Hot Blooded Woman

Sexism is very present in the works of this author.Han Seo Jang is a coward.
brutally beat defenseless Women. I think the author wants to prove a point women may be the same or as strong as men

The series was decent. At times, the story line dragged on, other times it seemed like what was happening to the main character was a little exaggerated. I don't know how many times people were hit by cars- kind of unbelievable. It had a lot of twists, which is a plus. The art style was nice, however Aram's character was too similar to Yeong In's. Overall, it was good but not stellar.

I'm an avid fan of Hwang Mi Ri's manhwa, so yes, I am biased. I've read many of her works, and if you become familiar enough with her story preferences then yes it can become pretty predictable and repetitive.
But lets say you had never read any of her works... or weren't soo quick to pass judgement. I think this manhwa is a must read for everyone.

Story - 8
While I'm not too big on anything fantasy, the story remains pretty realistic except for the beginning part in which Hali's spirit is inside Aram.
I was furiously reading this as soon as I started it. Never did I want to break from it. There were various moments in which proper development between the characters occurred. And, its ability to captivate with various emotions throughout the story... I think it does its job well.

Art - 7
If you're more used to manga than manhwa, then you might think Mi Ri's drawing style is old fashioned or 'bad', but I find her art easy on the eyes. It's pretty good. So I give it a seven.

Character - 8
The characters don't change easily just because of 'love'. I like that the characters stick to they're given traits and hidden emotions and thoughts are slowly revealed as development occurs. I don't feel like I came to like or hate anyone I wasn't supposed to xD

Enjoyment - 10
... very much. I think the 10 explains it.

Overall - 9
I would give this manhwa a 10... but as almost every piece of writing out there, there is room for improvement. That being said I think its fine as it is all things considered :3

I found this story amusing but it dragged on way too long, especially after the mid-climax. It was a little too repetitive and I kind of wished they would have just went on with the ending. The main character is amusing but really stupid, and I began to tire of her playing dumb, a person can only go so far in being stupid before they start to become annoying. Also, I wished they would have explained the super-natural elements a bit more. I feel like the only reason I read it to the end was just to see if they explain exactly whats going on, they leave you in the dark for quite a while. All in all though, it kept me reading but, there are better manhwas out there.

(You won't stop laughing when you are reading this manga)

As usual for the mangaka 'Hwang Mi-Ri' the main character is a violent athlete girl, who is going to do some adventures, and for sure that she will fall in love.
Although it was a long story, you won't get bored of it even for a moment, because there are always new interesting events.
And because she likes having her readers surprised; she kept the greatest surprise at the end.

I won't say anything else; just read it.

Sooo where do i start?? well like the first one who wrote a review about this manga its also my first time to write one....So wish me luck...here it goes:

well the story was not that unique. It has been used countless of times specially by the author of this manga. I'm not familiar abouthis works but but im pretty sure that a few of his works are patteren the same. its quite ammusing from the start and it will really interest you to keep going that happend in my case too but there were times while reading tis manga that i felt bored and thats the reason why i only gave it an 8 as its overall rating. On the other hand after felling bored after a while i find my self ammussed again by the twist of the story. Thats one thing i found good about this manga. The story does not give an unique impression as i said but believe me it has its own way of showing its own uniqueness.

Well about the art. Its a mahwa therefore i fin its art a little bit unique in a way in a sense where it has its own positive and negative sides. Honestly i find manhwa art a little bit strange more in the negative side thats why this is one of the first ever manhwa thats i've read.

Note: I have not seen a proper review that describes the full story of this manwha, so I decided to try and give it my best. Just note that I will not compare this work with any others that this mangaka has done. No matter how repetitive the story or characters are, it is not fair for judging this alone as an art. If you have any complaints, give it to the author not the artwork.

Now then, reading the first few volumes of the story is certainly.. addicting. I believe Hwang went into a new direction having a story where the protagonist is switched into someone else's body. Story-wise, it was not much, mostly because readers are pulled into the enjoyment and characters rather than the plot itself. That goes with the second part of the story, pulled by what the characters are doing in relation to what's happened before (when she's placed back into her old body. I doubt this is a spoiler because it's fairly obvious). The idea of switching souls does not even cross your mind when dealing with the latter half, which is a shame because it made this story a bit unique, but it does pull the drama overall.

