Is Hayate no Gotoku!! good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Hayate no Gotoku!! (Hayate the Combat Butler 2nd Season) is a TV series from Spring 2009 by J.C. Staff, J.C.Staff Co., Ltd.: 25 episodes, about 10 hours in total, finished, 7.69/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: easy to drop in. Slice-of-life: you can start tonight without a plan, and a missed episode does not ruin it. about 10 hours for the run, 13 evenings at two a night. Rule: episodic, slice-of-life, or comedy/action ≤ 26 episodes → easy to drop in.
This verdict comes from rules over the title's format, length and tags, not from a review — the rule that fired is named above.
The facts
- Type
- TV series
- Episodes
- 25
- Episode length
- 24 min
- Total time
- about 10 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Spring 2009
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- J.C. Staff, J.C.Staff Co., Ltd.
- Score
- 7.69/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, manga adaptation, comedy, coming of age, cooking, harem, ghost, school, love triangle, parody, robots & AI, romance, romantic comedy, shounen, slice of life, zombie, violence, yuri
Data from anime-offline-database (ODbL) as of 2026-07-04; the score is the median of the scores the anime listing sites give it, on a 1–10 scale. Also listed as: Hayate the Combat Butler Season 2; Hayate the Combat Butler! Season 2; Hayate the Combat Butler: 2nd Season; Hayate no Gotoku 2nd Season.
Do you and a friend both want to watch Hayate no Gotoku!!?
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More like this: action · manga adaptation · comedy · coming of age · cooking · harem · ghost · school · love triangle · parody · robots & AI · romance · romantic comedy · shounen · slice of life · zombie · yuri.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Hayate no Gotoku!!?
- About 10 hours for all 25 episodes at 24 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 13 evenings.
- How many episodes does Hayate no Gotoku!! have?
- 25 episodes of 24 min.
- Is Hayate no Gotoku!! finished?
- Yes, Hayate no Gotoku!! is finished (25 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Hayate no Gotoku!! good for a group?
- Yes. Hayate no Gotoku!! is tagged action, comedy, parody, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Hayate no Gotoku!! listed?
- Hayate no Gotoku!! is on AniList (id 4192) and MyAnimeList (id 4192); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
Queue Up is a free tool: enter two AniList usernames and it ranks the anime you both want to watch, rolls one for tonight, runs a bracket to settle it and finds new anime that fit both of you. List data from AniList; title data: anime-offline-database (ODbL), dataset of 2026-07-04; page updated 2026-07-04. Not affiliated with AniList or MyAnimeList. Queue Up is a Somebody Decide program. How it works · Legal & privacy · All lists