Sentai Filmworks Licenses Hayate the Combat Butler
HOUSTON, April 20, 2015 – Sentai Filmworks is proud to announce its acquisition of Hayate the Combat Butler. The first in a series spanning multiple seasons and a film, Hayate introduces the titular character Hayate Ayasaki, a good guy who's down on his luck and desperately trying to alter his fate. One day he runs into a girl named Nagi Sanzenin, and his life is changed forever.Keiichiro Kawaguchi directed the romantic comedy series based on the popular title by Kenjirō Hata, published serially in Weekly Comic Magazine SHONEN SUNDAY. Music duties were provided by Kotaro Nakagawa, with sound direction coming from Jun Watanabe. Yoshihiro Nagamori & Masaaki Sakurai was in charge of chief animation direction, with character designs by Osamu Horiuchi. Animation production was handled by Synergy SP.
Hayate the Combat Butler will be available soon through select digital outlets with a home video release to follow.
About Sentai Filmworks
Sentai Filmworks is globally renowned for its exceptional marketing, producing and localizing of anime. As pioneers in distributing anime and genre entertainment they manage one of the world's largest anime libraries, containing thousands of hours of content. Boasting hit series that include: No Game, No Life, Log Horizon, Highschool of the Dead, and Persona 4 The Animation, their catalogue continues to grow with new favorites such as Short Peace and Studio Ghibli's masterpiece Grave of the Fireflies.
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