Hot Gimmick

Hot Gimmick
The English cover of the first manga volume, featuring Hatsumi Narita
ホットギミック
(Hotto Gimikku)
GenreRomance[1]
Manga
Written byMiki Aihara
Published byShogakukan
English publisher
ImprintFlower Comics
MagazineBetsucomi
DemographicShōjo
Original runNovember 2000 (2000-11) – July 13, 2005 (2005-07-13)
Volumes12 (List of volumes)
Light novel
Hot Gimmick S
Written byMegumi Nishizaki
Illustrated byMiki Aihara
Published byShogakukan
English publisher
DemographicShōjo
Published2005
Volumes1
Other
  • Hot Gimmick Compact Disk (HGCD) (2003 drama CD)
  • Hot Gimmick Compact Disk 2 (HGCD2) (2004 drama CD)
  • Hot Gimmick: Girl Meets Boy (2019 live-action film)

Hot Gimmick (Japanese: ホットギミック, Hepburn: Hotto Gimikku) is a Japanese shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Miki Aihara. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Betsucomi magazine from the December 2000 issue (released in November) to the August 2005 issue (released in July).[2][3] Shogakukan collected the individual chapters into 12 bound volumes under the Flower Comics imprint.[4][5] Viz Media licensed the series for an English-language release in North America.[6]

Hot Gimmick inspired two drama CDs and an alternate-ending light novel, the latter of which is licensed by Viz Media. A live-action film adaptation, titled Hot Gimmick: Girl Meets Boy and directed by Yūki Yamato, was released in Japan on June 28, 2019.[7]

  1. ^ "The Official Website for Hot Gimmick". Viz Media. Retrieved November 4, 2017.
  2. ^ "Original Comic". hotgimmick-movie.com (in Japanese). Retrieved December 10, 2019.
  3. ^ Macdonald, Christopher (June 14, 2005). "Hot Gimmick Ends". Anime News Network. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
  4. ^ ホットギミック（１） (フラワーコミックス) (in Japanese). 小学館. May 26, 2001. Retrieved December 10, 2019 – via Amazon Japan.
  5. ^ ホットギミック（１２） (フラワーコミックス) (in Japanese). 小学館. October 26, 2005. Retrieved December 10, 2019 – via Amazon Japan.
  6. ^ Mays, Jonathan (July 24, 2003). "Three new manga series from Viz in October". Anime News Network. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
  7. ^ Pineda, Rafael Antonio (August 5, 2023). "2019 Hot Gimmick, Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, Precure Movies Slated". Anime News Network.