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Hayate the Combat Butler (TV)

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[ adapted from Hayate the Combat Butler (manga) ]

Related anime:
    Hayate the Combat Butler!! (OAV) (sequel)
      Hayate the Combat Butler!! (TV) (sequel)

Alternative title:
Hayate no Gotoku (Japanese)
Hayate no Gotoku! (Japanese)
Hayate, le majordome (French)
Hayate, maître d'hôtel de combat (French)
Hayate, mayordomo de combate (Spanish)
ハヤテのごとく! (Japanese)
하야테처럼! (Korean)
Themes: harem, maids, parody
Plot Summary:
Abandoned by his parents and given a monumentally large debt as a Christmas present, 16-year old Ayasaki Hayate is at the lowest point of his life. Desperately trying alter his hapless fate, he decides to kidnap someone to hold for a ransom. Due to an ill choice of words, the girl he tries to kidnap misunderstands the action as a confession of love. His plan is totally crushed when he gives his real name out. Realizing his wrongdoing, Hayate proceeds to rescue the girl from the yakuza, who had instead kidnapped her. The girl, as a token of thanks, offers Hayate a job as her butler. Hayate, overwhelmed by her kindness, vows to protect her even at the cost of his life.
16-year-old Hayate is really down on his luck. His unemployed parents are good-for-nothings who waste the money they have on gambling. One day, his parents have racked up a huge gambling debt that they had to sell 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.
User Ratings: 1066 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 168 votes (sub:162, dub:3, raw:1, Spa.sub:1, raw:1)
 Excellent: 303 votes (sub:286, Spa.sub:6, dub:5, raw:3, Por.sub:2, Fre.sub:1)
 Very good: 280 votes (sub:265, Spa.sub:5, dub:5, raw:2, Ita.sub:1, ?:1, Pol.sub:1)
 Good: 167 votes (sub:158, dub:4, raw:2, Fre.sub:1, Spa.sub:1, Tag.dub:1)
 Decent: 79 votes (sub:73, dub:3, raw:1, ?:1, Spa.sub:1)
 So-so: 36 votes (sub:35, Spa.sub:1)
 Not really good: 17 votes (sub:15, raw:1, dub:1)
 Weak: 10 votes (sub:10)
 Bad: 5 votes (sub:5)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 2173 users, rank: #265
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 8.047 (Very good+.04), std. dev.: 1.5453, rank: #353
Weighted mean: 7.879 (Very good-.12), rank: #453 (seen all: 8.11 / seen some: 7.70 / won't finish: 5.43)
Bayesian estimate: 7.875 (Very good-.12), rank: #295
Running time: 25 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 52
Episode titles: We have 52
Vintage:
2007-04-01 to 2008-03-30
2009-09-28 (Philippines, Anime Revolution on Q)
Opening Theme:
#1: "Hayate no Gotoku! (ハヤテのごとく!)" by KOTOKO (eps 1-26)
#2: "Shichiten Hakki*Shijō Shugi (七転八起☆至上主義)" by KOTOKO (eps 27-52)
Ending Theme:
#1: "Proof" by MELL (eps 1-13)
#2: "Get my way!" by Mami Kawada (eps 14-26)
#3: "Chasse" by Kaori Utatsuki (eps 27-39)
#4: "Ki no Me Kaze (木の芽風)" by IKU (eps 40-52)
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Related reviews:
    Hayate the Combat Butler Sub.DVD Part 2
    Hayate the Combat Butler Sub.DVD Part 1

Related releases:
    Hayate the Combat Butler - Part 1 (Sub.DVD) 2009-07-21 (from $22.99)
    Hayate the Combat Butler - Part 2 (Sub.DVD) 2009-09-01 (from $29.99)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Keiichiro Kawaguchi

Series Composition:
Junki Takegami
Shinichi Inotsume

Storyboard:
Keiichiro Kawaguchi
Shinichi Watanabe (ep 35)

Episode Director: Shinichi Watanabe (eps 22, 32)

Music: Kotaro Nakagawa

Original creator: Kenjirou Hata

Character Design: Osamu Horiuchi

Chief Animation Director: Masaaki Sakurai

Sound director: Jun Watanabe

Director of Photography: Hiroki Tsubouchi

Background Art:
Aya Hiraoka
Azusa Kondo
Seiko Yamazaki
Tsutomu Ikeda

Color Inspection: Kahori Sato

Color setting: Kahori Sato

Editing: Keiko Onodera

Key Animation:
Aki Yamauchi
Atsushi Sato
Eiichi Tominaga
Eiji Tanaka
Hiroaki Ikeda
Kazuya Hirata
Keiichi Sugiura
Kenichirou Yamamoto
Miyuki Honda
Miyuki Nakamura
Nobutaka Masuda
Takeshi Morita

