Hayate Ayasaki's life wasn't great, but when he loses the job he used to support his good-for-nothing family, and his deadbeat parents sell him to the Yakuza for cash, it really hits rock bottom! Faced with having to pay off the huge debt before he's converted into black market organ parts, a desperate Hayate decides to kidnap oddball heiress Nagi Sanzenin for ransom... but when even that goes wrong and he accidentally ends up rescuing Nagi from other kidnappers, it turns out that Hayate is the bodyguard that Nagi has been looking for! So now he's the Sanzenin family's butler, and… maybe… it might be the start of a potential romantic relationship… assuming Hayate can survive the on-the-job training, of course.
(Source: Sentai Filmworks)
Features deliberate exaggeration of popular tropes or a particular genre to comedic effect.
Meta85%
Features fourth wall-breaking references to itself or genre tropes.
Butler79%
Prominently features a character who is a butler.
Shounen73%
Target demographic is teenage and young adult males.
Otaku Culture72%
Centers around the culture of a fanatical fan-base.
Male Protagonist
Statistics
Watch Status
CURRENT
6.3%
PLANNING
34.9%
COMPLETED
45.0%
DROPPED
6.9%
PAUSED
6.8%
68%
Main character is male.
Maids62%
Prominently features a character who is a maid.
Female Harem61%
Main cast features the protagonist plus several female characters who are romantically interested in them.
Cute Girls Doing Cute Things24%
Centers around female characters doing cute activities, usually with little to no emphasis on drama and conflict.
Memory Manipulation20%
Prominently features a character(s) who has had their memories altered.
Age Gap20%
Prominently features romantic relations between people with a significant age difference.
Tsundere20%
Prominently features a character who acts cold and hostile in order to mask warmer emotions.
Tomboy20%
Features a girl who exhibits characteristics or behaviors considered in many cultures to be typical of boys.
Kuudere20%
Prominently features a character who generally retains a cold, blunt and cynical exterior, but once one gets to know them, they have a very warm and loving interior.
Orphan20%
Prominently features a character that is an orphan.