Hayate the Combat Butler

Hayate the Combat Butler
Cover of the first manga volume, featuring Hayate Ayasaki (left) and Nagi Sanzenin (right)
ハヤテのごとく!
(Hayate no Gotoku!)
Genre
Manga
Written byKenjiro Hata
Published byShogakukan
English publisher
ImprintShōnen Sunday Comics
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Sunday
DemographicShōnen
Original runOctober 6, 2004April 12, 2017
Volumes52 (List of volumes)
Further information
Anime television series
Directed byKeiichiro Kawaguchi
Produced by
  • Naohiko Furuchi
  • Shinichi Iwata
Written by
Music byKōtarō Nakagawa
StudioSynergySP
Licensed by
Original networkTV Tokyo
English network
Original run April 1, 2007 March 30, 2008
Episodes52 (List of episodes)
Light novel
Written byToshihiko Tsukiji
Illustrated byKenjiro Hata
Published byShogakukan
ImprintGagaga Bunko
DemographicMale
Original runMay 24, 2007March 18, 2008
Volumes2
Original video animation
Directed byYoshiaki Iwasaki
Written by
Music byKōtarō Nakagawa
StudioJ.C.Staff
ReleasedMarch 6, 2009
Runtime24 minutes
Anime television series
Hayate the Combat Butler!!
Directed byYoshiaki Iwasaki
Produced by
  • Shinichi Iwata
  • Tomoya Negishi
Written by
  • Yōsuke Kuroda]]
  • Hideki Shirane
Music byKōtarō Nakagawa
StudioJ.C.Staff
Licensed by
  • NA: Sentai Filmworks
Original networkTV Tokyo
English network
  • PH: GMA Network
  • SEA: Animax Asia
Original run April 3, 2009 September 18, 2009
Episodes25 (List of episodes)
Anime television series
Hayate the Combat Butler: Can't Take My Eyes Off You
Directed by
Produced by
  • Sayako Muramatsu
  • Akio Matsuda
Written byRie Koshika
Music byWataru Maeguchi
StudioManglobe
Licensed by
  • NA: Sentai Filmworks
Original networkTV Tokyo
English network
  • PH: GMA Network
  • SEA: Animax Asia
Original run October 4, 2012 December 20, 2012
Episodes12 (List of episodes)
Anime television series
Hayate the Combat Butler: Cuties
Directed by
  • Masashi Kudō
  • Yōichi Ueda (series director)
Produced by
  • Sayako Muramatsu
  • Akio Matsuda
Written byRie Koshika
Music byWataru Maeguchi
StudioManglobe
Licensed by
  • NA: Sentai Filmworks
Original networkTV Tokyo
English network
Original run April 8, 2013 July 1, 2013
Episodes12 (List of episodes)
Original video animation
Directed byYōichi Ueda
Written byShinichi Inotsume
Music byWataru Maeguchi
StudioManglobe
Released June 18, 2014 December 18, 2014
Episodes3
Other

Hayate the Combat Butler (Japanese: ハヤテのごとく!, Hepburn: Hayate no Gotoku!, lit. "Like a Gale") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kenjiro Hata. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday magazine from October 2004 to April 2017. Shogakukan released 52 volumes in Japan from February 2005 to June 2017. Viz Media publishes an English edition in North America. The manga is about a boy who starts a new job as a butler and the events he experiences with his employer. The style of the manga has a comedic gag with a slight harem feel and constantly breaks the fourth wall. The series includes numerous references to other anime, manga, video games, and popular culture.

A 52-episode anime adaptation of the manga by SynergySP aired between April 2007 and March 2008 on TV Tokyo. A second, 25-episode anime season by J.C.Staff aired between April and September 2009. Bandai Entertainment licensed the first anime series in 2008, but the series went out of print in 2012. An anime film adaption produced by Manglobe was released in August 2011. A third, 12-episode anime television series by Manglobe, based mostly on an original story not seen in the manga aired between October and December 2012. A fourth anime season aired between April and July 2013. Sentai Filmworks has licensed all four seasons of the anime.

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  2. ^ "The Official Website for Hayate the Combat Butler". Viz Media. Archived from the original on March 12, 2011. Retrieved November 4, 2017.
  3. ^ "Hayate the Combat Butler". Sentai Filmworks. February 6, 2018. Archived from the original on May 18, 2017. Retrieved February 6, 2018.