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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.

Hen was created by Hiroya Oku, better known as the mangaka of Gantz. It was adapted into a live-action drama in 1996, and also into a 2-episode OVA in 1997. The OVA was released by Central Park Media under the title Strange Love.


This manga provides examples of:

  • Alpha Bitch: Chizuru at the start of the story in particular. She's popular, hot, and unconcerned with the feelings of people other than herself.
  • Anguished Declaration of Love: Chizuru to Azumi. Also, Azumi and Ryuichi give each other simultaneous declarations.
  • Betty and Veronica: Azumi and Chizuru are this to Ryuichi. Subverted when the Betty and the Veronica end up with each other rather than the guy.
  • Brother–Sister Incest: Suzuki and Saena are sleeping together.
  • Closet Key: Azumi is the first girl Chizuru has ever been attracted to, much to Chizuru's confusion.
  • Date Rape Averted: 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.
  • Distracted by the Sexy: Chizuru's huge tracts of land frequently have this effect on the male characters.
  • Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Played quite straight when Chizuru gets Ryuichi drunk and rapes him while he's passed out. This isn't treated as a horrible event.
  • Ecchi: Lots and lots of nudity and fanservice, mostly of Chizuru, but never gets very graphic.
  • Erotic Dream: Chizuru has some extremely Freudian, extremely disturbing ones about Azumi. Azumi later has some much less disturbing ones about Chizuru.
  • Erotic Eating: Sato eats a popsicle this way.
  • Even the Girls Want Her: Azumi. Chizuru falls in love with her and is more than willing to make an exception for her despite being straight.
  • Femme Fatale: Chizuru takes advantage of her sexuality to manipulate men,
  • Gainaxing: It's a manga, and yet the female characters still manage quite a lot of bouncing.
  • Girl on Girl Is Hot: When Ryuichi's film script is reworked to include a kiss between Chizuru and Azumi, the drama club boys heartily approve.
  • Gonk: Oku and the 11-year-old boy are both illustrated as extremely weird-looking with ugly faces.
  • If It's You, It's Okay: Azumi is the only girl that Chizuru is attracted to.
  • Ladykiller in Love: 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.
  • Lovable Alpha Bitch: 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.
  • Love Triangle: Between Chizuru, Azumi, and Ryuichi. Later it expands into a Love Dodecahedron involving Azumi, Chizuru, Suzuki, Sato, Azumi's school friend, Suzuki's sister, and Oku.
  • Marshmallow Hell: Again, Chizuru is usually the one providing the, er, marshmallows.
  • Ms. Fanservice: Chizuru is a constant focus of the camera and wears skimpy clothing all the time.
  • No Bisexuals: 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.
  • Nobody Poops: Averted; there are a couple of scenes showing Chizuru on the toilet.
  • Noodle People: The characters all have long, spindly limbs and thin bodies.
  • Nosebleed: Chizuru has one after she sees Azumi naked.
  • One Head Taller: Chizuru stands about a head taller than Azumi
  • Really Gets Around: Chizuru has a lot of sex with men and doesn't take it very seriously.
  • Red String of Fate: Referenced In-Universe in the plot of Ryuichi's movie.
  • Skinship Grope: Chizuru is a frequent target. She herself does it to Azumi and Saena.

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