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Dazzle (破天荒遊戯, Hatenkō Yūgi
?, lit. Unprecedented Game) is
a Japanese manga by Minari Endoh. There have been eleven volumes published in
Japan as of December 25, 2007. The series is being published in English in
North America by Tokyopop
and as of January 6, 2009, ten volumes are out in America. An anime adaptation under the original
title Hatenkō Yūgi aired in Japan between January 5 and
March 7, 2008 on the Kyoto Broadcasting System and
contains ten episodes.
Plot
A young girl named Rahzel is abruptly sent off to see the world
by her father. She is alone on her travels until she meets Alzeid,
a mysterious loner on a mission of revenge. At first the two do not
get along, but little by little, Alzeid opens his heart to
Rahzel.
Characters
- Rahzel Anadis (ラゼル·アナディス, Razeru Anadisu
?)
- Voiced by: Sanae
Kobayashi
- Rahzel, born as Rahzenshia Rose (ラゼンシア·ローズ, Razenshia
Rōzu
?), is a fourteen-year-old girl who was
ejected from her house by her foster father to go out and see the
world where she meets Alzeid, who is one of the three or four
people she has ever known who can use magic other than herself.
Rahzel cares a lot about fashion whereas Alzeid does not care at
all. She is loud, outgoing, and very straightforward, with a
horrible sense of direction. She likes her father, tea, sweets, and
chiffon, among other things; she dislikes boring things and
smokers.
Dazzle main characters: Alzeid (left), Rahzel (center),
and Baroqueheat (right).
- It is later revealed that Rahzel's mother had the ability to
see the future but, mad with her powers, tried to kill her nine
year old daughter during her birthday. In the process, Rahzel
murdered her own mother and was abandoned by her real father. He
drew a circle around her and left her in the middle of the woods,
telling her to wait until he returned (he eventually does, but
Rahzel is already gone). Rahzel had always believed that her foster
father had found her in the forest at that time, but a flashback
reveals that it was actually Kiara. While talking with Rahzel,
Kiara established that she would belong to him (when Kiara rescued
a drugged Rahzel from a burning house, he handed her to Alzeid and
told him that he was only 'borrowing' Rahzel). Presumably, during
this time, Rahzel met Alzeid's older brother and promised to name
him. Afterwards, Kiara delivers Rahzel to her foster father and
tells him to watch over her until his return.
- Apparently, Rahzel's magical abilities are very high because
she can incant one spell but summon an entirely different spell at
the same time, as she did while fighting in Acanea. Rahzel bears a
startling resemblance to the woman who had killed Alzeid's father,
having black hair and blue eyes. Rahzel holds a philosophy that by
naming herself, she belongs to herself; in her memories, her foster
father had suggested the philosophy and Rahzel had subsequently
named herself. In reality, Kiara had been the one to both suggest
the idea and name her, establishing her as his property.
- Rahzel and Kiara only occasionally meet each other whenever
Rahzel is separated from Baroqueheat and Alzeid. She always
identifies him as an enemy, and he always confirms this, but Rahzel
presents a strong reluctance to fight him.
- Alzeid (アルゼイド,
Aruzeido
?)
- Voiced by: Takahiro
Sakurai
- Alzeid is a twenty-four-year-old (but the author, Minari Endoh,
says he is nineteen in the chapter summaries because of him being
with such a young girl) albino who joins Rahzel while on his
journey to get revenge on his father's enemy, a woman who has black
hair and blue eyes. He is cold and quiet but he has the greatest
influence on Rahzel's actions. In his youth, his army friends used
to cheat him at poker which ended up with him dressed as a girl and
waiting tables. When escaping from Acanea, he was forced to dye his
hair black and wear glasses as a disguise. He likes cocoa, peaches,
sweets (he usually puts five teaspoons of sugar in cocoa and tea),
and sleep; he dislikes mornings, baths, alarms, carrots, and green
peppers. He also pouts when people are ignoring him. At the
beginning of their journey together he treats Rahzel coldly as
nuisance but gradually gets used to her. When Serateed decides to
take Rahzel home Baroqueheat understands and agrees but Alzeid
seeing that Rahzel is not opposing her father, angrily decides to
go with her.