Photography:
Hideaki Hashimoto
Hiroki Hirauchi
Kenji Hirochi
Noriko Wada
Sho Yamamoto
Yûji Satô
Yusuke Ueshima

Sound Editor: Ryoko Nashimoto

Sound Producer: Takeshi Nishina

Theme Song Arrangement:
C.G Mix (OP2)
Kazuya Takase (ED)
Maiko Iuchi (ED3)
Takeshi Ozaki (ED2)
Tomoyuki Nakazawa (ED3)

Theme Song Composition:
C.G Mix (OP2)
Iku (ED4)
Kazuya Takase (ED)

Theme Song Lyrics:
KOTOKO (OP1/OP2/ED3) 
Mami Kawada (ED2)
MELL (ED)

Theme Song Performance:
Iku (ED4)
Kaori Utatsuki (ED3)
KOTOKO (OP)
Mami Kawada (ED2)
MELL (ED1)

 

Rie Kugimiya as Nagi Sanzenin

Rie Tanaka as Maria

Ryoko Shiraishi as Hayate Ayasaki

Eri Nakao as Miki Hanabishi

Hitomi Nabatame as Yukiji Katsura

Kana Ueda as Sakuya Aizawa

Marina Inoue as Wataru Tachibana

Masumi Asano as Risa Asakaze

Mikako Takahashi as Ayumu Nishizawa

Miyu Matsuki as Isumi Saginomiya

Norio Wakamoto as Ten no koe (narrator)

Saki Nakajima as Saki Kijima

Sayuri Yahagi as Izumi Segawa

Shizuka Itou as Hinagiku Katsura

Ai Shimizu as Baseball Team Manager (ep 46)

Akeno Watanabe as Itsuki (ep 31)

Akio Matsuda as Geneon Matsuda (ep 34)

Akio Nojima as Chat (ep 40)

Ayumi Fujimura as Chiharu Harukaze

Ayumi Tsunematsu as Female student (ep 29)

Daisuke Namikawa as Schmidt hen Bach (ep 18)

Emi Shinohara as Hinagiku's mother (ep 14)

Emiri Katou as
Aika Kasumi
Female student (ep 15)

Gô Shinomiya as
Captain (ep 35)
Cockroach Man (ep 19)
Gokū (ep 21)
Kotetsu
Man in black (ep 6)
Secret service (ep 24)

Hikaru Midorikawa as Harrison McRuth (ep18)

Hiroshi Shirokuma as
Gaikotsu (ep 10)
Older brother (eps 1-2, 6)

Jun Fukuyama as Puppet butler (ep 33)

Jun Oosuga as
Kunieda
Male customer (ep 34)
Male student (ep 29)
Mysterious butler (ep 33)
President (ep 23)
Younger brother (eps 1-2, 6)

Juurouta Kosugi as Tama

Katsuyuki Konishi as
Kaede Nonohara
Sempai (ep 46)

Kazusa Murai as Hayate's mother

Kenichi Suzumura as Mobile Butler (ep38)

Kenji Hamada as Hayate's father

Kenjirou Hata as Hata-sensei (ep 10)

Kenta Miyake as
Koi god (ep 32)
Seishirō "Klaus" Kurausu

Kousuke Toriumi as
Delinquent B (ep 46)
Himuro Saeki

Kunihiro Kawamoto as Announcer (ep 3)

Lenne Hardt as MC (Episode 28)

Marina Inoue as
Shion Kuresato
Son (ep 44)
Wife (ep 32)

Masako Joh as
Erina (ep 33)
Teacher (ep 35)

Megumi Toyoguchi as Kirika Kuzuha

Michiru Yamazaki as Meda Butler (ep31)

Mitsuo Iwata as Akane Himegami

Motoki Takagi as Male classmate (eps 1, 3)

Nobuyuki Hiyama as Cyborg butler (ep 38)

Reiko Takagi as Butler B-Da (ep 30)

Rina Satou as
Defense mecha (eps 6, 19, 31)
Eight (robot)
Kōtarō Azumamiya
Shiori Makimura

Sachi Matsumoto as Tennis boy (ep 1)

Saki Nakajima as Taiga Ōkouchi

Saori Goto as
Female classmate (eps 1, 3)
Salesgirl (ep 34)

