This is the 23rd post in my series of posts about story arcs in the Hayate no Gotoku manga.
Arcs covered include: A Manga Bridge and Ayumu's Birthday, Relocating Tama and Meeting Hinagiku After Dark, and A Visit to Ashibashi-Sensei.
A Manga Bridge and Ayumu's Birthday: A Small Arc
Includes chapters 280 - 282
Characters Introduced:
The Girl Chiharu knows that wants to be a mangaka (Ch. 280)
Events
Chiharu moves her books into the Violet Mansion and Nagi shows off her manga after seeing Chiharu's manga. (Ch. 280)
Nagi announces her intent to become a famous mangaka to Chiharu, Isumi shows off her manga, and Chiharu thinks about someone else who wanted to be a professional mangaka. (Ch. 280)
Ayumu laments the 500 Yen present she received from her parents and the fact that probably nobody remembers her birthday. (Ch. 281)
Hayate bakes cookies for Ayumu, Chiharu suggests they throw a surprise party for Ayumu, and Hayate explains the plan for the party at Café Donguri; Hayate and Hinagiku manage to prevent the surprise from being ruined when Ayumu comes to work and everybody that isn't working that day leaves. (Ch. 281)
Ayumu tries to tell Hayate when her birthday is discreetly first by suggesting it by reading the horoscopes and then trying to get him to ask her when her birthday is by saying that she wants to ask the manager; Hayate manages to avoid spoiling the surprise by telling Ayumu to ask for the birthday in English. (Ch. 282)
After Ayumu leaves and the party is set up, Nagi calls Ayumu back by first telling her she left something behind and then saying that she wants to talk with her; Ayumu comes back after hearing that Nagi wants to talk and the party happens. (Ch. 282)
Commentary
There's not too much to say about this arc as it is really kind of nice how Ayumu gets a party. A discerning reader can tell that chapter 280 really has nothing to do with Ayumu's birthday, but I added it to make the arc a bit longer. I didn't plan to have this post go up on the Tenth of November, but it is nice as this post can now commemorate Yukiji's birthday, which is today.
Arc End
Relocating Tama and Meeting Hinagiku After Dark: A Small Arc
Includes chapters 283 - 287
Characters Introduced:
Yozora Housen (Ch. 285, by name 287)
Events
Nagi tells Hayate that she wants Tama around; Hayate explains the risks of moving and his plan to Tama and gets Tama to believe in his plan. (Ch. 283)
The plan is put into action as Hayate moves Tama in a box through the populated areas to Café Donguri where they will bide their time for a bit. (Ch. 283)
Their cover is almost blown when Hinagiku comes into the café, but Hayate says that he is practicing making coffee and Hinagiku tells him that she wants to try what he is making. (Ch. 283)
Hayate makes coffee for Hinagiku and kisses her indirectly when he tries some coffee to make sure he knows what she is trying, which freaks out Hinagiku. (Ch. 283)
Hinagiku continues to freak out about the indirect kiss and Hayate's obliviousness and tries to get back by indirectly kissing him, but fails. (Ch. 284)
Hayate and Hinagiku talk a bit about Golden Week, Hinagiku sees the box with hairs in it, Tama freaks out and tries to attack Hinagiku, and Hayate protects her by embracing her and kicking Tama. (Ch. 284)
Hinagiku hits Hayate when he says that he was just trying to surprise her and Hayate and Tama begins the final part of the journey before the box is hit with a firework. (Ch. 284)
Hayate figures out that someone is shooting fireworks at him and tells Tama who freaks out and runs away to a wooded area. (Ch. 285)
Nagi pesters Chiharu to play with her and Chiharu tells her she can't play but allows Nagi to look at her bookshelf and Nagi ends up reading some doujinshi Chiharu bought. (Ch. 285)
Hayate searches for Tama, but gets thrown off when he hears a noise that he thinks is the person attacking him and finds a woman walking her dog who insists that has no idea what Hayate is talking about. (Ch. 285)
Hayate tells the dog woman he is an actual butler and she wishes him luck in finding what he lost; Hayate then finds Tama with Isumi and Isumi gives Hayate a collar to help disguise Tama's identity. (Ch. 286)
The next day, Hayate manages to convince Chiharu that Tama is a cat and decides that Tama should hide inside so that no one discovers he is a tiger; Tama says that he wishes Nagi gets the mansion back soon. (Ch. 286)
The dog woman comes to the apartments and says that she is looking for a place to live after teasing Hayate for a bit; Nagi wakes up just in time to witness the dog woman embracing Hayate. (Ch. 286)
The dog woman tells Nagi that she is looking for a room and gives her a model after Nagi freaks out. (Ch. 287)
Hayate tries to show the dog woman a room, but he first has to beat up Father Regeoster and kick him out; Hayate then shows the room and tells her that if she rents the room all the anime goods will be removed which causes Father to freak out and swear to haunt the room if she moves in. (Ch. 287)
The dog woman then says that she is destined to be with Hayate and uses some loosely spiritual reasoning to try to convince Nagi which causes Nagi to kick her out; Nagi decides to skip school after the excitement of the morning and elsewhere the dog woman has a phone conversation and reveals her name to be Yozora Housen. (Ch. 287)
Commentary
This arc is quite nice, especially at the beginning with Hayate and Hinagiku having some alone time. This arc also does a fairly decent job of introducing Yozora Housen as a secretive and clever person. I also quite like the appearance of Isumi, even if she really didn't do much. I occurred to me that tomorrow, the eleventh, is Hayate's birthday. As I am not likely to post tomorrow, this post is also going to act as a way to commemorate his birthday, in addition to Yukiji's.
