This is the twelfth post in my series of posts about story arcs in the Hayate no Gotoku manga.
Arcs covered include: The Mount Takao Hike and An Interlude Ending with a Remote Control Car.
The Mount Takao Hike: A (just barely) Long Arc
Includes chapters 148 - 153.
Characters Introduced:
None
Events/Major
A new term begins at Hakuou Academy. (Ch. 148)
Azumamiya becomes lost and Hayate and Kotetsu go after him. (Ch. 149)
Yukiji decides to find her lost students while leaving the rest of the class to Hinagiku and the guys (Kou, Hayate, Kotetsu) run into a bear. (Ch. 149)
Hayate saves Koutarou multiple times from the bear and takes an attack from the bear. (Ch. 150)
The guys retreat and after some time are joined in the fight against the bear by Yukiji. (Ch. 151)
The bear fight continues and Koutarou decides to use himself as bait to lure the bear into a ravine. (Ch. 152)
Hayate saves Koutarou from falling into the ravine. (Ch. 153)
Everybody finally makes it to the summit in one way or another. (Ch. 153)
Events/Minor
Azumamiya asks Hayate to become his butler so that he isn't alone on the hike. (Ch. 148)
Isumi, Aika, and Wataru become lost. (Ch. 149)
Wataru and Aika take a small break before continuing to become un-lost. (Ch. 150)
Hinagiku tries to motivate Nagi, Risa, and Miki but fails and they are instead motivated by a raccoon. (Ch. 151)
Wataru and Aika continuing wandering and nearly are attacked by the bear. (Ch. 151)
Aika is shown thinking back to the time when she received a King's Jewel from Mikado. (Ch. 152)
Hinagiku's group continues their hike, still motivated by the raccoon. (Ch. 152)
Isumi exorcises Aika's King's Jewel and becomes friends with the bear. (Ch. 153)
Commentary
This is a really nice arc overall. I would have to say that this arc does a reasonable job of making Azumamiya, Nagi, and Yukiji seem better than earlier arcs. It shows Azumamiya and Nagi pushing against the helplessness that characterizes both with Azumamiya taking another step towards manhood and Nagi taking a step towards being more social and improving physical fitness. This arc also shows that although Yukiji is oftentimes a lazy drunkard, if her students are put in a bad situation she will save them.
Arc End
An Interlude Ending with a Remote Control Car
Includes chapters 154 - 161.
Includes a Introducing Fumi sub-arc, chapters 158 - 159.
Characters Introduced:
Fumi Hibino (Ch. 158)
Sharna (Ch. 159)
Events
The day-off from school for recovery begins. (Ch. 154)
Hayate discovers that the mansion has a sauna and why it isn't used with help from Maria. (Ch. 154)
Wataru takes Saki out for dinner and has a conversation with her after they both receive bad advice from the Nishizawa siblings. (Ch. 155)
Wataru and Saki think about the status of their relationship. (Ch. 155)
Nagi finds out that Hayate only gets a few hours of sleep while visiting him a night. (Ch. 156)
Hayate convinces Nagi to swim and he saves her from drowning when she cramps up. (Ch. 156)
Ayumu convinces Hayate to walk home with her and they talk about their school lives. (Ch. 157)
Ayumu remembers she need her notebook so she and Hayate go into the school and Hayate eventually defeats a robber with her notebook. (Ch. 157)
Fumi meets Hinagiku saving a cat and causes Hinagiku to make a bad jump out of the tree. (Ch. 158)
Fumi meets Nagi, attempts to wake Nagi with a bird, and hears Hayate brag that Nagi has huge breasts. (Ch. 158)
Fumi meets Yukiji and eventually decides that she is a terrorist. (Ch. 159)
Fumi finds out that Hinagiku is the student council president. (Ch. 159)
Fumi meets a passing maid (Maria) who tells her that she can become the student council president and it is revealed that Fumi will eventually be the student council president. (Ch. 159)
Makimura has a flashback to years ago when Maria was the student council president. (Ch. 160)
The full original purpose of the video research club is shown and Maria retrieves evidence of Makimura's recordings before they are exposed. (Ch. 160)
Nagi is influenced by an anime to buy a remote control car. (Ch. 161)
She gives up on the car when she has trouble controlling it, but a dream convinces her to give the car another chance and not waste her money. (Ch. 161)
End
(For information about some terms used within refer to the glossary, the first post of April 2013.)
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