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Hayate no Gotoku! – 10

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Summary:

Nagi is playing a game on her Famicom when her character gets killed, and the game proceeds to insult both her and Sakuya. After they leave the system to have dinner, it starts exuding an evil aura. The next morning, the same sequence of events occur as on the day Hayate was forced to cosplay. However, it seems that Sakuya actually comes back to the mansion after leaving for school and finds that the Famicom video game had come alive. She immediately gets her two bodyguards to douse it with fire extinguishers and then sends them to hit the reset button. However, the television suddenly spews out a ton of takoyaki and nearly drowns them. The culprit is the buxom Demon King who lives at the top of a tower, but she appears to be strapped into her throne. She wants to be free and plans to do so by getting a hero to fight her as the final boss. To capture a hero, she lays out game controllers as lures all over Nagi’s mansion, but most get stepped on and destroyed.

By chance, when Izumi, Miki, and Risa come to see the new butler at Nagi’s mansion, Miki picks up a controller and gets pulled into the game world along with the other two. Their first enemy is a slime that quickly kills Risa, and because it’s about to kill the Izumi and Miki too, the Demon King decides that she has to do something or else her heroes will die. She saves them with a lightning bolt that hits both the slime and Izumi, though Izumi survives with a single hit point left. Meanwhile, Isumi senses a monster and heads into the bath to investigate. Ayumu then does a horoscope countdown, but she never gets to the number one. Back in the game world, Miki calls up Hinagiku for help. Hinagiku arrives almost immediately after having driven away all enemies with a mere stick, and the girls try to explain that they’re inside a cursed game. However, Hinagiku doesn’t believe in something unscientific like that, and thinks instead that this is a large-scale surprise event being thrown by Nagi. She wants to get back to school and is looking for the goal, so the Demon King drops them some equipment to help them quickly reach the tower.

100 hours of play later, they finally get there, but the battle ends as soon as it begins because the Demon King manages to drop a metal basin on her own head. Thus, the girls defeat the Demon King and return to the real world with no memories of their adventures, able to proceed with the rest of the events of that day.

Preview:

This was easily my favorite episode of Hayate so far in terms of comedy. In fact, I challenge someone to name all the parody references and where they occur because the 2ch list has grown to over 40 games and anime. My own list includes:

  • Gundam SEED – the Meer concert parody scene – doubly appropriate because Maria voiced by Tanaka Rie who also did Meer
  • Suzumiya Haruhi – the Mikuru eye-catch
  • Dragonball Z – Karin Tower, Kami’s Lookout, Sakuya’s bodyguards doing the fusion dance
  • Dragon Quest – the game Nagi was playing
  • Busou Renkin – Papillon’s mask on the bust this shot
  • Kinnikuman – his head was on another bust sculpture
  • Doraemon – the girls being sent to the game world was similar to Doraemon’s time machine
  • Evangelion – the slime’s attack
  • NG Knight Lamune & 40 – Miki calling forth King Sccasher
  • Street Fighter – Klaus dressed as Akuma
  • Otogi-Juushi Akazukin – Hinagiku dressed as Akazukin
  • Ninin Ga Shinobuden – Isumi spitting out Onsokumaru

    • Whew. I know that’s not even half the list, and it doesn’t include all the self-parody they did either.
    Overall, the episode felt a little random at times, but since it wasn’t based on the manga, it was all fresh for me with tons of laughs even if I didn’t recognize all the parodies. They even made fun of Maria being 17 years old. I also didn’t expect Yuuko Goto to make an appearance in this show, so her voicing the Demon King used her fast-talking voice was an additional treat. This is one of the few times I’ll ever say this, but this episode makes me want to see more anime original episodes from this show.

    47 Comments

    1. Owaranai Destiny
      June 2, 2007,

      It’s Louise!!!

      I think I see an Akuma from SF as well. XD

    7. wonton
      June 3, 2007,

      mmm fanservice 🙂

    9. Haesslich
      June 3, 2007,

      There’s fanservice and there’s manservice – it looks like this week’s episode’s equal-opportunity, although I’ll admit to being very fond of the Shumizu Beeeeeamuuu shot. 😉

    11. Gil
      June 3, 2007,

      big breasted girl…..nosebleed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    12. mangamaxx
      June 3, 2007,

      Dear God………… so awesome, I need to buy the DVD set of this series, and I rarely buy DVDs, like 5 dvds a year. I hope the rest of the Anime-original episodes are just as good!

