Hot Gimmick somewhat sets the premise of Cinderella: Poor, but attractive young female meets rich and handsome young male. It does however quickly turn into a blackmail master-slave story and with desperate attempts to explain the main character's feelings towards an abusive love interest.

It's a rather disturbing story to say the least to basically show a girl getting pressured into falling in love with an abusive partner who treats her as a slave, but somehow it's "OK" because he /loves/ her. The main character's passive way of dealing with the sexual assaults on various accounts - including attempted gang rape - was aggravating more than anything.

The message this story signaled was so terrible that even though I enjoyed Miki Aihara's artwork, I just couldn't give it more than a 3 in overall. If this work was created as adult content I would be more forgiving, but as it's for a young girl audience there are just too many morally wrong contents for this to be acceptable.