This is the details page for the manga "Hayate the Combat Butler". Here you can see what the manga is about and what the main characters are. You can also read the manga.

Plot synopsis:

Hayate Ayasaki is an unlucky teenager who worked since childhood to make ends meet due to his parents' irresponsible behavior. One day he finds out that his parents ran away from home, leaving behind a massive gambling debt on his shoulders he should pay by selling his organs. While running away from the debt collectors, he ends up meeting Nagi Sanzen'in, a young girl who is the sole heir of the Sanzen'in fortune. Due to a misunderstanding, Nagi ends up falling in love with Hayate. After he rescues Nagi from some kidnappers, she hires Hayate as her new butler. Aside from performing his ordinary duties as a butler, Hayate must fight to protect Nagi from harm, a difficult task as her life is always in danger because she is the target of other individuals coveting her family's fortune, and sometimes deal with some extravagant requests from her, oblivious to Nagi's true feelings for him.

Main characters:

Hayate Ayasaki (Ayasaki Hayate)
The main protagonist. Characters in the series continually remark that Hayate looks poor and seedy. He believes that everyone hates him except children, though he doesn't think of children as being anything other than friends. Hayate sees Nagi as a little sister that needs to be looked after, and is oblivious to her romantic feelings towards him. He has occasional romantic feelings towards Maria. Despite his terrible luck, Hayate lives up to the title of "combat butler" as he is proficient in repelling attacks from almost anything, including other butlers. He once demonstrated skill with fire-arms and is essentially invincible. He is also continually teased throughout the series as being physically feminine, and Nagi and Maria constantly dress him up in dresses and women's clothes. Regardless of what he is wearing, most people claim that he "looks poor"; even Nagi and Maria won't meet his eyes when they assure him that this doesn't matter.


Nagi Sanzen'in (Sanzen'in Nagi)
Nagi, thirteen, is the only heir to the Sanzen'in fortune. She is a tsundere and has an otaku-level hobby with manga and anime, and draws her own, very strange, manga. She is good at finances and likes to learn. She has a pet tiger named Tama. She has a crush on Hayate, and, since meeting Hayate, has acted on the misconception that the feeling was reciprocated, thus she is very jealous of him. Her only surviving family is her grandfather, whom she doesn't like for reasons that are not entirely clear. She regards Maria as a mother or older sister figure. Nagi is afraid of dark places and has a history of making potentially lethal mistakes when cooking. She is very unathletic and not as familiar with the real world as she should be.


Maria (Maria)
Maria, seventeen, is Nagi's maid and surrogate older sister/mother. She plays the voice of reason in the series, and is the only one who understands the problem between Hayate and Nagi. She appears to be the one running everything in Nagi's manor, since everyone including the head butler and the SP either obeys or fears her (or both in some cases). She is good at general housework and likes games of all kinds, though she is deathly afraid of cockroaches, which she refers to as "the dark life-form that exists in the kitchen and other places".

She has no last name because she was an orphan who was found next to the statue of St. Mary at a church, which she is named after. The day she was found, December 24, is celebrated as her birthday.

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