Hayate no Gotoku!! (2nd Season) - Episode 20 Discussion / Poll

[Pellissier]

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[Midonin]

Not quite exceptionally silly or balls-to-the-fourth-wall silly, but moderately silly. With a chance of silly. Which is enough to satisfy my backwards way of thinking. Two weeks in a row. The character songs being previewed at the end of the episodes (Ayumu last week and the idiot trio this week) are pretty nice, and releasing pretty soon.

Looks like next week might hit a hat trick; thank the narrator.

[Shiroth]

If you have a maid fetish, then this is the episode for you.

Poor Maria though. :(

[xellos2099]

It is so funny that Maria got jealous because Hayate is not paying attention to her. Another thing, based on the preview, won't that eventually lead to the cellphone arc later on?

[qwertyman]

Good episode, better than the last. For some reason I couldn't help but laugh when Sakuya was laughing as well.

Is it just me, or did Chiharu get a new VA? She doesn't sound like she did in the OVA or in the previous season. At the least, if her VA remained the same, she definitely changed the voice she acts with as Chiharu, both as maid Haruh and as regular Chiharu.

[serenade_beta]

So-so... Better than the previous episode, at least.

Mini-skirt Isumi... Nice... (Probably thanks to the fact you usually can't see her legs)

Though the funniest part of the episode was right after Isumi dressed up, the priest was like "Chigaunen! Zenzen chigau!". During (after) the line, I'm pretty sure I heard the voice actor laugh. :heh::heh:

Haru... Unfortunately, we already have a maid character, so... (-_-)

Preview: ...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

[qwertyman]

Though the funniest part of the episode was right after Isumi dressed up, the priest was like "Chigaunen! Zenzen chigau!". During (after) the line, I'm pretty sure I heard the voice actor laugh. :heh::heh:

Oh wow, I didn't even notice that. Haha :D

Though, I did notice that the priest had a weird grunt right before Isumi showed off her "new technique" for the first time, under the sakura trees.

[Seravy]

this episode was filled with HHHNNNNNGGGGHHHH

[Kon the Magnificent]

Is it just me, or did Isumi prepare to do the kaiten, when she was about to do the maid twirl, but failed horribly

[kk2extreme]

the priest is my new best friend :D

[Echoes]

Though the funniest part of the episode was right after Isumi dressed up, the priest was like "Chigaunen! Zenzen chigau!". During (after) the line, I'm pretty sure I heard the voice actor laugh. :heh::heh:

Hah; I think you're right. I went back and listened to that, and it's really, really funny. Thanks for bringing that to our attention.

I thought this episode was average overall as far as Hayate no Gotoku goes, but even the worst episodes of this series are very enjoyable, so I had a lot of fun this week too.

Isumi as a maid... doesn't really work for me. I adore her, but I prefer her usual attire.

Maria getting repeatedly ignored was pretty funny, but the comedic highlight of the episode for me was Hayate's fake smile at the end. Great comedic timing; felt just right.

[kniteowl]

Haruko should be a con-artist lol... since she seems to be living a life with a hidden identity.

This episode was ok, nothing outstandingly funny though.

[oompa loompa]

Ah another good episode in my opinion - I'm enjoying this a lot - more action in the sanzenin house usually means more laughs for me :heh:. The priest is quite a guy too.

[SwiftStrike]

ahahah so funny. didn't even notice she was actually Hayate's schoolmate.

[IndoViking]

Is it just me, or there's an endless eight reference in this episode? Back when the priest was watching isumi falling down on TV, his sentence is almost like koizumi's :)

[JaLooNz]

The highlights of this episode has definitely got to be Chiharu Harukaze's straight answers.

BTW can anyone tell me if the part about Chiharu's reason for being a maid has been covered in the anime? Quite sure I saw it before but forgot where's it.

[qwertyman]

BTW can anyone tell me if the part about Chiharu's reason for being a maid has been covered in the anime? Quite sure I saw it before but forgot where's it.

It hasn't been covered in the anime. Though, considering where the anime is in in terms of the manga chapers, it'll be covered soon. Probably during episode 22 is my guess.

[Forever]

Wow never knew it was her until the glasses went on. She easily could be a good supergirl actress.

Poor maria lol. Hmm she should have given hayate the smackdown much earlier though.

[sikvod00]

I assume the only "logical" reason that Wataru didn't get to see Isumi in a maid outfit (traditional and skimpy) is because the writers would have been forced to kill him off due to the amount of blood loss.:heh::eyespin:

[Deathkillz]

Sakuya crying with laughter was the highlight for me...oh gosh her reactions were simply hilarious XD

[OceanBlue]

Sakuya crying with laughter was the highlight for me...oh gosh her reactions were simply hilarious XD
This and Haru made this episode great for me. The constant straight-man humor was good too.

Ahh, Meido Haru was so cute....

[SaintessHeart]

I declare meido Haru mine.