Satoshi Hino as
Kyōnosuke Kaoru
Male classmate (eps 1, 3)
Man in black (ep 6)
Mugg (ep 21)
Sōya Minamino

Shinichi Watanabe as Butler Nabeshin (ep 32)

Showtaro Morikubo as Fighter (ep 31)

Tomokazu Seki as Anime Tenchou (ep 44)

Tomomichi Nishimura as Mikado Sanzenin

Tomoyuki Shimura as
Enkyō Tachibana
Man in black (ep 6)
Policeman (ep 38)
Santa

Tooru Nara as
Gilbert Kent
Koi Herpes phantom (ep 32)
Makita
Male customer (ep 24)
Younger brother (eps 1-2, 6)

Yuji Ueda as Masked Butler (ep33)

Yuko Goto as Maō (ep 10)

Yuko Minaguchi as Nagi's mother (ep 24)

Yumiko Kobayashi as
Duel Butler (ep 29)
Poemi (ep 32)

Japanese companies 

Animation Production: Synergy SP

Background Art: Studio Tulip

Broadcaster:
Akita Television Co., Ltd. (2007-06-05)
Aomori Asahi Broadcasting (2007-05-07)
AT-X (2007-04-22)
Biwako Broadcasting Co., Ltd. (2007-04-21)
BS Japan (2007-04-26)
Fukushima Central Television Co., Ltd. (2007-04-16)
Gifu Broadcasting (2007-04-08)
Higashinippon Broadcasting Co., Ltd. (2007-06-20)
Hiroshima Home TV (2007-08)
Iwate Menkoi Television Co., Ltd. (2007-05-09)
Nagano Broadcasting Systems, Inc. (2007-06)
Nankai Broadcasting Co., Ltd. (2007-06-04)
Nihonkai Telecasting Co., Ltd. (2007-05-05)
Oita Asahi Broadcasting (2007-04-16)
Television Niigata Network Co., Ltd. (2007-04-16)
TV Kanazawa (2007-04-12)
TV Tokyo (2007-04-01)
TV Yamaguchi Broadcasting Systems Co., Ltd. (2007-07)
TVN Nara TV (2007-04-17)

Digital Paint:
Fan Out
Hoshiyama Kikaku

DVD Distribution: Geneon Entertainment, Inc.

In-Between Animation:
Fan Out
Hoshiyama Kikaku

Music Collaboration:
Geneon Entertainment (USA) Inc.
Shogakukan Music & Digital Entertainment
TV Tokyo Music

Photography: Synergy SP

Production:
Shogakukan Productions Co., Ltd.
TV Tokyo


English staff 

Executive producer: Ken Iyadomi

Producer: Taku Otsuka

English companies 

Broadcaster:
Animax Asia
Animax India

Licensed by: Bandai Entertainment

English cast 
(none)
Tagalog staff 
Tagalog cast 
(none)
 

Charmaine Cordoviz as Nagi Sanzenin

Davene Venturanza as Maria

Jonel Bituin as Hayate Ayasaki

Charmaine Cordoviz as Risa Asakaze

Davene Venturanza as Izumi Segawa

Ely Martin as
Ten no koe (narrator)
Wataru Tachibana

Jenny Bituin as
Hinagiku Katsura
Isumi Saginomiya

Klariz Magboo as
Miki Hanabishi
Sakuya Aizawa

Rodelia Legaspi as
Ayumu Nishizawa
Saki Kijima
Yukiji Katsura

Davene Venturanza as Shion Kuresato

Ely Martin as
Eight (Robot)
Kaede Nonohara
Kashiwagi
Makita
Mini Yon Butler
Souya Minamino

Jenny Bituin as
Butler Nabeshin's Daughter
Mao (ep 10)
Shiori Makimura
Shunji

Klariz Magboo as
Kirika Kuzuha
Taiga Ōkouchi

Mark Aspiras as
Duel Butler
Kōtarō Azumamiya
Kunieda
Kyōnosuke Kaoru
Schmidt hen Bach
Tama

Robert Brillantes as
Butler Nabeshin
Gilbert Kent
Himuro Saeki
Kōtarō Azumamiya (2nd)
Kyōnosuke Kaoru (2nd)
Mikado Sanzenin
Puppet Butler
Santa
Seishirō "Klaus" Kurausu

Rodelia Legaspi as
Aika Kasumi
Butler Nabeshin's Wife
Chiharu Harukaze
Itsuki

Tagalog companies 

Broadcaster:
QTV 11 
QTV Channel 11 (official)

Dubbing: ALTA Productions

 
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