Hot Gimmick

Description

In company-owned rabbit-hutch apartments live tenants who can't afford to live anywhere else, and the apartment complex in which high-school girl Hatsumi Narita lives is ruled over by the rumor mongering, self-righteous Mrs. Tachibana. Get on Tachibana's bad side, and life becomes hell. When Hatsumi has to buy a pregnancy test because her popular sister Akane's period is late, Mrs. Tachibana's son, Ryoki, who used to bully Hatsumi as a kid, promises not to tell the world about Hatsumi's secret, only if she becomes his slave. Suddenly, Azusa Hatsumi's protector in their youth, reappears to save her again! He's moving back into the neighborhood! Despite the budding romance between Hatsumi and Azusa, Ryoki has control over her through the secret that could ruin the lives of everyone in Hatsumi's family, and he hasn't forgotten who his slave is. [Viz]

Type

Manga

Related Series

Hot Gimmick S (Novel) (Alternate Version)

Associated Names

Hotto Gimikku

รักร้อนซ่อนกล (Thai)

ホットギミック

热情花招

Groups Scanlating

Dakku Manga

Eternal Blue

Latest Release(s)

v.11 c.47 by Eternal Blue 18 years ago

v.11 c.47 by Dakku Manga 18 years ago

v.10 c.45-46 by Eternal Blue 18 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

12 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

N/A

User Reviews

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Forum

2 topics, 31 posts

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User Rating

Average: 6.2 / 10.0 (978 votes)

Bayesian Average: 6.2 / 10.0

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Last Updated

November 10th, 2023 12:05pm PST - 2 years ago

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Genre

Comedy Drama Harem Mature Psychological Romance School Life Shoujo Smut Tragedy
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Author(s)

Artist(s)

Year

Original Publisher

Shogakukan

Serialized In (magazine)

Betsucomi (Shogakukan)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Viz (12 Volumes & 4 Omnibuses - Complete)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #457

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Monthly Pos #1423

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3 Month Pos #2465

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6 Month Pos #2962

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Year Pos #3627

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List Stats

On 744 reading lists

On 603 wish lists

On 2533 completed lists

On 261 unfinished lists

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The ending

14 years ago

Thoughts on Hot Gimmick!

14 years ago

User Comments [ Order by time added ]

Worse female lead EVER

by Fyrekat42
13 years ago

Rating: 1.0 / 10.0

Never have I spent more time yelling at a fictional character in my life. At one point, I actually almost threw my iPad across the room. She hasn't a shred of common sense, is totally spineless and weak, ridiculously nosy and yes, a bleedin' idiot. Usually characters that start out this way, that go through 1/10th of the experiences she does, buck up a little and start to clue in about the world around them. Oh ho, not little Hatsumi.

If you start reading this manga, and feel like you want to choke her as opposed to being amused by her idiocy, just stop reading. The feeling NEVER GOES AWAY. She's taken advantage of left and right, from chapter one all the way through the 12 volumes. I kept reading hoping for a turnaround and it never came - not even close. ARGH.

... Last updated 13 years ago

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boil my blood

by whitespade
14 years ago

Rating: 3.0 / 10.0

the utter spinelessness of the main girl just make me want to vomit. i'm mad at those guys for their cruelty, but i'm more mad at the girl for not having any pride for herself. the only reason why i complete this manga is because my sis bought all the volumes and i read it cos there's nothing to read.

i give it some points cos well, there is realism - the amount of domestic abuse recorded in the crime statistics surely point that allot of women and men are in these sado-maso relationships. and there really are parents that will sell you for less than 'saving face'. but thats it- the realism is just too depressing.

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Good and Bad Points

by Zina
14 years ago

Rating: 7.5 / 10.0

This manga had a few good points, but some really blaring bad points.

Good points: The art was pretty. All the characters had distinct and entertaining/interesting personalities. The star of the show, in my opinion, was the brother character, because he was so charming in comparison to ALL the other characters. Although, his ending made me go O.o . Also, the side character romance was adorable.

Bad points: The mothers in this manga are bad people. Not I-kill-you bad, but they were all completely selfish people. The lead female was always manipulated by others. A lot of varying types of abuse go on, and she just takes all of it.

The I-don't-know-how-I-feel-about-these-parts points: The male lead didn't develop that much throughout the story. He sort of stayed the same way, and didn't change much. I can't decide whether or not I like this, because his character always entertained me, except for when I was like, "GET A CLUE ALREADY, YOU DUMMY!" Secondly, people forgave and forgot a lot in this manga, even when the offenses seemed unforgivable. It was almost like the characters were too lazy to deal with the problem. Sadly, I think that this reaction is somewhat realistic, hence why this point is in this section.

