Hayate no Gotoku! Chapter 400 Discussion

Yay, 400 chapters of HnG is officially published! I didn't really like the chapter as much, but the manga from Nagi itself is pretty funny. Poor Chiharu and Hinagiku, being called a BL lover (even though she does) and no-tits. So CTMEOY is officially CANON?! NOOOOOO! I wanted Ruka to stay with the group and try to earn Hayate's affection. We won't being seeing Ruka anymore?! NOOO WHY HATA-SENSEI?! Well, at least the movie is canon, I liked the movie actually. But no more Ruka after this. Now, I must cry in a corner of my room.

Holy shit this chapter, Hata went all out on the meta game here and it was one of the greatest chapters he has done in ages. CTMEOY is now officially canon and Hata himself realizes how the end of this arc is already obvious...god I don't know whether to hate him or love him for this.

It's because the Golden Week arc was done so well that we're all expecting a serious story though. The random comedy gags are funny, and I still look forward to a new chapter each week, but it'd be really nice if things would progress a little.

Hmm... So now Hina is officially flat, or was that decided a while ago? I mean we always knew they were small, but apparently there is nothing there now?

The two boys Chiharu fantasizes about are dressed like the male students in Neon Genesis Evangelion lol

Happy 400! Anyway, Nagi's manga was so hilarious. That was so blunt.

I love Hata-sensei even more now. :D "Spoiling the manga in the manga itself is overdoing it" it sure as hell is, but is so funny as well. ^_^ Thats like taking the definition of breaking the 4th wall to a whole new level. :D



@Zero_M



If you look back at first ~180 chapters, before End of the World arc, this is how actually this manga started out - as a random comedy, filled with random chapters with occasional longer story arcs. As good as End of the World and Golden Week arcs were, they unfortunately shifted people's perception that Hayate no Gotoku has become something that it wasn't meant to be.



I think Hata-sensei realizes this as well and wanted to convey this in chapter 387 "This is the kind of manga you are reading" where he quite literally told everyone expecting a thrilling story that HnG is about random comedy gags instead.



Don't get me wrong, I LOVED End of the World arc and I would LOVE it if Hata-sensei would go back to it and expanded on it, however I also realized that this is not what Hayate is about. I also think that Hata-sensei wants to leave the best for the last - if he went with that plot hastily now, he might have ended up having to finish it while the manga is still fairly popular and can go on on publishing, and he would have to come up with something new which wouldn't be so good anymore.

congrats on 400, HnG!

Rudgald said:
I love Hata-sensei even more now. :D "Spoiling the manga in the manga itself is overdoing it" it sure as hell is, but is so funny as well. ^_^ Thats like taking the definition of breaking the 4th wall to a whole new level. :D



@Zero_M



If you look back at first ~180 chapters, before End of the World arc, this is how actually this manga started out - as a random comedy, filled with random chapters with occasional longer story arcs. As good as End of the World and Golden Week arcs were, they unfortunately shifted people's perception that Hayate no Gotoku has become something that it wasn't meant to be.



I think Hata-sensei realizes this as well and wanted to convey this in chapter 387 "This is the kind of manga you are reading" where he quite literally told everyone expecting a thrilling story that HnG is about random comedy gags instead.



Don't get me wrong, I LOVED End of the World arc and I would LOVE it if Hata-sensei would go back to it and expanded on it, however I also realized that this is not what Hayate is about. I also think that Hata-sensei wants to leave the best for the last - if he went with that plot hastily now, he might have ended up having to finish it while the manga is still fairly popular and can go on on publishing, and he would have to come up with something new which wouldn't be so good anymore.

This is true, it's just my own personal hope that I get to see the story-lines that initially grabbed my interest in the manga. When i first started reading the manga I found it to be average and even put it on-hold for awhile, but when I picked it back up and got to the Athena and stones plot it got me interested. That then became the main and serious plot in the manga, at least to me. Usually manga that start off as comedy gag genre either continue to the end as that or they develelop it into a more serious story-line until the end, this one flip-flops between the two. Those who love comedy gag manga probably have no problem with it as it is but I'm just hoping for a better ratio between that story-line and the other miscellaneous stories.

that was funny as hell, nagi's manga definitely deserves a serial, i didnt even realise such a promise was made, although i dont remmber anything in the 300th chap besides the popularity poll, did he forget it tat year????



I feel like it may take another 100 chap or so for the plot to rise again, mostly because it took 200+ chap to get there in the first place:)



Also, so the movie and the new anime is canon or wat?

I know it was meant for comedy but I thought the first color pages were a good omission of guilt by the author; sluggishly continuing to make it all the way to 400 chapters and scraping by in the shadows of popular manga. This manga doesn't really seem to have a good ratio of main story to side stories, it's almost like 1:20, as a means to prolong the manga as far as possible regardless of quality. I'm still reading this manga but still holding out for something better.

Rudgald said:
I love Hata-sensei even more now. :D "Spoiling the manga in the manga itself is overdoing it" it sure as hell is, but is so funny as well. ^_^ Thats like taking the definition of breaking the 4th wall to a whole new level. :D



@Zero_M



If you look back at first ~180 chapters, before End of the World arc, this is how actually this manga started out - as a random comedy, filled with random chapters with occasional longer story arcs. As good as End of the World and Golden Week arcs were, they unfortunately shifted people's perception that Hayate no Gotoku has become something that it wasn't meant to be.



I think Hata-sensei realizes this as well and wanted to convey this in chapter 387 "This is the kind of manga you are reading" where he quite literally told everyone expecting a thrilling story that HnG is about random comedy gags instead.



Don't get me wrong, I LOVED End of the World arc and I would LOVE it if Hata-sensei would go back to it and expanded on it, however I also realized that this is not what Hayate is about. I also think that Hata-sensei wants to leave the best for the last - if he went with that plot hastily now, he might have ended up having to finish it while the manga is still fairly popular and can go on on publishing, and he would have to come up with something new which wouldn't be so good anymore.



But he has to stop cock teasing fans by throwing in a hint of a serious story and ignoring it. Gotta have to mix things up, else the comedy will be more frustrating than funny.