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Hot Gimmick S (novel)
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Description
Think you know everything about Hot Gimmick? Well, think again! Hot Gimmick S, an original novelization inspired by the super--popular shojo series Hot Gimmick, boasts an ending that is completely different than how the manga series concludes. Hatsumi Narita, a somewhat indecisive coed, must navigate the choppy waters of company housing life and try to keep her love life on track too. She starts dating her extremely bossy neighbor Ryoki, but how will her dreamy older brother Shinogu feel about this? It's the ending that manga fans are dying to read and are bound to be talking about for a long time to come!
Plus, a bonus, heart--pounding manga episode that's all about Hatsumi and Shinogu!
(from VIZ.com)
Type
Novel
Related Series
Hot Gimmick (Alternate Story)
Associated Names
ホットギミックS
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Latest Release(s)
Status in Country of Origin
1 Volume (Complete)
Completely Scanlated?
Yes
Anime Start/End Chapter
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User Rating
Average: 6.1 / 10.0 (41 votes) Bayesian Average: 6.74 / 10.0
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22% (9 votes) |
Last Updated
December 13th 2008, 10:55pm PST
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Year
2005
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Licensed (in English)
No
English Publisher
Viz Media (1 Novel - Complete)
Activity Stats (vs. other series)
Weekly Pos # 859  (+141) Monthly Pos # 1875 (+388) 3 Month Pos # 3317 (+451) 6 Month Pos # 4198 (+791)
List Stats
On 21 reading lists On 77 wish lists On 152 completed lists On 5 unfinished lists On 13 custom lists
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| I enjoyed it by Liria on August 4th, 2009, 10:46pm |
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Ok, I read Hot Gimmick and then immediately read this afterward. And I will admit I think Shinogu is the best guy of all of them and I felt badly for him at the end of the manga. However, Ryouki didn't turn out to be all that terrible (just awful at showing it), so I did like the ending of the manga too.
The novel did feel to me like it was written for middle-schoolers, but having not read it in the original language, I take that with a grain of salt anyway. I don't think the writing style makes it unreadable though.
If you're a Shinogu fan, then you'll certainly like this story. If you're a Ryouki fan, you might read it just to find out the details of how Shinogu came to be with the Naritas and why the Naritas needed so much money. (It wasn't to raise Shinogu.) And Azusa fans, at least in this ending Spoiler (highlight to view) Azusa doesn't need to use Hatsumi in his revenge plans anymore.
The first chapter and the beginning of the second is a recap of major events in Hot Gimmick vol 1-11. The alternate timeline starts at what might've happened if Hatsumi hadn't run into Ryouki at the top of the stairs at the end.
I don't have a brother, and if I did, I doubt I could think of him that way either, but I do think that the situation was treated with delicacy and that the characters are still true to themselves in this story. In shoujo, don't we often suspend our disbelief with regards to romance? I don't see why we shouldn't do it here either. I think this ending was reasonably plausible, just as the original ending was.
Rating: 9 / 10.0
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| :( by takeva on July 30th, 2008, 7:39pm |
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| Didn't like it at all I like the original enaing better. I don't think there was a point in reading this. How can someone fall for someon they thought as there their brother for so many years. impossible!! If i found out my brother wasn't my brother i'd still consider him my brother and nothing else. who would want this kind of ending. I lik Ryoki. I love his aggressive ways. I wish she could continue the better version of Hot Gimmick |
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| Couldn't finish it. by Cottoni on February 6th, 2008, 2:11pm |
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I really wanted to read this because of the alternate ending it offered to Hot Gimmick. But the whole thing read like a bad play without much stage direction. There was simply too much dialog and that seemed too forced. This has been done better in fan fiction. This really needed to be offered in graphic novel format in order to be readable.
Rating: 2 / 10.0 |
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| Short but sweet... by TsukiYue on December 15th, 2007, 10:16pm |
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After hearing such critical and rather negative reviews of this, I wanted to read this and judge it for myself. One of the main complaints that I've noticed from readers is that the language is too juvenile but I honestly don't have a problem with it. Some parts may seem a bit choppy, idealized, and rushed but overall, I feel that it's alright.
The ShinoguxHatsumi pairing is played out well in this. It portrays innocence, longing, and insecurity that is of Hatsumi's and Shinogu's nature as opposed to the RyokixHatsumi dynamic of sex and forcefulness/dominance. You shouldn't expect really anything of the physical genre found in the original manga here. The only thing that I'm rather disappointed with was that the amount of illustrations was rather limited.
Rating: 9 / 10.0 |
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