They Were Eleven

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They Were Eleven
File:They Were 11 DVD cover.jpg
They Were Eleven English DVD cover
11人いる!
(Jūichinin Iru!)
GenreScience fiction, Suspense[1]
Manga
Written byMoto Hagio
Published byShogakukan
English publisher
MagazineBessatsu Shōjo Comic
DemographicShōjo
Original runSeptember 1975November 1975
Volumes1
Manga
Zoku Jūichinin Iru!
Higashi no Chihei Nishi no Towa
Written byMoto Hagio
Published byShogakukan
MagazineBessatsu Shōjo Comic
DemographicShōjo
Original runDecember 1976February 1977
Volumes1
Live-action television film
Directed byTōru Minegishi
Written byMamoru Sasaki
Music byRyōhei Hirose
Original networkNHK
ReleasedJanuary 2, 1977
Runtime45 minutes
Anime film
Directed bySatoshi Dezaki
Tsuneo Tominaga
Written byToshiaki Imaizumi
Kazumi Koide
Music byYasuhiko Fukuda
StudioMagic Bus
Licensed by
ReleasedNovember 1, 1986
Runtime91 minutes
Stage plays
  • They Were Eleven
    • Axel: June 25, 2004 - July 11, 2004
    • Studio Life: February 5, 2011 – March 27, 2011
    • Studio Life: January 10, 2013 – January 20, 2013
  • Sequel manga series
    • Studio Life: February 28, 2013 – April 7, 2013
    • Morning Musume: June 11, 2016 – June 26, 2016

They Were Eleven (Japanese: 11人いる!, Hepburn: Jūichinin Iru!) is a Japanese science fiction manga series written and illustrated by Moto Hagio. It was serialized in three issues of Bessatsu Shōjo Comic magazine from September to November 1975.[2][3] The same year, it was awarded the 21st Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōjo/shōnen category.[4] Shogakukan collected and published the individual chapters in a single bunkoban volume, along with three other one-shots, on July 20, 1976.[5] Viz Media licensed the series for an English-language release in North America as part of the now out-of-print anthology Four Shōjo Stories in 1996.[6]

A single, 45-minute television drama adaptation of the manga was broadcast in Japan on January 2, 1977, as part of the NHK's Shōnen Drama Series. Ten years later, a theatrical anime film adaptation of the manga was released in Japan in November 1986.[7] The latter was licensed in North America by Central Park Media and released on VHS with English subtitles in the early 1990s. It was re-released on VHS with a newly produced English dub in 1996, and on DVD with dual language audio tracks in 2004. The North American home video release was discontinued in 2004.[8] The New York company MYC & Associates liquidated the anime license in 2009.[9]

They Were Eleven has also been adapted into several theatrical stage productions in Japan, including a stage play performed by the male acting troupe Axel, which ran from June to July 2004; a stage play performed by the male acting troupe Studio Life, which ran from February to March 2011;[10] and another stage play performed by Studio Life, which ran throughout January 2013.[1][11] A drama CD adaptation of the manga was released in Japan on September 25, 2013. It starred Atsushi Abe as Tada, Kazutomi Yamamoto as Frol, Kōsuke Toriumi as King Mayan Baceska, Daisuke Kishio as Doricas Soldam IV.[12][13]

A sequel manga series, titled Zoku Jūichinin Iru! Higashi no Chihei Nishi no Towa (続・11人いる!―東の地平・西の永遠, lit. "They Were Eleven, Continued: Horizon of the East, Eternity of the West") was serialized in Bessatsu Shōjo Comic from December 1976 to February 1977.[14][15] Shogakukan collected and published the individual chapters in a single bunkoban volume on August 20, 1977.[16] The sequel series was also adapted into two stage plays in Japan; one performed by Studio Life, which ran from February to April 2013,[1][11] and another performed by the female idol group Morning Musume '16, which ran throughout June 2016.[17][18][19]

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 ship, they find that their crew has gained an eleventh member—and no one can remember the original lineup well enough to recognize which of them is the newcomer.

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.

Anime

Cast

Staff

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Loo, Egan (November 5, 2012). "Moto Hagio's They Were Eleven Sequel Gets Stage Play". Anime News Network. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
  2. ^ 萩尾望都 11人いる!:萩尾望都作品目録. Moto Hagio Works Library (in Japanese). Retrieved November 10, 2019.
  3. ^ 11人いる! 1. Shogakukan Comic (in Japanese). Retrieved November 10, 2019.
  4. ^ 小学館漫画賞:歴代受賞者. Shogakukan Comic (in Japanese). Retrieved November 10, 2019.
  5. ^ 11人いる!―SFロマン傑作選 (小学館文庫 712). Amazon Japan (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
  6. ^ Garrity, Shaenon K. (April 11, 2013). "Jason Thompson's House of 1000 Manga Special Guest Edition: Love Song and Four Shojo Stories". Anime News Network. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
  7. ^ Sevakis, Justin (February 14, 2008). "Buried Treasure – They Were 11". Anime News Network. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
  8. ^ Macdonald, Christopher (August 9, 2004). "Discontinued CPM Titles". Anime News Network. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
  9. ^ Loo, Egan (June 8, 2009). "Central Park Media's Licenses Offered by Liquidator". Anime News Network. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
  10. ^ 男優集団が萩尾望都「11人いる!」舞台化、東名阪で上演. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). December 3, 2010. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
  11. ^ a b 「11人いる!」続編も舞台化、萩尾望都が田中芳樹と語る. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). November 5, 2012. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
  12. ^ 11人いる、パープル・アイ、やじきた学園のドラマCD同発. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). September 25, 2013. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
  13. ^ 『11人いる!』キャストインタビュー. eigeki.jp/estar (in Japanese). September 6, 2013. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
  14. ^ Thorn, Rachel Matt (2005). "The Moto Hagio Interview". The Comics Journal (269). Seattle, WA: Fantagraphics Books. Archived from the original on January 13, 2016.
  15. ^ 萩尾望都 続・11人いる!!―東の地平・西の永遠:萩尾望都作品目録. Moto Hagio Works Library (in Japanese). Retrieved November 10, 2019.
  16. ^ 11人いる! (続) (小学館文庫 714). Amazon Japan (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
  17. ^ Ressler, Karen (April 16, 2016). "Morning Musume Idols Star in Stage Play of Moto Hagio's They Were Eleven Sequel". Anime News Network. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
  18. ^ 萩尾望都「続・11人いる!」が舞台に、モーニング娘。'16ら出演で6月上演. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). April 15, 2016. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
  19. ^ 舞台「続・11人いる!」会見、モ娘。小田さくら「原作ファンの母喜ばせたい」. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). April 15, 2016. Retrieved November 10, 2019.

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