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Chizuru Yoshida is not your typical high schooler and she's all too aware of it! She has a talent with getting what she wants from her male lovers and often comes across as cold and manipulative… In truth, despite her experiences with guys, she has never been in love. That's until the fateful arrival of newly-trasferred student, Azumi Yamada, at her school. It was love at first sight for Chizuru–indeed an unexpected turn of events for the story's vixen! Not only was she in love, but with all things…another girl. Chizuru goes through a brief stage of anger and denial and tries to convince herself that she couldn't possibly be attracted to such a simple-looking, shy, and naive girl! To her despair she finds herself constantly thinking of Azumi, so she finally resolves to become friends with her, but it's not too long when she starts to push things along with Azumi…

The year is 2028, location in New Koshigaya. A young boy, Isurugi Neru, lives in a poor family and is forced to quit school so that he can find his own way in life. Neru on the other hand, only thinks of one thing: to take revenge on Yagami, a classmate, who's especially gifted and has humiliated Neru numerous times.

She is popular and has a hunk for a boyfriend, but there is that boy in her class who always stares at her, but never talks to anybody. On the way home that boy loses his phone, she picks it up, but he runs away before she can return it. Inside she finds article on lucid dreaming, and this is where it all begins…

Koizumi Shintarou is 30 years old, a virgin, and has isolated himself in his room for 15 years. He has become a burden on his father, Koizumi Yasujirou. One day, Shintarou makes a proposition that if Yasujirou gets a girlfriend, Shintarou will come out of his room. It turns out that Yasujirou has already got a girlfriend, a young beautiful woman, Yoshinaga Haruka, who is with Yasujirou for her own personal reasons. Yasujirou and Haruka decide to get married, but Yasujirou dies on their honeymoon. Now Haruka decides to take care of Shintarou, and so this weird "mother and son" duo are now living together.

The manga's story begins when a peasant named Hanbē asks a girl named O-haru for her hand in marriage, but O-haru confesses that she is already thinking of another man named Masakichi from a neighboring village. When Hanbē seeks out Masakichi, he finds that Masakichi possesses a sword and the skills to use it, despite being a peasant.

Ichiro Suzuki, a straight young man who becomes besotted with another guy, Yuki Sato, convinced his bishounen 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 Sato. The first three volumes of this series collect Oku's early short stories, including prototype versions of both Hen series. ---- * [Hen (1993)](https://mangadex.org/title/eb89077b-78fb-4404-a6d7-a70200f663a3/hen-suzuki-kun-to-sato-kun-no-baai) - Suzuki & Sato * [HEN (1997)](https://mangadex.org/title/91bbcc02-bc0f-4492-bf5d-e42cfe03dfe5/hen) - Chizuru & Azumi