List of Hayate The Combat Butler Characters - Saginomiya Household

Saginomiya Household

Isumi Saginomiya (鷺ノ宮 伊澄, Saginomiya Isumi?)

Voiced by: Miyu Matsuki

Saginomiya Isumi is a girl who always wears a kimono and, sometimes, a stole. She is Nagi's best friend; they met at a party a long time ago. When all the other children, Sakuya included, laughed at Nagi's first attempt at writing her own manga, Isumi took interest in it and asked Nagi how it ends. Nagi then asked Isumi (in a childish sense) to marry her. As a result, Nagi has always asked Isumi for ideas for her own manga, but it proved that Isumi's ideas were even more awful than that of Nagi's.

Like Nagi, Isumi is very rich; however, Isumi is soft-spoken, kind, and a good cook. While she does not have an awful sense of direction, she constantly gets lost because she is apt to forget her destination and believes herself to be reliable and independent (a belief further enforced by the flighty nature of her mother and grandmother); the fact that she can disappear from people's eyes instantaneously only complicates the matter, without a guide, map and compass prepared 2 hours in advance she will get lost and then says the other people got lost. She also has a habit of saying, when she doesn't understand how to use a machine such as a cellular phone or a vending machine, that the machine is broken. She displays a high level of empathy for Nagi's feelings, yet she does not recognize Wataru's love for her, a fact that Nagi, Maria, and Hayate comment on. She has, however, seemed to have developed a crush on Hayate.

Although what Isumi actually did on Episode 24 was to decurse Hayate's pendant, she did confess to Hayate afterwards. Hayate, as always, misunderstands it as something else.

In volume 5 of the manga, it is revealed that she can perform exorcisms. Humorously, she calls this power "hand soap", though Hayate assumes she means "hand power". She loves Hayate and does not wish to see him sad.

Isumi is the inheritor of the secret mystical power called Jutsushiki Hachiyo, the spell of the eight leaves. This power is only inherited by a chosen female child in the Saginomiya family. In volume 11, she loses this power, which causes some slight distress to Hayate as he would have to literally bleed through grueling trouble in order for her to regain it, but she rejects his help, saying that she does not wish to cause other people harm for her own ends. However, in volume 12, when Hayate is on the verge of tears thinking of a way to save Nagi from being blasted off into outer space, she kisses Hayate on the cheek (while he is bleeding profusely after being struck on the head by Ginka) and regains her power, sending Hayate speeding towards the UFO to save Nagi.

Later in the story, Isumi has a prominent role regarding the events about Athena and Hayate's past, by aiding Hayate in several ways during the fight against King Midas. It is also revealed that her hair temporarily pales whenever she overuses her power.

Hatsuho Saginomiya (鷺ノ宮 初穂, Saginomiya Hatsuho?)

Voiced by: Akiko Hiramatsu

Hatsuho is Isumi's mother. She is 31 years old. She forgets things extremely quickly, much to Isumi's chagrin. Like her daughter, she knows a lot about the spiritual realm and supernatural things. However she is hopeless when it comes to technological gadgets. She also has connections in the past with Yukariko. According to her, Hayate looks like Nagi's mother, Yukariko.

Kokonoe Saginomiya (鷺ノ宮 九重, Saginomiya Kokonoe?)

Voiced by: Mariko Mukai

Kokonoe is Isumi's grandmother. She is 64 years old.

Ginka Saginomiya (鷺ノ宮 銀華, Saginomiya Ginka?)

Voiced by: Tomoko Kaneda

Ginka is Isumi's great-grandmother. She is 91 years old. She demonstrates a high capacity for fighting, as shown in volume 11, when she tries to defeat Hayate. However, this was all done because she was worried about her great-granddaughter, whom she cares very much for. Ginka normally looks like a young child, but this is only because she is able to stay healthy and alive by sucking on the blood of people who are close to death (driven to their critical limit).

Isumi's butlers (伊澄の執事たち?)

Voiced by: Tomoyuki Shimura

Voiced by: Satoshi Hino

Voiced by: Go Shinomiya

An army of butlers’ as skilled swordsman serves the Saginomiya family. Hayate mistook them as assassins upon his first meeting with Isumi. They are overprotective for Isumi’s safety due to her zero sense of direction.