Hayate no Gotoku! Chapter 568 (Final Chapter) Discussion

OT: I wanted to see a bit more, as someone else already pointed out I can't stand the sight of Hinagiku being  turned down off screen, at least let me see it. And I wanted to see more of A-tan and way more of Hamster, as I still believe she was best girl.



Everything in this last arc was splendid, I have to thoroughly thank the mangaka for this crazy journey, I first picked this up because of the harem tag, I thought it would be full of fanservice goodies, and whilst it was that, it was also so much more.

The crazy journeys of Hayate were just so entertaining to watch, from idiotic people to ghosts and robots, this was one helluva story and I'm glad I was able to witness it while it was ongoing.

Now I hope his latest work Ad Astra per Aspera will turn out to be great, or that he will come out with something else, either way THANK YOU VERY MUCH HATA KENJIROU.

Hirugiku said:
when can i read that t_t and wtf is that really the last chapter T__TIt was confirmed that 568 was going to be the last chapter. Plus 567 said next chapter will be Grand Finale.

tsubasalover said:
Official Shounen Sunday revealed that it will end in 20th Issue releasing April 12, 2017.

http://websunday.net/news/17030811.html

I wanted the last Arc to be more like The end of the World Arc, and not like this...



ah, well, time to feel old for following this for more then half a decade...

Didn't think I'd see this end after so long. The ending was okay to say the least. Somewhat disappointing that Nagi won in the end though. Although I'm glad Hina also got the chance to confess.



That was quite a long ride.

I'm disappointed like everyone here..

I marathoned from the chapter where Maria left. Can someone explain something to me?



1. When Hayate woke up from the dream, he went to the door above and met Maria. I forgot what is that door? After that he convinced himself that it's a dream. So he woke up from the a dream and then go to another dream? If that's a dream why did she has the letter? So she's the real Maria?






2. I forgot about Himegami story. What about 50 years life spent on Yukariko? How can the principal know about Yukariko's wish? What is the first wish? She only said it's 'wish for her daughter'. Is that the wish that made Hayate back?









Rudgald said:
Mentar said:




It's not uncommon that long-running shows eventually collapse under the myriads of story threads that end unanswered, but this was a particularly poor effort. Just showing characters in their standard role (Hina - fighting, Isumi - magic, etc) in encore fashion does not create closure. What we want to see is how their fundamental issues are resolved. This is where the story failed.







The best thing is even Hata-sensei poked fun at this himself in the chapter about "gathering plot dust" few years back and despite being aware of it fell for the same trap. I suppose this is an inherent flaw/trap of the long-running serialization, you never now how much you have to stretch the story or how quickly you will have to end it if the sales go down.



Mentar said:


And so, as a Hina fan, I vastly prefered her tragic loss at the end of the Royal Garden arc ("A hero doesn't show the tears beneath her mask") to this unserious half-assed flip-off in the final chapter. And with many other characters it's the same.



Sorry, Hata. You had more than enough time. Epic fail.



This. So much this. Hinagiku ended up as an eternal romantic comedy trigger and the biggest tease of series, until the very final chapter. My heart skipped a beat when Hinagiku was shown the first time in the chapter and my heart begun racing when she finally confessed. Hata-sensei totally had me on the hook there, letting me think he will grant Hina's wish and join the Pantheon of very few manga/anime series that did away with the main guy x main girl pairing.



Only to crush all my hopes one final time. I get it that Hata-sensei wanted to push the message of "You can't always have what you want", but he already did that once with A-tan arc as Mentar pointed out, so he should've left it at that instead of continuing to tease the Hina crowd and then wondering why all those people are so dissatisfied how their favourite character of the show was handled.



Then again, it is easy to discard the last few pages and write a slightly different ending in my head, so I'm going to console myself with that... :D



My only other disappointment was that we never got to know who Maria really was. Her mysterious appearance and then disappearance was left unexplained. However all in all I've seen much worse endings to long running series, especially one very recent (we all know which one...), and Hayate no Gotoku still remains one of my favourite series of all time. Thank you very much Hata-sensei, I could've never imagined that a seemingly simple gag manga could have so many fantastic story arcs.



It was a great ride and... another one bites the dust.



I think long running authors know they need to end the series but they don't have time to construct the ending plotline. This happens to most(all?) weekly manga series, it happens less in monthly manga because they have more time to create a plotline.

He's currently running 2 manga other than Hayate too. Just be glad he doesn't collapse like other manga authors.



I think most people know(at least I know) that Hata intended to make Nagi independent from long time ago. This really shows in the boarding house arc. At there she learned a bit how to live normally and how hard to work.

