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Jan 5, 2010
Preliminary (Unknown/195 chp)
Story: The story for Dazzle or Hatenkou Yuugi (I use Dazzle because it is WAY shorter), is pretty unique and I liked it from the start. Rahzel is so annoyingly awesome you can't help but love how obnoxious she is. And I particularly liked Alzeid's character. Not to mention he's pretty sexy, but that's for the females who read this. For the 9 volumes that I've read, the stories quick and charming and all around fun. It has its serious moments, which are usually ended with something witty either by Rahzel or Alzeid. But you can see its steady development into a good story.

Art: I like the art. I absolutely love it. I believe it's something that hurts your eyes to read at first, but after you start reading it's just unique and rough and beautiful. Rahzel usually has an abundant amount of cute and adorable clothes for a girl on the move but hey. It's manga.

Character: The character's are pretty interesting in that there's nothing I could really hate about any of them. I found Alzeid highly cold and ruthless and I really just wanted him for himself. I think I enjoyed this manga more so for the art which is why my enjoyment of it dropped so much.

Enjoyment: And my enjoyment of this manga is very high. Until we get to volume 8. Let us try a demonstration. If you have the volumes yourself put volume 7 next to volume 8. Take in the covers for a moment here.

See the difference in artwork? From this moment on in the manga I feel like we have a completely new author. I mean the personality of Alzeid does a complete 180 and the artwork is suddenly soft and cute and Rahzel, Alzeid and Baroqueheat look like little kids. Where are the rough edges? Where is tough, cold, silent Alzeid? Why does Rahzel suddenly look like a 7 year old girl to me? Seriously? I mean I loved the manga until I read 8 and 9 and I have yet to read 10 or 11 because I don't want to read it anymore!

I feel like someone gave me a cookie and then took away the last half I was going to eat. That's what it was like going from volume 7 of Dazzle to volume 8.

I liked volumes 1-7. They get a score of 8. Volume 8 and 9 get a 6.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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