Art: It's difficult to judge this. For it's comedy value, it's a triple plus. I never get tired of laughing from what the drawings show me. However, when considering that this is a story, it's a minus. The dramatic moments tend to have the same face, which happens far too much. In fact, besides from the random expressions in its comedy, there is probably only 5 or so expressions total. Plus side, the author could have saved a lot of time by recycling these panels. Down side, I didn't. Nevertheless, it's fairly average artwork overall that is better than most manwhas I've come across, so I would give it a 7.75

Characters: To be short, they're wonderful with their own value in the story. Having a hot-blooded woman such as Ha Ji/Aram is surely not original, or even a cold-blooded man such Sin Uoo, but their magnetic bond surely makes it enjoyable. The other part of the love triangle, Han Seo, does have his ups and downs. Whenever he laughs, you can see why he cares so much about her, yet whenever he's jealous you cannot help but hate him and wish he would go away. I believe all the character come together very very well in terms of comedy, but it's hard to say what character depth they have besides what personality they show us.

Character Development: Rating this is like going through the loops of a roller coaster. You go up, the thrill of enjoying and getting to see these characters, especially Ha Ji. Then around midpoint it goes downhill following straight lines (like a stock market crash), but finally you go through a scary loop at the end that you never expected. ~~~~~~~~~
Explanation: You enjoy how much Ha Ji changes the characters and environment around her [much dealing with Sin Uoo], but when she deals with characters from her other life when returning to her old body, you see that there is no development between the character's actions and what is happening (no matter what happens, she never changed her mind about people like Han Seo). Bad thing is, this continues to happen and it's soon hard to find that strong character that we love so much about her. Her friend, Han Seo, goes back and forth between being the antagonist and the loveable psycho-friend, but it is certainly his actions and her static character that makes the moment like a car crash waiting to happen.

Towards the ending, however, it surprised me so much that the noble-strong female lead could switch roles with the antagonist. The story often portrays people wearing these "masks" and not showing their true intentions, but the ending climax could not have made it so clear. Just when you think that Ha Ji is a stupid, slow, innocent-minded heroine, and it most cases she is, in all reality she can be wicked and greedy. Looking back, I believe Hwang did a good job giving hints about Ha Ji's greediness and character motives for her intentional stupidity (don't get me wrong, she is indeed very dim-witted), but it nevertheless shocked me. How could one psycho antagonist suddenly appear as sympathetic, and how could all the protagonists look so selfish/crazy. The ending does give a lasting taste where you cannot hate these characters and concludes the story quite nicely. This is very subjective to rate, where many people hate it deep in their guts, but I just find it beautiful. (I included both thoughts, so don't hate me if you don't agree with me T_T).

Overall, it could be thought of inconsistent. The first half is certainly enjoyable and full of comedy, but the second half is mindbending and full of that never-ending drama OFTEN dealing with what happened in the first half. It has it's comedy too, but some of it can ruin the thought of development or drama. I wanted to bring to light the wonderful things about this manhwa, but wanted people to be aware that there are many flaws (mostly dealing with character and story) that to some people can over-weigh it's entire value. I still found it to be a great thing to read, but if I don't point out the flaws this would always clash with other judgments.

Nevertheless, you cannot help but go along with the story and laugh. Hot Blooded Woman has its great moments, whether it would be the endless hunger for Ha-Ji/Aram or the easy misunderstandings between her mind (which so often thinks of food and fighting) and others. I hope this review would help your judgment, which might appear clear to the people who read it but vague to those who haven't, so why not just give it a try =)

Before I begin, I want to state that I haven't read any of Hwang Mi Ri's work except for Hot Blooded Woman and I bloody won't judge this manhwa based on the similarities between her stories.
I believe all of you who are saying that after reading 19 HMR manhwa, the twentieth sucks, because you can predict every twist.

BUT not having read anything like this, I pretty much enjoyed everything.

As for the story:

Lots of dead girls, lots of guys blaming themselves for their deaths, soul-transfering situations, love triangles, hate triangles, almost-rape situations, fighting, cruel stuff.... just the usual.
Although it was surprising in one way. Almost every manga I have read or every drama I have watched turned dramatically at one point and it became sad or full of misunderstood situations and grief.

BUT it was my first time reading such a comic story like this which actually turned out to be the cruelest manhwa I have ever read. It's not just full of sorrow, but real cruelty and sadism. Most of the characters carry psychopathic traits.

At the beggining of the story, all we get is embarrassing situations and lovely scenes. Then, with the introducing of new characters or old ones we don't really know yet, the whole story turns upside down.

I think that's when you become completely addicted.

