AMINE AND MANGA

Hayate, sixteen, has had to work to support his parents' bad habits since the age of eight, always moving from job to job, as he is fired when he is discovered to be underage. Hayate's dad is unemployed and his mother is a compulsive gambler, which leads inevitably to their bankruptcy. They abandoned Hayate after attempting to sell his organs to the Yakuza to ease their financial burdens. Without many choices left to him, Hayate decides to hold someone for ransom. He finds a girl, Nagi Sanzen'in, and tells her that he would "like to take her away". However, Nagi mistakes his words for his confession of love, and Hayate ends up employed as Nagi's new butler.
Characters in the series continually remark that Hayate looks poor and seedy. He believes that everyone hates him except children, though he doesn't think of children as being anything other than friends. Hayate sees Nagi as a little sister that needs to be looked after, and is oblivious to her romantic feelings towards him. Hayate gets to seem like an insane womanizer eventually but he is unaware that any romantic feelings towards him exist (besides the feeling from Ayumu Nishiawa who told these feeling in public). Despite his terrible 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 skill with fire-arms and is essentially invincible. He is also continually teased throughout the series as being physically feminine, and Nagi and Maria constantly dress him up in dresses and women's clothes. Regardless of what he is wearing, most people claim that he "looks poor"; even Nagi and Maria won't meet his eyes when they assure him that this doesn't matter.