Forum - View topicJason Thompson's House of 1000 Manga - Hot Gimmick
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zawa113
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Gyah, back when I'd buy everything and anything in my early collecting days and seemed to believe that once I'd started a manga I was obligated to keep buying it (what can I say, I wasn't the most brilliant high school freshman at that time and was new into fandom), Hot Gimmick was the series that made me go "screw this, I'm stopping collecting it", and this was coming from someone who enjoyed damn near anything at that age (oh the fun of the first few years of fandom where everything seems good!), and it's a shame because I overlooked Please Save My Earth and Here is Greenwood for this (mistakes that have since been corrected) and mistakenly thought that all shojo were garbage for years (until I watch Princess Tutu). This series halted my progression of fandom for quite a while and made me dismiss shojo unfairly for years (to be fair, it's not all Hot Gimmick's fault, Peach Girl certainly played its part too, except I actually finished that one, so it happened between those two series really, and I may give more blame to Peach Girl here). I got three volumes into Hot Gimmick, far further than I should have gotten.
Ironically enough, I got vol 1 of Hot Gimmick from Jason's manga giveaway a few years ago and was like "NOOOOOO! Why is this back in my house?!"  And when I saw this column I was like "NOOO! Why is this being featured?!"  and before Banana Fish at that, if there must be rape in a manga, I'll take it in a far better series where it's not romanticized. Also, I just had to read Teacher's Pet by Hot Gimmick's author, I think I found a new low for manga, but it's also borderline "so bad it's good".
I usually respond to the manga columns for series I've read because I'm big on manga, but I wasn't sure how to respond to this other than with seething anger foaming at my mouth. |
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