- On their way to Acanea, Rahzel meets a young boy who resembles
Alzeid. When she later asks him if he has a younger brother, Alzeid
remarks that he has an older brother. His older brother also bears
the name Alzeid (under Kiara's insistence) and is known in Acanea
as the 'white-haired and red-eyed devil,' who had been committing
mass murders alongside Kiara. Bounty hunters hired to eliminate him
instead find Alzeid and immediately attack and poison him. When
Rahzel encounter Kiara on a train, Alzeid is pitted against his
brother, who hasn't aged since their childhood. Apparently, both
boys were clones of Mr. Second - Alzeid was the second clone when
his brother was proved to be a failure. Kiara reveals that Alzeid's
brother had never been a failure and had in fact been hiding his
magical ability, which was far greater than Alzeid's. The battle
ends in Alzeid's defeat and his being thrown off a bridge, much to
Rahzel's despair (and her foster father's delight).
- Baroqueheat (バロックヒート,
Barokkuhiito
?)
- Voiced by:
Shinichirō Miki
- Baroqueheat (twenty-eight-years-old) is an army friend of
Alzeid and Soresta. He has a butterfly tattoo, made by his deceased
lover, on his right hand that turns into a sword when he needs to
fight. To stir up Alzeid, he kisses Rahzel, and constantly harasses
her. It seems that these actions are only to irritate Alzeid, but
as the manga progresses, his feelings seem to be more like deep
love, than anything else. Later he joins the two in their travels.
It is revealed later in the manga series that he is not human. He
is much older than he looks. He is the youngest of four children
(three boys, one girl). He likes women, cigarettes, alcohol, sea
food, and showers, and dislikes men. Previously he loved Natsume,
and believes that Second killed her and that's why he cannot
reconcile his liking to Alzeid and hate to his creator - Mr.Second
so he keeps calling Alzeid "Al-kiddo" or "Al-boy" but never
"Alzeid". Often gives Alzeid soft scolding for harshly treating
Rahzel. He tries to corner Alzeid and make him admit that he holds
deep feelings for Rahzel. He was asked by Natsume in the past that
after her death he'd kept taking care of Alzeid - but it is not
said WHICH Alzeid she meant ( she called Second with the
nickname"Alzeid").
- Kiara (キアラ
?)
- Voiced by: Hiro
Shimono
- Kiara is an unknown character who keeps appearing in the manga.
It is unknown if he is an ally or an enemy, however, he has said
that Rahzel is "his", and that he is currently "lending" her to
Alzeid. Later into the series, Kiara shows to have a played a vital
role in Rahzel's past. A role that Rahzel can not seem to remember.
Also, Minari Endoh stated that Kiara may have been Rahzel's first
love. It is revealed that he is Baroqueheat's second older brother.
Branoween has stated that Rahzel, Alzeid and Baroqueheat all have
essential roles in his scenarios. He likes Natsume and Branoween;
he dislikes Baroqueheat and Alzeid.
- He meets Rahzel several times during her journey, always
providing her strange advice while enjoying tea with her. Each
time, she regards him with suspicion, and they always promise to
fight during their next meeting. But whenever Kiara leaves, Rahzel
is filled with despair and believes that she knows him and does not
want to fight him. Though, in volume ten, he hurts her badly after
putting a tranquilizing powder in her tea.
- In the manga, he was the person, along with Alzeid's brother,
to have discovered Rahzel in the woods (not her father, as she
previously thought). Kiara brought Rahzel to her father and told
him to take care of her and that he would eventually come back for
her (which is why her father is so overprotective of her). When
Alzeid and Baroqueheat separate from Rahzel, they stumble on her
home and meet her real father and discover the truth about Rahzel's
abandonment; while they persuade Rahzel not to face her father,
Kiara comes to her home and kills her real father. In the anime, it
is also implied that he is the one who picked Rahzel up from the
forest in which she was abandoned. The reason he calls Rahzel his
is because of her philosophy, that whoever names another is the
other's owner- Kiara had renamed her Rahzel and subsequently
'owned' her.
- Alzeid (アルゼイド,
Aruzeido
?)
- The other Alzeid, Alzeid's fellow clone and 'older brother' who
has not aged since their childhood and retains the shape of a young
boy. Like Alzeid and their father Mr. Second, he is an albino,
though his hair is longer than Alzeid's. He first appears to Rahzel
on their way to Acanea, hugging her on the deck and complaining how
'he' (later revealed to be Kiara) wouldn't let him see her, but how
he had run away because he would smell Rahzel and wanted to be with
her. He claims that Rahzel promised to name him, one time when they
had taken a bath together, and wants her to hurry up and name him
(mostly because Kiara calls him Alzeid, which name he hates).
