Do yourself a favor and do not read this. The "plot" is just a bad excuse, the "character development" is nearly nonexistant and the characters themselves are, with a few exceptions, horrible people.
This whole pile of stuff (you can guess what this stuff is made of) is topped with a nice icing called "very bad art". Especially the way ears are drawn brings my breakfast to boil in my stomach, it seems it wants to come out.
I've read more than 400 manga series until now, and this is definately in the bottom 5 of them.

... Last updated on March 6th, 2011, 8:19pm

Hen is really a rough unfinished early work of Oku Hiroya and suffers because of that. It has both its strong moments and weak ones.

Unlike some reviewers I like the character of Chizuru Yoshida and I think she is one of the stronger parts of the series. Yes, she's a cold calculating witch that uses both her looks and intelligence to manipulate men. Even more when she meets Azumi Yamada, Chizuru becomes confused, jealous and even more manipulative. It isn't until she goes thru several stages that her character begins to change and grow. I liked this because she didn't immediately start off as a likable character. This is like the author's main character in Gantz (Kei Kurono) who doesn't start off as very likable to begin with either, but evolves over time. When we learn what kind of family background Chizuru has and that she basically has nowhere to go it becomes impressive that she is not a victim, but instead the tough cold chick that she is.

All that said the story at a certain point breaks down unfortunately becoming confused and directionless. At first there seems to be some progress in some of the relationships and then it seems that the author changed his mind. Another couple is introduced with some gender-bending thrown in and you wonder if it was really necessary. The ending becomes rushed because the series got axed and it doesn't leave a very good resolution to the relationships between these characters.

So the story is interesting for some of its characters and situations. Its also interesting to see how the artist's style evolves from Hen to Gantz. But the weaknesses in plot, direction, and resolution pull this series down for me. I think I will give it a 7.5 because I didn't hate it and actually enjoyed certain aspects of it.

Hen is probably the worst series i've ever read! The pacing sucks, the characters suck, and the plot is only there for the first half! If you want a horrible manga with nothing unique or good then this is for you soulless suckers!

Frankly I hate this manga, the main female lead is a terrible person who acts like a conceited whore and needs to have something horrible happen to her. If fact I keep reading in the hope she would get her comeuppance, or that the world at large would come to their senses in see her for the waste of humanity maggot she really was. No such luck.

I really enjoyed this and even Gantz, while we're on the topic. Love trianges like this have been done before, technically it is the same thing seen before, so only read it if you are willing to sit through the formula again or haven't read many before. I don't really let the sex scenes get to me, because I'm an adult and I don't have a jealousy complex, I just take it as realism, not fanservice.

Manga is how you perceive it, not how it is and how people react to one solid "truth", if people like or hate one, its mainly due to how they have viewed the series, lots of people love kuroshitsuji and ouran host club and I couldnt even tolerate the first chapters, whatever its all personal opinion.

I actually made this account JUST to give this manga a bad rating. Basically all characters are complete idiots. And the plot . . . what plot? The men are all assinine, replacing their brains with their genitals; the women are no better, as they love being sexually objectified as it is "apparently" their only means to get things done, so to say. Nope, not one bit of cleverness here. It's not even stupid funny to make up for the lack of witty funny.

And my rant on the gay issues (not) present: People claim that it's a yuri manga, but really, it just shows a lot of hetero sex (so for those into yuri, I suggest you stay away). And of course there can't actually be a genuine male homosexual couple (heaven forbid if they allowed that to happen). It's just one of those stupid slap-stick schemes where a girl is acting like a boy, and then the boy is relieved he's not gay (again, heaven forbid).

If only there were a law suit that allowed one to sue the uncreative mangaka for wasting our bloody time. Seriously, precious hours of my life have been wasted. Don't become a victim. If you love yourself - just avoid it like the plague.

... Last updated on October 4th, 2009, 6:46pm

If you have a heart and are open minded, this manga will make you regret that aspect of yourself. You´d have to be some yuri fan that doesn´t need logic to this one.

A well liked popular but horrible woman decides to prey on a sweet girl. Imagine being that girl, or guy, where people are trying to push you into a relationship with someone that lies to you, you don´t find sexually attractive, and isn´t the gender you even like.

This is the second manga I´ve read by this artist, the other being Me-Teru no Kimochi, which also sucked. I haven´t tried gants cause it doesn´t seem like my cup of tea but god, that was also an awful manga that just had no proper direction.

Also there´s no real drama except for the childishness of the main girl.

I just finished reading this and liked the concept a lot. The pacing of the plot was what really tripped it up. One step forward, two steps back, three forward, 5 back, totally random in a bad way. It felt like it had a volume limit that was pushed, then pushed again.

(The main lead also had too big breasts, an instant minus.)

yeah, it IS strange. the plot, and the fact that i actually liked it. XD it might be because it was very~~ different from what i'm used to reading, i don't know. but it was good. the characters had depth and grew! (yay growing! (not physical growing..)) and holy crap the plot twist/s/.

bambamtwist~ hahah.

don't worry, like other comments have said, yoshida DEFINITLY gets a whoooole lot better than the stuck-up snobby brat in the beginning. it just.. takes a little bit..

and the art.. okay, it wasn't bad. if you completely ignored the dumbo ears and the tumor-sized watermelons hanging off yoshida and some of the others, it's actually quite decent! even elvis-hair, that hunk, looked pretty cute with his hair down. ^^



i hate unanswered questions~ D<

if you want something different and interesting that will keep you on your toes, read~ it has very interesting character personalities and plot development. haha.

... Last updated on July 5th, 2009, 8:36pm

HEN. It really is. Strange, I mean. It mix some angst-filled drama with yuri text, yaoi subtext and lots of unexpected things. It makes for two things: bad one, as pacing and themes are all over the place; and good one, as you never know what happens next.
As for the art, it takes some getting used to.