Arc End
A Visit to Ashibashi-Sensei: A Small Arc
Includes chapters 288 - 291.
Characters Introduced:
Ruka Suirenji (partially)(face in Ch. 280, first name in Ch. 289)
Events
Nagi decides to go ahead with her plan of becoming a mangaka, taking her works to Shogakukan, and earning a lot of mony, but Hayate isn't quite sure and wants a pro to look at her work first. (Ch. 288)
Hayate tells Ayumu about Nagi's plan and Ayumu is impressed (Ch. 288)
Ashibashi comes into the café, Hayate brings up the idea of having Ashibashi look at Nagi's work and Nagi shoots down the idea, but Ayumu decides to ask Ashibashi to check out Nagi's work and he agrees to take a look if she comes to his place when she is ready. (Ch. 288)
Nagi finishes her manuscript over night, Hayate is unsure of her work after reading it, and Hayate, Nagi, and Ayumu get to the outside of Ashibashi's apartment where Ayumu realizes he is a big deal. (Ch. 288)
Ayumu reads Nagi's manga and finds it good, primarily because she doesn't read manga. (Ch. 289)
Nagi, Ayumu, and Hayate enter Ashibashi's apartment and find Ashibashi sleep deprived and Azumamiya as his assistant; Azumamiya gets Ashibashi to take a nap and explains why he is there. (Ch. 289)
A call comes in that sets a deadline for Ashibashi's work to avoid being dropped, Hayate creates a concoction to reenergize Ashibashi, and the work begins on Ashibashi's manga; while working, Nagi sees the quality of a professional's work and is crushed by the knowledge of how bad her work is. (Ch. 289)
At the Violet Mansion, Chiharu has a conversation with Luca over the phone. (Ch. 289)
Everyone works at finishing Ashibashi's manuscript and Nagi tries to leave without showing her manuscript, but Azumamiya grabs it and the pages go flying all over when Nagi tries to get him to let go. (Ch. 290)
Nagi then runs away to avoid having to face the truth about her abilities and Hayate chases after her, but loses her and calls Maria. (Ch. 290)
Ayumu retrieves Nagi's manuscript before too much is read and asks Ashibashi if he would be willing to read a manuscript when Nagi is ready and he agrees to doing so. (Ch. 290)
Maria finds Nagi at the gates of the old mansion, Nagi tells Maria about what happens, and Maria tells Nagi that she and Hayate will always be around and brings her back to the apartments. (Ch. 290)
Maria tells Hayate to keep an eye on Nagi and Chiharu asks Nagi if she wants to read a doujinshi and Nagi refuses. (Ch. 290)
While Nagi mopes, Hayate and Chiharu check out the books and furniture that was left in the apartments and they find a part of a picture in a book and talk about Nagi. (Ch. 291)
Nagi goes to school, says that she needs to study, and turns in her work, to the surprise of many. (Ch. 291)
The Three Amiga ask Hayate what is up with Nagi and he tells them about her confidence crisis; they try to get Nagi's confidence back by showing her the scores from the test, but it backfires when she notices that she got a worse place overall. (Ch. 291)
Risa tells Nagi that nobody can be the best at everything, Hinagiku shows up, the Amiga get angry at Hinagiku, and Nagi decides to go to the Kendo Club with Hinagiku and get advice from Hinagiku. (Ch. 291)
Nagi sits at the apartments, moping, until Chiharu asks Nagi if she can do better than the doujinshi she laughed at and offers to take Nagi to a doujinshi convention. (Ch. 291)
End
(For information about some terms used within refer to the glossary, the first post of April 2013.)
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