Before he can explain to a confused Rahzel, though, he senses his
brother's approach and leaves. In Acanea, the other Alzeid and
Kiara were framing Alzeid - the other Alzeid would commit mass
murders and because of him and Alzeid's similar appearances. As a
result, two bounty hunters seriously injure Alzeid, whom they
confuse for the 'white-haired and red-eyed devil child' who had
been plaguing the island (Rahzel tries to point out Alzeid's age to
them, but they refuse to listen to her). While drawing poisoned,
unconscious Alzeid to some clinic Rahzel meets again the other
Alzeid which tells her to leave him and that "this guy" has no
right to own name "Alzeid".
- When he was cloned from Mr. Second, he had been deemed a
failure and was replaced by the more-favored Alzeid. Because of the
pity and haughtiness which Alzeid always treated him, and also
because of breaking the promise of seeing the world together, the
other Alzeid cultivated a grudge for his brother (which is why he
hates being called Alzeid by Kiara). The other Alzeid had met
Rahzel when Kiara had first found her; sometime during this
meeting, Kiara had established that Rahzel was his and the other
Alzeid was hers (following Rahzel's belief that by renaming
herself, she owned herself). He mentiones that Rahzel had promised
him, while taking a bath with him, that she would name him. He
keeps calling Rahzel "Big Sister" the same name as Four
Siblings(Serateed, Kiara, Branoween and Baroqueheat) used to call
Natsume. He states that in laboratory he used to play with 'Big
Sis" and Alzeid in hide-and-seek. He recognized Rahzel after her
smell which was the same as "Big Sister's". He and Alzeid fight on
a train, while Kiara was revealing to Rahzel that older Alzeid had
never been a failure and had in fact been hiding his powers, which
were far greater than Alzeid's. In fact after gravely injuring
Alzeid, without any scratch he easily defeats Alzeid which has to
escape from the train.
- Soresta (ソレスタ,
Soresuta
?)
- Voiced by: Kishō
Taniyama
- Soresta is an army friend of Alzeid and Baroqueheat. He is
obsessed with Alzeid in a very stalker-like fashion, such as making
dolls of him, and writing poetry. In an attempt to kill Rahzel, he
is killed by Alzeid. It is revealed later that he had been married
to a medic named Taylor.
- Vincent (ヴィンセント,
Vinsento
?)
- Vincent is a kid who is being watched by Baroqueheat and
Soresta. According to the manga, he is the imposter of an
illegitimate child between a king and one of his servants. The real
Vincent died in a terrible sickness, leaving his servant to
impersonate him and be delivered to the king. However, the anime
does not mention this and simply keeps him as the illegitimate
child.
- Jelice Bryah (ジェリス·ブライア, Jerisu Buraia
?)
- Jelice is a friend of Rahzel's father and is like an older
brother to Rahzel. He is an eccentric priest who was sent into
seminary by his adoptive parents when they found out he had a
relationship with their biological daughter. He admits that he does
not believe in God, but thinks that the church serves as an
important service to the people. He wears glasses even though he
has 20/20 vision. He likes beer, meat, and tea; he dislikes androgynes and amphibians. His adoptive
sister was left by family and after living as prostitute, murdered
due to a fatal drug which was being distributed around the town,
driving Jelice to murder the man who had sold the "Angel text" drug
to her.
- Branowen (ブランオーウェン, Buranōwen
?)
- Despite her small appearance, Branowen is Baroqueheat's older
sister. She dislikes Alzeid stating that she 'hates his face' but
she keeps Second's glasses in rememberance of him. In the manga,
Baroqueheat mentioned that she is the only smart person he knows
and that she is the "idol" of the family. She is inept with tools
and is some sort of mechanic.
- Serateed
- Rahzel's foster father. Also Baroqueheat's eldest brother.
Previously beeing friend of Mr Second, he hates Alzeid for looking
like him. Suspects Alzeid of killing Second.
- Mr. Second
- Mr. Second is the original from which the two Alzeids were
cloned. He had a relationship with Natsume, it was she who gave him
the nickname "Alzeid". There is some debate as his body had not
been recovered, but he is presumed dead by most of the characters
who know of his existence.
- Natsume
- She was the one who created Serateed, Kiara, Branoween and
Baroqueheat. It is considered that she was murdered by Mr Second in
the past. Each one who knew Natsume and Rahzel says that Rahzel
looks like her. All four siblings call her "Big sister". Somehow
she foresaw her death.
