Hen (manga)

Hen
First tankōbon volume cover (second series), featuring Chizuru Yoshida (left) and Azumi Yamada (right)
変
Genre
Manga
Written byHiroya Oku
Published byShueisha
ImprintYoung Jump Comics
MagazineWeekly Young Jump
DemographicSeinen
Original run1989 – 1994
Volumes13
Manga
Written byHiroya Oku
Published byShueisha
ImprintYoung Jump Comics
MagazineWeekly Young Jump
DemographicSeinen
Original run1995 – 1997
Volumes8
Television drama
Directed by
  • Mitsunori Morita
  • Miki Nemoto
Music byHiroya Watanabe
Original networkTV Asahi
Original run April 7, 1996 – June 30, 1996
Episodes12
Original video animation
Strange Love
Directed byDaiji Suzuki
Produced by
  • Katsuaki Takemoto
  • Takehiko Shimazu
Written byMayori Sekijima
Music byGōji Tsuno
StudioGroup TAC
Licensed by
Released March 21, 1997 – June 21, 1997
Episodes2

Hen (変, "Strangeness") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiroya Oku. There are two separate Hen series, both published in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump; the first one from 1989 to 1994 and the second from 1995 to 1997. Both series received a television drama adaptation broadcast on TV Asahi in 1996. The second series received a two-episode original video animation (OVA) adaptation released in 1997. In North America, the OVA was licensed by Central Park Media, under the title Strange Love, and released on DVD in 2002.

  1. ^ "Strange Love (DVD) (D/S)". Central Park Media. Archived from the original on September 1, 2004. Retrieved August 31, 2023.
  2. ^ a b Friedman, Erica (March 16, 2004). "Yuri Anime/Yuri Manga: Hen". Okazu. Archived from the original on January 4, 2020. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
  3. ^ 変[HEN]. Mangapedia [ja] (in Japanese). Voyage Group. Archived from the original on June 10, 2022. Retrieved August 31, 2023.


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