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{{Short description|Japanese science fiction manga series and its adaptations}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2019}}
{{Infobox animanga/Header
{{Infobox animanga/Header
| image = They Were 11 DVD cover.jpg
| image = File:TheyWere11.png
| caption = They Were Eleven DVD cover
| caption = Cover of the 2019 reissued collected edition
| ja_kanji = 11人いる!
| ja_kanji = 11人いる！
| ja_romaji = Jūichinin Iru!
| ja_romaji = Jūichinin Iru!
| genre = [[Science fiction genre|Science fiction]], [[Suspense thriller|suspense]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Moto Hagio's They Were Eleven Sequel Gets Stage Play |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2012-11-05/moto-hagio-they-were-eleven-sequel-gets-stage-play |publisher=[[Anime News Network]] |accessdate=June 27, 2018}}</ref><!-- Note: Use and cite reliable sources to identify genre/s, not personal interpretation. Please don't include more than three genres (per [[MOS:A&M]]). -->
| genre = [[Science fiction genre|Science fiction]], [[Suspense thriller|suspense]]<ref name="ANN Stage Play 2013"/><!-- Note: Use and cite reliable sources to identify genre/s, not personal interpretation. Please don't include more than three genres (per [[MOS:A&M]]). -->
}}
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Print
{{Infobox animanga/Print
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| author = [[Moto Hagio]]
| author = [[Moto Hagio]]
| publisher = [[Shogakukan]]
| publisher = [[Shogakukan]]
| publisher_en = {{English manga publisher |NA=[[Denpa (company)|Denpa]]}}
| demographic = ''[[Shōjo manga|Shōjo]]''
| magazine = [[Shōjo Comic]]
| demographic = [[Shōjo manga|{{transl|ja|Shōjo}}]]
| first = September 1975
| magazine = [[Betsucomi|Bessatsu Shōjo Comic]]
| last = November 1975
| first = {{start date|1975|9}}
| last = {{end date|1975|11}}
| volumes = 1
| volume_list =
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Print
| type = manga
| title = {{unbulleted list|{{transl|ja|Zoku Jūichinin Iru!}}|{{transl|ja|Higashi no Chihei, Nishi no Towa}}}}
| author = Moto Hagio
| publisher = Shogakukan
| publisher_en = {{English manga publisher |NA=Denpa}}
| demographic = {{transl|ja|Shōjo}}
| magazine = Bessatsu Shōjo Comic
| first = {{start date|1976|12}}
| last = {{end date|1977|2}}
| volumes = 1
| volumes = 1
| volume_list =
| volume_list =
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{{Infobox animanga/Video
{{Infobox animanga/Video
| type = special
| type = special
| director =
| director = Tōru Minegishi
| producer =
| producer =
| writer =
| writer = [[Mamoru Sasaki]]
| music =
| music = [[Ryōhei Hirose]]
| studio =
| studio =
| network = [[NHK]]
| network = [[NHK]]
| released = January 2, 1977
| released = {{film date|1977|1|2}}
| runtime = 40 minutes
| runtime = 45 minutes
}}
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Video
{{Infobox animanga/Video
| type = film
| type = film
| director = [[Satoshi Dezaki]]<br>Tsuneo Tominaga
| director = {{unbulleted list|[[Satoshi Dezaki]]|Tsuneo Tominaga}}
| producer =
| producer =
| writer =
| writer = {{unbulleted list|Toshiaki Imaizumi|Kazumi Koide}}
| music =
| music = [[Yasuhiko Fukuda]]
| studio = [[Magic Bus (studio)|Magic Bus]]
| studio = [[Magic Bus (studio)|Magic Bus]]
| licensee = [[Central Park Media]]
| licensee = {{English anime licensee |NA=[[Central Park Media]]}} (expired)
| released = November 1, 1986
