Showing posts with label hot gimmick. Show all posts
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Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Review: HOT GIMMICK

It's February, which means it's time for another round of Bad Romance Month!  I'll be looking at a small selection of the worst, most messed-up romances manga has to offer, and I've got a doozy of a title to review today.  It's time at long last for me to review one of the most notorious shoujo titles ever.

HOT GIMMICK (Hotto Gimikku), by Miki Aihara.  First published in 2000 and first published in North America in 2003.




PLOT:

Hatsumi's family lives in a giant company apartment complex lorded over by the CEO's wife.  Under her watchful eye, the slightest social infraction could be cause for transfers or firings.  That's why Hatsumi panics when the CEO's son Ryoki catches her buying a pregnancy test for her younger sister.  He threatens to snitch unless Hatsumi becomes his slave, but the more Hatsumi learns about him, the more she's not sure what to think!  Things only get more complicated when her dreamy childhood friend Azusa returns with an agenda of his own...