Harenchi Gakuen

Harenchi Gakuen

Cover of Harenchi Gakuen Volume 1, 1988 edition.
ハレンチ学園
Genre Comedy
Manga
Written by Go Nagai
Published by Shueisha
Kodansha
Tokuma Shoten
Goma Books
Koike Shoin
Demographic Shōnen
Magazine Shōnen Book
Weekly Shōnen Jump
Original run August 1, 1968 – September 25, 1972
Volumes 13
Live-action film
Directed by Yuji Tanno
Written by Gan Yamasaki
Tatsuhiko Kamoi
Music by Naozumi Yamamoto
Studio Nikkatsu
Released May 2, 1970
Runtime 82 minutes
Live-action film
Harenchi Gakuen: Shintai Kensa no Maki
Directed by Yuji Tanno
Written by Gan Yamasaki
Tatsuhiko Kamoi
Music by Naozumi Yamamoto
Studio Nikkatsu
Released August 1, 1970
Runtime 85 minutes
Live-action film
Harenchi Gakuen: Tackle Kiss no Maki
Directed by Isao Hayashi
Produced by Sanehiko Sonoda
Kunifumi Tokieda
Written by Tatsuhiko Kamoi
Music by Hajime Kaburagi
Studio Nikkatsu
Released September 12, 1970
Runtime 83 minutes
Television drama
Directed by Yoneyuki Shibata
Yuji Tanno
Written by Keishi Kubota
Tatsuhiko Kamoi
Studio TV Tokyo Medianet
Network Channel 12 Tokyo (now TV Tokyo)
Original run October 1, 1970 – April 1, 1971
Episodes 26
Live-action film
Shin Harenchi Gakuen
Directed by Isao Hayashi
Produced by Sanehiko Sonoda
Kunifumi Tokieda
Written by Gan Yamasaki
Tatsuhiko Kamoi
Music by Hajime Kaburagi
Studio Nikkatsu
Released January 3, 1971
Runtime 83 minutes
Manga
Heisei Harenchi Gakuen
Written by Go Nagai
Published by Nihon Bungeisha
Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha
Demographic Seinen
Magazine Weekly Manga Goraku
Weekly Manga Sunday
Original run May 13, 1994 – December 12, 1995
Original video animation
Heisei Harenchi Gakuen
Directed by Hiroyuki Muramatsu
Studio Pink Pineapple
Released February 2, 1996
Runtime 47 minutes
Live-action film
Heisei Harenchi Gakuen
Directed by Hiroyuki Muramatsu
Written by Junki Takegami
Studio GAGA Communications
Tokuma Japan Communications
Released February 2, 1996
Runtime 82 minutes
Manga
Harenchi Golfer Jubei
Written by Go Nagai
Published by Gakken
Demographic Seinen
Magazine Big Golf
Original run August 14, 2003 – 2003
Volumes 1
Manga
Harenchi Gakuen ~The company~
Written by Go Nagai
Teruto Aruga
Illustrated by Teruto Aruga
Published by Shueisha
Demographic Seinen
Magazine Business Jump
Original run March 1, 2007 – April 16, 2008
Volumes 3

Harenchi Gakuen (ハレンチ学園, lit. "Shameless School") is a Japanese media franchise created by Go Nagai. Harenchi Gakuen was one of the manga serialized in the very first issue of Shueisha's manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump. The series was the first big success for Go Nagai. It is also considered as the first modern erotic manga, sometimes considered the first hentai manga, though Nagai never used explicit sexual situations in the original run of the manga.

There are many works around Harenchi Gakuen, including numerous manga series, one live-action TV series, five live-action movies and one anime OVA. The first manga series was not adapted into an anime, but rather a live-action TV series; only the opening sequence to this television series was animated. This is not the only show of Go Nagai where live action and anime are combined: Pro-Wres no Hoshi Aztecaser features completely animated action sequences when the hero uses his powers, even though the show itself is tokusatsu.

Many comedies of Go Nagai use a similar setting as Harenchi Gakuen, while changing the situation. An example of this is his series Supeope Chu Gaku, a space school modeled in a similar fashion to Star Wars.

