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Hayate no Gotoku GaoGaiGar Parody

admin — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:32:08 +0000

Just watch it.

Hayate no Gotoku! – Jumping the Shark?

admin — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:24:19 +0000

If you’ve been following Hayate no Gotoku you may have noticed a recent drop in quality of recent episodes. It seems that the quality of the show (story not animation) has dropped. People are no longer laughing at the jokes, it seems really dry, the story is going nowhere, and the PPD feel has been overcome by just boringness.

Has Hayate no Gotoku! jumped the shark? Well, I’m doubtful. But I do feel it’d been better off being a one season instead of two season anime. As it stands, I don’t know, but I do believe that it’s going to fall into the list of anime that isn’t really watched nor thought about much. Stuff like PPD (Pani Poni Dash) is mentioned constantly while Hayate will just fall into nothingness. Unless the story picks up… that is.

Here is to hoping!

Hayate no Gotoku Episode 2

admin — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:43:18 +0000

So much anime this season, no screenshots for this one but you should be watching it anyway. In episode two of Hayate no Gotoku is of course available here. It’s without a doubt a VERY good episode and continues the epic saga of Hayate and his bid for freedom. Last time we left off Hayate used his PLOT DEVICE to catch a car in an attempt to rescue Shana I mean Nagi. She proclaimed that he would be his butler. Episode two continued from the point of him recovering from his injuries.

Overall the episode was fantastic. Not only did we get character development (Nagi is in love with Hayate for sure and Hayate is kind of clueless but not all the way) but we also got a few MASSIVE plot points taken care of. Which is kind of unusual.

The first plot point is the mafia coming after him for the money. This was resolved and surprisingly enough very quickly. I figured the mafia would be a running gag or some way for Nagi to hold leverage over Hayate. Instead she paid off his debt then told him he didn’t have to work the debt off. We can only assume from here that his debt won’t be a MASSIVE issue. It may come up in the sense like in ZnT where she was like “YOU ARE MY FAMILIAR DO WHAT I SAY” and Hayate is like -.- yes.

The other plot point was that this show is indeed COMEDY. This means that we won’t really have that much to worry about entertainment wise. It isn’t going to be Shana where it’s serious about combat or ZnT where it’s serious about the slice of life. This one seems to be approaching the comedy genre. Hopefully there will be a lot done with that.

Overall this episode would get an A and if it was out on DVD here in the states I’d probably buy it. Episode 3 was just released as I type this (lol good job). Here is hoping it’s just as good!

Hayate no Gotoku!

admin — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 12:33:21 +0000

Hayate no Gotoku (or literally Hayate the Combat Butler or in moon language ハヤテのごとく！) is a brand new anime with Rie Kugimiya as the VA for Nagi Sanzenin or the female lead. What does this mean? Well, we pretty much have Shakugan no Shana version three. Zero no Tsukaima was considered by many to the second Shana as it’s a slice of life anime with the same VA doing the same style voice. This one will probably be alittle bit more interesting then ZnT and Shana.

So, let’s establish the facts. Keiichiro Kawaguchi is the director, who did Ginban Kaleidoscope, Great Teacher Onizuka, and Getsumen To Heiki Mina. All four of these were VERY good animes and all of them were kind of slice of life with some action put in here and there. We’ve got Rie Tanaka of Gundam fame as a maid (a kind of off cast character). My favorite, Norio Wakamoto is the kind of announcer who is also MECHAZAWA from Cromartie High School.

The all star cast is already lined up. What else does Hayate have to pull out for us? Outside of the HD raws available for us NA viewers… a lot! It’s got so far a pretty good plot, Shana’s voice, and a cast of other VA’s who are just absolutely fantastic.

Anytime you mention a slice of life with action I’m on board. That’s exactly what this is. Hayate is a “combat butler” but also Nagi’s love interest. This creates the same thing that was in Shana/ZnT pretty much except the plot is much better. She’s super rich, he’s super poor and there is a ton of comedy.

Comedy is what can make or break a slice of life for me. There is a lot of good times/funny moments. There is a lot of interesting things going on as well. I’m just absolutely in love with this series! The first episode has him becoming her butler, establishing what the anime is about, and well other things. It’s not slow but rather fast paced. The plot is simple and goes right to the point and it establishes that she’s in love with him and he isn’t exactly in love with her (Shana/ZnT anyone AGAIN).

He is “plot armor” skilled. Meaning that he gets on a bike and catches a car. This is just so zany that it shows that the anime isn’t taking itself seriously. Meaning lots of good times to be had. A fun cast, a small but interesting plot, and comedy. Man.

I give this episode an A+. Just by the fact that I was hooked after the first episode. The only other series this season so far that has got an A+ is Teppen. Of course if we were adding levels of pluses Teppen would get A+++++++ making it better. But that’s too much.

So if you haven’t already, get to downloading. It’s really good.