| Harenchi Gakuen | |
Cover of Harenchi Gakuen Volume 1, 1988 edition. |
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| ハレンチ学園 | |
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| 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 |
| TV 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 Gokuraku 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 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 isn't 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 as Star Wars.
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 Japanese society radically, 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 the many girls that 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, where the women had gorgeous and well-balanced bodies, unlike Japanese women of that time. 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]
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