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September 7th, 2007, 02:51 pm
Hayate no Gotoku - Hayate the Combat Butler
Keiichiro Kawaguchi
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Links:
AniDB (http://anidb.net/a4917)
ANN (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=7490)
AnimeNFO (http://www.animenfo.com/animetitle,3961,dseptv,hayate_no_gotok.html)
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipeida.org/wiki/Hayate_no_Gotoku)
Main Site (ja) (http://hayatenogotoku.com/)
License: None
Preview:
Opening (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoXMiPD7hlw)
Promo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9J61OuDSU8)
Awards:
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Synapse:
16-year-old Hayate is really down on his luck. Because his unemployed parents are good-for-nothings who waste what money they have on gambling, Hayate had to start working at a young age to help out his family. Although such experience has made him inhumanly fast and tough and skilled at things boys aren`t normally skilled it, it has also left him in an awkward position, as his parents have racked up such a huge gambling debt that they have sold Hayate to the yakuza for the value of his organs. In a desperate attempt to avoid that fate, Hayate decides to become a “bad guy” and kidnap someone to be held for ransom, but his efforts to do so are mistaken as a confession of love by the girl he targets. When he helps save the (as it turns out) ultra-wealthy 13-year-old Nagi from real kidnappers, she takes him in and gives him a job as her new personal butler (and love interest) until he can pay off his debt. But Hayate is more attracted to Nagi`s beautiful teenage maid Maria, and head butler Klaus is initially disapproving of the boy with such a poor look. And then there`s Nagi`s pet Tama, who is also a force to be reckoned with.
---ANN
Opinions:
The anime, from start to current, is funny. It kinda latched on to me on the first episode. It has quite a few parodies in it; often bleeped out from Wowow's censorship (most creative and humorous way to do it). Each episode has a general theme and the revolves around a somewhat misunderstood love between Nagi and Hayate. Give the pilot episode a chance; you won't be sorry.
Keiichiro Kawaguchi
http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/176/10qt0.jpg
Links:
AniDB (http://anidb.net/a4917)
ANN (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=7490)
AnimeNFO (http://www.animenfo.com/animetitle,3961,dseptv,hayate_no_gotok.html)
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipeida.org/wiki/Hayate_no_Gotoku)
Main Site (ja) (http://hayatenogotoku.com/)
License: None
Preview:
Opening (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoXMiPD7hlw)
Promo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9J61OuDSU8)
Awards:
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/6086/mstampv2li6.png
Synapse:
16-year-old Hayate is really down on his luck. Because his unemployed parents are good-for-nothings who waste what money they have on gambling, Hayate had to start working at a young age to help out his family. Although such experience has made him inhumanly fast and tough and skilled at things boys aren`t normally skilled it, it has also left him in an awkward position, as his parents have racked up such a huge gambling debt that they have sold Hayate to the yakuza for the value of his organs. In a desperate attempt to avoid that fate, Hayate decides to become a “bad guy” and kidnap someone to be held for ransom, but his efforts to do so are mistaken as a confession of love by the girl he targets. When he helps save the (as it turns out) ultra-wealthy 13-year-old Nagi from real kidnappers, she takes him in and gives him a job as her new personal butler (and love interest) until he can pay off his debt. But Hayate is more attracted to Nagi`s beautiful teenage maid Maria, and head butler Klaus is initially disapproving of the boy with such a poor look. And then there`s Nagi`s pet Tama, who is also a force to be reckoned with.
---ANN
Opinions:
The anime, from start to current, is funny. It kinda latched on to me on the first episode. It has quite a few parodies in it; often bleeped out from Wowow's censorship (most creative and humorous way to do it). Each episode has a general theme and the revolves around a somewhat misunderstood love between Nagi and Hayate. Give the pilot episode a chance; you won't be sorry.