| released = {{film date|1986|11|1}}
| runtime = 91 minutes
| runtime = 91 minutes
}}
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Other
{{Infobox animanga/Other
| title = [[Theatre]]
| title = [[Play (theatre)|Stage plays]]
| content = Stage adaptation
| content =
* '''''They Were Eleven'''''
*Original run: June 25, 2004 - June 28, 2004
** '''Axel''': June 25, 2004 – July 11, 2004
*Theatre: Theatre Daikan'yama
** '''Axel''': December 26, 2008 – January 12, 2009
*Director: Masato Yasui<!--安井省人-->
** '''Studio Life''': February 5, 2011 – March 27, 2011
** '''Studio Life''': January 10, 2013 – January 20, 2013
** '''Studio Life''': May 18, 2019 – June 2, 2019
* '''Sequel manga series'''
** '''Studio Life''': February 28, 2013 – April 7, 2013
** '''Morning Musume '16''': June 11, 2016 – June 26, 2016
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Audio
| title =
| director =
| producer = {{unbulleted list|Yoshiaki Imanishi|Shima Yoshida}}
| writer = Hikari Onodera
| music =
| studio =
| released = {{start date|2013|9|25}}
| episodes = 8
| episode_list =
}}
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Footer}}
{{Infobox animanga/Footer}}


{{nihongo|'''''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]] in 1976,<ref name="ShogakukanAward">{{cite web | url=http://comics.shogakukan.co.jp/mangasho/rist.html | script-title=ja:小学館漫画賞：歴代受賞者 | publisher=Shogakukan | language=Japanese | accessdate=2007-08-19}}</ref> and a sequel ''Horizon of the East, Eternity of the West'' was produced in 1976.<ref>http://matt-thorn.com/shoujo_manga/hagio_interview.php</ref> It was published in English as part of the anthology ''[[Four Shōjo Stories]]''. The anime film was licensed and released in North America by [[Central Park Media]]. It was first released on subtitle VHS in the early 1990s, then later re-released on VHS in 1996 with a newly produced English Dub. It was later re-released on DVD in 2004 (with both language tracks). It is now out of print.
{{Nihongo|'''''They Were Eleven'''''|11人いる！|Jūichinin Iru!|lead=yes}} is a Japanese [[Science fiction genre|science fiction]] [[manga]] series written and illustrated by [[Moto Hagio]]. It was serialized in three issues of [[Shogakukan]]'s ''[[Betsucomi|Bessatsu Shōjo Comic]]'' magazine in 1975. The following year, it won the 21st [[Shogakukan Manga Award]] in the combined [[Shōjo manga|{{transl|ja|shōjo}}]] and [[Shōnen manga|{{transl|ja|shōnen}}]] category. The series has inspired a [[live-action]] [[television film]], an [[anime]] film, multiple [[Play (theatre)|stage plays]], and an [[audio drama]] CD. It also inspired a sequel manga series, {{Nihongo||続・11人いる！東の地平・西の永遠|Zoku Jūichinin Iru! Higashi no Chihei, Nishi no Towa|"They Were Eleven, Continued: Horizon of the East, Eternity of the West"}}, serialized in ''Bessatsu Shōjo Comic'' magazine from 1976 to 1977. ''They Were Eleven'' was originally licensed in English by [[Viz Media]] and published in the manga anthology ''[[Four Shōjo Stories]]'' in 1996. The series and its sequel have been licensed by [[Denpa (company)|Denpa]] for a new English-language release in 2022. The anime film was originally licensed in English by [[Central Park Media]], but it was discontinued in 2004.

The manga was [[Film adaptation|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.


==Story==
==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.
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. 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.
