Hayate the Combat Butler — Season 1, Episode 40: New Year's Food is Also Good, but Enjoy Hayate, Too

Episode synopsis

On the night before New Years, Nagi orders Hayate to bring her to Kujukuri Beach to have a romantic date watching the sunrise after reading about it in a manga. Hayate is forced to take her on a bike since he is not old enough to drive. He manages to make it on time, but Nagi falls asleep just before the sunrise. The next day, the mansion's circuit breaker overloads and Hayate goes to the annex to turn it back on. On the way there, he gets stuck in a blizzard which is really caused by Sakuya's snowblower. He manages to turn the power back on, but passes out due to the extreme cold. After insulting Sakuya without meaning to, she (and her bodyguards) ditch him and leave him on a stretcher in the annex.

About Hayate the Combat Butler

16-year-old Hayate is really down on his luck. Because his unemployed parents are good-for-nothings who waste what money they have on gambling, Hayate had to start working at a young age to help out his family. Although such experience has made him inhumanly fast and tough and skilled at things boys aren't normally skilled at, it has also left him in an awkward position, as his parents have racked up such a huge gambling debt that they have sold Hayate to the yakuza for the value of his organs. In a desperate attempt to avoid that fate, Hayate decides to become a "bad guy" and kidnap someone to be held for ransom, but his efforts to do so are mistaken as a confession of love by the girl he targets. When he helps save the (as it turns out) ultra-wealthy 13-year-old Nagi from real kidnappers, she takes him in and gives him a job as her new personal butler (and love interest) until he can pay off his debt. But Hayate is more attracted to Nagi's beautiful teenage maid Maria, and head butler Klaus is initially disapproving of a boy with such a poor look. And then there's Nagi's pet Tama, who is also a force to be reckoned with.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1'Unmei' In English Is 'Destiny'
• E2Nagi Sanzenin's Mansion And A New Journey
• E3The Beast, Robot, and Butler that Kinda Shout Love at the Center of the World
• E4First Mission: This is Snake. No One's Responding
• E5Unneeded Gags and Kindness Bring Misfortune
• E6You Said You Can See Time, But That's Probably Your Life Flashing By
• E7Man's Flight
• E8Cat Ear Mode Sends You to Hell
• E9Eloim Essaim. Mr. Cow, Mr. Cow! What is it, Mr. Frog?
• E10There's a Subtle High Deflation in the World. Play Games without Accumulation
• E11The Value of My Life is Priceless
• E12In the Past, We were Taught that Youth Does Not Look Back at the Space Police