CHARACTER PROFILE
Hot Summer Martha
- Primary work
- Manga/OVA
Hot Summer Martha (ホットサマー・マーサ, Hotto Samā Māsa) is a primary antagonist featured in the work of Rohan Kishibe, Pink Dark Boy.
In Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan, it is a fictional character. It appears in the one-shot and TV drama episode named after it, in which its creation and debut are detailed.
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Original image ↗ · Archived image ↗01Basic information
02Appearance
Hot Summer Martha is a creature whose upper body consists of four dark spheres. One sphere is its head, having a downward pointing arrow resembling a nose on the center of its face. Below it is a curved line akin to a mouth. Two spheres protrude from each corner of its head, which are its eyes. The final sphere protrudes from the back of its head. All of its spheres have elongated and curved ridges that run along the surface from one end to the other, culminating at the top similarly to a melon.↗
Its design originally consisted of three spheres, only having the top two spheres as its eyes. However, Kyoka Izumi changes Rohan 's manuscript and makes it have four spheres instead, as she was worried that its design looked too similar to Mickey Mouse. In the TV drama, they also make it blue instead of black in the Pink Dark Boy Volume 95 cover and the creature's figure to avoid any copyright issues.↗↗↗
03Abilities
04Story
SPOILERS
TSKR Episode 10
On July 7, 2021, Kyoka calls Rohan regarding concerns she has for his Hot Summer Martha design, because having three circles in the design could lead to consumer complaints. However, Rohan rebukes that three circles is a design that even ancient Celts would have drawn.↗
Throughout the next three months, Kyoka has conversations with Rohan's doppelgänger via text messages and meetings to discuss his work. Kyoka has a designer change Rohan's design to have four circles instead of three. She also sends Rohan text messages about Hot Summer Martha being a major hit and that his work is a masterpiece. The real Rohan eventually reads these messages on October 7, confused as to what she's talking about.↗
Rohan is replaced by his doppelgänger again for the following three months until January 7, 2022. A figure is created for Hot Summer Martha and Kyoka brings it to Rohan's office.↗↗
TV Drama
The TV drama expands on Hot Summer Martha's origins and shows kids reacting to the arc while reading the manga. Kyoka feels bad for changing the character's design and suggests creating a new character that has three circles instead of four, suggesting that it could be Hot Summer Martha's little brother, "Hot Summer Brother".↗↗↗
Ken Oyanagi believes that the character having four circles is ugly and that it makes no sense for it to have a third eye in that placement considering the creature's abilities and biology. His hatred for the design eventually leads to him wanting Rohan to be prohibited from drawing manga. Ken challenges him to a game of rock-paper-scissors where he could steal Rohan's skills if Rohan loses.↗↗
05Plot details
SPOILERS
Profile details
Status Status based on their final appearance in the part(s) they are featured in: Unknown↗
06Appearances
07Sources & attribution
- Hot Summer Martha
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