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As many of you may already know, it was confirmed last week that Hayate no Gotoku! (aka. Hayate the Combat Butler) is getting animated. For those of you unfamiliar with the series, Hayate no Gotoku! is about a boy named Ayasaki Hayate who is left with his parents’ massive debt after they abandoned him. In trying to kidnap a rich girl named Nagi for ransom money, Hayate mistakenly gives her the impression that he’s confessing his love. After a series of unlikely events, Nagi pays off Hayate’s debt for him, and he becomes her butler for the next 40 years to repay her. It’s a very amusing manga with some great chapter titles that make references to all kinds of popular anime.
The purpose of this commercial was to promote the special DVD with six minutes of footage and narration by Wakamoto Norio. Those six minutes are already available to see on Youtube, but the caveat is that it’s camcorder quality. On the commercial and on the promo video, you get a chance to hear the seiyuu as their characters, including Kugimiya Rie as Nagi. When I learned that she was going to be doing that voice, the first thing in my mind was whether or not they would repeat Shana/Yuuji and Louise/Saito by casting Hino Satoshi as Hayate. Unfortunately, that’s not the case and instead Shiraishi Ryoko will be voicing him. The other announced seiyuu are Tanaka Rie as Maria, Itou Shizuka as Hinagiku, Nabatame Hitomi as Yukiji, and Toriumi Kousuke as Himuro.
Hayate no Gotoku! is set to premiere sometime this year, but it does not yet have a specific air-date. It’s high on my list of anticipated anime, so hopefully the wait won’t be too long.
It sounds interesting to watch.
i would said this will be aired between fall/winter 2007/2008 most likely, anyway sounds interesting
It has this common maids anime feel(I.E. HIMM). I bet that it won’t be long before dejavu sets in…
MY GOD it took me over 40 minutes just to see the homepage (with no pictures!), and I have a very fast connection. Your archives mostly don’t work (at least for me) I can’t even vote in your poll which happens to be asking if the site has gotten any better (ah the irony): absolutely NOT! I’m sorry for all the complaints but I rather see the ads and donation links than seeing that annoying “service temporary unavailable” message. I’m ready to donate if you put the donation link in the site.
Alright! The manga’s really good, so i hope the anime’s good quality too
@Ben:
the page has been pretty stable today i only got like 3 errors in like 100 loads (i know lol)
Finally. I hope the anime can live up to the high expectations. /me pencils in for must watch/must blog
Seeing those screenshots has made me to look forward to this anime too!
Thank you so much, Omni =)
Hm…I think Hayata pulled off the cosplay better in the manga…
Is this some Battle Manservant?
I kinda cringed at the DBZ moment in the clip, but we’ll have to wait and see…
Wow! Dis is turning into a anime? I musy watch!
Finally Hayate the Combat Butler become an anime!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The manga was extremely hilarious!!!! It should be the one who can beat school rumble 🙂
yes I already knew that….
Nice comedy anime 😀 about my reviews I think I am going to stop because I am watching ALL THE ANIMES and is a really pain in the ass to review all of the goods I watch…so in a few words for you guys ” GANBATE NE!! ” 😀
I’ll probably watch it (since I’m already into Himawari). And I’m hoping it’s not another one of those blue-balling shows.
oh god this looks absolutely delicious: this is probably my most anticipated show of 2007 after suzumiya haruhi!
lol, this adds to Haruhi 2, ZnT 2, Higurashi 2, Nanoha S and Prism Ark for my must watch list for 2007… It’s only JAN and already it feels like a good year… =)!!
Just like you Omni I also hoped that Hino Satoshi would be the male lead…Sigh, guess you can’t have everything huh? But Rie is a great choice, Nagi is the same as her OTHER popular characters, u know…THOSE 2? =)
great comedy anime 😉 thanks
WHOOOOOT 😀
Another series apart from Nodame to look forward to then. Yayyyyy.
this anime seems interesting 😀 ill put this onto my “to watch list”
i cant wait, XP te manga was good and made me laugh so hard
I kept wondering when they were going to animate this.. the manga seems to be pretty popular in Japan, and I like it as well. I will definitely watch this~
The manga is hilarious. Not to mention getting alot more interesting as more of the girls start falling for Hayate…
Looks crazy. ^_^
Btw, your site has been much more stable these past couple of days. What did you do to try to fix the problem?
OMG!! I can’t belive they animated this.
I am a fan of the manga version of this thing, let’s see how the anime goes.
I came across the manga once. This show looks promising.
Thanks for information, Omni! ^_^/
well, i don’t mind Ryoko SHIRAISHI. she has a nice voice for a guy like shiratori in mahoraba.
Man, I was REALLY hoping that this series will include Hino Satoshi as Hayate but sadly it isn’t. But I actually anticipated that Kugimiya Rei will play Nagi ever since the anime will be announced. Now I gotta wait for Nagasarete Airantou to be announced in Spring.
Tanaka Rie? I guess I’ll give it a shot, even if it doesn’t really look like my kind of anime.
Tanaka Rie did voiced Mariel in Hanaukyo Maid-tai so I don’t think its much of a issue.
OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!
Shiraishi Ryoko as the main character!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I DEFINATLY WILL WATCH THIS ANIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!
I ALREADY WATCH EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😀 😛
Drakron: I think you misunderstand. I’ll be watching this *solely because of* Tanaka Rie. 😉
XD i get he is my master vibes
i not interest in this anime, i won’t watch it
Saki is green haired? :O I always thought she had a black hair :O
Has a staff list or the like appeared yet?
wow! the manga was really awesome….finally…one of my favourite is going to be animeted…I’ll be looking forward to it…>_
i read the manga, and it is great. i really hope hayate and nagi will be togethor
Looks interesting!
Thanks Omni you made me discover this Title =)
Good year for animes. =3 I can’t wait for Spring to come.