Art:

I especially like the way HMR drew Jang Han Seo, one of the main guys. He can be charming, funny, human-like, beast-like or all these at the same time.
I also like Ha Ji, the heroine, but I must admit she isn't anything special. All the other characters are stereotyped and really similar to each other. I guess dear Hwang Mi Ri's only capable of drawing 6 or 7 different faces and 3 different body types in each gender.

Characters(Finally!):

In my humble opinion... No, not in my opinion: This story's main point is DEFINITELY its characters.

Ha ji, our heroine loves nothing but eating, fighting and eating after and before fighting.(No kidding.)
So if you expect a girl who becomes cute at a point in the story and can actually behave well or look beautiful, don't be mistaken. Well, she can be stunning in her own way, for some of the characters, but most of all she is just an eating-burping-machine.

Sin Uoo is your tyipical protagonist, who goes through some serious character development. In the beggining he is that cool-headed sort of guy, who appears confident, but really, he is just unable to say what he’s truly thinking, so when he says „I hate you! You are an ugly bitch.”, he actually means „Marry me, love!”.

Another main character, who is like the other half of the love(and hate) triangle, is the antagonist of our story. And let’s be honest: Jang Han Seo is the evilest of his kind. For him, love is possessive and jealousy equals destruction. He goes by the saying that „If I can’t have it/her, no one can.”

He is a complete madman. If I could describe him in any way, it would be by listing the traits of a SOCIOPATH:

„The greatest weakness of sociopaths is that they don’t have empathy. As a result, they tend to be successful in everything they are doing, since their goals are generally ruthlessly achieved. At the same time sociopaths are often appealing, have a spontaneous personality, and persuasive speaking skills. They get bored quickly, they can’t stand monotony and they need impulses which often go with irresponsibility. They are skilled at lying and manipulating others. They have no remorse, poor emotional life and insensitivity. They are impulsive. They are good at hiding the fact that they only follow their own purposes, and they can lull suspicion.”

I should add one more thing to this title: don't believe any of them. The characters, I mean. They will fool you... None of them is what you think they are. Ha ji, most of all;)

Enjoyment:

As I’ve said before, this story is really enjoyable. Even though it can be stupid, or overly dramatized, even cruel, action is always there, with love and fun. What else do we need?
(sorry for my english i'm not native)

i read the translator review at the last chapter, it blows my mind. but i'll give honest review, i don't know the author's other work, i haven't read them. my friend that not usually read romance and really like action adventure dark type-story recommend me this manhwa.

and honestly, it's really awesome. i smile a lot, and it really does has interesting story. because a lot of romance i read mostly just so-so, it's good yet it ends there, but this story really giving me chills along reading it.

*may contain a bis spolier!


the plot and story are somehow classic and simple, kinda remind me of hana yori dango but in more extreme way. i like the female MC so much, and the psychotic love between the characters..
eventho the art is really not my style, the big sparkly eyes shojou-style, but i stick with it because the story is good..

i think it went bad around the half near ending, because the first half super exciting but the later half became calmer, like psychologic-power-war of chaebol. the ending also not satisfying enough. well from the start it's not a melodrama-type tho, but still somehow it ended just OK.

conclusion: the first half just so damn exciting, if you like the MC well maybe you can stick til the end, but if you find the MC is NG then i think it will turned plain and dull.
+ the funny moments is OK.

Well this is my first review and i am just gonna go with it.Hot Blooded Woman is Korean Manga and it offers nothing much but pure enjoyment.It was hard for me to get the names and some other things but one thing is certain,i was laughing the whole time and that is what matters.Story wise there is nothing much.It is a pretty straight forward story involving a love triangle and some Soul transfers and a Death god typo and tons of voilence and nearly raped situations which are a trademark of the Mangka.there are not many surprises and plot twists tend to be linear.Art is pretty simplistic as u soon realize that Mangka is only capable of drawing 5 or 6 male characters and similar number of female characters .The pages often feel missing something as envoirnment often feels empty and there are not many things present in the back ground.Characters are ok as every one has a distinct personality and they stick to it no matter what.Character design is lacking as Arium and and few other characters are same.The real strength of this manga is its enjoyment value.Ha ji and her family are so funny that i couldnt stop laughing till the very end.Ha jis simplicity which is idiotic most of the times feels fresh everytime.Overall it is an enjoyable manga and worth a read.

Long-running series are interesting. Coming across a 20+ volume series, your first thought is probably "it MUST be good if it was so popular that it ran for so long!". Enter "Hot Blooded Woman" (HBW) — a series standing at an impressive 24 volumes. The description promises a lot: a strong female protagonist that goes up against all odds to stand at the top of, uh, local gangs. Does it need to make much sense or be realistic? Not if it's entertaining enough to justify the length.

