Talk:Hen (manga)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 17:06, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Material removed from lead
I took the following sentences out of the lead for being unsourced, unencyclpedic and probably OR. Do with them as you will.


 * 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"

were blurs that would show the movement of breasts. Xymmax (talk) 05:30, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I undid your removal of that, since the writer said this in an interview, he putting that in a page in Gantz. Volume 5, chapter 58, page 226 is where he says it. Dream Focus (talk) 13:29, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

information Hiroya Oku revealed about Hen in Gantz
At the end of the before mentioned issue of Gantz, this is the text found beneath various pictures from his first one shot. If anyone can somehow add this information to the article, please do so, I think there many important facts revealed here:

Hen was the name of my first one-shot. I drew it entirely by myself at age 21 in one hot summer month.

It was a story about a man becoming a woman. But since it's a concept that is used often, I tried to give it a realistic look, by paying special attention to the flow of a time and the way people act.

At the time, the movie "the fly" was running, and I think I was probably influenced somewhat by that. At any rate, it was a grueling process of trail & error as I tried to create something that only I could bring forth into the world.

I spent an eternity affixing all the screentones for this one. I had a lot of fun putting all the little bits on for each tiny little piece of detail. But once I realized that my contest deadline was only three days away, I had to draw the last fifteen pages almost completely blank, without any tone at all.

Perhaps because of all of this exposure to the screentone process, I felt that I was given a good eye for realistic tone in manga backgrounds.

Afterwards, the only thing I heard about Hen from other manga artists were the scenes like this.

I drew the nipples with visual trails to simulate the movement of the breasts in one picture, and this particular trick was picked up and used in other artists' works, mostly H-manga and the like. I kind of doubt they all know where it really originated.

At any rate, the only feedback I ever really got about this manga was regarding the breasts, which was rather unexpected and not exactly desired. Hiroya Oku.

That's all of it. Dream Focus (talk) 13:43, 11 March 2008 (UTC)