Media
Manga
The manga version, written
and illustrated by Minari Endoh, originally started serialization
in the Japanese shōnen manga magazine
Monthly G
Fantasy on November 18, 1999, published by Square Enix, and ran in
that magazine until June 28, 2002 when it was switched over to the
shōjo manga
magazine Monthly Comic
Zero Sum, published by Ichijinsha. Due to the publisher switch, the
first three volumes that were out at the time were re-published by
Ichijinsha and released on August 26, 2002. As of December 25,
2007, ten bound
volumes have been released in Japan. The manga has been
licensed by Tokyopop for
English
language distribution in North America, and the first volume
was released on January 10, 2006. As of January 6, 2009, ten
volumes have been released in English.
Drama CDs
Two drama CDs based on the series were released
in 2004 based on the first two volumes of the manga.
Internet
radio show
An Internet
radio show entitled Hatenkō Radio (破天荒Radio
?) began on December 6, 2007 hosted by
Animate TV. The show is
hosted by Sanae
Kobayashi who plays Rahzel in the anime, and Shinichirō Miki who plays Baroqueheat in
the anime.[1]
Anime
An anime adaptation under the
original title Hatenkō Yūgi aired in Japan on the Kyoto Broadcasting System
television network between January 5 and March 7, 2008, containing
ten episodes. The opening theme is "Heartbreaking Romance" by Kanako Itō, and the
ending theme is "Te no Naka no Eien" (手の中の永遠
?) by Kaori Hikita.
Episodes
| # |
Episode title |
Original air date |
| 01 |
"Eternal
Light"
"Eien no Tomoshibi" (永遠のともしび) |
January 5, 2008 |
| Rahzel
Anadis recounts how her father threw her out of her home to go see
the world and how she met Alzeid, an albino who is on a journey of
revenge. In order to get money for their travels, Rahzel and Alzeid
are employed to exorcise a usually friendly ghost in a nearby
forest. At first, this is not an easy task, but after reasoning
with the ghost and engaging in a magical battle, Rahzel persuades
the ghost to finally move on into the afterlife. |
| 02 |
"Wound of the
Scar"
"Kizuato no Kizu" (きずあとのきず) |
January 12, 2008 |
| While going
through a town, Rahzel and Alzeid run into a young boy named Elmier
who is running from the police. When he is found with Rahzel and
Alzeid, they are all thrown in prison, where they meet up with
Baroqueheat. After learning of Elmier's revenge for his father's
death by the prison's supervisor, Rahzel and the others easily
escape their cells but are held up by the supervisor himself and
many of the prisoners. In the end, they are all able to escape, but
first Alzeid and Baroqueheat teach the supervisor a lesson by
beating him up. |
| 03 |
"A Silent Song of
Lullaby"
"Kakumo Sasayakana Komoriuta" (かくもささやかな子守唄) |
January 19, 2008 |
| While
visiting a fair, a boy named Romario gets lost from his mother.
Rahzel and Alzeid keep the boy company as they search for his
mother and manage to reunite them. In order to pay Rahzel back, the
mother takes her and Alzeid to the circus which the boy wanted to
see. During the show, Baroqueheat shows up as a temporary clown
performer. Near the end of the show, the boy is taken into an act,
but disappears. Later it is found out that the circus master was
killing children for her dead unborn child named Viola, and Romario
was her latest victim. During a confrontation between the circus
master and Rahzel, Alzeid and Baroqueheat, the circus master is
killed by Viola's own hands. |
| 04 |
"Must Not Violate
Paradise"
"Rakuen ni Furerunakare" (楽園に触れるなかれ) |
January 26, 2008 |
| During a
rain storm, Rahzel, Alzeid and Baroqueheat are taken in to a
mansion for a night where two sisters live. The older sister,
Madeila, does not want them to stay, but her younger sister let
them in. The younger sister asks Alzeid and Baroqueheat to follow
Madeila into the cave near their mansion if she goes searching for
her late grandfather's treasure. Madeila asks Rahzel to accompany
her in searching for the treasure and they all head out during the
rain storm. In the end, the treasure turns out to be a fossil of a
winged creature which reflects the morning light. Remembering this,
Madeila is inspired and is going to run away from home for the time
being. |
| 05 |
"The Sun in Your Palms (First
Part)"
"Te no Hira no Taiyō (Zenpen)" (てのひらのたいよう(前編)) |
February 2, 2008 |
| Rahzel and
her two companions get lost but chance across a town which takes
part in a type of sky
burial where corpses are placed on stakes in a forest near town
to decay and be eaten by birds. Rahzel meets a young girl named
Larawel whose father runs an inn in town, and Rahzel and her
friends plan to stay there; Larawel's father even gives Alzeid a
clue as to his father's murderer. After Larawel goes missing,
