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Hayate the combat butler is at its core a comedy but its genre is not exclusively comedy. It can also make you cry. The romantic moments are mostly subtle, like a gaze or hug but it is nicely done. There is a bit of supernatural stuff in the story as well. There are references, breaking fourth wall, parody on various animes, manga, TV shows,popular culture but the manga never takes itself seriously. It is never boring, and even if you do not get most of the reference, like me, you will still enjoy it.

Hayate is like any other shounen hero ... yet he looks feminine, and a bit scrawny. He has a troubled past and bad things happen to him a lot but he does not let that get to him, doing his best, and that is what I admire about him.
He has problem comprehending his feeling and feelings of every other girls in his harem. And like most shounen heroes, he is oblivious to his harem, but that changes as story progresses.

Nagi is my favorite character in the manga. Why? The reason is that she is different from other main heroines who are really 'out there,' perfect or at least really good at a lot of things. But Nagi is not.
So in the end she is an otaku who wants to prove herself. It is a journey of her growing up.

Apart from these two I like almost every other character in the manga because they are developed really well.

My overall rating 8/10

When I read the reviews of NHK I will have to say I was impressed. It was a different story not the classic tale where the protagonist is on a mission to....wait, he is on a mission to change his ways of hikikomori. Every anime has basically the same trope and I am fine by that but in this series it was less pronounced and I really liked it.

It was really funny and I could have given it a flawless '10' if it had not stretched the story to second season when ending it at fist will be all the same, come to ... the the art it was really bad at times, the characters progression was not not up to the mark. The whole 'hikikomori' thing was treated like a 'serious disease' but it was a comedy therefore I should not be so cynical in my reviews; I give it 8/10.