In total, I suggest that you pick it up, and read past the first arc. If you sort of enjoy the characters and the tone of the story by then, then continue reading it. Otherwise, please put it down, because the tone/characters/plot stays the same quality throughout the rest. I enjoyed it, but it by no means is for everyone. The amount of abuse that the female lead gets from everyone is ridiculous, and she basically accepts ALL of it.

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Gross.

by Da-manta-ray
16 years ago

Rating: 3.0 / 10.0

Disgusting, pathetic excuse for a manga. completely static characters (no character development), a girl who lets herself get pushed around by a bunch of jerks and then proceeds to date one of them! WTF? nonsensical and disturbing.

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Horrible, not good, bad, opposite of awesome

by ShonaNingyo
10 years ago

Rating: 4.0 / 10.0

Anyone who thinks this manga is legitimately good is ...well I don't know what to say to you other than you're wrong.

The art is simply bad at times (I have a whole folder dedicated to bad drawing techniques on another manga-reading site and this manga takes up a few pages), the male leads are so sexist that I can't even ignore it for the sake of plot as their way of being possessive and torturing the female lead is nowhere near sexy like it could potentially be in another work by a different author. It builds upon the pathetic trope of "I can't say anything" or "Easily solveable misunderstandings that are not solved because main characters can't open their mouths and say what needs to be said". Only reason I'm reading this is to say I've read it, nothing more and let me tell you, it's a freaking chore to do so.

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by doroteya333
11 years ago

Rating: N/A

really, some of the commenters take everything in this manga so seriously! As for me, I just found it so amusing, especially Ryoki, you gotta love the way he is bossing Hatsumi around, Hatsumi too, her remarks made me laugh outloud more than once, e.g.this one here: He's kinda down (he is not hitting me after all) LOOOOL her logic is just so…..The only downside is the ugliness of art, throughout the manga we are always told how Ryoki is handsom etc, but really, his face kept reminding me of a tortoise...

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HEART OF DARKNESS

by cecropiamoth
14 years ago

Rating: N/A

I'm grateful to this hideous manga because it helped me understand women better. After reading this, I spent some time pitying the kind of decision-making by a woman shown in this manga. Pick this kind of boyfriend today, and a few years later when he's tired of you or has just gotten fired or something, you'll end up at the battered woman's center!

Why could no-one see this danger?

Thorough study of the many comments to the manga showed two things. First, the most common favorable base opinion was something like this (from an actual comment to this manga):

"No matter what anyone says i love this manga...Ryoki can make my heart beat really fast when he does something sweet to Hatsumi...sure he's a bit possessive but it's because he really loves the girl..." and, second,

from their phraseology (and lack of command of the English language), I was pretty sure that I could tell that most of those favorable comments were made by very young girls.

There are a bunch of other "Be mean to me and I'll love you, Big Boy!" manga in the shoujo lineup. I found some of them and was horrified again. I began thinking back to those comments to "Hot Gimmick".

I'm a big believer in the "playground analogy to life" school of psychology. All the cruelty and general emotional extemisms we see in, say, middle schoolers don't go out of us when we grow up, they just gets suppressed and live on in us, with only constant work by our mature minds able to keep them in check. And likewise that amazing number of young-girl fans of this manga hadn't yet suppressed this one drive I didn't know they had:

Ladies and gentlemen, I think the great popularity of shoujo manga like this, demonstrates that one part of the innate makeup of women is a desire to be dominated.

I'm sorry things like "Hot Gimmick" are around to get in the way of young girls' growing out of this unfortunate innate tendency.

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worst manga ever

by conundrumy
14 years ago

Rating: 1.0 / 10.0

complete waste of time. There is no logic in story. No character development, stupid, nonsense plot....
the main guy is an asshole (one of the types that have potential to beat his wife). And the main girl is just not standing up herself in anything. I was really disturbed while reading it. Don't read it if you don't want to be sorry for reading it.

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Horrible

by buywrong
15 years ago

Rating: 1.0 / 10.0

I totally with everyone that had rated this manga bad, especially yblees!
Total rubbish, ugly art, girl that can't stand up for herself, can't think for herself and I am seriously doubting what common sense / moral code she is bought up with! Insult to all females!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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As terrible as the other reviews say it is

by tamariskw
15 years ago

Rating: 1.0 / 10.0

I read everything except the last volume because I just couldn't go any further. If it had just ended at volume 11 it wouldn't have been so bad, but Hatsumi just couldn't let go and insisted on choosing the jerk.

The art is mediocre, the characters are done really poorly (especially the two main characters), the storyline is cliched and it's not executed well enough to make it worth of reading.

Just don't bother reading this. I read all the warnings against it but I was bored and wanted to read some fluff. It ended up being a complete waste of my day. Seriously, just close out this tab now and go back to the releases page and find something else to read.

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