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Rating: 7.8/10

Impressions:

With the focus on two pairings, Hayate x Maria and Saki x Wataru, this episode becomes heavy on the development of relationship side, though at the same time, the comedy is much richer and sensible than the last episode. My favourite pairing is still Hayate x Hinagiku, though a distressed Maria can be pretty cute at times. This episode also makes me more fond of both Wataru and Saki. It’s strange how the pairings don’t even have any romantic love in them, yet they still work out so well. If Hayate is to continue, it definitely needs more episodes like this to balance the plot-rich or comedy episodes.

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Popularity: 6% [?]

Rating: 6.8/10

Impressions:

It would have been great if this episode actually went somewhere—there’s a limit to how random a show can be before it becomes uninteresting. Sure, we got a lot of random Hinagiku-in-bikini shots and anime parodies (probably most memorable is Code Geass), but the randomness fails to convert to comedy. And there’s no character development at all unfortunately. It’s understandable being an anime-original, but I was hoping for something more like episode 10, which remains my favourite (it was an anime-original as well). That episode successfully converts all its absurdity into wonderful entertainment, and the quality is so much higher.

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Popularity: 7% [?]

Rating: 8/10

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I don’t remember seeing this in the manga, but nevertheless I love it. It’s an interesting topic to choose to make an episode out of, and this time it puts Nagi in her well-needed spotlight. It’s quite hilarious how she fails at everything, though cute as well when she makes a big deal out of everything. As always, Isumi’s outrageous getting-lost-skills are downright impressive and always crack me up. The famour Klaus paintings are comical as well. Overall, this episode is a lot more random than the last, and that’s the type of humour I love. The characters are loveable as well, so there’s really nothing wrong I can pick up.

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Popularity: 8% [?]

Rating: 7/10

Impressions:

Although the random skits at the end are rather funny, I can’t really approve of them. I see them as mainly time wasters, and perhaps that time could have been used to flesh out the story more. The introduction of characters could have been a bit more descriptive as well, but having read the manga it doesn’t affect me as much. Anyway, I do like the way the characters talk about fighting and finishing moves like the shounen series that Hayate no Gotoku loves parodying, since it gives you the familiar sense of the action genre, but in a very exaggerative and comedic way. Hinagiku appears too xD.

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Popularity: 9% [?]

Rating: 7/10

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I wonder why Maria became a maid when she was such a genius…maybe the pay is substantially higher than any other job she could find. o_o Anyway, things are starting to get interesting now with the introduction of these ‘professional’ combat butlers, which should take the show in a whole new direction. Actually, it should ‘give’ a direction to the show now, since it never had one in the first place. This episode covers the last chapter of volume 4, and volume 5 sees the random cluster of events that is each episode turn into a random cluster of events WITH a minor continuing plot. I’m being serious when I say this is exciting. =D

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Popularity: 7% [?]

Rating: 8.5/10

Impressions:

Well, I can’t say the comedy is exceptional or the quality is consistently high, but it doesn’t change how I love this episode. It probably doesn’t deserve such a high rating, but whatever. Katsura’s orz-like demeanor, Nagi looking so cute over the love misunderstanding, Maria in the moonlight (and blushing), as well as plenty of Hinagiku makes this episode win (purely in my opinion ^^;;). Also, the way Klaus is ‘coincidentally’ in a happy mood and can not help but praise Hayate so to make Katsura feel even more like crap is hilarious. In fact, for an old fart, Klaus is actually an awesome character! (Lol at young Klaus from last episode xD).

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Popularity: 6% [?]

Rating: 7.3/10

Impressions:

Wow Hayate actually uses Moetan to study English this episode! I dunno whether it’s a parody for the upcoming show or the producers just innocently decided to use the study guide in the episode…Actually I’m surprised that I even picked such a small detail up. Along with this, there are plenty of other laughs as well—another of my favourites being the opening scenes involving Nishizawa (I had no idea what was going on until the final line xD). Oh and by the way, you may or may not know this, but it was a shock to me to discover that Hayate no Gotoku is actually 52 episodes…and I hate blogging such long series (no, I haven’t dropped D.Gray-man). >_<

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Popularity: 5% [?]

Rating: 9.2/10

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Finally, Nishizawa Ayumu makes her first real appearance (despite all those random appearances in every episode). She’s a pretty likeable character in my opinion, but I was hoping her crush on Hayate would be more reserved. It would be nice if she acts normally to express this, though I guess that’s probably reserved for Hinagiku and her cute moments. And yes, Hinagiku is still my favourite character. Hayate is building up quite a harem regardless, though I can hardly say the that this show is a harem show. Hayate no Gotoku is far more of a parody than anything else, I’d say.

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Popularity: 8% [?]