[Very minor spoilers, because they're inevitable when discussing such a long series. Also, as noted on the author's page, Mi Ri Hwang is not the name of one person, but a collective pseudonym used by multiple authors, so there wasn't only one person deciding what would happen.]

Story - 4/10

The first half of HBW is overall pretty lighthearted and comical apart from the scenes where Ha Ji (as Aram) is actually injured, when you remember that she's a teenage girl going against people who're naturally stronger than her. It's easy to excuse the unrealistic writing when Ha Ji bumbles her way out of danger so comically, and there’s not much of a story per se: Ha Ji and Aram getting used to their new lives and forging new bonds against the backdrop of different gangs and individuals fighting for power.

About halfway in, the body swap subplot ends, a few characters make their exit, and the focus shifts to Ha Ji, Han Seo, and Sin Uoo. It's more of the same of what we've seen so far, except now there are more direct confrontations between the two guys, with Ha Ji bearing the brunt of their jealousy, pettiness, headgames and macho complexes.

I’d estimate the violence in this series is divided about 90% men vs. women and 10% men vs. men. You can argue that it's because Ha Ji, the protagonist, gets into a lot of fights, but it took me a bit to figure out why the narrative doesn’t “work”: it feels exploitative. It’s not meant to be realistic, but the author purposefully keeps Ha Ji willfully ignorant of the world around her, specifically so she can continue being a punching bag. Sure, Ha Ji is arrogant and naive, but she isn’t allowed to learn from her mistakes and evolve because that would force the author to move on from the “tough girl isn’t unbeatable like she thought” trait that is the basis of her character. And for what reason are we repeatedly subjected to seeing a teenage girl beaten, abused, humiliated and tortured, if not for cruelty's sake?

In short, the story can be summed up as "How much can Ha Ji suffer, emotionally and physically, until she breaks? Let's find out!".

Characters - 3/10

At first, Ha Ji was entertaining to watch; she has a "punch first, ask questions later" MO mixed with a vague code of ethics to make the reader empathize with someone who beats people up for fun. She's loud, brash, crude and completely clueless about anything except fighting and food. There is some development to her, such as accepting her budding romantic feelings and occasionally realizing how sheltered she'd been, but at the end of the story, she's still impulsive and violent and refuses to see the truth when it's staring her in the face, and I felt myself losing a lot of compassion for her when she repeatedly put herself in danger pointlessly despite the many warnings.

Aram is the typical rich bitch with a sad past, more of a plot device than a character in her own right. When she does finally come into the story, she spends the little time she is afforded pining after Sin Uoo and hatching evil plans to manipulate people. Inexplicably obsessed with her is the Soul Collector whose incompetence is the cause of all these shenanigans, Moya, whose inconsistent behavior — trying to get Aram and Sin Uoo together in one chapter, then trying to break them up in the next — and weird possessiveness towards Aram made him a weird addition to the story. Despite Moya insisting that Aram is a pure soul worthy of pity and love, her actions are just as despicable as Han Seo’s and she is just as cold-blooded upon seeing others in pain.

The "nicer" main male character is Sin Uoo, a typical rich asshole kid who enjoys bullying Aram to the point that he bullies others into bullying her. However, he is actually very tsundere at heart: mentally all giddy when Ha Ji (in Aram's body) pays attention to him, while verbally rejecting her with cruel words. He also engages in fighting, though he's more of a "won't attack unless pushed to the limit" guy most of the time — until halfway into the story, when he engages once again in headgames and scheming, except this time the targets are Han Seo and Ha Ji.

The one I have the most problems with is Han Seo, Ha Ji's cartoonishly evil "friend" who revels in torturing people and being feared, while taking advantage of Ha Ji's naivete to manipulate and make fun of her. He's probably a sociopath and the closest thing HBW has to an antagonist. Infuriatingly, Ha Ji refuses to accept the truth despite personally witnessing it, running back to him again and again even after she becomes his target (like ordering his underlings to break Aram's limbs and rape her SEVERAL TIMES, having her tied to a motorcycle and dragged behind it, and straight up throwing Ha Ji off the roof of a building himself). His actions are excused by others as trauma from the guilt of causing Ha Ji's accident, and then excused by Ha Ji as him "playing around" and "going psycho occasionally to relieve stress", despite — and I emphasize this — him outright TELLING her to her face, many times, that she is his stupid toy.

