List of Hayate the Combat Butler characters

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This article lists the characters from the Japanese manga and anime series Hayate the Combat Butler.

[edit] Main characters

Hayate Ayasaki (綾崎 颯, Ayasaki Hayate^?)

Voiced by: Ryoko Shiraishi

• Age: 16
• Height: 168cm
• Weight: 57kg (Body fat ratio is under 10%)
• Blood type: A
• Birthday November 1

Hayate has had to work to support his parent's bad habits since the age of nine, always moving from job to job as he is found out to be underage. Hayate's dad was unemployed and his mother was a compulsive gambler, which led to their bankruptcy. They abandon Hayate after selling his organs to the Yakuza to ease their financial burdens. With not many choices left to him, Hayate thought to kidnap someone to get ransom. He found a girl, Nagi Sanzenin, and told her that he would kidnap her. However, Nagi mistook his words for his confession of love, so later he was employed as Nagi's new butler.

Characters in the series are always remarking that he looks poor and seedy, and he has terrible luck. He believes that everyone hates him except children, though he doesn't think about children being any other than friends, including Nagi. He has a crush on Maria. Hayate can play the violin. Despite his luck Hayate lives up to the title of "combat butler" as he is proficient in repelling attacks from almost anything, including other butlers. He once demonstrated a skilled use of fire-arms and is essentially invincible.

Nagi Sanzenin (三千院 凪, Sanzenin Nagi^?)

Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya

• Age: 13
• Height: 138cm
• Weight: 29kg
• Blood type: AB
• Birthday: December 3

Nagi is the only heir to the Sanzenin fortune. She is a tomboy and has an otaku hobby with manga and anime, and draws her own manga. She is good at finance and likes to learn. She has a crush on Hayate, and has misunderstood that Hayate loves her since they first met. Nagi is afraid of dark places and has absolutely no sense of direction, and her only surviving family is her grandfather, whom she doesn't like. She regards Maria as a mother or older sister figure, and warns Hayate not to touch Maria in any indecent way or she will never forgive him. She is totally incapable of cooking. She calls her tiger, Tama, a cat.

Maria (マリア, Maria^?)

Voiced by: Rie Tanaka

• Age: 17
• Height: 158cm
• Weight: 42kg
• Blood type: O
• Birthday: December 24

Maria is Nagi's maid and surrogate older sister/mother. She is the character with the most common sense in the series, and is the only one who understands the problem between Hayate and Nagi. She appears to be the one in charge of everything in Nagi's manor, since everyone, from the head butler to the SP obey her and fear her. She's good at general housework and likes games of all kinds, though she is scared of "the dark life-form that exists in the kitchen and other places".

She has no last name because she was an orphan who was found next to the statue of St. Mary at a church, which is where she got her name. Not knowing anything about herself, her birthday was decided as December 24, the day she was found. She is the unfortunate one who always has to clean up everyone's messes. She has seen Hayate naked several times, and she sees the effect he has on other girls, many of whom are attracted to him for his kind nature, though she herself is not. Maria is also legendary throughout the school for having graduated high school at the age of thirteen in just three years while maintaining the position of Student Council President for all three years.

[edit] Supporting characters

Sakuya Aizawa (愛沢 咲夜, Aizawa Sakuya^?)

Voiced by: Kana Ueda

Sakuya is a friend of Nagi's, and like her, Sakuya is very rich and has a similar personality — loud, arrogant, abusive of servants, and unwilling to accept defeat in anything. Nagi is one of the only people who can stand up to her, once again showing their similar personalities. Her cousin Gilbert is one of the people who is constantly harassing Nagi for her fortune.

Isumi Saginomiya (鷺ノ宮 伊澄, Saginomiya Isumi^?)

Voiced by: Miyu Matsuki

Isumi is a black-haired girl who is always wearing a kimono. Another one of Nagi's close friends, she and Nagi met at a party a long time ago. When all the other children, Sakuya included, laughed at Nagi's first attempt at writing her own manga, Isumi took interest in it and asked Nagi how it ends; Nagi then asked Isumi (in a childish sense) to marry her. Like Nagi, Isumi is very rich. Unlike Nagi, Isumi is soft-spoken, kind, and can cook well. While she does not have an awful sense of direction, she constantly gets lost due to the fact that she is apt to forget her destination, though she is able to disappear from people's eyes instantaneously.

She displays a high level of empathy for Nagi's feelings; however, she does not recognize Wataru's love for her, a fact that Nagi, Maria, and Hayate comment on. In volume five of the manga, it is revealed she can perform exorcisms. She has feelings for Hayate and does not wish to see him sad.

Wataru Tachibana (橘 亘, Tachibana Wataru^?)

Voiced by: Marina Inoue

Wataru is Nagi's fiance. He is the same age as she is, but they have no feelings for each other; Wataru claims his parents arranged their future marriage entirely for the money. He is in love with Isumi. He lives and runs a video-rental store in the city. He first hates Hayate for accidentally stealing Isumi's affection. But later he looks up to Hayate and strives to be as good as he is.

Saki Kijima (貴嶋 沙希, Kijima Saki^?)

Voiced by: Saki Nakajima

Saki is Wataru's maid. She is significantly older than Wataru and lives with him in his video-rental store. Her biggest fear is that Wataru will start watching porn when he reaches puberty, which he denies. She also reacts strongly whenever Hayate touches her anywhere, such as tapping her on the shoulder or carrying her away from danger, worrying about whether or not their physical contact will affect her chances of getting a husband later in life.

