Hayate X Blade

Hayate X Blade (はやて×ブレード, Hayate X Burēdo, read as Hayate Cross Blade) is a manga written and illustrated by Shizuru Hayashiya. It was serialized in Ultra Jump from November 21, 2003 to July 19, 2013. Three drama CDs based on the manga have been released by Frontier Works in collaboration with Geneon between March 2006 and May 2008. It is licensed in North America by Seven Seas Entertainment.

Plot
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, 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.

Since each participant must have her partner, Hayate asks Ayana Mudō to be her partner. Ayana is a talented swordsman, but she does not take part in the fighting because of her personal reasons. At first, Ayana thinks Hayate is annoying, but in order to face her ex-partner whom Ayana injured during the duels, she cooperates with Hayate.

Official

 * Official Japanese
 * Seven Seas Entertainment

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 * Hayate X Blade
 * Hayate x Blade on AnimeNewsNetwork

Other Wikis

 * Hayate x Blade Wiki founded November 15, 2011; contains 3 pages.
 * Hayate X Blade Wiki founded July 14, 2011; contains 18 pages.