Hen | |
変 | |
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Genre | |
Manga | |
Written by | Hiroya Oku |
Published by | Shueisha |
Imprint | Young Jump Comics |
Magazine | Weekly Young Jump |
Demographic | Seinen |
Original run | 1989 – 1994 |
Volumes | 13 |
Manga | |
Written by | Hiroya Oku |
Published by | Shueisha |
Imprint | Young Jump Comics |
Magazine | Weekly Young Jump |
Demographic | Seinen |
Original run | 1995 – 1997 |
Volumes | 8 |
Television drama | |
Directed by |
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Music by | Hiroya Watanabe |
Original network | TV Asahi |
Original run | April 7, 1996 – June 30, 1996 |
Episodes | 12 |
Original video animation | |
Strange Love | |
Directed by | Daiji Suzuki |
Produced by |
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Written by | Mayori Sekijima |
Music by | Gōji Tsuno |
Studio | Group TAC |
Licensed by | |
Released | March 21, 1997 – June 21, 1997 |
Episodes | 2 |
Hen (変, "Strangeness") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiroya Oku. There are two separate Hen series, both were 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.
Written and illustrated by Hiroya Oku, the prototype of Hen was selected as a semi-finalist at the 19th Youth Manga Awards in 1988.[5][6] The manga started an irregular serialization in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump the following year;[7][8] it started a weekly serialization in 1992,[8] and finished in 1994.[9] Shueisha collected its chapters in thirteen tankōbon volumes, released from April 25, 1991,[10] to April 24, 1995;[11] a four-volume shinsoban edition was published from October 19, 2000,[12] to January 19, 2001;[13] and a nine-volume bunkoban edition was released from April 18 to September 15, 2006.[14][15]
Another series, also titled Hen (stylized in Latin script), was serialized in Weekly Young Jump from 1995 to 1997.[16] Shueisha collected its chapters in eight tankōbon volumes, released from September 24, 1995,[17] to June 24, 1997.[18] A six-volume bunkoban edition was released from February 18 to June 17, 2011.[19][20]
A television drama adaptation was broadcast on TV Asahi in 1996. The first half, adapting the first series and starring Shinsuke Aoki as Ichirō Suzuki and actress Aiko Sato as Yūki Satō, was broadcast for seven episodes from April 7 to May 19;[21][c] the second half, adapting the second series and starring Asami Jō as Chizuru Yoshida and Miho Kiuchi as Azumi Yamada, was broadcast for five episodes from May 26 to June 30.[22][c] Art Five re-released the series on two DVD boxes (each containing each part) in November 2006.[23][24]
A two-episode original video animation (OVA) adaptation of the second series, "Chizuru and Azumi", animated by Group TAC and directed by Daiji Suzuki,[25][16] was released by Toei Video on March 21 and June 21, 1997.[26][27][28]
In North America, the OVA was licensed by Central Park Media and released on DVD, under the title Strange Love,[29] on February 12, 2002.[30]