Hayate the Combat Butler (2007-2013)
Premiere:
April 1, 2007
# of Seasons: 4
# of Episodes: 101
Finale:
July 1, 2013
Original Title:
ハヤテのごとく！
Alternate Titles:
Hayate no Gotoku!
Hayate no Gotoku! Can't Take My Eyes Off You
Hayate no Gotoku! Cuties
Hayate no Gotoku!!
Hayate the Combat Butler! Cuties
Hayate the Combat Butler!!
Hayate the Combat Butler: Can't Take My Eyes Off You
Хаяте но ґотоку!
ハヤテのごとく！ Cuties
ハヤテのごとく！CAN'T TAKE MY EYES OFF YOU
ハヤテのごとく！！
爆笑管家
Genres:
Animation | Comedy
Production Companies:
J.C.STAFF
Manglobe
SynergySP
Countries:
JP
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 at, 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 a boy with such a poor look. And then there's Nagi's pet Tama, who is also a force to be reckoned with.