Sentai Filmworks Licenses Hayate The Combat Butler


Source: Sentai Filmworks
Summary:

Sentai Filmworks announced that they acquired the domestic rights to Hayate the Combat Butler. The company will release the title to digital outlets in the near future, with a physical edition planned for a later date.

No details on either release were announced.

Bandai Entertainment originally released Hayate the Combat Butler in North America in 2009. In its original run, the 52-episode series was released across 8 volumes.


Sentai Filmworks announced that they acquired the domestic rights to Hayate the Combat Butler. The company will release the title to digital outlets in the near future, with a physical edition planned for a later date.

No details on either release were announced.

Bandai Entertainment originally released Hayate the Combat Butler in North America in 2009. In its original run, the 52-episode series was released across 8 volumes.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SENTAI FILMWORKS LICENSES “HAYATE THE COMBAT BUTLER”

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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 Kenjiro Hata, published serially in Weekly Comic MagazineSHONEN 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 SynergySP.

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, High School 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.

www.sentaifilmworks.com

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