Anyways, since I’ve saw quite a bit of the episodes already, I think it’s time for me to say my 2 cents for these 2 series and the comparisons.

So, let’s see, Hayate no Gotoku and Lucky Star both started around the same time frame of April of 2007.  The only difference is that Lucky Star ended in Sept. of 2007 while Hayate continued on until Mar. of 2008.  So Hayate has more episodes then Lucky Star.  That doesn’t even include the extra OVA that was released a few months after the last episode aired.

Both series reference anime series, but how it’s reference is the turning point.  In Hayate, they actually become like the character’s they’re referencing to but they’re still playing as there own character which makes it fun to watch and laugh while Lucky Star might actually have a lookalike of a character or the girls might cosplay as one which is cute and fun to watch but not on the floor busting up laughing.

Also, the key thing that makes Hayate so great is the fact that they even change the art work style to match the art work style of the anime they’re referencing to in there own way which is sad to say Lucky Star fails to provide.

Other big difference is that you have an announcer in Hayate where the character’s actually interact with by responding to some of the comments that the announce says.  Hayate also got bouis points for referring to the viewers when something is happening or saying things like, “don’t try this at home.”  Lucky Star has something like that called the Lucky Channel that plays at the end of every episode and sometimes they’ll face the viewers to say something but only a few non-main character’s does that and it’s very small scenes.

Hayate this, Hayate that, what about Lucky Star? There’s gotta be something that beats Hayate!

There is, actually, cute girls and one of them plays H-GAMES!!! And yes, I am an avid H-Game player, I enjoy a few h-games here and there.  So there’s light at the end of the tunnel for Lucky Star in my heart but right now Hayate is winning it over with Hina being in the picture =D

So, this is what Akane-iro ni Somaru Saka is all about, random girl and random guy meeting each other on the streets and fate has brought them together…. Or not…

But lets not get too far ahead of each other now as this series can go either way at any moment right now. It’s anyone’s ball game.

So the beginning of the series started off with some girl name Yuuhi Katagiri walking on a sidewalk and bumped into a couple of guys by mistake. Even though Yuuhi said she was sorry the guy wanted to do something much more until they found out how cute she is without her classes on.

Comes Jun-ichi Nagase, coming up behind those guys and told them to back off.  Just then one of the guys stopped the other guy saying he’s the Geno Killer (which all Jun-ichi could says was, "not this again"). They gotten so scared that they ran away in a jiffy.

After the guys ran away they exchanged a few words the lady’s butler picked her up to take her home.

At home his sister gave him a bit of an hassle like brother and sisters normally do and the night came to an end.  Of course the name day for the new semester of school started he woke up late and just made it to school on time.

Now at school his teacher was giving him an hard time because his sister told his teacher to take good care of Jun-ichi.  While they were talking the teacher announced there was a transfer student coming in and comes walks in Yuuhi and they were both surprised to see each other in the same class.  The teacher asked Yuuhi if she knew him and she said that she didn’t but that he saved her.  The teacher was gotten surprised and said that he hoped Jun-ichi didn’t nearly killed the students (of course Jun-ichi declines it).

Here you meet Karen Ayanokouji, a rich girl who, from my eyes, always gets what she wants.  I have a good feeling she’ll probably play in a role where she’ll probably do something to get Jun-ichi and Yuuhi angry at each other but for now, lets just stick with the basic of this first episode.

So after the teacher left the whole class gathered around Yuuhi to asked her how she knows Jun-ichi from which Karen stands up and tells the class to settled down (probably because she’s jealous).  After which Yuuhi stood up, walk over to Jun-ichi asked him to go out with her from which the whole class was like, "HUH?!"

Cut to the next screen, Yuuhi is talking to Jun-ichi and his friends and they’re teasing Jun-ichi like they always do and keep bringing up those rumors.

So the introductions are done and here comes the next day where a few classmates are teasing Yuuhi asking her if she’s going out with him or not.  Now Karen is even more upset since Yuuhi is not giving her a straight answer so when Jun-ichi came in they asked him to clear things up.

When they pulled him up for the clarification his mind started racing telling him what to do and so… he kissed her… But… Yuuhi kicks Jun-ichi in the balls because he took her by surprised.

Day at school ended, Jun-ichi’s sister is yelling at him for being a moron and said she’ll apologies for him when someone came to the door to find out it’s Yuuhi at the door and she’s moving in, as Jun-ichi’s fiancee.  Where is the series going to go from here?  That I do not know but can’t wait to find out.