ZettaiRyouiki's Blog

May 2, 2013 8:16 AM
Anime Relations: Hayate no Gotoku!, Hayate no Gotoku!!, Hayate no Gotoku!!: Atsu ga Natsuize - Mizugi-hen!, Hayate no Gotoku! Heaven Is a Place on Earth, Hayate no Gotoku! Can't Take My Eyes Off You, Hayate no Gotoku! Cuties
Hello, and welcome to another ZettaiBlog! For those of you that are new, I’m Zettai!

: And I’m Blog! Not! My name is Chiaki Minami, and Zettai’s assistant in his mad blogging antics. Though he wishes I put the “ass” in assistant…

Aw, Chiaki, are you still mad from my idea for your assistant uniform?

: I’m not wearing a sukumizu with a thong bottom, idiot. *throws Fujioka the teddy bear at Zettai*

Urgh! *gets hit* And that’s why she’s around in casual clothes. Anyway, the girl I am going to blog hasn’t come yet… I’m worried…

Mysterious Silhouette: Aha! *crashes through the window* You need my assistance!

Who are you?

MS: I am, of course…



: I will replace the girl you wanted to blog!

: Well, I’m not sure you can…

Sure!

: What!?

Well, it’s not the usual, but I think the girl I was meant to blog couldn’t come as otherwise she’d be here already, so we can cover her next time.

: What if she gets angry?

I’ll try to calm her.

: I’ll make sure to stay away…

: Er… Don’t forget about me…

Right, right! Your blog! Coming!

Head

Hair
Isumi’s hair is long and dark, though the exact color seems to vary: in the manga covers and first anime it’s a fairly dark shade of purple, though JC Staff made it dark blue instead and modern animes stuck with that. Regardless it’s a great color and always matches her eyes, so no complaints here. Oh yeah, when she uses a lot of power her hair becomes spiky white, which isn’t as good as her usual but it’s also pretty and nice for variety. As for the hairstyle, it’s clearly MEANT to be a hime cut, just it, well, is not: Her bangs aren’t blunt and the sidebangs are too short, though this one is used occasionally for variety. Still, an almost-hime cut is nice too, and her hair being long and beautiful never hurts!
Grade: A

Eyes
While Isumi’s hair is rather inconsistent, her eyes seem to be slightly more consistent, being always a darker shade of blue. While I tend to flip whenever a girl with blue eyes shows up DARK blue isn’t as bad, plus it goes really well with her hair color, especially on the versions that make it dark blue as well. The design in the third and fourth seasons is really pretty, that helps!
Grade: B

: Is… Is he always this chatty?

: You should see him when he does NOT like the girl.

Body

Build
Hayate no Gotoku is full of slender girls, and Isumi is no exception. At 144 cm she’s even on my ideal height range and her 30 kg weight are a bit light, but nothing out of the extraordinary as far anime goes. Like most of her cast her chest is very flat, and her legs aren’t anything extraordinary but not bad for her age. Basically, while her body isn’t perfect she is still fairly high on my tastes.
Grade: A-

: Lolicom!

: Lolicom!

LOLIS!

: Idiot!

Butt
While the anime is dull and lacks fanservice, the manga has some and that includes Isumi showing her buttocks! We don’t get any awesome shot but there are some decent ones, and her ass isn’t particularly big but it’s to be expected from her body type. Still, go middle school girls showing their asses!
Grade: C

Clothes
Like many animated characters Isumi is often seen in the same pair clothes: A kimono with a stole. Generally it’s a dark blue kimono, except on JC Staff’s anime where it’s pink instead. An early manga cover gives her a nice red one instead. This might sound like a foreigner stereotype, but girls in kimono are cute. Despite this, or perhaps because of this, circumstances like conspiring towards her to get her in other outfits: the manga gives us maid uniform Isumi to please ghost priest Linn, with the first season having a great episode, outright described by Wakamoto as being for Isumi fans, where we get to see her in Ayumu’s blazer school uniform, school swimsuit AND gym clothes! Speaking of swimsuits, aside from this episode she only wears bikinis, which don’t suit her much. Finally official art helps a little: DVD covers give us witch Isumi, manga art gives us gothloli Isumi, character CD covers give us casual Isumi and the card game has dominatrix Isumi. All are the same great girl tho: Isumi!
Grade: A

: Now I’m curious. Maybe is this idiot’s influence, but Isumi, do you… do you wear underwear?

