Heads (Manga)
Heads ( Japanese. ヘ ッ ズ , hezzu , translated "heads") is a manga series by the Japanese draftsman Motorō Mase (* 1969), which is based on a story by the crime writer Keigo Higashino . The approximately 800-page manga is aimed primarily at a male, adult readership, so it can be assigned to his genre. The plot focuses on the employee Jun Naruse, who begins to change after a brain transplant.
action
Jun Naruse is an average electronics company employee who doesn't stand out. One day, the shy hobby painter meets Megumi, who works in a painting supply store. Jun falls in love with her and when one day she offers to model him, a love relationship begins to develop between them. Jun goes to a realtor's office to find a bigger apartment for the two of them. But the office is robbed and when the perpetrator tries to shoot a little girl, Jun throws himself in between and is hit in the head by the bullet.
A month later he woke up from his coma. He learns that the bullet almost completely destroyed his right brain and that he could only get back to life with the help of a brain transplant. The operation seems to have succeeded. Jun remembers everything again and is getting better every day. But then he notices slight differences from the time before the operation. He now likes canned coffee, he no longer likes his girlfriend Megumi's freckles, his drawing style is beginning to change and become harder. He himself is becoming much more daring. Both Jun and Megumi wonder if the "donor brain" has any influence on him.
Publications
The manga was published in Japan from 2002 to 2003 in individual chapters in the manga magazine Young Sunday , in which Takatoshi Yamada's Dr. Kotō Shinryōjo was released. The Shogakukan publishing house brought out these individual chapters from February to June 2003 in four edited volumes. In addition to the actual story, the last volume also contains three short stories.
Heads has been translated into French and German. Carlsen Comics published the German-language edition of the anthologies from September 2006 to May 2007.