Hayate Cross Blade
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| Hayate Cross Blade | |
|---|---|
| はやて×ブレード | |
| Genre | Action, Comedy, Seinen, Yuri |
| Manga | |
| Authored by | Shizuru Hayashiya |
| Publisher | MediaWorks |
| Serialized in | Dengeki Daioh |
| Original run | January 2004 – |
| No. of volumes | 5 |
Hayate Cross Blade (はやてXブレード or HayateXBlade) is an ongoing manga series by Shizuru Hayashiya. It has been serialised in Dengeki Daioh, a monthly seinen magazine in Japan since January, 2004.
Five volumes (tankoban) of the manga have been composed so far (January, 2007). It was also adapted into a Drama CD on March 24, 2006.
[edit] 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. 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."
Kurogane Nagi is a sword scholarship student of Tenchi Academy. However, she can't 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 their asylum is 8 million yen in debt, and being harassed by the collectors, Hayate resolves her mind to take part in the fights. The participant gets 50 thousand yen if she wins a bout, and she gets 1 million yen if she enters the next rank.
Because the participant must have her partner, Hayate asks Mudo Ayana 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.
