Hayate the Combat Butler — Season 1, Episode 8: Cat Ear Mode Sends You to Hell

Episode synopsis

Nagi gets Hayate to first try on a female school uniform, much to his displeasure and before he can do anything about it, Maria comes to Nagi's room and sees what is going on. Nagi and Maria then proceed to put Hayate in a full cat-girl outfit which entices Tama's animal instincts. Afterwards, Hayate runs into Klaus and initially tries to run away, but in the end Klaus' instincts take heed, and Maria must interfere. Later, Hayate and Maria play a game of pool where if Hayate loses, his debt will increase to 200 million yen.

About Hayate the Combat Butler

16-year-old Hayate is really down on his luck. Because his unemployed parents are good-for-nothings who waste what money they have on gambling, Hayate had to start working at a young age to help out his family. Although such experience has made him inhumanly fast and tough and skilled at things boys aren't normally skilled at, it has also left him in an awkward position, as his parents have racked up such a huge gambling debt that they have sold Hayate to the yakuza for the value of his organs. In a desperate attempt to avoid that fate, Hayate decides to become a "bad guy" and kidnap someone to be held for ransom, but his efforts to do so are mistaken as a confession of love by the girl he targets. When he helps save the (as it turns out) ultra-wealthy 13-year-old Nagi from real kidnappers, she takes him in and gives him a job as her new personal butler (and love interest) until he can pay off his debt. But Hayate is more attracted to Nagi's beautiful teenage maid Maria, and head butler Klaus is initially disapproving of a boy with such a poor look. And then there's Nagi's pet Tama, who is also a force to be reckoned with.

More episodes from Season 1

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• E2Nagi Sanzenin's Mansion And A New Journey
• E3The Beast, Robot, and Butler that Kinda Shout Love at the Center of the World
• E4First Mission: This is Snake. No One's Responding
• E5Unneeded Gags and Kindness Bring Misfortune
• E6You Said You Can See Time, But That's Probably Your Life Flashing By
• E7Man's Flight
• E9Eloim Essaim. Mr. Cow, Mr. Cow! What is it, Mr. Frog?
• E10There's a Subtle High Deflation in the World. Play Games without Accumulation
• E11The Value of My Life is Priceless
• E12In the Past, We were Taught that Youth Does Not Look Back at the Space Police
• E13Those who Command Summer Seem to Command Exams