Line #50 Manga/Hen


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8	[[caption-width-right:300:Chizuru Yoshida and Azumi Yamada]]
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10	''Hen'' (''変'', "Strangeness") is a pair of {{Queer\|Romance}} RomanticComedy mangas created by Creator/HiroyaOku (originally under the PenName Kuon Yahiro), better known as the {{mangaka}} of ''Manga/{{Gantz}}''. Both series were serialized in Creator/{{Shueisha}}'s {{Seinen}} magazine ''Weekly Young Jump''.
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12	The first series, published from 1989 to 1994, is a {{yaoi}} manga focused on Ichirou Suzuki, a straight ([[ClosetKey so he thinks]]) young man who becomes attracted to an [[{{Bishonen}} androgynous]] boy named Yuuki Satou, whom he is convinced must be a girl trapped in a male body. The series was a runner-up in the Young Jump Youth Manga Awards in 1988.
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14	The second part, [[SequelDisplacement which is much better-known despite its shorter run]], is a {{yuri}} manga serialized from 1995-1997. Chizuru Yoshida is a high-school girl with improbably large bosoms and a very active, very heterosexual sex life. However when a new student, Azumi Yamada, awakens some unfamiliar feelings in Chizuru's heart, our heroine is forced to reconsider her sexuality.
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16	Both series were adapted into a live-action Creator/TVAsahi drama in 1996, and the first part of the second series was adapted into a 2-episode OriginalVideoAnimation in 1997. The OVA was released in English by Creator/CentralParkMedia under the title ''Anime/StrangeLove''.
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18	!!This manga provides examples of:
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20	* AlphaBitch: Chizuru at the start of the story in particular. She's popular, hot, and unconcerned with the feelings of people other than herself.
21	* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Chizuru to Azumi. Also, [[spoiler: Azumi and Ryuichi give each other simultaneous declarations.]]
22	%% * AuthorAvatar: Oku
23	* BettyAndVeronica: Azumi and Chizuru are this to Ryuichi. [[spoiler: Subverted when the Betty and the Veronica end up with [[PairTheSuitors each other]] rather than the guy.]]
24	* BrotherSisterIncest: [[spoiler: Suzuki and Saena]] are sleeping together.
25	%% * CatapultNightmare: Ryuichi, though it's more of a Catapult Wet Dream.
26	%% * TheChikan: Chizuru gets groped by one.
27	%% * ClingyJealousGirl: Chizuru
28	* ClosetKey: Azumi is the first girl Chizuru has ever been attracted to, much to Chizuru's confusion.
29	* DateRapeAverted: [[spoiler: Sugita's brother nearly rapes Chizuru when she's drugged unconscious, but he's foiled when she wakes up in the nick of time because she smells Azumi's perfume on the floor above.]]
30	* DistractedByTheSexy: Chizuru's huge tracts of land frequently have this effect on the male characters.
31	%% * {{Dojikko}}: Azumi
32	* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Played quite straight when [[spoiler: Chizuru gets Ryuichi drunk and rapes him while he's passed out. This isn't treated as a horrible event.]]
33	%% * DudeLooksLikeALady: Sato
34	* {{Ecchi}}: Lots and lots of nudity and fanservice, mostly of Chizuru, but never gets very graphic.
35	* EroticDream: Chizuru has some extremely [[FreudWasRight Freudian]], extremely ''disturbing'' ones about Azumi. [[spoiler: Azumi later has some much less disturbing ones about Chizuru.]]
36	* EroticEating: Sato eats a popsicle this way.
37	* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Azumi. Chizuru falls in love with her and is more than willing to [[IfItsYouItsOkay make an exception for her despite being straight]].
38	* FemmeFatale: Chizuru takes advantage of her sexuality to manipulate men,
39	* {{Gainaxing}}: It's a manga, and yet the female characters still manage quite a lot of bouncing.
40	* GirlOnGirlIsHot: When Ryuichi's film script is reworked to include a kiss between Chizuru and Azumi, the drama club boys heartily approve.
41	* {{Gonk}}: Oku and the 11-year-old boy are both illustrated as extremely weird-looking with ugly faces.
42	%% * HarshWordImpact
43	%% * IWasJustJoking: Chizuru does this a lot, sometimes to the point of audience confusion.
44	* IfItsYouItsOkay: Azumi is the only girl that Chizuru is attracted to.
45	%% * KickTheDog: Chizuru, a lot.
46	* LadykillerInLove: Chizuru is a gender-inverted example-- she's a {{Maneater}} who doesn't know what to do when she develops real feelings for a classmate.
47	* LovableAlphaBitch: Chizuru, initially quite a jerk, leans more into this soon after she stops trying to deny her feelings for Azumi, and by the end of the manga almost all of her more loathsome qualities have almost entirely faded.
48	* LoveTriangle: Between Chizuru, Azumi, and Ryuichi. Later it expands into a LoveDodecahedron involving Azumi, Chizuru, Suzuki, Sato, Azumi's school friend, Suzuki's sister, and Oku.
49	* MarshmallowHell: Again, Chizuru is usually the one providing the, er, marshmallows.
50	%%* {{Meganekko}}: Sugita
51	* MsFanservice: Chizuru is a constant focus of the camera and wears skimpy clothing all the time.
52	%% * NaiveNewcomer: Azumi
53	* NoBisexuals: Both protagonists are clearly bisexual, but don't appear to recognize that the concept exists, seemingly thinking one must be '''either''' gay '''or''' straight.
54	** Ichirou considers himself to be straight, and therefore his {{Bishonen}} love interest Yuuki Satou must actually be a girl in a boy's body.
55	** Chizuru gets confused because on the one hand, she loves Azumi (so she must be a lesbian), but on the other hand, she likes having sex with boys (so she must be straight). It never occurs to her that she might be bisexual.
56	* NobodyPoops: Averted; there are a couple of scenes showing Chizuru on the toilet.
57	* NoodlePeople: The characters all have long, spindly limbs and thin bodies.
58	* {{Nosebleed}}: Chizuru has one after she sees Azumi naked.
59	* OneHeadTaller: Chizuru stands about a head taller than Azumi
60	%% * PantyShot: Usually Chizuru.
61	%% * PutOnABus: [[spoiler: Ryuichi]]
62	* ReallyGetsAround: Chizuru has a lot of sex with men and doesn't take it very seriously.
63	* RedStringOfFate: Referenced InUniverse in the plot of Ryuichi's movie.
64	%% * SchoolPlay: Actually a student film, but it serves the same narrative purpose.
65	* SkinshipGrope: Chizuru is a frequent target. She herself does it to Azumi and Saena.
66	%% * {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler: Sugita]]

Context Manga / Hen