Hot Gimmick (Vol. 7)

By Miki Aihara

Book Overview

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 rumour 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 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 neighbourhood 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 But she says he's just a friend...Well that's not how Ryoki feels. His New Year's fete with our hapless heroine Hatsumi didn't go according to plan, so childhood bully/potential boyfriend Ryoki hightails it back home in a huff. Luckily, Hatsumi's heavenly older brother Shinogu is there to give her a lift back to civilization. A botched burglary at the Narita household leaves Hatsumi panicky and, in an act that goes way against character, Ryoki lends her a hand, but their affections do not go unseen. Will Hatsumi and Ryoki's feelings be able to survive the harsh scrutiny of company-housing life?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591165024
• ISBN13: 9781591165026
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Viz Media
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 16 years and up

Customer Reviews

Love it

I love all of the Hot Gimmick books. I can't wait till they come out on dvds

Enslave thy neighbor...part seven.

Ryoki wakes up on the morning of New Year's to discover that he had fallen asleep the night before, and basically wasted the best opportunity to be with Hatsumi. In his disgust he leaves her there, but she manages to catch a ride with her brother to her home. When he gets home he reveals to his mother that he is dating Hatsumi and goes to her apartment to see her. When she arrives it's to learn that a burglar has vandalized the house and Ryoki manages to scare the guy away. In the intensity of the moment she finds herself in his arms kissing him, and it is just then that the alerted neighbors burst in and find them together. Pretty soon this tidbit of info is all over the complex, that they are an item, and Hatsumi is being treated better than ever before. Azusa goes missing and everyone is worried, including Rina, his manager, who goes to Hatsumi for help. Even after what he tried to do to her, she can't quite give up on the fact that they were childhood friends and reaches out to him when he resurfaces. She takes him to Shinogu's to relax and chill out for a time and it is there that it is confirmed that Shinogu is not only adopted but is trying to get the adoption annulled. Things get even more complicated when Ryoki arrives home from a vacation in anger that Hatsumi has not been around to receive his phone calls and takes his frustration out on her in front of everyone else. The series is still captivating, even after seven books. Ryoki and Hatsumi's relationship becomes stronger through the circumstances prevented and Shinogu's disgust with all of it becomes more obvious. This series is progressing nicely, do pick it up.

Hot Gimmick vol. 1

The main character is Hatsumi Narita. When she goes to buy her little sister Akane a pregnencey test because she believes she is pregnent, Hatsumi runs into none other than her neighbor and the guy she's loathed since the first grade, Ryoki Tachibana. He blackmails her to work for him or else he'll spread her secret. But it helps that the model Azusa has returned from his long time away since the beginning of second grade. I can't say it's one of my favorite graphic novels that I own, but it's good enough that I'd recommend it to you. You should really try it out, It gets better in the second book.