Hayate X Blade
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Hayate × Blade English manga volume 1 featuring Hayate (left) and Ayana (right).
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はやて×ブレード (Hayate Kurosu Burēdo) |
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| Genre | Action, Comedy, Yuri |
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| Written by | Shizuru Hayashiya |
| Published by |
ASCII Media Works Shueisha |
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| Demographic | Seinen, Shōnen |
| Magazine |
Dengeki Daioh (former) Ultra Jump |
| Original run | November 21, 2003 – July 2013 |
| Volumes | 18 |
| Manga | |
| Hayate X Blade 2 | |
| Written by | Shizuru Hayashiya |
| Published by | Shueisha |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Ultra Jump |
| Original run | September 2013 – present |
| Volumes | 4 |
Hayate × Blade (はやて×ブレード Hayate Kurosu Burēdo?, read as Hayate Cross Blade) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shizuru Hayashiya. The series is set is an all-girls school with sword-fighting at the center of the story. It was originally published by ASCII Media Works in Dengeki Daioh between November 2003 and May 2008. It restarted in Shueisha's Ultra Jump in August 2008 and continued until July 2013. The chapters are collected into 18 tankōbon volumes in Japan. Seven Seas Entertainment licensed the manga for release in English. A sequel manga, Hayate × Blade 2, began serialization in the September 2013 issue of Ultra Jump. Three drama CDs based on the manga were released in Japan by Frontier Works in collaboration with Geneon between March 2006 and May 2008.
Tenchi Academy is an all-girls school that teaches regular classes as well as "Sword Arts". In Sword Arts, students attempt to perfect their combat skills by dueling each other. There are also Duels for Stars (星奪り Hoshitori), where students form a partnership with another and defeat other pairs to win rank and stars. There are 174 teams (348 students) that fight under the Hoshitori system. The administrator (also the student council president) of the school will give money to those with more stars, saying that "any wish will be granted, if you have enough stars."
Nagi Kurogane is a sword scholarship student of Tenchi Academy. However, she cannot go to school because she is undergoing rehabilitation. Therefore, her twin little sister, Hayate, disguises herself as Nagi to go to the school. In the school, the scholarship student must fight against other scholarship students to win higher ranks. But because Hayate's only interest is how to pretend to be Nagi, she is not interested in the mandatory fights. However, knowing that her old orphanage is in eight million yen in debt, and is being harassed by collectors, Hayate resolves her mind to take part in the fights. The participant gets 50,000 yen if she wins a bout, and she gets one million yen if she enters the next rank.
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