The other characters are fine, mostly used for gags or as fight props. Te Hu (Ha Ji's childhood friend) is an exception, as the gang member who's the least of an asshole. He’s given a subplot that ties into Aram, but other than that he doesn’t get a lot of development or attention compared to the others.

Around 2/3 into the story, we get a love rival to Ha Ji in the form of Yeong In, who looks 99% like Aram and at first has the same bad personality, except less depressed. She is a great foil to Ha Ji for a bit; I actually enjoyed this part of the story more because Han Seo wasn't in it and Sin Uoo was relegated to the background most of the time. It's a pity that the authors waste time by making Yeong In plot and scheme as if this were a telenovela, then erase any kind of interesting development she got by the end of the story.

Ha Ji miraculously gets away almost every time with only scrapes and bruises, save for a point halfway into the story when Aram's body is beaten so badly that it's very likely she would've died just from that — but that's OK, because it's not Ha Ji's body so it's expendable! None of the male characters show remorse at mistreating and abusing women, physically or emotionally, unless apologizing or holding back from further abuse (how courteous) benefits them in some way — no important character (i.e. one not used as a gag or fight prop) except for maybe Ha Ji herself and Te Hu seems to have any mercy towards anyone, in fact, and with Ha Ji it's mostly due to her naivete, which circles back to the argument about her stagnant character.

Thinking back...no one really changes much throughout the story. Anytime they seem to make a step forward, something happens that pushes them back into their slot. Sin Uoo spends a lot of time moping and pushing Ha Ji/Aram away (until he does a 180 and begins clinging to her); Han Seo gets more and more violent and jealous; Ha Ji is naive to the point where you wonder if she's doing it on purpose or has brain damage (then is hastily given "development" in the last 2 volumes that's completely inconsistent with what we've seen so far); and Aram does an enemy-to-antihero speedrun in a whopping, blink-and-you'll-miss-it, 2 chapters. And the only acknowledgement by Ha Ji of Sin Uoo's actions, that could have resulted in her being raped at best and killed at worst, is over and done in 2 pages and a "sorry", after which it's never brought up again.

Around volume 20, the authors make the baffling decision to have an "ah-ha" moment in the form of Ha Ji seemingly playing dumb on purpose; after that she does seem a bit more aware of things, but this "revelation" comes completely unprompted and is inconsistent with the previous 20 volumes' (!!) worth of development.

Art - 6/10

The character design is fine, though any character apart from Ha Ji, Aram, Te Hu, Han Seo and Sin Uoo is drawn in the bare minimum of detail. There is emphasis on the main 5’s facial expressions, notably making their eyelashes white when they are angry. Other than that, the art suffers from the dreaded Yaoi Hands occasionally and the anatomy isn’t that good in cowboy shots or full body shots. Once I noticed that sometimes the screentone is added only to the face (not the neck or body), it was impossible to ignore.

Enjoyment - 3/10

At first, I enjoyed this; it's easy to gloss over the clumsy writing and pacing in the first few chapters, and the characters aren't reprehensible enough yet to hate. But as I kept reading, it began feeling more like a chore. I decided to pick HBW again after dropping it many years ago, and felt the need to drop it again at the same point, but soldiered on, and remembered why I dropped it back then: after the halfway point, the story is more of the same and I realized that most of the tension and suspense comes from wondering how Ha Ji will suffer next. Will she be beaten? Betrayed? Made fun of? Used as a pretext for Han Seo and Sin Uoo to dick-measure their macho complexes? Once I got to that point, the story lost my active interest and I just kept reading out of inertia. The story picked up again for a bit around volume 20 when Yeong In was introduced, but that's at least 7-8 volumes' worth of boring and ultimately inconsequential content, and this stint was short.

The most I'll say about the ending is that it’s even more melodramatic than the rest of the story, and very predictable — maybe not in the events, but in the general outcome. I'm not exaggerating when I say that you could probably skip volumes 13-21 entirely without sacrificing neither story nor character development.

Overall - 4/10

All in all, is HBW worth reading? Putting aside the level of commitment necessary to read 24 volumes, it does have a decent start and setup and is entertaining to read when it doesn't try to touch on topics that are way above the authors' ability of even modestly accurate depiction. If you're uncomfortable with gang violence and attempted rape as (poorly, very unrealistically handled) plot devices, I'd recommend skipping this. Hell, you can even drop this manhwa at around the 12-volume mark and just imagine your own ending. You probably won't be too off the mark from the real one.

You want a long story that's actually good, has great characters and plot developments, and a strong and tomboyish female lead? Check out Tokyo Crazy Paradise instead — it's what HBW wanted to be.

