed in English
Viz Media (28 volumes, ongoing)
Source: MAL Manga info, Baka updates, Bato.to
Main characters
Hayate Ayasaki (綾崎 ハヤテ)
Age: 16
Birthday: November 11
Height: 168 cm
Weight: 57 kg (Body fat ratio is under 10%)
Blood type: A
Likes: violin
Dislikes: Kotetsu Segawa, anyone who hurts Nagi, his parents
Hayate has had to work to support his parent's bad habits since the age of eight, always moving from job to job, as he is fired when he is discovered to be underage. Hayate's dad is unemployed and his mother is a compulsive gambler, which leads inevitably to their bankruptcy.
Hayate is a very selfless and generous person, always trying to help others in need even if it means causing harm to himself. He is very independent and skilled in many things, i.e being a good cook, housekeeper, and he can even identify fake works of art with one glimpse (thanks to one of his father's con jobs in the past) among many others. He has super human strength, tremendous speed, retaliation, and endurance allowing him to do things which are normally impossible. However, Hayate is rather dense when it comes to love. His poor empathy is always troubling him as he always misunderstands the feelings of people around him like Nagi's feelings toward him. This is probably because of his innocent personality and inexperience with girl's thoughts and feelings.
The characters in this series continually remark that Hayate looks poor and needy. He believes that everyone hates him, except children, though he doesn't think of children as being anything other than friends. He can also play the violin. Despite his terrible luck, Hayate lives up to the title of "combat butler" as he is proficient in repelling attacks from almost anything, including other butlers.
Nagi Sanzenin (三千院 ナギ)
Age: 13
Birthday: December 3
Height: 138 cm
Weight: 29 kg
Blood type: AB
Likes: manga (reading, drawing, and writing), anime, video games
Dislikes: school, spicy food, dark places, finance, learning, being kidnapped, losing to anyone, being alone, anyone who "likes" Hayate
Nagi is the only heir to the Sanzenin fortune. She isn't just your average "rich girl." Calling her "rich" would be selling her short. The "Sanzenin fortune" is so large, throwing away 20 trillion yen in a red herring investment is considered a prank.
Nagi is a short-tempered, spoiled, anti-social or socially withdrawn, hates to lose and to admit her faults, has a considerably hard time confessing her true feelings towards Hayate or anything in the fact of the matter, she acts immature a large portion of the time but is ultimately a good, educated girl. She is good at finance and likes to learn. Her mind is possessed with her own. She cares for her family and friends, but she doesn't want to show her concern directly. She usually tends to show her concern with "formal words." She is a tomboy and tsundere hikkikomori princess. Since going outside is very dangerous because of her status, Nagi favors staying at home. Not liking company in general, she lives away from her grandfather in a "small" (compared to the main Sanzenin estate) mansion with minimal staff. Despite her Otaku NEET-like lifestyle, she is intelligent enough to skip 3 grades at school, which even turns out to be one of Tokyo's most prestigious academies. She has an otaku-level hobby with manga, anime and video games, and draws her own manga.
Her Otaku-level is high enough that she has submitted entries for multiple amateur manga competitions, though her entries never won.
Her only surviving family is her grandfather, whom she doesn't like, so she regards Maria as a mother or older sister figure, and warns Hayate not to touch Maria in any indecent way or she will never forgive him. She has a crush on Hayate, and has misunderstood Hayate thinking that he loves her.
Maria (マリア)
Age: 17
Height: 158 cm
Weight: 42 kg
Blood type: O
Birthday: December 24
Likes: general housework, singing and karaoke, games (video games, chess, billiards), teasing people
Dislikes: cockroaches
Maria is Nagi's maid and surrogate older sister/mother, both appearing and acting in a manner more mature than people typical of her age. Because of this, even people near to her speak of her as if she is older than she really is, a pet peeve for her. A phrase she commonly responds back with is "I'm still a fresh seventeen year old."
She is the character with the most common sense, although her sense of value in money is as bad as Nagi's, and appears to be the one in charge of everything in Nagi's manor, since everyone from the head butler to the SP either obeys or fears her (or both in some cases). She is highly intelligent, somewhat devious, good at general housework and likes games of all kinds, though she is Katsaridaphobic, meaning she is deathly afraid of cockroaches, which she refers to as "the dark life-form that exists in the kitchen and other places." She has also proved capable of self-defense techniques in times of need. She is, however, poor at disguises, as seen multiple times when she tries to spy on Hayate and Nagi and is recognized instantly. Maria also placed her mark in Hakuou by being the youngest student council president at the age of 10 in her first year. She is one of the only people mentioned to be smarter than Nagi, this is the reason why Nagi made Maria her only maid. She started off as Nagi's tutor. But although she is highly intelligent, she has no clue about the "normal life." Like for instance, on the manga, she didn't know that there are other trains than bullet trains.
Source: MAL
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