Posts Tagged ‘Hayate no Gotoku!!’
January 15, 2012
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- Just How Big IS One Piece?
This info-graphic puts it in simple terms.
- Long-lost Animated Version of The Hobbit
We all love the animated version of The Hobbit from the 1970′s (and if you don’t, I don’t care about you). But an insane story emerged just recently about the first ever version that was made in 1966 but was never public. It was done in just one month and was pretty much a shady cash grab. If you’ve watched TV cartoons from the 60′s, the style should look immediately familiar to you.
- Kickstarter Campaign Reaches Goal in Just 2 Days for Tezuka’s Barbara
DMP’s fundraising to re-release Swallowing the Earth worked so well they are trying it again with another Tezuka work, Barbara. In just two days the $6500 goal was reached, that is an incredible turn around! Perhaps this will be the future of niche manga releases in the U.S.
- DC Comics Getting a New Logo?
This logo makes me sad, it is really nothing special or iconic in any way.
The one true pairing involving Hinagiku:
Posted in All Points Bulletin, Editorials | Tagged Barbara, Hayate no Gotoku!!, Hayate the Combat Butler, Lensman, Lychee Light Club, Macross Zero, One Piece, The Hobbit | 5 Comments »
December 28, 2011
We are here on the red carpet in scenic Brooklyn for the 5th annual Reverse Thieves Anime and Manga Awards. All the stars are here and decked out in their finest. There has already been a bit of drama outside before the awards tonight. We saw Hayao Miyazaki punch out Gendo Ikari over a seating dispute. Then one of the K-ON! girls was seen with a male escort which raised a few eyebrows and possibly caused several suicides. There were also some red faces when Sheryl Nome and Ciel Phantomhive showed up in the same dress. But all that aside we are gathered here today to look back and praise the best and the brightest while scorning the foul beasts that waste our precious time. The viewing audience at home is also encouraged to send in their own votes to see how they stack up to the votes of the academy.
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Posted in Editorials | Tagged A Certain Magical Index, Ano Hana, Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae o Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai, Ben-to, Bunny Drop, Carnival Phantasm, Codename Sailor V, Croisee in a Foreign Labyrinth, detective, Fate/Zero, Fireball Charming, Gosick, GTO Shonan 14 Days, Gundam AGE, Hayate no Gotoku!!, Hayate the Combat Butler, Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere, Mawaru Penguindrum, Princess Knight, Sailor Moon, Shonan Junai-gumi, Tiger & Bunny, To Aru Majutsu no Index, Type-Moon, Usagi Drop, Uta no Prince-sama Maji Love 1000%, Yuruyuri | 2 Comments »
June 10, 2011
I recently mentioned how much I have enjoyed the comedy in Hayate the Combat Butler but Kenjiro Hata occasionally decides to drop some hardcore truth on us as well. In chapter 319 we learn the truth about the doujinshi market. Only 5% of doujinshi sell over a thousand copies, about half sell less than 50 copies, and 70% lose money on their efforts. In one page it shatters the idea that people are casually making themselves famous or making a casual living through doujinshi. When you sit back and think about it the reality of the situation is quite obvious but sometimes you need it laid out in plain black and white. It is easy to see CLAMP and Type-Moon create a career out of their amateur work and assume this happens more often than not. You always hear stories about doujinshi artists who turn down professional work because of the insane hours and might conjecture they are making a living doing their independent projects. I guess I always assumed the success rate was higher even if that was a very naive notion.
On the other hand I am curious how different this is from trying to make a living off of doing an independent or web comic. I am sure there are a great number of people who try their hands making a living off of their creative talents but only a select few that ever become anywhere near successful. I just wonder if a career via doujinshi has any higher or lower success rate versus other forms of independent comic art.
Posted in Editorials, Fandom, Industry, Manga | Tagged doujinshi, Hayate no Gotoku!!, Hayate the Combat Butler | 1 Comment »
March 2, 2011
Hayate the Combat Butler (ハヤテのごとく!) by Kenjiro Hata
Hayate the Combat Butler is hardly an obscure series but I wanted to bring it up for two reasons. The first is that as far as a I can tell Hayate, much like many other Shonen Sunday titles is hardly doing gangbusters in the English-speaking world. Viz has already slowed down the release schedule on the series. While I don’t think it will be canceled anytime soon I would like to see its schedule speed up rather than slowed down further. The other reason is the is the lull between the end of the second season and the movie. Manga seems to generate less conversation when there is no anime running at the same time. So I have decided to hopefully get some conversation going before the movie comes out.
Hayate Ayasaki has the worst parents in the world. One day he comes home to discover they have saddled him with a 156,804,000 yen debt. Through odd circumstances he winds up in the employ of the insanely rich Nagi Sanzenin as her butler. Nagi has fallen in love with him but sadly Hayate is blissfully unaware of this fact. At first Hayate had to protect Nagi from people who would try to steal her fortune. Recently Nagi renounced her inheritance and is running an apartment complex with the little money she has left. So Hayate tries must keep the apartment complex afloat while dealing with the strange residents within and their equally troublesome friends.
People often ask me why I like Hayate the Combat Butler so much. My answer is that it is refreshing. Whenever I read the newest chapter of the manga I just feel my worries fade away. Kenjiro Hata has a gentle writing style that is both soothing and invigorating. The series is consistently funny and mixes high level otaku humor with your more standard comedy elements. There is also a mixture of romance, action, and drama in the story but every chapter is sure to have some laughs to balance it all out. The other major appeal is that the characters are very endearing to me. While I wrote a whole article on why Nagi is such a great character I could write similar articles on the rest of the cast. I think since our review of the anime I have realized that the otaku level for the series might be a little too high for some but I think any decently experienced anime fan will find something to enjoy in Hayate.
Posted in Comedy, Manga, Manga of the Month | Tagged Hayate no Gotoku!!, Hayate the Combat Butler | 3 Comments »
April 22, 2009
Sometimes there are tasks so horrific and horrible than only an expert who has been to hell and back can tackle them. And sometimes a show is based on an already established property so we don’t review it in the main season preview. That task is less frightening. So I the great detective Hisui shall attempt to look at some shows solo.
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Posted in Anime, Anime Seasons, Editorials, Guides, TV Series | Tagged Chi's New Address, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Hayate no Gotoku!!, Kigurumikku V3, Marie and Gali, Queen's Blade, Saki | Leave a Comment »
