Before that, Chiharu and Kayura have a conversation wherein Chiharu speculates that Maria might have bet on a 1% chance that Hayate and Nagi would get through everything on their own but she's not certain. Kayura replies that it's fine because in the end, Maria won the gamble.
Also, there's a little bit of an editorial section in the extra books featuring Hata's thoughts on the HayaNagi ending and Hinagiku's last scene. The wording is a bit different, but it's basically the same stuff he mentioned in his backstage blog. I still love how he says it though:
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| Nagi's height as a 16 year-old is so inconsistent. |
The headline also goes: "The manga may have ended but the story of these two's lives will continue.
He also mentions how 16 year old Nagi has become an attractive girl who is no longer incompetent, but that there was something special about the 13 year old Nagi as well. No longer will Hayate ever have to complain about her selfish, whimsical ways... but there was something golden about those times. (yeah, he pretty much said this in Backstage too.)
Also, for Hayate's future, he starts a business using his mad hosting skillz or somethin to that effect. Nagi became a popular girl in school coz she's pretty, cute, athletic, and kind. Hata describes her as the rich ojou-sama who became an ordinary girl. Also, she didn't give up on her mangaka dream -- although she's a lot more realistic now. Seems she won an award or somethin for her manga too. Yay~
Finally, on the cardboard cover behind the glossy outer covering of vol. 52, there's a HayaNagi doodle with Hayate asking Nagi if they should kiss since it's the finale. To which, Nagi could only reply with a "hah?" Also, they're both blusing... cute~
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| Hater logic for this image: 1. It's just added on at the back, it's not canon. 2. He's just trying to be funny. It's not romantic at all. 3. He's not blushing HATA SPILLED INK ON THE MANUSCRIPT! (take your pick) |
Mellhurst's Portion Starts After This Heading
Not because
that’s how I started reading it. Initially I cared most for Hayate.
No, it was
rather because I am much like Nagi. As a friend of mine said, many of us who
would read a manga consistently for years and years would likely share many of
Nagi’s traits.
She is kind
and talented, but fickle, with low impulse controls. A pretty little darling
with a poor temper and a fiery heart.
Like many of
us, she struggles in life. In her case it would be because her mother decided
to have a child, knowing she’d only live till her 30s, and then her first
personal butler abandoned her.
Then she
outgrew her foster mother, who considered her an adult at the age of 14, and left
to pursue her own life.
Thankfully,Hayate
came into her life. She saved his life because she could. He in turn repaid it
with endless devotion.
Much like
every central character in HnG, Hayate was looking for a place to belong and
people to love. Cast out of the Garden Palace after a misunderstanding he was
unable to further serve Athena. For that matter, could he really rely on his
brother in the end? The lifeguard who made it clear he would put the ideals of
protecting the weak ahead of Hayate, even if he was his brother?
To Hayate,
his relationship with Nagi was always one of love. Not Eros, but Agape. Like
most forms of love it began with a transaction, he loved her because Nagi cared
for him, but it quickly became his guiding principle in life. Athena taught
him, both in practice and in theory that a man was to protect a woman with his
life and provide for her financially. Hayate’s expression of love for Nagi was
absolute in that he would sacrifice his life for her, because she was the
second person in his life to care for him beyond anything else.
He would
eventually also fall into Eros with her, but Hayate had been in limerence with
Nagi since the very first time she paid for him in cold, hard cash.
Nagi on the
other hand fell for Hayate at first sight, the connection deepening as he took
a car to the head for her. Yet her feelings needed time to grow. But every time
her love wavered, she reaffirmed it, giving up her wealth in Greece when she
crushed the stone. She finally decided to trust fully in Hayate’s feelings
during the Level 5 school trip, giving up emotionally on the debt that bound
them. In the end he became the single guiding point of her life as she fell
into despair upon learning that she might not be able to spend her whole life
with him and share everything. Yet when Hayate reaffirmed his devotion to her
she was quickly ready to return with him.
The romantic
comedy, the delightful romcom that was the bread and butter of Hayate the
Combat Butler, was in the end a coda. It was a romance all along.
Fanart Corner
Lordcloudx here again. Here's this week's fanart. Got another reply from Hata-senpai for these. Always, happy to get noticed by senpai~
Fanart Corner
Lordcloudx here again. Here's this week's fanart. Got another reply from Hata-senpai for these. Always, happy to get noticed by senpai~
With that said, see you next week~
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| They did promise to do this after all~ |
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| Watercolors on Ink... I kinda like how clean this came out. Almost looks digitally drawn. |
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| Thanks to Bill Plunderbones for the idea behind this 4koma. |
