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Hayate Ayasaki (綾崎 ハヤテ, Ayasaki Hayate?)
Voiced by: Ryōko Shiraishi
Hayate, sixteen, has had to work to support his parents' bad habits since the age of eight, always moving from job to job, as he is fired when he is discovered to be underage. Hayate's dad is unemployed and his mother is a compulsive gambler, which leads inevitably to their bankruptcy. They abandoned Hayate after attempting to sell his organs to the Yakuza to ease their financial burdens. Without many choices left to him, Hayate decides to hold someone for ransom. He finds a girl, Nagi Sanzen'in, and tells her that he would "like to take her away". However, Nagi mistakes his words for his confession of love, and Hayate ends up employed as Nagi's new butler.

Characters in the series continually remark that Hayate looks poor and seedy. He believes that everyone hates him except children, though he doesn't think of children as being anything other than friends. Hayate sees Nagi as a little sister that needs to be looked after, and is oblivious to her romantic feelings towards him. Hayate gets to seem like an insane womanizer eventually but he is unaware that any romantic feelings towards him exist (besides the feeling from Ayumu Nishiawa who told these feeling in public). Despite his terrible luck, Hayate lives up to the title of "combat butler" as he is proficient in repelling attacks from almost anything, including other butlers. He once demonstrated skill with fire-arms and is essentially invincible. He is also continually teased throughout the series as being physically feminine, and Nagi and Maria constantly dress him up in dresses and women's clothes. Regardless of what he is wearing, most people claim that he "looks poor"; even Nagi and Maria won't meet his eyes when they assure him that this doesn't matter.

Nagi Sanzen'in (三千院 ナギ, Sanzen'in Nagi?)
Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya
Nagi Sanzen'in, thirteen, is the only heir to the Sanzen'in fortune. She is an extremely irresponsible spoiled little girl who doesn't know how to do much on her own besides read manga and play video games, she also has an otaku-level hobby with manga and anime, and draws her own, very strange, manga, called End of the Century Legend: Magical Destroy. She is good at finances and likes to learn. She has a pet tiger named Tama, who has gained the ability to speak like a human being through watching extensive amounts of anime with Nagi. Neither she nor Maria are aware of this, but Hayate has found out. She has a crush on Hayate, and, since meeting Hayate, has acted on the misconception that the feeling was reciprocated, thus she is very jealous of him. Her only surviving family member is her grandfather, whom she doesn't like for reasons that are not entirely clear. She regards Maria as a mother or older sister figure. Nagi is afraid of dark places and has a history of making potentially lethal mistakes when cooking. She is very nonathletic and not as familiar with the real world as she should be.

Maria (マリア?)
Voiced by: Rie Tanaka
Maria, seventeen, is Nagi's maid and surrogate older sister/mother. She plays the voice of reason in the series, and is the only one who has an idea about the relationship, and understands the problem, between Hayate and Nagi. She appears to be the one running everything in Nagi's mannor, since everyone including the head butler and the SP either obeys or fears her (or both in some cases). She is good at general housework and likes games of all kinds, though she is deathly afraid of cockroaches, which she refers to as "the dark life-form that exists in the kitchen and other places".

She has no last name because she was an orphan who was found next to the statue of St. Mary at a church, which she is named after. The day she was found, December 24, is celebrated as her birthday. She has seen Hayate naked twice, and been seen naked by him once. She sees the effect he has on other girls, many of whom are attracted to him for his kind nature. While she herself is completely oblivious to Hayate's romantic interest in her, eventually she develops her own feelings for him. Nevertheless she resolves to support Nagi in trying to gain Hayate's affections instead of pursuing these feelings. Maria is also legendary throughout the school for having graduated from high school at the age of thirteen, in just three years, while maintaining the position of Student Council President throughout. She has also won numerous amount of awards while holding the best grades in the school's history. She was also responsible for recommending Hayate to her alma mater, despite narrowly failing his entrance exam.

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