Origins

In 1968, while Shueisha was getting prepared to launch its first manga publication, Shōnen Jump, in order to compete with other magazines from rival companies (like Shōnen Magazine from Kodansha and Shōnen Sunday from Shogakukan), Nagai was invited to be one of the first manga artists publishing in the new magazine. He contemplated this, since he had to design a long-running series instead of the autoconclusive short stories that he had been developing until that point.[1] He accepted and the series became a big success, being the first for Nagai [2] and making Shōnen Jump sell more than one million copies. [3] With Harenchi Gakuen, Nagai became the originator of ecchi manga, [4] opened the door for a series of taboo-shattering gag comics [5] and also became the symbol of an entire generation. [3] This work has influenced the world of manga, effecting both social mores and what was considered appropriate for manga.[6]

Harenchi Gakuen started with the idea of making a manga around a school. Nagai liked the word "Harenchi" (scandal), used commonly to advertise adult movies. For him, scandal and school were like oil and water, and he thought that mixing them would be funny. That's how the name Harenchi Gakuen came to be. [4] At first, Nagai didn't have an idea of what stories to develop, but his assistant at the time was boasting about how he had peeped on the girls during their physical examinations from a hole in the roof of his school. That gave him the idea of what would be the stories. [4] Originally, open erotic references didn't appear in Harenchi Gakuen. The first physical examination scenes only showed from the shoulders up. But many girls appeared and their images became popular. The editor asked Nagai to go further, which Nagai was eager to do. [4]

The inspiration for Harenchi Gakuen came from the West. Nagai liked foreign movies, and used to read Playboy magazine. For the depiction of breasts, he took particular inspiration from the Venus de Milo. [4] According to Nagai, what he in fact drew was not about eroticism per se, but about Japan's culture of shame. He wanted embarrassment to be the eroticism of the stories. [4]

Characters

Yasohachi Yamagishi (山岸 八十八 Yamagishi Yasohachi)
AKA Boss (親分 Oyabun). The violent yet pure hearted protagonist. He is the son of a butcher. He is assumed dead at the end of the 1st series, but is alive in part 2.
Mitsuko Yagyū (柳生 みつ子 Yagyū Mitsuko)
AKA Jūbei (十兵衛). The beautiful descendant of the Yagyū ninja family and the heroine of the story. Like Yamagishi, she is assumed dead at the end of the 1st series, but seen alive in part 2.
Fukurokōji (袋小路 Fukurokōji)
AKA Ikidomari (イキドマリ Ikidomari, Dead End) Yamagishi’s subordinate. During the Harenichi War, the harsh situation forces him to experience shell shock and he commits suicide.
Sayuri Yoshinaga (吉永さゆり Yoshinaga Sayuri)
AKA Hige Godzilla (ヒゲゴジラ Hige Gojira, Bearded Godzilla). He greatly resembles a caveman, sporting a bushy beard around his mouth, wearing tiger pelt, and usually carrying a club. A teacher at the school, he speaks in a style of Japanese typically used by women. At the end of the 1st series he is seen severely wounded and crawling away from a pile of dead bodies.

Live-action series

Cast of Harenchi Gakuen (film 1970)

Cast of Harenchi Gakuen: Shintai Kensa no Maki (film 1970)

Cast of Harenchi Gakuen: Tackle Kiss no Maki (film 1970)

Cast of Harenchi Gakuen (TV series 1970)

Cast of Shin Harenchi Gakuen (film 1971)

Cast of Heisei Harenchi Gakuen (film 1996)

References

  1. ↑ "L'AUTORE / CHI E' GO NAGAI" (in Italian). D/visual. March 3, 2007. Archived from the original on December 29, 2007. Retrieved April 6, 2008.
  2. ↑ "Harenchi Gakuen" (in Spanish). Mision Tokyo. Retrieved April 12, 2008.
  3. 1 2 "L'AUTORE / CHI E' GO NAGAI" (in Italian). D/visual. Archived from the original on December 29, 2007. Retrieved April 12, 2008.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Connel, Ryan (March 30, 2007). "40-year veteran of ecchi manga Go Nagai says brains more fun than boobs". Mainichi Newspapers Co. Archived from the original on March 17, 2008. Retrieved April 12, 2008.
  5. ↑ "Tezuka Osamu @ World - Manga works". The Song for Apollo. Tezuka Productions. March 30, 2007. Retrieved April 12, 2008.
  6. ↑ "Nagai Go (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan)". Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan. Retrieved April 15, 2008.

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