Review: Hot Gimmick

The story revolves around Hatsumi Narita, a passive 16-year old girl who lives in a company housing complex that is ruled by the tyrannical Mrs. Tachibana, the wife of the company's vice president. How a family behaves in the housing complex can affect an employee's status in the company. When her promiscuous younger sister Akane thinks she might be pregnant, poor Hatsumi gets talked into buying her a pregnancy test. Unfortunately, things don't go exactly as planned and Hatsumi is blackmailed by Ryoki Tachibana, the bratty, geeky teenage son of the powerful Tachibana family who bullied her as a kid, into being his slave.

I LOVED THIS SERIES! That's all i have to say about it really...

Hot Gimmick is a shōjo manga so it's a boy-likes-girl situation, with so many twists to it that I wouldn't call it a typical shōjo. There's a lot of potential guys for Hatsumi so you don't know for sure who's gonna end up with you, which is why i really liked it.

I also really like the drawings but then again I don't really mind drawings in manga (it's more the story I'm after). The guys were drawn really well and the lead girl, Hatsumi, wasn't made out to be this overly pretty (OTA) girl but she was still really "kawaii".

The plot was also really good... not too complicated but not "guessable". Plus I HATE it when a manga series is tooo long, i just end up getting bored and Hot Gimmick is only 12 volumes so you don't get bored easily with it. There's just the right mix of romance stuff, sad/soppy stuff and comedy in it so...

Read here: Hot Gimmick manga.

Contributor: Dulce

Review: Skip Beat!

I love this series by Nakamura Yoshiki. Completely original and the content isn't the same, worn-out, boy meets girl, girl meets boy storyline.

Even though Kyoko works three jobs, can't afford nice clothes and makeup, and doesn't attend high school, she still feels like a fairytale princess because she is living with her very own Prince Charming, her childhood friend and new pop idol Sho.

Unfortunately, Kyoko discovers that Sho's feelings for her are less than glamorous; in fact, he is only interested in her as a maid and housekeeper. On learning this, Kyoko's sweet and innocent dreams are replaced forever by one desperate dream: to get revenge! She will do anything to beat Sho at his own game, show business, whether it be scraping gum off floors or carrying actresses across mountains! But, can getting revenge regain what she has lost: the ability to love?

I came across the series on the "most popular manga" part of Mangafox. Anyway I started reading it partly because of how good the drawings were (I actually cannot read old manga purely because the drawings just put me off) but even in the first few pages of the first chapter it was actually pretty funny.

Not for those that want the soppy, doki doki storyline all the way through... can't talk much cause that includes me at times but this is worth the read! The series is currently ongoing but its a pretty long story so unless you read non-stop you're good for content.

This manga is definitely in my favourites: funny, unique and so cute at the same time, I'd definitely read the first few chapters before deciding on reading/not reading it!

Contributor: Ciemuna