And it seems that Maria is pissed the whole episode. Did the animators miss something?

[Mentar]

And more Season 1 style fluff... and next episode too...

I already feel my patience tried a bit. Ah well.

[Anh_Minh]

It is so funny that Maria got jealous because Hayate is not paying attention to her.
More like because everyone's ignoring her status as a maid.
Sakuya crying with laughter was the highlight for me...oh gosh her reactions were simply hilarious XD
Yeah, I love Sakuya's attitude to life.
And more Season 1 style fluff... and next episode too...

I already feel my patience tried a bit. Ah well.

Eh? Isn't it all from the manga, though?

[Mentar]

Eh? Isn't it all from the manga, though?

Yes, it is. However, it's these pointless chapters unrelated to the real story, and without any form of impact or lasting impression, because the author feels he needs to highlight other side characters some more (in this case, the priest ghost and Haruko).

Brutally put, this show doesn't need more side characters, it has too much of them already. I think it needs some story development. So, right now, for people like me we're in an unpleasant dry spell here ^_^;

[teelotes]

I'm glad for the return of the side characters and the laughter they bring along for this episode, so it's like a drought's rain for me. :)

What's more, Tama will be back next week! Klaus and Tama were my favourite characters in Season 1. Let's hope we'll see Klaus-san again sometime soon too. It was fun seeing him getting set up by Tama, and now Tama's being made a fool by Shiranui.

[Echoes]

I'm glad for the return of the side characters and the laughter they bring along for this episode, so it's like a drought's rain for me. :)

What's more, Tama will be back next week! Klaus and Tama were my favourite characters in Season 1. Let's hope we'll see Klaus-san again sometime soon too. It was fun seeing him getting set up by Tama, and now Tama's being made a fool by Shiranui.

Hey, I agree. I'll take Klaus and Tama over new side-characters any day of the week!

Doesn't really help that I don't find the ghost-priest interesting or funny at all; except for his cool voiceacting.

[GDB]

Tama is the Zoidberg of the series. He's a great and humorous character when he just happens to be in an episode. However, when an entire episode is based on him, it ends up rather boring and stagnant. This applies to chapters as well as episodes.

[xellos2099]

Well, Tama episode next week is suppose to a link to a future arc and that future arc indirectly link to the end of the world arc.

[-Sho-]

Lol it was hilarious .
Sakuya always laugh .
Haruka was the maid !!!
And the end Hayate *smile* ahah
Next episode , the cat vs the tiger .

[kache]

Nice meido episode.
Some lines made me laugh like a crazy person... :rotfl:

[mrjpark]

I don't like how Hina's being phased out =[

[qwertyman]

... phased out? She can't have the spotlight the entire series.

Hina passes in waves. Soon enough she'll be the focus of the episodes again.

[Guido]

The spirit of maid lies in a maid's value to charm unsuspecting and onlooker males to stir up that well known feeling of moe but trapped within a cute, maid outfit.

A well known sight to otakus in Japan.

The spin, the fake smile, big tie on the back, the tip-toe are all-time classics.

BTW, let's hope for Hayate's sake that Maria is not losing her appeal as maid.:heh:

[Shiroth]

Yes, it is. However, it's these pointless chapters unrelated to the real story, and without any form of impact or lasting impression, because the author feels he needs to highlight other side characters some more (in this case, the priest ghost and Haruko).
Are you forgetting that there's a lot of chapters from the manga that are like this, and you're just calling them unrelated? The way i see it, Hayate no Gotoku is all about keeping in the wacky story telling about the characters that are just as important as the romance. The romance is just apart of the big picture, not the whole picture.

Seriously, if it only focused on the romance, then i wouldn't like the manga/anime as much as i do. It's just one huge package that we get from this series.

[qwertyman]

Are you forgetting that there's a lot of chapters from the manga that are like this, and you're just calling them unrelated? The way i see it, Hayate no Gotoku is all about keeping in the wacky story telling about the characters that are just as important as the romance. The romance is just apart of the big picture, not the whole picture.

Seriously, if it only focused on the romance, then i wouldn't like the manga/anime as much as i do. It's just one huge package that we get from this series.

Agreed.

I don't really find the romance in Hayate no Gotoku that good. It's the romance juxtaposed to slapstick humor and freak incidents that make HnG what it is.

[Midonin]

Romance comes a dime a dozen in anime, there's going to be at least two or three shows a season that have it in some form. (That number may be an underestimate). But very few shows destroy the fourth wall, crank up the silly coincidences and just barely adhere to the laws of reality like Hayate does. Which is why episodes 19-21 have been so warmly welcomed by me.

I say this as an oddball who loves comedy, but if it wasn't for that element, I would never have found the show or gave it more than an amused passing glance.

[Kon the Magnificent]

y'know as much as i love this episode, and knew it was coming, I wish they would've made the chapter before this bit, into the anime, when Yukiji and Hayate was going at it over a lottery ticket

you think they'll make it for a later episode