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Hayate The Combat Butler #5
Hayate The Combat Butler, Vol. 5
A hilarious tale of butlers, love and battles!
Since the tender age of nine, Hayate Ayasaki has busted his behind at various part-time jobs to support his degenerate gambler parents. And how do they repay their son’s selfless generosity? By selling his organs to the yakuza to cover their debts! But fate throws Hayate a bone…sort of. Now the butler of a wealthy young lady, Hayate can finally pay back his debts, and it’ll only take him 40 years to do it.
To truly be considered a butler of the highest caliber, Hayate needs more than just punctuality, an unwavering sense of loyalty and the ability to keep his mistress out of tight situations--he'll also need to develop the ultimate fighting technique! Despite his best efforts at avoiding violent confrontations, our butler-in-debt seems incapable of keeping out of duels. Thankfully, this time it's a non-life-threatening kendo match. Will the path of the sword help guide Hayate toward true domestic enlightenment?
Since the tender age of nine, Hayate Ayasaki has busted his behind at various part-time jobs to support his degenerate gambler parents. And how do they repay their son’s selfless generosity? By selling his organs to the yakuza to cover their debts! But fate throws Hayate a bone…sort of. Now the butler of a wealthy young lady, Hayate can finally pay back his debts, and it’ll only take him 40 years to do it.
To truly be considered a butler of the highest caliber, Hayate needs more than just punctuality, an unwavering sense of loyalty and the ability to keep his mistress out of tight situations--he'll also need to develop the ultimate fighting technique! Despite his best efforts at avoiding violent confrontations, our butler-in-debt seems incapable of keeping out of duels. Thankfully, this time it's a non-life-threatening kendo match. Will the path of the sword help guide Hayate toward true domestic enlightenment?
192 pages, Paperback
First published January 14, 2006
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Kenjirō Hata
240 books68 followersHe is notable for the creation of Hayate the Combat Butler!. He likes to collect anime related items, such as figurines.
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March 3, 2025
Silly. Hayate decides he wants to be more like a butler
July 19, 2015
In this volume, Hayate faces a duel to prove himself as a first-class butler, then has to face a test of courage in an old school building, tries to find a special deadly technique, then has to protect Nagi aboard a startlingly... familiar? ship. Meanwhile, Nagi herself encounters her rival for the first time and Wataru has a crisis of understanding over a woman's feelings.
This story was made for me by the search for the special deadly technique, a hunt that leads us into the next volume as well. Upon meeting two other butlers, Hayate has it in his head that he needs one in order to successfully protect Nagi (and given that he challenged everyone who wants her fortune to go through him first, he's likely right). But these things rarely just show up in, say, the library or at school. Still, it doesn't stop him from looking in all those places.
We also get to see Izumi in her main work in this book, to an extent. She's the sort of vacant character I usually don't dislike, but also don't really care about. But for some reason, Isumi really amuses me. :)
This story was made for me by the search for the special deadly technique, a hunt that leads us into the next volume as well. Upon meeting two other butlers, Hayate has it in his head that he needs one in order to successfully protect Nagi (and given that he challenged everyone who wants her fortune to go through him first, he's likely right). But these things rarely just show up in, say, the library or at school. Still, it doesn't stop him from looking in all those places.
We also get to see Izumi in her main work in this book, to an extent. She's the sort of vacant character I usually don't dislike, but also don't really care about. But for some reason, Isumi really amuses me. :)
May 27, 2015
Inspiration for a track and field event. I wonder how that's going to work out. I mean I'm out of shape, but I would last a little more than that.
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