Hey doods and peeps and welcome to another episode of The G-Views. Well here’s an interesting title where character interaction surpasses plot. Wait, I’ve reviewed many shows with that combo, so what makes this one different you might ask? Simple, … Continue reading →
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Several unsavory characters are pursuing Rahzel, the main character of Hatenkou Yuugi.  She has recently promised to refrain from using her magical powers for a week.  While she could probably hold her own against one combatant, she doesn’t stand much of a chance against a group.  Rahzel and her companion escape into a brewery where [...]
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Updated: 2008.05.07 May 2008 Hatenkou Yuugi Unprecedented Game banner added. Excerpt: I've been wanting an Hatenkou Yuugi (破天荒遊戯) banner ever since I watched 永遠のともしび - Eien no Tomoshibi (Eternal light)—episode one of the Hatenkou Yuugi anime produced by Studio DEEN. The seiyuu-sealed-it route my craving's evolution took, when you look at it, escapes tortuous, even when viewed from the
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This episode of Hatenkou Yuugi wraps this series, and deals with Rahzel’s past, present and future. In this episode we get to learn many things about Rahzel, such as her real name (Lazensha Rose), how her mother died, and how Baroqueheat is related to Rahzel’s father. I’m quite not sure how the mysterious magic user [...]
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Adapting a manga. From the outside, it looks so simple: you just have to take a page and animate it accordingly. Yet practice has shown that a lot of series have trouble with this. Sometimes entire pages are emitted completely, or the writers think they’re talented and insert some boring inconsequential fillers. A great example [...]
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For all that its pacing was horrendous– the first and last episode in particular dump metric shit-tons of explication on the viewer –I really enjoyed the Hatenkou Yuugi anime, mostly for the sharp dialogue and good voice acting which made for awesome banter. BUT! The anime was only 10 episodes long. And it just ended. With [...]
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As this episode concludes the storyline involving Solesta and Richard, I thought that Rahzel looked quite pretty in this episode, with her new hairstyle and clothing in this episode. As Rahzel’s past hasn’t been discussed at length in this episode, I thought it was quite good to Rahzel interact with her father, when she was [...]
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This episode of Hatenkou Yugi is a two parter story, and the first installment of this storyline has lots of interesting elements, such as Baroqueheat kissing Rahzel, Alzied teasing to kiss Rahzel, seeing Alzied dressed in drag, and Rahzel making a promise not to use magic. The new characters in this storyline is Solesta, an [...]
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The first thought about this episode that jumped straight into my mind while watching this episode was that I was happy to see the three main leads in new clothing, which I also thought that made them look good throughout this episode. As Rahzel hasn’t used her magic powers much in this series much, I [...]
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Wow, this entry really took so long for me to release it. I must have been going insane over the marking of assignments and quizzes. I was actually going to blog on Thursday night, but there is some strange reason that the gods of the Firefox/IE refuses to let me login to write about this [...]
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Baroqueheat is probably the best character of Hatenkou Yuugi. Quite the saucy lad indeed. Aside from the first episode, I think this has been my favorite episode of Hatenkou Yuugi yet. It was a simple tale of wanting to see the sky (which reminds me of sola), but, as always, the actions of Rahzel, Alzeid, and [...]
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Okay, we’ve discussed how disappointingly clunky and QUALITY the anime adaptation of Minari Endoh’s manga Hatenkou Yuugi (aka Dazzle) is. However, I’ve found the series’ saving grace: the dialogue. Whether it’s an extended silly scene (like episode 6’s “Surname Poker” game, featuring way too many Suzuki), or in the middle of a dramatic moment, or [...]
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Wow, it took me a while before I got to this entry due to the spring anime season preview. It is the latter part of a two episode arc on the past of Heat and Alzeid. A man of yesteryear, Solesta, came to find Heat and Alzeid for a job. The assignment is to protect [...]
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This two part story involving Lalawel and Jean-Foup ended in a very interesting fashion. I thought that the scene where Rahzel, Baroqueheat and Alzied have breakfast and play cards was a pretty interesting. I thought it was interesting that the game that they played was called Surname Trump cards, which Rahzel created. This game is played [...]
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The last episode reveals a bit about Alzeid’s past as we understand how he feels being an albino. This episode continues the focus on the past of Alzeid and Heat. As they passed by a town, they are revisited by a long-time friend. He seems to admire Alzeid quite a bit but there seems to [...]
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Cue late post. Cue the 1000 other reasons that causes me to be late in viewing this episode, other than the fact that I have been swallowed by the major Chinese strategy game known as “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”. I always remember how I am in love with the game, and I got the [...]
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I was a bit surprised first off that this episode and the next episode will spread a story over two episodes, as so far all episodes are self containing. This two part story focuses on Lalawel and her father (Jenn Foup), which ran a local inn. To be honest, this episode gave be vibes that [...]
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Episode 6 continues the story of Larawell, a little girl that is said to be a demon as she is born by a woman long dead. Larawell and John, her father, are often ostracized and attacked by the villagers as there has been killings by visitors who stayed in the inn. Who is truly the [...]
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This episode of the traveling trio (Rahzel, Baroqueheat and Alzied) has them visiting a pair of sisters, where one of them is a glasses girl, with short hair, and the other sister has no glasses, and has long hair. While in rain, Rahzel mind gets the better on her, as she imagines how Baroqueheat and [...]
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