They Were Eleven

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They Were Eleven
They Were Eleven DVD cover
11人いる! (Jūichinin Iru!)
Genre	Space opera, Mystery, Romance
Manga
Author	Moto Hagio
Publisher	Kodansha
Magazine	Shōjo Comic
Original run	September 1975 – November 1975
Volumes	1
TV drama
Network	NHK
Original run	January 2, 1977 – ongoing
Episodes	1
Animated film
Director	Satoshi Dezaki, Tsuneo Tominaga
Studio	Kitty Film
Released	November 1986
Runtime	91 minutes
Theatre
Stage adaptation Original run: June 25, 2004 - June 28, 2004 Theatre: Theatre Daikan'yama Director: Masato Yasui

They Were Eleven (11人いる!, Jūichinin Iru!^?) is a manga by Moto Hagio which ran in Shōjo Comic for three issues from September through November 1975. It was awarded the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in 1976.^[1]

The manga was adapted as a one-episode, 40-minute television drama broadcast on 1977-01-02 as part of the Shōnen Drama Series on NHK. Ten years later, it was adapted as a theatrical anime movie, released November 1986. In 2004, a theatrical stage adaptation was produced.

1 Story
2 Anime
- 2.1 Cast
- 2.2 Staff
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Story

Ten young space cadets are put onto a decommissioned spaceship as their final test. If they pass this test, their lifelong dreams of being valued people in their respective societies will come true. Their orders are to survive as long as they can with what they have. However, once they arrive at the decommissioned ship, they find that their crew has gained an eleventh member. As the days pass, the eleven cadets must deal with their suspicions of each other as well as the sudden knowledge that the spaceship is in a decaying orbit around a star, which is causing the temperature on the ship to rise. With this rise in temperature, a sickness begins to spread among the crew as they work to stabilize their orbit and determine who among them is the spy.