Hayate the Combat Butler

Wataru and Saki have flown to Vegas on a Golden Week vacation that they can’t afford, with the deeply questionable plan of winning the money for a ticket back home. Instead, Saki finds herself playing the Strip’s most ruthless card shark—Wataru’s reprobate mother—with Wataru as collateral. There’...

Without ever receiving any kind of manga award, Kenjiro Hata’s first series, Umi no Yuusha Lifesavers, was published in Shonen Sunday Super. He followed that up with his smash hit Hayate the Combat Butler.