After acquiring the rights to and subsequently publishing other instalments in the series, Sentai Filmworks have today confirmed they now hold the rights to Season One of Hayate the Combat Butler. This is a license rescue from several years ago, with the license originally held by Bandai Entertainment before they stopped publishing anime in North America.
Keiichiro Kawaguchi directed the romantic comedy series based on the original work by Kenjiro Hata. Music duties were undertaken by Kotaro Nakagawa, with sound direction coming from Jun Watanabe. Yoshihiro Nagamori and Masaaki Sakurai was in charge of chief animation direction, with character designs by Osamu Horiuchi. Animation production was handled by the studio SynergySP.
Hayate the Combat Butler will initially be distributed via select video-on-demand services, with a home video release to follow. Given the original US release was subtitles-only, it will likely be the case this time around as well.
