We continue with the Butler's Tiger Den and the utter silliness and parodies that are the lifeblood of this show.
What They Say
Hayate no Gotoku !! (Hayate the Combat Butler - 2nd Season)
The stunning harem manga is coming back to the TV screen, with new episodes filled with more chuckles and excitements that touch the heartstrings of anime-loving teenagers. Hayate is a super-unlucky 16 year-old-boy who ends up shouldering his parents' financial havoc. By chance, he rescues Nagi, the well-dressed little heiress to a mega-rich family from hoodlums, then he gets hired as a live-in butler that guards her from all sorts of troubles. His career, however, requires more than just mental and physical strength: he needs to be entertaining too!
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
After a brief re-introduction of Hayate's adventuring party (wonderfully done by the Narrator), Hayate then wonders to himself…if he's picked the wrong people after all. The Narrator tries to reassure Hayate…but then the party members demonstrate that Hayate has them pegged right.
And so we have the beginning of a parody of a dungeon crawl, something which anyone who has ever played a RPG will know all too well. Of course party members begin to fall by the wayside, become injured, or get split apart. That's the way dungeon crawls go. But our heroes are also given some help. In particular, Hinagiku comes bearing a rather mean looking wooden sword, and Isumi appears ready to do battle with the spirits which infest the dungeon. There is also an appearance by the priest who built the dungeon.
As we reach the goal of the journey, however, the "Sister" reappears to tell Hayate that he's almost done. One problem for "Fortesia." Father Radiostar is there, and asks her why she is pretending to be Sister Fortesia. The game is over, and "Fortesia" reveals herself to be the daughter of a wannabe member of the Sicilian mafia, who failed to kill Nagi many years ago (after which he ended up dying in Japan for a truly idiotic reason—which I'll let you either watch (or read the manga) to find out), bent on taking revenge against the Sanzenin family. Summoning a giant robot to her side, she plans to kill Nagi. Except that she fails at it spectacularly.
But just when you think it is all over, Yukiji reappears…except it's not Yukiji. For the evil spirits of the dungeon, the collective of souls of dead butlers who failed to protect their masters, have borrowed Yukiji's body, which she willingly lent them for the price of 1 million yen. The evil spirits then fuse with the giant robot that Sonia (the fake Fortesia) had summoned, and take Nagi in their grasp. It is at this point that Hayate must look deep within himself and summon all of his strength to unlock his super special technique. He manages to do so, but it's actually unnecessary, as Isumi has just completed her exorcism of the entire dungeon, and the spirits are gone. Hayate unleashes his special power…and winds up flattening the church.
In the aftermath, Isumi apologizes to the real Sister Fortesia for the church being destroyed (through no fault of hers), Sonia seems a little smitten with Wataru (who saved her down in the dungeon), Yukiji's looking for the one million yen she was promised (good luck on collecting that), and Hayate is happy to have saved Nagi. We then head back to the Sanzenin mansion, where Klaus says that while the results of the Butler's Tiger Den were not definitive, Hayate still managed to protect Nagi from one of the Sanzenin family's enemies, therefore Hayate may be reinstated as Nagi's butler (Maria notes that now Klaus doesn't have to look for a new job either). And so, all is well in the Sanzenin household again.
Except that Hayate's going to have to have a little rest.
In Summary:
Continuing to follow the manga story line quite faithfully, we wrap up the Butler's Tiger Den story in short order, and see Hayate finally develop his "special technique," which turns out to be a little more than he can handle yet. Yet further relationships are hinted at, and more references and parodies are thrown at the viewer, many of them flying past my head, I'm sure. For those who are already fans, this episode will be more of what they've come to love. If you are just starting to learn about this show, then by now you will probably be able to decide whether this is your kind of thing or isn't.
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Japanese 2.0 Language, English Subtitles
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