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==
==Media==
===Manga===
''They Were Eleven'' was serialized in the September, October, and November issues of [[Shogakukan]]'s ''[[Betsucomi|Bessatsu Shōjo Comic]]'' magazine in 1975.<ref name="Kotobank">{{cite encyclopedia |script-title=ja:11人いる！ |url=https://kotobank.jp/word/11%E4%BA%BA%E3%81%84%E3%82%8B%21-715733 |encyclopedia=[[Daijisen|Digital Daijisen Plus]] |publisher=[[Shogakukan]] |access-date=December 21, 2019 |language=ja |via=Kotobank}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |script-title=ja:萩尾望都 11人いる！：萩尾望都作品目録 |url=https://www.hagiomoto.net/works/057.html |website=Moto Hagio Works Library |access-date=November 10, 2019 |language=ja}}</ref><ref name="Betsucomi">{{cite web |script-title=ja:【1970～80年代】ベツコミ作品年表 |url=https://ebookjapan.yahoo.co.jp/content/genre/nenpyo/label_betsukomi/1970_80.html |website=eBookJapan |publisher=[[Yahoo! Japan]] |access-date=November 10, 2019 |language=ja}}</ref> Shogakukan collected the individual chapters, along with three unrelated [[One-shot (comics)|short stories]] by Hagio, into a single {{transl|ja|[[bunkoban]]}} volume published on July 20, 1976.<ref>{{cite web |script-title=ja:11人いる！ |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/M299512 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=April 2, 2021 |language=ja}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |script-title=ja:11人いる！―SFロマン傑作選 (小学館文庫 712) |publisher=[[Shogakukan]] |id={{ASIN|4091907121|country=jp}} |language=ja}}</ref> Shogakukan has since reissued ''They Were Eleven'' several times: in 1978,<ref>{{cite web |script-title=ja:11人いる！ 1 |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/M232951 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=April 2, 2021 |language=ja}}</ref> 1986,<ref name="JP 1986">{{cite web |script-title=ja:11人いる！ : 萩尾望都スペースワンダー (プチフラワーコミックススペシャル) |url=https://ndlonline.ndl.go.jp/#!/detail/R300000001-I000001820770-00 |website=NDL Online |publisher=[[National Diet Library]] |access-date=April 2, 2021 |language=ja}}</ref> 1994,<ref name="JP 1994">{{cite web |script-title=ja:11人いる！ 1 |url=https://www.shogakukan.co.jp/books/09191011 |website=[[Shogakukan]] |access-date=April 2, 2021 |language=ja}}</ref> 2007,<ref name="JP 2007">{{cite web |script-title=ja:萩尾望都パーフェクトセレクション3：11人いる！ |url=https://www.shogakukan.co.jp/books/09131209 |website=[[Shogakukan]] |date=August 24, 2007 |access-date=April 2, 2021 |language=ja |archive-date=February 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225191404/https://www.shogakukan.co.jp/books/09131209 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and 2019.<ref name="JP 2019">{{cite web |script-title=ja:萩尾望都スペースワンダー：11人いる！ 復刻版 |url=https://www.shogakukan.co.jp/books/09179285 |website=[[Shogakukan]] |date=March 26, 2019 |access-date=April 2, 2021 |language=ja}}</ref> [[Viz Media]] originally licensed the series for an English-language release in North America, published in the now [[out-of-print]] anthology ''[[Four Shōjo Stories]]'' in 1996.<ref name="Viz Publication">{{cite web |last1=Garrity |first1=Shaenon K. |author-link1=Shaenon K. Garrity |title=Jason Thompson's House of 1000 Manga Special Guest Edition: ''Love Song'' and ''Four Shojo Stories'' |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/house-of-1000-manga/2013-04-11 |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=November 10, 2019 |date=April 11, 2013}}</ref> In 2021, [[Denpa (company)|Denpa]] re-licensed the series for publication in the [[Calendar year#Quarters|third quarter]] of 2022.