A second season of frivolity and otaku-centered humor with our favorite indebted combat butler and his hikikomori multibillionaire employer.
What They Say
Episode 5 - Heart to Heart
Spring, where young men and women fall in love by the cherry blossoms. The typical boy, Kazuki Nishizawa and the typical girl, Nagi Sanzenin or so they say. One year later, Nagi is at home grappling with the cupboards. On top of the cupboard, there is a tin of the "World's Best Cookies" that she tries to get but can't reach. This concerns her, that she is unable to get things on her own. Watari heads to the video rental shop where he bumps into Kazuki. Where is his significant other?
The Review!
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)

We open with a young boy looking rapturously at a young girl. He thinks that she is a vision of beauty.Â
Sadly for him, he's looking at Nagi Sanzenin. And also sadly for him, he is Kazuki Nishizawa, whom we've met before as the younger brother of the breathtakingly average Ayumu Nishizawa. So, it's too bad for him that he seems to have fallen in love with a girl who is not only out of his league, but who could also buy his entire league and sell it for scrap.Â
Having just gone through Valentine's Day, I guess love is still in the air for the characters in Hayate the Combat Butler. Except that instead, we're going to focus on Nagi's fixation with her lack of height. Mmm. Cookies. This episode also presents us with Kazuki's pathetic attempts to confess his love to Nagi. Which somehow work. And so, Nagi goes on what appears to be a date with Kazuki.Â
The second half of the episode sees us continue with Nagi's own love troubles, as she pines after a Hayate who does not see her in a romantic light at all. We get misunderstandings. And we get a bath scene. And not too much changes.Â
In Summary
By returning to the manga more faithfully, we get to see characters who were not in the first series adaptation: in the first few eisodes, Sonia Shaflnarz; now more fully we see Ayumu Nishizawa's younger brother Kazuki and his strange romantic taste in women. The comedy continues to highlight the show, as we get a wonderful little throwaway gags dealing with Nagi's height, and the various romantic misunderstandings of the characters. We do get a little development in the complex relationship between Nagi and Hayate as well. In all, the second season is progressing quite well for Hayate the Combat Butler!!
Features
Japanese 2.0 Language, English Subtitles
Review Equipment
Apple Mac Mini with 1GB RAM, Mac OS 10.5 Leopard
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