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Well… if you are expecting a detailed summary or analysis of the show and/or episodes, you won’t find that here. There are enough anime blogs already, and anyway if you are into deh anime, you know this show already (if you are not into anime, you just won’t read this). For the “Anime” posts, I’ll just throw some screenshots (yeah I like to take screenshots), and some random comments about the show or specific moments/characters. Actually, I’m the kind who can get interested into a show after seeing some random pics/fanarts instead of a fuckin’ long text by a 16 years-old animefag. So that’s just how I’ll write these posts, for people like me. This text was just for introducing this category, now look at the pics or GTFO.

Short summary : An unlucky guy with a huge debt ends up becoming the butler of a young girl he wanted to kidnap for a ransom.

Before Hayate no Gotoku was made into anime, I only read the first chapter of the manga long ago, and didn’t remember anything about it. Though, I was looking forward to it, ’cause I knew it was good stuff, but the main reason I was looking forward to it was… Hinagiku.

Like I said earlier, I can become hooked on a show just because of a picture, fanart or whatever I saw. And some weeks (months ?) before the first episode was released, I fell in love with Hinagiku Katsura after I read a nice doujinshi that I randomly grabbed just because it had a cool cover (usually I don’t download doujinshi from anime/manga I don’t watch/read, I didn’t even know it was a Hayate doujin).

cover of the mentioned doujinshi

And thankfully, I wasn’t disappointed by this show after seeing the first episodes. This is a quite funny show, and rather original love story. Hinagiku didn’t disappoint me either, she’s awesome and moreover dubbed by Akiha-sama’s seiyuu.

But this show has a major bad point : the characters cast.

How can a show have so much awesome characters ? That’s unfair. I mean ok, the show will be 52 episodes long, but man you can’t give enough screentime to everyone. When an episode is centered on a specific character, it means you won’t have the chance to see the other characters. And it’s heart-breaking to not see Hinagiku for 5 episodes straight.

Of course I’m not saying this seriously. Having lot of awesome characters is cool. It makes every episodes nice to watch, and choosing a favorite is pretty hard. Well mine is obviously Hinagiku, with Isumi as a close second, but I like also Izumi, Ayumu (aka Hamzawa-san), Miki, Saki and of course Maria-san and Nagi.

Anime version of Hinagiku Katsura

Nagi, the heroine, in the first ep. So cute with that huge coat.

Episode 8 & 9 : is Isumi Nagi’s first love ? I approve.

Yeah, it’s true that Hayate seems to be in love with Maria-san. But I think that he has some feelings for Hina too. I’m all for a Hinagiku ending, regardless.

Izumi Segawa is a cute and funny character who doesn’t get enough screentime. “Hayata-kun~”

Ayumu Nishizawa, the first girl who was in love with Hayate before he became a butler. Anime girls who properly confess her love to the main guy always got extra win points from me. Also, it seems that Hayate thinks of her occasionally, so we can consider her as a potential lover for Hayate, with Hina and Maria-san.

Hinagiku again, ’cause she’s plain awesome. And she’s a kendoka, which makes her even cooler.

Miki Hanabishi, another nice character who appears way too rarely.

Hayate no Gotoku contains also some fanservice, like these artworks which seem to be targeted especially to people who likes to take screenshots.

Nagi rocks for being more ‘deredere’ than ‘tsuntsun’, unlike the standard tsundere characters. (if you didn’t get that comment, lurk moar)

Isumi Saginomiya, an unexpected rival for Nagi.

:3

Nagi idealizes Hina a lot. That makes me think that some yuri vibes should be developed around Hinagiku, it would be nice.

Saki, the other awesome maid. We need more girls like her in anime. I mean, a cute girl in her 20’s.

Wataru-kun seems to like Saki’s delicious flat chest a lot.

Another nice (and adult) character who appeared just recently. Too bad I forgot her name… :p

I uploaded all the screenshots I had on my computer, and it finally ended up being somewhat a (female) characters introduction. And moreover… no Maria-san screenshots ??? Next time maybe :p

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