Hayate the Combat Butler {Hayate no Gotoku!} generic discussion

[Honey_and_Cleaver]

Shounen,Comedy and Romance is what this anime is about. I dont see any tragedy in this anime.

[Chaos2Frozen]

Originally Posted by Honey_and_Cleaver

Shounen,Comedy and Romance is what this anime is about. I dont see any tragedy in this anime.

I'm confused, were you expecting an emo session? other than his abandonment and Nagi's anti-social reasons, there's rarely any tragedy. It is a COMEDY story...

Personally, I think people are taking his parents too seriously. They have minor impact to the story here and there. The real story starts when he finally became their butler. This first episode is just an introduction.

[Contempt]

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

This first episode is just an introduction.

And a damn funny one at that...

[kari-no-sugata]

I wasn't too sure about this series after ep 1, but ep 2 was a win for me. Happy!

[SinsI]

I'm starting to think that Nagi also is a Gundam.

Spoiler for manga ch1-5, anime ep2:

Earlier in the manga it said that 150 million weights about 15 kilos, and this weak-looking 13 year old girl was able to easily lift it all with one hand...That's more than half of her own weight!

[Lost]

Episode 1; I was put off by most of the comedy because it felt rather slapstick [slap·stick (-noun) 1. ...obvious farcical situations and jokes...] and cheap; that said, there were funny and original parts (like the angel vs. devil scene and that whole censorship farce) I lol'ed to. I guess I was expecting too much of it, or at least too much of an introductory episode. Someone earlier called this light comedy, and so it shall be.

Re-configuring expectation matrices.

Command main {}

Expectation bleh {

expectation = "{last for [1] episode}" [light comedy] "{replace [serious comedy] [0]}"

}

Run {

if ([style] = "Seinfield") {
main.bleh
}

else {
drop series
}

}

[Owaranai Destiny]

Interesting.

I picked it up due to some sort of hype over it, having never read the manga at all. Typical humor found in anime at times, but nevertheless still able to elicit more than a few laughs. That would be perhaps the only complaint valid for the pilot episode, and I still find it strange so far that people are willing to drop anime series immediately at the start just because of one factor. The narrator did remind me of the one from Negima?!, only slightly less...drastic. And as expected, Kugimiya Rie was perfect for Nagi.

In any case, I like the animation and the story premise. It looks like a fun series so I'll probably be looking forward to it.

[Lost]

Originally Posted by Owaranai Destiny

and I still find it strange so far that people are willing to drop anime series immediately at the start just because of one factor.

If that was directed at me, don't get me wrong. I will be continuing this. It's just that I needed a shift in what I was expecting from the show. I'm sure I will continue to enjoy the series and its humour, as well as its premise (as soon as I get CoreAVC set-up, that is).

[Owaranai Destiny]

Originally Posted by Lost

If that was directed at me, don't get me wrong. I will be continuing this. It's just that I needed a shift in what I was expecting from the show. I'm sure I will continue to enjoy the series and its humour, as well as its premise (as soon as I get CoreAVC set-up, that is).

No worries. It wasn't directed at you, but I expected reactions like yours coming out sooner or later, especially since there's been a boom in anime series this Spring. I apologize if I come off as overbearing, but it does irk me a little when people just won't give things a chance. Even I'm willing to get my bearings right for Touka Gettan later on.

Episode 2 aired, apparently. Things are finally starting to get a little interesting.

[dahl_moon]

Just watched episode 2. Wakamoto doing narrations for the last episode recap makes recaps sooo much more interesting

Spoiler for episode 2:

As shown at the end of episode 1, it's about Hayate starting out as a butler for Sanzenin Nagi(Sanzenin/三千院... three thousand houses, eh?). Overall as funny as the 1st one, such as:

1. + The frequent "Endings."
2. The bath scene.
   Mariya: "Nice bath isn't it?"
   Hayate: "It's so ---(relaxing?)"
   Narrator:"---てどうする?"
3. Narrator: サビス　カット〜！ Service pic with nak-- Mariya

BUT there was one disappointment:

Spoiler for Nagi:

Nagi said "Urusai!" just once! How dare they! It would have been 1000x more funnier if she said it three times in succession.

Also, the doctor, he looks a bit like Santa-san, doesn't he?

[stevency]

Spoiler:

Oh my, they even throw out the J-drama Umisaru as a reference so bluntly.


/me can't stop laugh on that screen.

[Chaos2Frozen]

"What kind of Gundam is he?"

"N-No, he's still human..."

That was the best line ever

[Honey_and_Cleaver]

Im too spoiled from Midori no hibi,Cromartie High School,Full Metal Panic:Fumoffu, AIR and other animes to be confound by the humour of this anime.

[Chaos2Frozen]

Don't worry, I'm sure somebody would find that stick and pull it out of your ...

[Anime Online]

Nice comedy anime, probably from the Zero no Tsukaima vibes I'm getting.

[Guardian Enzo]

Well, just watched the first ep. While it was a bit uneven, I confess I was kindly inclined towards the show as soon as they threw in the Gendo Ikari cameo. I'm not sure just what this is, but I rather enjoyed it.

[Shiroth]

Oh man, i LOL'd so hard at the Black Lagoon reference in the second episode, nicely added --- same goes for the ***damn mention. Oh, and even more classic Wakamoto, what a god voice.

[DwArD]

I don't remember any reference to Black Lagoon in the manga so they most probably added that into the anime. I'm reading the whole manga now and its really hilarious. It had a LOT of reference to other anime/manga series and its actually pretty fun if you're able to identify them.

[Mentar]

You know, once we seriously considered adding another track which showed TLnotes for all puns we could find in the episodes.

Then we found out that there were simply too much of them - and what about those which we didn't catch on our own? ^_^

And so, the idea was dropped again...

[Fruitfly]

Hmm saw Jack from Mar in the boat with Hayate
and hes wearing a straw hat when he mentions "pirate king"

also glad they kept the detective conan statue.