Negima & Hayate the Combat Butler Movie Trailer

The official website for the double-billed Negima! Magister Negi Magi: Anime Final and Hayate the Combat Butler! Heaven is a Place on Earth films began streaming a new combined full trailer of the movie.


More details about the films, here. Even both films are published in different magazines, this double-billing was made possible since both shows aired at the same TV station. Both films will open on August 27.

Hayate the Combat Butler Taiwanese Drama to Air on ABS-CBN!

The Taiwanese drama adaptation of Kenjiro Hata's popular manga, Hayate the Combat Butler (Xuan Feng Guan Jia/旋風管家), is set to air on Philippine shores via ABS-CBN! The Philippines is the first country to air the drama outside Taiwan.

The acquisition of the title was confirmed via ABS-CBN's official Asian Drama Multiply account in which they left a teaser image for the show with the words, "Serves breakfast with a side of butt-kicking!"

Hayate the Combat Butler is about Ling Qui Sa/Hayate Ayazaki (played by George Hu) is buried by his parents debt and no way to pay it back to their debtors. So Qui Sa thought that he might just go to the dark side and kidnap someone. But instead of kidnapping, he ended up saving a rich girl named Xiao Zhi/Nagi Sanzeyin (played by Park Shin Hye) from being kidnapped. Xiao Zhi then hired Qui Sa as his butler and later, falls in love with him.

Air date for the said series is not yet revealed as of the moment.

Source: Philippine TV Ratings FB via AnimePH FB

Negima & Hayate the Combat Butler Movie Teaser

The official website for the double-billed Negima Magister Negi Magi: Anime Final and Hayate the Combat Butler! Heaven is a Place on Earth films began streaming a combined teaser trailer.

The producers also posted the list of theaters screening the double-billing throughout Japan and revealed the flyer that they started distributing on the same day to those theaters. The films will open together on August 27th.

Akiyuki Shinbo (Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei) is returning to direct the Negima film at Studio Pastoral and SHAFT. The scriptwriter for the film has not been announced, but manga creator Ken Akamatsu is credited with the original story.


First-time director Hideto Komori (animation director of Darker than BLACK, Ergo Proxy, House of Five Leaves) is helming the Hayate the Combat Butler film at the studio Manglobe (The World God Only Knows). Yasuko Kobayashi (Kamen Rider Ryuki, Kamen Rider Den-O, Casshern Sins, Claymore, Shakugan no Shana) is scripting.

Even if both films were originally published in different magazines, they both aired in the same TV station, making this double-billing possible.

Source: Moon Phase via Anime News Network

Hayate the Combat Butler Drama Trailer

The trailer for the Taiwanese live-action adaptation of Kenjirou Hata's Hayate no Gotoku has been released in Formosa TV's official YouTube Channel! The series will premiere on June 19 at 9:40 p.m.


The story follows a boy named Hayate (played by George Hu) who serves as a butler, bodyguard, confidante, and more to a girl named Nagi (played by Park Shin-Hye) to pay off a huge debt.

Hayate no Gotoku & Negima Films this August 27!

The 25th issues of Weekly Shonen Magazine and Week Shonen Sunday are announcing that the anime movies for Hayate the Combat Butler and Negima will be double-billed on August 27!

The magazines are also announcing the full titles of both films: Hayate the Combat Butler! Heaven Is a Place on Earth and Negima! Magister Negi Magi: Anime Final. Even if both anime titles were published in different magazines, the two aired in the same TV station, TV Tokyo.

The two magazines collaborated before on a Conan & Kindaichi magazine, a joint cover illustraton with Hajime no Ippo and Detective Conan to mark the magazines' shared 50th anniversary, and the swapping of chapters from Kôji Kumeta's Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei and Katteni Kaizō manga.

Source: Yaraon! via Anime News Network, MyAnimeList

Hayate no Gotoku Anime Movie Announced!

Next year's volume of Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine announced that the popular anime, Hayate no Gotoku (Trans. Hayate the Combat Butler) will have a movie!

The film will be directed by first-time film director, Hideto Komori (Darker than Black) with the studio, Manglobe (The World God Only Knows) helming the project. Also, Yasuko Kobayashi (Kamen Rider Ryuki, Kamen Rider Den-O, Kamen Rider OOO, Casshern Sins, Shakugan no Shana) will be writing the script.

The original anime is about a boy named Hayate who serves as a butler, bodyguard, confidante, and more to a girl named Nagi to pay off a 156,804,000-yen (about US$1.8-million) debt... while trying to insert amounts of anime, manga and tokusatsu references!

Source: 2channel, Uri-Sure Matome R via ANN

Hayate no Gotoku to be Adapted in Taiwan

The popular manga and anime by Kenjirou Hata, Hayate no Gotoku (Hayate the Combat Butler), will be adapted into a live-action series in Taiwan according to sources from Anime News Network. To those who don't know the series, it is about Hayate who serves as an all-around butler (By all-around, he cooks, fights bad guys, pilot a mecha, execute a Rider Kick to random bad guys, cross dresses. That all-around.) to Nagi for him to pay his 156,804,000-yen debt.

In this adapation, Park Shin-Hye (Stairway to Heaven, You're Beautiful, High Kick) will play as Nagi while Hayate will be played by George Hu (Hot Shot, Romantic Princess) will play as his butler, Hayate.

Based on my experience with Taiwanese adaptations, they try their best to be as close as its source material. But knowing the series, which is filled with anime, manga and tokusatsu references, plus they have a talking pet tiger, Tama, I am not sure if the Taiwanese drama can stay true to the original.