<ref>{{cite tweet|user=denpa_books|number=1375601918777589763|title=And our last new license announcement for this season is Moto Hagio's ''THEY WERE ELEVEN!'' -Complete-|date=March 26, 2021|access-date=March 26, 2021}}</ref><ref name="Denpa License">{{cite web |last1=Hazra |first1=Adriana |title=Denpa Licenses Moto Hagio's ''They Were Eleven'' Manga |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2021-03-27/denpa-licenses-moto-hagio-they-were-eleven-manga/.171191 |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=April 2, 2021 |date=March 27, 2021}}</ref> ''They Were Eleven'' is also licensed by Ediciones Tomodomo in Spain<ref>{{cite web |title=''¿Quién es el 11º pasajero?'' de Moto Hagio |url=https://www.ediciones-tomodomo.com/quien-es-el-11-pasajero |website=Ediciones Tomodomo |access-date=November 26, 2019 |language=es}}</ref> and by [[Japonica Polonica Fantastica]] in Poland.<ref>{{cite web |title=''Było ich jedenaścioro'' |url=http://www.mangarden.pl/pl/p/Bylo-ich-jedenascioro/119 |website=mangarden.pl |access-date=November 26, 2019 |language=pl}}</ref>


===Cast===
====Sequel====
A sequel manga series, titled {{Nihongo||続・11人いる！東の地平・西の永遠|Zoku Jūichinin Iru! Higashi no Chihei, Nishi no Towa|"They Were Eleven, Continued: Horizon of the East, Eternity of the West"}}, was serialized in the December, January, and February issues of ''Bessatsu Shōjo Comic'' magazine in 1976 and 1977.<ref name="Thorn Interview">{{cite journal |last1=Thorn |first1=Rachel |author-link1=Rachel Thorn |title=The Moto Hagio Interview |publisher=[[Fantagraphics Books]] |journal=[[The Comics Journal]] |issue=269 |date=2005 |location=Seattle |url=http://www.matt-thorn.com/shoujo_manga/hagio_interview.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160113194502/http://www.matt-thorn.com/shoujo_manga/hagio_interview.php |archive-date=January 13, 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="ANN Stage Play 2016"/><ref name="JP Sequel Manga Release">{{cite web |script-title=ja: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 |url=https://www.hagiomoto.net/works/066.html |website=Moto Hagio Works Library |access-date=November 10, 2019 |language=ja}}</ref> Shogakukan collected the individual chapters into a single {{transl|ja|bunkoban}} volume published on August 20, 1977.<ref>{{cite web |script-title=ja:続・11人いる！ |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/M299495 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=April 2, 2021 |language=ja}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |script-title=ja:11人いる！ (続) (小学館文庫 714) |publisher=[[Shogakukan]] |id={{ASIN|4091907148|country=jp}} |language=ja}}</ref> Shogakukan has since reissued {{transl|ja|Zoku Jūichinin Iru!}} several times: first in 1978,<ref>{{cite web |script-title=ja:東の地平 西の永遠 1 |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/M232950 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=April 2, 2021 |language=ja}}</ref> and later in collected editions of ''They Were Eleven'' published in 1986,<ref name="JP 1986"/> 1994,<ref name="JP 1994"/> 2007,<ref name="JP 2007"/> and 2019.<ref name="JP 2019"/> In 2021, Denpa licensed the sequel series for an English-language release in North America and was published in the third quarter of 2022.<ref name="Denpa License"/>
*Tadatos Lane (Tada): [[Akira Kamiya]] (Japanese), Curtis Jones (English)
*Frolbericheri Frol (Frol): [[Michiko Kawai]] (Japanese), [[Wendee Lee]] (English)
*King Mayan Baceska (His Majesty): [[Hideyuki Tanaka]] (Japanese), [[Steven Blum]] (English)
*Doricas Soldam IV (Fourth): [[Toshio Furukawa]] (Japanese), [[David Hayter]] (English)
