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Hiroya spent countless hours working on HEN. After HEN's production, many H artists and Dōjinshi used "tit-motion trails", which were common in HEN. "Tit-motion trails" (or whatever name Hiroya calls them) were blurs that would show the movement of breasts. Hiroya jokes about this in some of the GANTZ volumes.

HEN is largely comprised of two entwined stories. Neither is particularly explicit; they are focused on the characters. Each set of characters meets up with the other during the course of their respective tales.

  • (変) Suzuki & Satō: Ichirō Suzuki, a straight young man who becomes besotted with another guy, Yūki Sato, convinced his Bishonen love is a girl trapped in a boy's body. Interestingly, author Hiroya Oku is one of the characters in the story, the best friend of Satō.


  • (HEN) Chizuru & Azumi: Sexy student Chizuru Yoshida, to her utmost horror, falls in love with another girl, the innocent Azumi Yamada. This was by far the most popular of all the HEN stories. A prototype version of this story was published in 変(Hen)#2.


In 1996 , HEN was turned into a Live Action TV series. The first half starred Shinsuke Aoki as Suzuki, actress Aiko Sato as Sato, and Shigaya Kazuma as Hiroya Oku. The second half starred Asami Jo as Chizuru and Miho Kiuchi as Azumi. The video release had more explicit sex scenes than the broadcast version.

In 1997 , the "Chizuru & Azumi" chapter was turned into an Anime OVA series. It was released in North America under the title "Strange Love." Contrary to the norm, the anime was quite inferior to the live-version and never made it past two episodes.


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