    13. hao-addict
      June 3, 2007,

      This is LOL. The episode has alot of parody in it. Hey look, ’tis episode is awesome.

    14. quigonkenny
      June 3, 2007,

      Mi-Mi-Mikuru Beemu!!

      Wearing the wet battle waitress costume, even.

    15. Oropher
      June 3, 2007,

      Maria is 17?????? o_O

    16. DMO
      June 3, 2007,

      rofl, Hayate was defeated by Santa, 69372 points of damage

    17. Genestarwind
      June 3, 2007,

      This episode wasn’t in the manga means it’s a filler but awesome^^!!

    18. GP
      June 3, 2007,

      No WAY!!!???!? Maria 17? It can’t be true!

    19. Hudson
      June 3, 2007,

      Ok it’s official…. i give up on this anime.

    20. Anonymous
      June 3, 2007,

      Isnt the papillion mask scene also a Matrix Scene? Where their is a bunch of mr.smiths

    21. dward
      June 3, 2007,

      Maria looks kinda howt in the eye catch.

    22. Kirakun
      June 3, 2007,

      Maria… so HOT

    23. Spectrum
      June 3, 2007,

      “kinda”?

    24. Rasmiel
      June 3, 2007,

      Yuuko Goto version of “urusai urusai urusai!!!” made this episode all that better. XD

    27. iiya
      June 4, 2007,

      mmmmm Klaus Service ~tasty~

    28. melchior
      June 4, 2007,

      Where’s the Saki eyecatch supposed to be from. The pose reminds me of Read or Die.

    29. saori
      June 4, 2007,

      why does nagi have bells in her hair like asuna’s?

    31. Demon Eyes
      June 4, 2007,

      Scratch that…That be teh Rei…

    34. TheEFG
      June 5, 2007,

      During the part with the cat-phone holder, it looks like the cat from Pani Poni Dash!

    35. coba
      June 6, 2007,

      I also notice how Miki’s side hair copies School Rumble’s Tenma.

    36. Angelic Devil
      June 6, 2007,

      meer parody was hilarious! since we all knew tanaka rie was the VA for meer^^

      YUKO GOTO!!!!!!!! dat minute i heard her voice i laughed like hell…i love her when she does the speed talking thingy

    37. oero
      June 6, 2007,

      im surprised no one got the death note reference…>_> at about 8:30

    39. Camon
      June 6, 2007,

      The scene when Hinagaku shows up and explains that she scared them off with a stick, Kamina’s sunglasses can be seen in the right hanging from a tree.

    40. EdEddEddy
      June 6, 2007,

      This episode happpen in Episode 8 event

    41. Golden_Demon
      June 6, 2007,

      Does anyone have the full list of parodies in this ep? I’m sure I won’t recognize half of them, but just curiosity…

    42. cbhl
      June 6, 2007,

      @Golden_Demon: Considering how many there are, would a “full list” even be compilable? Jaalin did mention the 2ch list had over 40 entries…

      —

      A pretty amusing episode. I think, if this is the quality level I’m going to get, that original episodes would be pretty good — so long as they don’t totally throw the storyline off track. The key, however, will be progressing through the manga storyline a bit more first — so they have more scenarios to poke fun of. ^^

    43. cbhl
      June 6, 2007,

      Amendment… Omni wrote this post and mentioned the 2ch list… >.> I’m starting to forget who writes which posts now. Oops. Gomen!

    44. Cermer
      June 7, 2007,

      Bleh Shakugan no Shana Tan “in”(Famous) boob bouncing

    46. Omni
      June 9, 2007,

      cbhl: If you look at the top of the post, the author name is written there 😛
      jaalin also typically signs off his entries with his name, which I don’t ever do.

    47. Karuki
      June 9, 2007,

      Haha, I’ve always wondered why there was a game controller in that room in ep8 ^^; That drink that Risa wanted..is it Pocari sweat? XDD Since it was censored Poca** o.o

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