*Ganigus Gagtos (Ganga): [[Tesshō Genda]] (Japanese), Dean Elliot (English)
*Amazon Carnias (Amazon): [[Hirotaka Suzuoki]] (Japanese), Steven Blum (English)
*Vidminer Knume (Knu): [[Norio Wakamoto]] (Japanese), [[Joe Romersa]] (English)
*Colonel Glenn Groff (Mule): [[Michihiro Ikemizu]] (Japanese), [[Skip Stellrecht|Henry Malloy]] (English)
*Dolph Tasta (Red nose): [[Kōzō Shioya]] (Japanese), [[Steven Blum]] (English)
*Toto Ni (Toto): [[Tarako (singer)|Tarako]] (Japanese), [[Dorothy Elias-Fahn]] (English)
*Chaco Kacka (Chaco): [[Tsutomu Kashiwakura]] (Japanese), Dean Allen (English)


===Staff===
===Live-action film===
A 45-minute [[Live action|live-action]] [[television film]] adaptation of the manga was broadcast in Japan on January 2, 1977, as part of the [[NHK]]'s ''Shōnen Drama Series''.<ref name="Kotobank"/><ref name="JP Drama & Anime Releases">{{cite web |script-title=ja:映像化・舞台化作品 11人いる！ |url=https://www.hagiomoto.net/etc/media/eleven.html |website=Moto Hagio Works Library |access-date=November 10, 2019 |language=ja}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |script-title=ja:11人いる！[DVD] |url=https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B000E0VPLE |website=[[Amazon (company)|Amazon Japan]] |access-date=November 10, 2019 |language=ja}}</ref> The film's screenplay was written by [[Mamoru Sasaki]]. It starred Taizō Sayama as Tada and the [[Takarazuka Revue]]'s Haruka Yamashiro as Frol.<ref name="Kotobank"/>
*Director: [[Satoshi Dezaki]], [[Tsuneo Tominaga]]

*Executive Producer: [[Hidenori Taga]]
===Anime film===
*Original Story: [[Moto Hagio]]
A 91-minute [[anime]] film adaptation of the manga was released in Japan on November 1, 1986.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sevakis |first1=Justin |title=Buried Treasure – ''They Were 11'' |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/buried-treasure/2008-02-14 |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=November 10, 2019 |date=February 14, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |script-title=ja:11人いる！ (アニメーション) |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C410085 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=April 2, 2021 |language=ja}}</ref> It was licensed by [[Central Park Media]] in North America and released on VHS with English [[subtitles]] in the early 1990s.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Stuckmann |first1=Chris |author-link1=Chris Stuckmann |title=Anime Impact: The Movies and Shows that Changed the World of Japanese Animation |date=April 15, 2018 |publisher=Mango Publishing |location=Miami, Florida |isbn=978-1-63353-732-3 |page=87 |chapter=1986: They Were Eleven}}</ref> It was re-released on VHS with a newly produced English [[Dubbing (filmmaking)|dub]] in 1996 and on DVD with dual language audio tracks in 2004.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Macdonald |first1=Christopher |title=January CPM Releases |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2003-10-20/january-cpm-releases |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=November 10, 2019 |date=October 20, 2003}}</ref> Central Park Media discontinued their home video release in 2004.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Macdonald |first1=Christopher |title=Discontinued CPM Titles |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2004-08-09/discontinued-cpm-titles |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=November 10, 2019 |date=August 9, 2004}}</ref> The New York company MYC & Associates liquidated the anime license in 2009.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Loo |first1=Egan |title=Central Park Media's Licenses Offered by Liquidator |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-06-08/central-park-media-licenses-offered-by-liquidator |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=November 10, 2019 |date=June 8, 2009}}</ref>
