Category: TV
Genre: Comedy,
School LifeYear: 2007
Studio: Synergy SP
Status: Licensed
If you like this series, we encourage you to purchase it from legitmate retailers or stream it from authorized partners to support the growing anime industry. Sixteen-year old Hayate Ayasaki is renowned as the industry's fastest delivery boy, until his employer fires him after learning that he was underage. To his dismay, he learns that his irresponsible parents, whom he has supported since the age of eight, received his monthly payment of 170,000 yen. Returning home on Christmas Eve, he finds that they lost all but twelve yen gambling away his salary and garnered a 156,804,000 yen debt to a yakuza, who they attempt to pay off by selling Hayate's organs.
Escaping from the yakuza, Hayate decides to kidnap a young girl named Nagi Sanzen'in for ransom money, but fails miserably by giving away his own name. In addition to that, his intended hostage mistakes his request for her to come with him to be a confession of love. Just as Hayate lies down and waits to freeze to death, a bike runs over him and he meets Maria, who is looking for Nagi. Hayate is smitten with her at first glance, though initially, he lies to Maria by saying that he didn't know anything about Nagi. Hayate's spirits lift when Maria gives Hayate her scarf, and, shocked by her kindness, he goes on to save Nagi when she is kidnapped by a pair of brothers who owed money to the same yakuza. After saving Nagi, she says that she is in Hayate's debt, and Hayate asks her to repay the debt by finding him a new job before collapsing from his injuries. This leads him to becoming Nagi's new butler, who must protect Nagi from all sorts of trouble while performing normal duties alongside Maria, who is Nagi's maid.
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