Story: So I guess the story was relatively unique. It's not often you hear about a girl who can summon demons to do her bidding in exchange for sweets. The individual "contracts" were pretty cute, too. It's very easy to get drawn into the story, and it's an incredibly fast read. I think my favorite aspect of the story is the fact that, occasionally, hilarious lines will be delivered by certain characters (primarily Beaut's shark follower). On such instance came from Frost, a demon:

*spoilers*
Frost kidnaps Mayuri and carries her back to hell in order to cause Beaut pain. Frost is surprisingly gentle despite his initial appearance, and it quickly becomes evident that he has no intentions to hurt Mayuri. He sincerely offers her an apple because she's hungry, but when she eats it, she becomes violently ill (since humans cannot eat hell food). He immediately calls in his doctors (which are some weird human/fish hybrids) and they say "first, I will need to look at her gills". At this point, Frost is freaking out. He replies "Mayuri!! Where are your gills?!" I just found this really funny.


Art:
The art is nothing special, but it's everything you'd expect it to be, considering the kind of story it is. The demons are alluring and attractive, Mayuri is plain, and everyone else is in between. I think if it were tossed into a line-up with several other shoujo manga, I wouldn't be able to pick it out.

Character:
I didn't have any problems with Mayuri at first, but the story progresses so quickly that I soon found her to be whiny and obnoxious. I understand that the main point of shoujo manga like this, is to show that even plain girls can get the guy of their dreams, but I like for there to be at least an ounce of credibility. I find it seriously hard to believe that a devil lord like Beaut would put up with the selfish demands of a teenage human. She's constantly crying and smacking him for talking to other girls without even once considering the fact that just maybe he's doing it for her. What I'm saying is, the relationship between Beaut and Mayuri can get annoying at times.

I absolutely love Makoto. Where Beaut's and Mayuri's relationship fails, I think Beaut's and Makoto's relationship (and even Makoto's and Mayuri's relationship) is truly believable and, at times, quite funny.

Overall I'm glad that I gave this manga a try. I always try to take something good from everything that I read, and Akuma to Dolce made it easy with characters like Makoto and the shark.