Hot Gimmick

Japanese shōjo manga series

Hot Gimmick (ホットギミック) 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). Shogakukan collected the individual chapters into 12 bound volumes under the Flower Comics imprint. Viz Media licensed the series for an English language release in North America. 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.

The story revolves around Hatsumi Narita, a passive sixteen 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 Akané thinks she might be pregnant, Hatsumi gets talked into buying her a pregnancy test. Unfortunately, things do not go as planned and Hatsumi is blackmailed by Ryōki Tachibana, the arrogant teenage son of the powerful Tachibana family who bullied her as a child, into being his slave.

On September 24, 2018, a live action film adaptation was announced for release in the following year. The following day, Aihara posted about the film on her blog. On December 17, Toei Company, the film's distributor, confirmed the release date as June 28, 2019.