Rahzel and the others search for her and eventually discover that
the town has changed since Larawel was born eight years previous,
and that there is growing belief that Larawel's father participates
in black magic in
order to keep Larawel alive. |
| 06 |
"The Sun in Your Palms
(Second Part)"
"Te no Hira no Taiyō (Kōhen)" (てのひらのたいよう(後編)) |
February 9, 2008 |
| While
Rahzel and her two companions stay in the inn from the previous
episode, they go out around the town. When they eat, they find out
something about the town: the food is horrible. Alzeid actually
loses consciousness from it, and Baroqueheat apologizes about
listening to what Larawel and Rahzel talked about in bed the
previous night. They play cards and return to the inn after
everybody is up, only to find the villagers come to kill Larawel's
father. Larawel's father soon kills himself to protect his
daughter. Later, they soon find out that Larawel was the one that
caused all the murders. A little of Rahzel's past is also revealed,
and Larawel soon kills herself. They continue on with their journey
afterwards. |
| 07 |
"When the Flower
Blooms"
"Hana ga Saitara" (花が咲いたら) |
February 15, 2008 |
| Rahzel and
her companions are traveling in the snowy mountains when a sudden
avalanche comes barreling toward them, and in the midst of this,
Rahzel and the others are pulled down into another part of the
mountain. They wake up to find a young albino girl named Ludovika,
and members of the village comes to retrieve her. The village
leader inquires to how Alzeid, who is also an albino, can go
outside, and he responds that it does not take much to enable him
to have a normal life. In the middle of the night, Alzeid overhears
that the villagers are planning to kill them, so they leave, but
Ludovika follows them and helps to guide them out of the forest.
The village elder ends up attacking by using the trees, but
Ludovika jumps into his attack in order to save Alzeid. Ludovika
finally sees the blue sky, but she disappears in a flash of white
flower petals. It turns out that Ludovika and the villagers were
personifications of the surrounding forest. |
| 08 |
"Unknown Destination (First
Part)"
"Yukusaki o Shiranai (Zenpen)" (ゆくさきをしらない
前編) |
February 22, 2008 |
| Rahzel and
Alzeid are to meet Baroqueheat in a new city, but before he shows
up Rahzel gets involved with saving a young boy named Vincent from
some robbers, and then getting a run-in with his guard Soresta.
Soresta was in the same military unit as Alzeid and Baroqueheat and
thus knows them very well. Alzeid tells Rahzel not to use magic for
at least three days so that she can learn to rely on herself,
though Rahzel ups it to a week in frustration. During another
run-in with Vincent's guards, Rahzel manages to get away with
Vincent and causes a huge explosion, all without the use of
magic. |
| 09 |
"Unknown Destination (Second
Part)"
"Yukusaki o Shiranai (Kōhen)" (ゆくさきをしらない
後編) |
February 29, 2008 |
| In the
middle of the night, men come to try to kidnap Vincent again, but
Soresta, Baroqueheat, and Alzeid interfere. Before Rahzel can get
away with Vincent, however, Baroqueheat knocks her out, and they
take Vincent. Alzeid follows the string that Soresta left behind
and has a sword fight with Soresta, during which Rahzel escapes and
tries to save Vincent. Baroqueheat once again switches sides and
protects Rahzel against Soresta's men. Alzeid manages to win the
sword fight, though Rahzel interferes and manages to save Soresta's
life. Despite this, Soresta tries to kill Rahzel out of jealousy
though Alzeid kills him first. Later, Rahzel's father shows
up. |
| 10 |
"A Present for
You"
"Kimi ni Okurō" (君に贈ろう) |
March 7, 2008 |
| Rahzel's
father, who is actually the man that raised Rahzel after her
biological father abandoned her, arrives and throws Rahzel a
birthday party. He reveals an intent to bring Rahzel back home with
him, though this does not sit well with Alzeid. The day Rahzel is
leaving, Alzeid goes to buy her a birthday present, but instead
gets some advice from the store owner, as well as meeting a man who
tells him of his daughter, whom he abandoned several years ago, and
whose birthday it is. The man also expresses his regret that he
abandoned her; it is never stated directly, bit is clear that this
man in Rahzel's biological father. Alzeid rushes towards the train
station and chases after the train. Rahzel sees him running and
when she gets to the end of the train, Alzeid yells at her that he
will not write her or even think of her if she deserts him now.
Angered by this, Rahzel jumps off the train, and Alzeid explains
that they can only remain comrades while they are traveling
together. Finally, Rahzel gives in and decides to keep traveling
with Alzeid and Baroqueheat. |
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