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 |  Tuesday, August 23, 2005
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 | "Hayate Ayasaki" by Akira
(2005-08-23) |
Hayate Ayasaki is the main character of this manga. He's still sixteen years old, but lead such a harsh life. Both of his parents are unemployed (or should I say, don't like to work) and gamble a lot. Hayate worked hard from childhood to earn income (like bicycle delivery) just to survive.
To make up for 1.5 million dollars worth of debt parents made (specifically borrowed from ACOM), they sold Hayate to Yakuza (Japanese mafia) as an organ donor and a slave sold outside Japan. While running away from Yakuza, Hayate met with a "very" rich girl, Nagi, in a park alone. He decides to kidnap Nagi, but fortunately or unfortunately, his kidnapping speech was wrongly taken as a confession of LOVE by her.
The debt was taken care by Nagi and Hayate became the butler of her to pay back 1.5 million dollars to her (which will take him forty years). Many things happen to him as a butler like forced to fight again a big white tiger, forced to cross dress with cat ears, and so on... (Every main characters of any manga are destined to cross dress at some point, but Hayate cross dressed at episode 8 ^^;). Even in such a misery, Hayate is polite, kind, and charming :) Author loves classic child stories like Frances Hodgson Burnett's "A Little Princess", "Little Lord Fauntlero", and Ouida's "A Dog of Flanders". I hope Hayate doesn't freeze to death in cold winter night at the end.
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| Wednesday, August 24, 2005
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| "Sanzenin Nagi" by Akira
(2005-08-24) |
Sanzenin Nagi is the extremely rich girl (she even has two rooms for PlayStation and Sega Saturn) who misinterpreted Hayate's kidnap speech as a love confession and hired him as a butler. Their is still a huge misunderstanding between Nagi and Hayate even after forty episodes or so (longer story gets, the bomb grows larger and larger):
- Hayate thinks "Lady Nagi is such a generous person (even though she's a kid). She helped me from Yakuza and hired me as a butler. I'll do all I can do for her as a butler." (As you can guess, Hayate is not a pediphile at all)
- Nagi thinks "Hayate devotes so much for me because he love me. But if he tries to cheat on me, I'll not forgive him." (Only Nagi's maid, Maria, knows what is going on between them).
Nagi's personality is extremely stubborn, doesn't admit her fault/defeat, very otaku (she draws her original comic "Magical Destroy" which noone can understand except her friend Isumi), smart (she's in high school just like Chiyo-chan), childish,?@gets jelous very easily, but rather kind.
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Maria is a house maid of Nagi since her childhood and she's the only "normal" person in this manga who can bring jokes back to reality again. Maria is the only person who knows about the misunderstanding between Hayate and Nagi, but she doesn't do anything about it (didn't have energy/will to tell them) ^^; She's very smart, beautiful, calm, and charming and Hayate is obviously attracted to Maria than Nagi (can see blood in the future ^^;). All the readers were surprised when they found out Maria was still 17 years old after reading a profile of her in the first volume of tankobon/comic. Most people thought she was over 25 or so... Poor Maria ^^;
Hinagiku became one of my favorite characters from "Hayate the Combat Butler". She doesn't appear until episode 35, but she's cute and cool. She is 15 years old and is a president of a student body of Hakuou high school which Nagi and Hayate study. The author wrote in 
She is Isumi Saginomiya and she's the only person who can understand Nagi's comics. Isumi doesn't have a sense of direction and she gets lost extremely easily. She's quiet and shy, but brings a lot of problems to people around her (especially to Hayate). She wears kimono all the time (just like Haruna :) ) and seems to have power to purify/battle against evils ^^;
A quick drawing of a random character I did over a weekend. I drew and inked this a couple of months ago, and forgot to finish it. Anyway, it's fun to draw a random character. It's very refreshing.