: Of course. It’s not panties, but… *takes off her kimono to show she wears a sarashi and a fundoshi, then spins around to show off* Maybe it’s weird I wear this…

No! Not at all! You look beautiful!

: Oh… *blushes* Thanks!

: Idiot…

Mind

Personality
Mysterious and a little odd, Isumi is known for having a bad sense of direction and always getting lost. In truth it’s more like she has the attention span of a small animal or a bad student in study hour and gets easily distracted to solve injustices and help others. When she actually stays quiet she’s a quiet and sweet soft-spoken girl, who is nice and friendly to others, though she has a snarky side she lets out occasionally. Like all the women in her family, Isumi has supernatural powers, which have often been used to assist Hayate in times of need to great effect. That also means Isumi has good screentime when it’s time to fight something, though that’s not often. Unfortunately, her family is also horrible at machines and she’s no better, proclaiming they are “broken” when she just doesn’t know how to make them work. Oh, she’s also a really weird girl sometimes, like her crazy entrances, or how she’s the only person who seems to understand Nagi’s overly complicated manga. Despite this she’s actually decent enough at taking care of herself and doesn’t need a maid like Nagi or Sakuya. She has never washed her own hair, however. She’s also good at catching feelings of others, except those towards her as seen below. Isumi’s only “flaw” to call it something is her relative unpopularity, as while not hated she always seems to barely scratch the Top 10 of most popular characters, but ya know, anyone who is not Hina or maybe Athena or Nagi might as well not exist as far fans of this show go.
Grade: B+

: I’m the most popular person in the show so I can’t talk for Isumi, but I don’t think that-

Wait, hold on! Isumi is GONE!

: She must have got lost! I’ll go get her while you blog some more.

Libido
She shows some attraction to Hayate, though so does nearly every woman in this series, and her crush is rather downplayed when compared to everyone else’s. Aside from that she shows none, and is in fact absolutely oblivious to Wataru’s feelings towards her even though they’re obvious to everyone else. That said she doesn’t hate sexuality at least, though naturally she wasn’t pleased when playing maid for Linn either. Finally, there is a set of two official images of her “playing” with Sakuya, in one Sakuya leads and in the other Isumi does. Neither means much, but they’re fun to bring up.
Grade: C-

Age
Isumi is 13. Given her birthday is in September and that six in-series months took eight out-of-series YEARS, we won’t see this change until 2016 or so, give or take a year. So she’s on my ideal age and this won’t change, great. She’s also seen as a very young kid in flashbacks, as always I only mention this for the sake of covering everything.
Grade: A+

Voice
Miyu Matsuri’s voice is really cute AND suits Isumi perfectly! She even does a good job singing her character CDs and her Cuties ED. Isumi speaks on a shy and sweet way and using a polite speech pattern, both things I enjoy as well. As an addendum, the aforementioned character CDs come with tiny clips of the girls reading various male names, presumably on hopes you get to hear your name from your fav girl. Unfortunately this only covers Japanese names, boo!
Grade: A

Total: 81 (A-)

I’m done and I can’t even talk to the girl. This blog is a disaster. Maybe I could burn it and get free money from the insurance…

: No arsonist dreams, idiot. I found Isumi!

Good work, Chiaki! Where was she?

: She was several streets by, helping some bricklayers. People were staring agape, as they couldn’t believe her abilities!

Sounds plausible. This is Spain, while one person works five watch them instead of, you know, doing work themselves.

: So this is Spain? How did I end here? I just wanted to visit Nagi…

Are you asking ME? You are the one who broke my window!

: Sorry, sorry. *bows* I’ll get it repaired. My family can afford it, after all.

Whoa! Well, see, you didn’t just ruin a window; this requires fixing the whole house! And also a bike…

: Don’t extort money from the rich idiot, idiot! *Fujiokas Zettai*

: I think I can find the way home myself… *leaves quietly*

Posted by ZettaiRyouiki | May 2, 2013 8:16 AM | Add a comment
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