Hayate no Gotoku!

According to Murphy's Law, "anything that can go wrong, will go wrong," and truer words cannot describe the unfortunate life of the hard-working Hayate Ayasaki. Abandoned by his parents after accumulating a debt of over one hundred fifty million yen, he is sold off to the yakuza, initiating his swift getaway from a future he does not want. On that fateful night, he runs into Nagi Sanzenin, a young girl whom he decides to try and kidnap to pay for his family's massive debt.

Unfortunately, due to his kind-hearted nature and a string of misunderstandings, Nagi believes Hayate to be confessing his love to her. After saving her from real kidnappers, Hayate is hired as Nagi's personal butler, upon which she is revealed to be a member of one of the wealthiest families in Japan.

Highly skilled but cursed with the world's worst luck, Hayate gets straight to work serving his employer all the while trying to deal with the many misfortunes that befall him. From taking care of a mansion to fending off dangerous foes, and even unintentionally wooing the hearts of the women around him, Hayate is in over his head in the butler comedy Hayate no Gotoku!

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Ayasaki, Hayate Main

Shiraishi, Ryouko Japanese

Sanzenin, Nagi Main

Kugimiya, Rie Japanese

Maria Main

Tanaka, Rie Japanese

Katsura, Hinagiku Supporting

Itou, Shizuka Japanese

Nabeshin Supporting

Watanabe, Shinichi Japanese

Anizawa, Meito Supporting

Seki, Tomokazu Japanese

Saginomiya, Isumi Supporting

Matsuki, Miyu Japanese

Nishizawa, Ayumu Supporting

Takahashi, Mikako Japanese

Segawa, Izumi Supporting

Yahagi, Sayuri Japanese

Aizawa, Sakuya Supporting

Ueda, Kana Japanese

Iwata, Shiniichi Producer

Sakurai, Ryousuke Producer

Furuichi, Naohiko Producer

Kawaguchi, Keiichirou Director

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Jul 22, 2020

The_Astray_78

Recommended

This is my favorite anime it’s perfect (in my opinion) it’s characters were good and hayate himself is hilarious and somewhat ignorant. So please watch this anime if you haven’t. 10/10 man how long does MAL want me to make this.
Eh Hinagiku is best girl followed by Nagi followed by Maria. So yeah watch this anime please I promise it’s good. Man what else should I wright hmm 🧐. Umm it’s pretty funny and if you’re stuck inside it’s pretty long and has four seasons along with a movie. All four seasons have been dubbed if you watch dubbed anime. It can be action ... packed or it could be heartwarming and that’s my review.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Apr 26, 2013

0SharkGuy

Mixed Feelings

For many years I had been recommended this show by a variety of friends and it looked very promising. A lot of comedy, some romance, and Queen Tsundere, Rie Kugimiya . Kugimiya also voiced other popular characters such as Louise in Zero no Tsukaima , Taiga in Toradora , and Shana in Shakugan no Shana (among with a variety of others). I personally have seen all of those except Shana and I'm a huge fan of her voice so this show was an easy pick with her playing the young, rich, spoiled, shut-in otaku tsundere Nagi.

But moving past characters let's actually talk about the show.

The ... show started off pretty strong. It was about poor Hayate who is thrown into a world of debt after his parents gamble him away and in a last ditch effort to make money he thinks about kidnapping young Nagi in the hopes for a ransom only to back out the last second and end up saving her. So for the first few episodes we follow this narrative and the introduction of characters and settings. I want to say about the first 10 episodes are focused. However it's what happens after that changes everything...

Any sense of focus or story is thrown to the side. In a 52 episode series, there's less than 10-20% of episodes with some significance. Is this necessarily a bad thing to drift away from the story? Of course not! It's good to get a break. But when there are this many episodes it quickly gets tiring. Each episode basically pits some ridiculous situation and stems a large amount of jokes on anime references and the such. Again, all things that aren't that bad, but when you go 20 some episodes like this it quickly gets old. I remember falling asleep during so many episodes (which is VERY rare for me) just because I failed to keep interest. I would literally let the video run on the side and work on something else only looking over on occasion for the subtitles and things that catch my eye. I stopped watching the show a few years back with less than 7 episodes left to go and a couple months ago watched 4 or 5 and stopped again. I only NOW gained the motivation to finish the show more so I could take it off my list...

Now in counter-point apparently the manga is a little more focused and different but I only read a few chapters to start. Also the voice acting is great and some jokes hit here and there but it's forgetful. The show also does the horrible crime of suddenly remembering there was a plot in the last 2 EPISODES and decides to make a mention to it like "oh yeah remember that? Yeah, we're not gonna resolve it but just wanted to remind you that it did exist once".
In conclusion Hayate is a show that would've served fine with simply being shorter and having a few more episodes to develop the plot. At most I would've given it 26 episodes and that's stretching it. The fact that there's a 2nd season baffles me in the sense of how much more junk could they figure up to fill up the gaps. I'm sure I might just be taking the series a bit too seriously but I'm the kind of person that overlook things in the hopes of taking things lightly, this just pushes it too far. If you really wanna check it out watch the first few episodes and maybe a few more. Nothing ever gets resolved anyway so don't worry about finishing it. If you want, catch a few episodes here and there just to meet some new characters but it won't matter too much. The whole show basically revolves around the characters you meet at first.

Final rating? Stream it on crunchyroll, DON'T put any money into it. You could go without watching it though it is a somewhat referenced in anime fandoms so you might be out of the loop on some things. Also Kugimiya is an awesome voice to hear.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Mar 23, 2012

StrangePassage

Not Recommended

I'm writing this review in order to help balance out the disproportionate number of positive reviews. I'm not doing it out of spite; having seen all of both the first and second seasons, I can definitely say that I was disappointed with how this series turned out. So, let this be fair warning so others do not make this mistake: Hayate no Gotoku is NOT a story-driven anime. While I began watching with some knowledge of this, the total absence of any plot whatsoever and any character development at all (I will say the second season provides a lot more development though) were incredibly frustrating ... for me, and I'd like to prevent others from having to endure over 70 episodes in order to learn the same lesson. Please understand this is nothing more than my personal opinion, and that while I recognize that others did enjoy the show, it reached the point where I no longer could.

Story:
1/10, Mainly because there is none. Nor is there really a pretense of one. The purpose of this show is nothing more than comedy; it's goal is not to tell a story, and so there is no plot. If you enjoy this approach, then it can certainly be amusing, but for anyone looking for the barest hint of a story, you will find nothing.

Art & Sound:
8/10 and 7/10. To be honest, I rather enjoyed the art style, and that's part of what kept me watching for the duration of the series. That said, for most of the first part of the season they "censored" out a lot of the blood/violence/random words (not even explicit language). Although this was amusing at first, it was heavily overused and became incredibly annoying.

Character:
4/10 For a reasonably strong cast. Unfortunately, there is no character development whatsoever, which makes it very difficult to watch the characters making the exact same mistakes they did 50 episodes ago and having it still be funny. Because of the lack of plot, the characters really needed to carry the show, and in the early episodes they do an admirable job. But a series this long really demands more than what was provided, and by the end I was totally unsatisfied with almost every aspect of the show.

Enjoyment:
3/10 As others have mentioned, the series starts off strong, but it really does become a grind to get through the second half. And getting to the end and realized that there has been no progression whatsoever really makes it difficult to look back positively on the show as a whole.

Overall: 3/10
Solid art and sound work, but every other aspect of the show is totally inadequate for meeting the demands of a show that is more than 50 episodes long.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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