heroic prose and verse narrative.
Bought and read volume 11 of Hot Gimmick.

I don't read much manga in Japanese, because it's really more a deciphering than a reading process. The language is more moon-man than I care to admit, and reading manga is slow, difficult, and punctuated by visits to the kanji dictionary. (Of course, it depends on what I'm reading.)

Hot Gimmick, though. . . that's something. Well worth the effort. In fact, I'm pretty sure that I enjoy it more in Japanese than in English, because the mental effort required is such that I can't think about the fact that I'm reading a high school romance comic.

And now I discover that v. 12 has been out in japan for months now. And there's "Hot Gimmick S." (It goes without saying that I am consumed by a desire to read it immediately.) At this rate I ought to just get a subscription to betsucomi and have done with it.