Maria left them is also for this reason but Hata executed it poorly. Maria also wanted Nagi to become independent, Hayate understood that but cannot let go of Nagi, Nagi is the one to understand and finally let go of Hayate.



Maria is just a smart girl without knowing what to do so she just worked at Sanzenin to fill her time after graduation I guess. What made me sad is because seems like to forget about Maria.. She's just like cast aside character when only Nagi and Hayate sad because she left.



About the another recent ending long running series, is it Bleach?



Tennouji said:
Nagi got some boobs. Such development.



Meanwhile Hinagiku will remain flat, in which no development at all... oh wait what a coincidence, her character doesn't have any development too, same as her boobs. (Okay maybe a little but it's way goddamn too late)



I wish I can see more Hayate and Nagi's "real deal" romance though...



Although, MAL says it has 570 chapters yet it ends at 568. So, will there be 2 more chapters?



Well, seeing how big Yukariko was, it's not surprising.



Hinagiku developed at the last chapters, she became more brave, she overcame her height fear and confessed to Hayate because she did not want to leave bad aftertaste inside her mind forever. Hinagiku's real mom might be flat so she might not develop anymore.



MAL list chapters as total chapter count not the chapters published, when special chapters are released, they're counted as well.

Sad it's ending, I've been reading for so long and I'm glad that Hayate ended up with who he did. Some stuff I would have liked to see was cut out like Hinagiku's confession and some sort of closure with Athena and Maria, but overall I loved this manga and the art style, 9/10.

I'll just assume Hayate and Hinagiku dated for a while during those 2 years but it didn't work out for one reason or another. Then I can make peace with this ending LOL

stop reading this back in 2011 and good thing i did, as usual the MC ends up with the heroine because she is the heroine, hayate is better suited for Athena or Pink hair girl.

No, Hata! You don't have Nagi and Hayate end up together after 568 chapters of no romantic development. You don't have the popular girl confess and get rejected both offscreen! Bad Hata! Bad! The only truly mutually loving relationship in this manga was Hayate and Athena. He skipped over Athena, Hinagiku and Nishizawa and ended up with the loli ojousama he thought of as a child the whole series. Nagi who thought of Hayate as her mother. There's a leap in character.



1/5 for ending.



Why can't shounen authors ever end their series well?

And it finally ends T_T



Well, the ending did feel a little rushed in some places, like with the off-screen rejection for Hina, Maria's sudden disappearance with no explanation behind it, among some other things I would've liked to be wrapped up, but I always expected it to be a Nagi end especially after CTMEOY. I'm at least glad Hata didn't give into pressure there and went with who he wanted, even if a Nagi ending didn't make much sense to me. But still, I'm a bit disappointed in Hina's rejection since the other main love interests at least got a decent closure to their unrequited love compared to her.



It was still nice to see how much Nagi had grown throughout the story, even more surprising to see her growth with this last chapter and how independent she can be now.








Like geez, girl. She definitely doesn't need any protecting, that's for sure lol



Anyway, all in all, I guess I can say I'm satisfied with how things turned out even if it didn't end how I wanted it to.(A-tan you're still mah girl T_T)



Hope to see what else Hata decides to start work on in the future.

Hmmm. I'm still confused in whom Hayate liked all along. Given what happened on the previous chapters, I always thought it boiled down to these three: Maria (Most likely) > Ruka (Second most likely) > Hinagiku (Third most likely). By the last few chapters, I was 100% sure it was Maria (Not quite my personal preferred choice). But it was not quite the case...?



Nagi wasn't always my top choice. I didn't dislike her per say, but I didn't quite like her either, I was neutral. I was more of a Ruka and A-tan fan myself.



Anyway, it turns out that it was Nagi all along? Or did stuff happen in the time-skip that made Hayate realize and accept his true feelings for Nagi?



Oh well. Nagi grew up to be cool and pretty in 2 years (Now being HS age, and about 16), so I'm OK with Hayate's decision at the end. It makes the most sense, and also it's the most neutral one.



The series was pretty  good, and I liked the author's style. Let's see what's his next big work.

It's been a long ride - 10 years for me in fact since the Anime debuted this month in 2007.



I'm forever happy that my favorite ship won in the end, I never lost hope even though people tried to tell me otherwise.



With Manglobe bankrupt there's less of a chance for a new anime to come out, but who knows maybe in the future another studio will pick it up. J.C. Staff, Manglobe... who will be next?



Thank you Hata-sensei for this wonderful run.