Okie to start the review off, the summary is only a very small part of the story that will eventually be insignificant and may lead to not liking to further plot because of expectations so here might be a more detailed summary:
Ha Ji was bullied by her two brothers that were learning karate and fencing at the time and she turned to Te Hu who called her a puppy that always need help. Determined Ha Ji learned all the martial arts possible and became a jjiang at her current high school. Soon after a motorcycle incident happens as they were going to conquer another territory and she "died". After some misunderstandings and supernatural power involvements, she ended up in a perfect body and met her other half. Through halfway the whole series she goes back to her body and her sub-jjiang Han Seo is now in major play as a love triangle forms, revenge, betrayal, and trust is now in play.

Story: Since the summary is up there, the story is pretty much describes but without all the drama in between. Overall the story is pretty well planned out and I liked how the artist ended put some lame-ass ending when a person died and continued with how their future turns out therefore 9. And I like how she didn't add supernatural elements everywhere just so the story makes sense.

Art: Like any other manhwa art, it is partially detailed with main characters and just so-so with the not so important characters and sometimes it just makes you pull your hair out that they don't care about very insignificant character resulting lookin kinda unbalanced. Either way I can't draw like her and all the others so they definitely deserve a 8.

Character:(JUST IN CASE THERE MIGHT BE SPOILERS) The best thing possible in a manhwa/manga. This is absolute brilliance in the last half of the manhwa even though the first half was good I fell in love because of the second half.
The main character in her own body in the second half of the manhwa definitely showed all her embarrassing moments that are also hilarous but most of all the question of wickedness comes into play. It is revealed that she is not simply just "another airhead", she knows everything that is being played around her but she acts oblivious to it and just watches. A true emblem of a human being, but I seriously thought that it was her nature to want to watch but I was proved very wrong when I discovered she like other humans also can't let go and was moved not by trust but greediness. I absolutely fell in love.
Then Han Seo, a guy who fell in love with a toy (Ha Ji) even though he knew he should've stopped when he got the chance, he didn't instead he got crazier. A true psycho in the story, he solved problems through violence and a bit of intelligence. He laughs mostly from Ha Ji and due to her trusting nature he couldn't let her go and was even willing to "go to hell together" with her if she kept her trust and didn't choose. A sad guy who fell in love to unrequinted love that even he knew but still couldn't end it. The only character that puzzled me and kept me interested in continuing.
Other main character are also very interesting like Aram who loved a guy who totally told her off but couldn't give up until she discovered that feelings could be changed. Sin Uoo even though he's the main guy character I never really felt good with him. He's nicely done and everything but I can't feel depth into his nature so ya you gotta figure him out yourself. Jeong Hyeop a totally loyal character to Han Seo. He also acts as an advisor for Ha Ji and tells her advices and urge her to make decisions and treats her like a little sister. ABOSOLUTELY 10.

Enjoyment: Overall the story plot and characterization I can't not enjoy it but it wasn't really the best of the best out there but since writing a review I found out that I actually enjoyed it very much so therefore changed to 9.

Overall: 9 :)

First off, this is my first review and since I adored this manga, I just had to review. Lately, I've been wandering the shoujo category and incidentally managing to find a lot of yakuza type plot manga. However, Hot Blooded Woman’s simple plotline, multiple twists and the weird, wacky and certifiably insane characters with just a touch of supernatural had me cracking with laughter from the first page onwards.

I get that this is a Korean manga, so the characters names were not really a surprise, just don’t ask me to remember ANY names… The fight scenes need a bit of clarification (be either guesswork or dialogue). There a few times that the manga timeline just jump around without much warning.

What I really liked about this manga was it characters. In the beginning the characters came off as typical but as you get deeper into the story, the depth shown for most of them was a bit scary. Especially for Ha Ji and Sin Uoo. For one, I was really prepared to hate Aram, who came off as a typical and weak female character. However you had to sympathize with her feeling at the end. Actually, I sympathized with all of them. It was nice to see stereotypical characters molded, then break out with the weirdest quirks and somewhat grow on you. After all, everyone is unique and handles situations in their unique way. What makes someone mentally strong enough to get up and keep going when knocked down, where another would falter and give up? To say the least, I was really fascinated by the individual actions of each character and the consequence that followed.

The ending was… totally hilarious. For me, it wasn’t as satisfying. Realistically, I could have guess at least half of the ending. -_____-; I totally encourage people to read this manga if only for the laughs. ^______^