Klaus (クラウス, Kurausu^?)

Voiced by: Kenta Miyake

• Age: 58
• Blood type: A
• Birthday: April 18

Klaus is head butler of the Sanzenin family, who is usually away on business. His real name is Seishirō Kurausu (倉臼 征史郎, Kurausu Seishirō^?), and is fully Japanese. He has a low alcohol tolerance, doesn't do well with tobacco or women, and likes cars and bikes. He initially distrusted and disliked Hayate when he was first hired.

Tama (タマ, Tama^?)

Voiced by: Juurouta Kosugi

Tama is a white tiger from Africa, who was rescued by Nagi as a cub, and was raised on Matsuzaka beef and expensive tuna fish, making it incapable for him to go to the zoo or back to the wild. He can speak the human language, though he does not reveal this to Maria or Nagi because he doesn't want to shatter the young girl's dreams. He will lay his life down to protect Nagi, because his situation was a lot like Hayate's. To him, Maria is the highest power there is, followed by an impassable wall, Nagi, then himself, and everyone else is below him.

Despite the fact he is a white tiger, he is depicted in the manga to have been found by Nagi while Nagi is exploring Africa. Usually when Tama is speaking or involved in a comical situation, he looks rather cartoony and, when standing on his hind legs, is about human size. He appears this way in most of his appearances, although he will occassionally be drawn in his actual size and appearance.

Eight (エイト, Eito^?)

Eight is a robot in love with his creator. He was created to be the ultimate nursing robot by the Sanzenin Technology Division. He is equipped with "nursing missiles" and rocket boosters.

Ayumu Nishizawa (西沢 歩, Nishizawa Ayumu^?)

Voiced by: Mikako Takahashi

Ayumu is a girl from Hayate's school before he became a butler. She always had feelings for Hayate and is happy when he pays his old school a visit. She violently lashes out at anyone who badmouths her and Hayate, including a teacher who called Hayate a dropout because his parents had refunded all his school fees the day Hayate was sold. She confesses her feelings to Hayate, but Hayate rejects them after getting a vision of Nagi. Undeterred, she tries to talk to Hayate when she sees him a week later, but she runs into Nagi and is shocked that in terms of metaphoric strength that Nagi is represented by a dragon while she is represented by a hamster. Nishizawa retreats, vowing next time to bring a stronger hamster. She later challenges Nagi to karaoke, only to lose.

Hinagiku Katsura (桂 雛菊, Katsura Hinagiku^?)

Voiced by: Shizuka Itou

Hinagiku is the current student council president, and kendo club president at Hakuō Academy, the school that Nagi, Isumi, and eventually Hayate attends. She is fifteen and is an expert with swords, specifically kendo. She first meets Hayate when he gets lost on the huge Hakuō campus and invites him to the top of the clocktower, where only student council elites are allowed. She allows Hayate to call her by her first name and also seems to be infatuated by Hayate and his attractive personality. Her family does not show any signs of being rich. On the cover of volume four of the manga, she is depicted with pink hair; however, on the color page cover of chapter thirty-seven she has strawberry orange hair.

Yukiji Katsura (桂 雪路, Katsura Yukiji^?)

Voiced by: Hitomi Nabatame

Yukiji is the twenty-eight year old sister of Hinagiku. She is a teacher at Hakuō Academy and doubles as a twenty-four-hour gate guard. She refuses to let Hayate enter the school when they first meet because she is afraid that letting unauthorized personnel on campus will result in a salary deduction for her. Her attitude softens after Hayate first saves her from falling off the clock tower, but she still almost causes Hayate to be rejected from Hakuō by unnecessarily making him anxious during his entrance exam. She repays Hayate by telling everyone in her class on Hayate's first day that he is a super cool person. She has a group of underachieving students who hang out with her a lot. She lives on the Hakuō campus; she tells Hayate that she does this so that she can save rent money and use that money to buy alcohol instead.

Himegami (姫神, Himegami^?)

Himegami was Nagi's butler before Hayate. He has yet to make an appearance in the manga, but judging from the way Nagi and Maria speak of him, he quit due to a problem related to Nagi's personality traits. Neither Nagi nor Maria seem to want to elaborate on his departure. He wrote a book on how a butler can acquire a mortal blow. Maria addresses him with the title "kun", which means he is probably around Hayate and Maria's age.

Yakuza

The Yakuza are represented by three katana-wielding men in suits. One of them sometimes carries a chihuahua around. They are first seen taking Hayate away to harvest his organs until a mysterious hero called "Mask the Money" (actually Nagi in disguise) stops them and buys Hayate's debt off them. Later, they run into Hayate after he saved Isumi and told him that they actually like him for some reason. They then get into a fight with Isumi's bodyguards, which then evolves into a free-for-all after Hayate tries to leave without helping them.

Mr. and Mrs. Ayasaki

Hayate's parents, who appear as faceless shadows with the characters "Mother" and "Father" scrawled on their faces. Hayate's dad was unemployed and his mother was a compulsive gambler, which led to their bankruptcy. They abandon Hayate after selling his organs to the Yakuza to ease their financial burdens. Later on, Wataru and Hayate find out Mr. Ayasaki was a former member of Wataru's video store who owed Wataru 1,500,000 yen in unpaid late fees.