Honey Hunt 1
Posted: March 9, 2009 Filed under: Honey Hunt 6 Comments »I’m not going to lie to you. I’m super-excited about this series. I loved Hot Gimmick. But, you know, I always had this suspicion I would like it a little less if I reread it, because I know it’s trashy and I don’t think I quite realized it at the time. This one confirmed my suspicions.
Guys. This series is VICIOUS. In the first chapter, we find out the main character, Yura, is the daughter of a famous actress and a world-renowned musician. She is largely ignored and neglected at home while her parents go on TV and talk about what good parents they are. Her only friend is her tutor and next door neighbor. One night, her mother comes home, reveals to her that she needed to leave the house that night because her father was caught in the middle of an affair and they were going to get a divorce and sell the house. She is given free reign to do whatever she wants. The girl DOES NOT want this, especially since she heard nothing about it beforehand, and hadn’t actually seen either of her parents in two weeks.
Nobody seems to care about her as she is ushered off to a hotel room ahead of the paparazzi. Her tutor sends her a message asking about her well-being, though. She sneaks back into her house to see him… only to find him and her mother together.
Her mother tells her she’s sorry that the boy likes her better than her daughter. WHAT.
Things sort of go downhill from there. Her mother’s manager quits and decides to guide Yura into an acting career that she’s going to use to dominate and humiliate her mother. Sort of like Skip Beat, I guess. Except it’s not as good as Skip Beat, because Koyoko has a backbone and a real drive to succeed, whereas Yura just sort of… seems to luck into her parts by occasionally being friendly. At least, so far.
Also, not only does her mother’s manager have some sort of ambiguous, possibly work-related attraction, so do both of the hot celebrities. Who are twins. One proposes to her.
Guys, this is pretty trashy stuff, but I’m going to eat it up with a spoon. There’s something irresistible and addictive about this, because despite all this stuff, I LOVED IT. This is the absolute dictionary definition of a guilty pleasure. I can’t wait to see what ridiculousness will come after this.
This was a review copy provided by Viz.
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Oh, yes, this series is full of addictive dramatic moments and WTF-ery. And I LOVE IT. Sad, I know. But, at least we know it’s a guilty pleasure, right?
Also, it gets better — Yura eventually grows a backbone, slowly, but surely. And those twins…well, let’s just say they certainly keep it interesting!
Agreed so hard. I’m having crazy amounts of fun reading this series, even though it’s like the equivalent of eating french fries and reading People magazine while watching E! News.
That is to say, trashy and FUN FUN FUN.
Your comparison is hilariously accurate.
I’m actually a little sad I can’t read a few volumes at once, only because I imagine the trash value going through the roof.
It’s actually really good to hear that Yura grows a backbone. That was one of the only things that I disliked about Hot Gimmick, that the character never ever stood up for herself and was just sort of passed from person to person as all that crazy stuff happened around her. On the other hand, though, I kind of liked that the main character had no say here, only because the stuff going on was literally so insane that I imagine any real person would have been passed around, too.
I adore Honey Hunt. It’s totally chock full of “WHAT” moments. Uberfun, mega-trashy shoujo. For the win.