Hayate the Combat Butler/Headscratchers: Difference between revisions

* Actually she got 5th place in the first one she was eligible for, and 2nd place after that. She lost by about 2000 votes, which was still the first time anyone got over half of the votes Hina did.

* Athena brought with her a seriousness to the story that wasn't there before. When she left, it dissappeared, with much of the fandom saying that HnG was no longer interesting.

* It's hard to see how it happened unless you were there when it started. Back before the series was as popular and got an anime, the End of the World Arc wound up getting scanlated during the Shimoda Hot Springs Arc (about 80 chapters early, leaving a big annoying gap that wouldn't be filled for years). This was only made worse during the Greece Arc as we had to wait a week or more for each chapter, and believe me it was way more frustrating than you'd guess reading through the whole arc now. Some people only started reading because of the seriousness (and those people therefore tended to like Athena) while others didn't like seeing our wacky lovable cast go through the emotional turmoil. It definitely didn't help that Hinagiku, hands down the most popular character, got shafted quite a bit and led to many, many arguments on the forums between Hinagiku fans and Athena fans. The shipping wars made things worse, but Athena has been a pretty controversial character ever since we found out who she was.