Hayate the Combat Butler — Season 1, Episode 52: Radical Dreamers

Episode synopsis

During Golden Week, Hayate, Nagi, and Maria take a trip to an island in the Aegean Sea. Nagi still does not like to go outside much, though she gives in to Hayate after he sulks. While out the next day, Nagi's hat is blown away by the wind, and when Hayate goes to retrieve it, he falls into a time slip and arrives many years previous when Nagi was living on the island. After he realizes what is going on, he discovers she is being targeted by the Mafia, and he ends up protecting her from them, ultimately winning; Hayate realizes that the reason he was sent back was to save Nagi. Hayate had promised Nagi in the past to watch the stars together at the beach, but when they go at sunset, Nagi's hat once again is blown away and Hayate goes through another time slip back to the present. This caused Nagi to remember Hayate in the past as a liar who disappeared on her and took her hat with him. Back in the present, Hayate gives Nagi back her hat and the two gaze at the starry night sky together.

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

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• 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