*Planning: [[Moichi Ochiai]]

*Screenplay: [[Toshiaki Imaizumi]], [[Katsumi Koide]]
====Cast====
*Animation Director: [[Keizo Shimizu]]
* Tadatos Lane (Tada): [[Akira Kamiya]] (Japanese), Curtis Jones (English)
*Character Design: [[Akio Sugino]], [[Keizo Shimizu]]
* Frolbericheri Frol (Frol): [[Michiko Kawai]] (Japanese), [[Wendee Lee]] (English)
*Effects Director: [[Kenichi Maejima]]
* King Mayan Baceska (His Majesty): [[Hideyuki Tanaka]] (Japanese), [[Steven Blum]] (English)
*Mechanical Design: [[Yōichi Yajima]]
* Doricas Soldam IV (Fourth): [[Toshio Furukawa]] (Japanese), [[David Hayter]] (English)
*Art Director: [[Junichi Azuma]]
* Ganigus Gagtos (Ganga): [[Tesshō Genda]] (Japanese), Dean Elliot (English)
*Cinematography: [[Nobuo Koyama]]
* Amazon Carnias (Amazon): [[Hirotaka Suzuoki]] (Japanese), Steven Blum (English)
*Audio Director: [[Shigeharu Shiba]]
* Vidminer Knume (Knu): [[Norio Wakamoto]] (Japanese), [[Joe Romersa]] (English)
*Music Director: [[Zen Oikawa]]
* Colonel Glenn Groff (Mule): [[Michihiro Ikemizu]] (Japanese), [[Skip Stellrecht|Henry Malloy]] (English)
*Music: [[Hirohiko Fukuda]]
* Dolph Tasta (Red nose): [[Kōzō Shioya]] (Japanese), [[Steven Blum]] (English)
**Theme Song: ''Boku no Honesty'', [[Shinichirō Kawakami]]
* Toto Ni (Toto): [[Tarako]] (Japanese), [[Dorothy Elias-Fahn]] (English)
*Producer: [[Kotoku Minoru]]
* Chaco Kacka (Chaco): [[Tsutomu Kashiwakura]] (Japanese), Dean Allen (English)
*Production: [[Magic Bus (studio)|Magic Bus]], [[Kitty Film]]

====Staff====
* Director: [[Satoshi Dezaki]], {{ill|Tsuneo Tominaga|ja|冨永恒雄}}
* Executive Producer: {{ill|Hidenori Taga|ja|多賀英典}}
* Original Story: [[Moto Hagio]]
* Planning: {{ill|Shigekazu Ochiai|ja|落合茂一}}
* Screenplay: [[Toshiaki Imaizumi]], [[Katsumi Koide]]
* Animation Director: [[Keizo Shimizu]]
* Character Design: [[Akio Sugino]], [[Keizo Shimizu]]
* Effects Director: [[Kenichi Maejima]]
* Mechanical Design: [[Yōichi Yajima]]
* Art Director: {{ill|Junichi Higashi|ja|東潤一}}
* Cinematography: [[Nobuo Koyama]]
* Audio Director: [[Shigeharu Shiba]]
* Music Director: [[Zen Oikawa]]
* Music: [[Yasuhiko Fukuda]]
** Theme Song: "Boku no Honesty", {{ill|Shinichirō Kawakami|ja|川上進一郎}}
* Producer: [[Minoru Kotoku]]
* Production: [[Magic Bus (studio)|Magic Bus]], [[Kitty Films]]

===Stage plays===
''They Were Eleven'' has been adapted into several [[Play (theatre)|stage plays]] in Japan. The first, performed by the all-male acting troupe {{ill|Axel (theater troupe)|lt=Axel|ja|アクサル}}, ran from June to July 2004;<ref name="Axel Stage Play 2004">{{cite web |script-title=ja:アクサル第3回公演 「11人いる！」 |url=http://www.blue-shuttle.com/axle/stage03_cast.shtml |website=Axel's Official Website |access-date=November 10, 2019 |language=ja|title=Axle official website}}</ref> the second, performed by Axel, ran from December 2008 to January 2009;<ref name="Axel Stage Play 2008">{{cite web |script-title=ja:アクサル第9回公演 「11人いる！」 |url=http://www.blue-shuttle.com/axle/stage09_schedule.shtml |website=Axel's Official Website |access-date=November 10, 2019 |language=ja|title=Axle official website}}</ref> the third, performed by the all-male acting troupe {{ill|Studio Life|ja|スタジオライフ}}, ran from February to March 2011;<ref name="Natalie Stage Play 2011">{{cite web |script-title=ja:男優集団が萩尾望都「11人いる！」舞台化、東名阪で上演 |url=https://natalie.mu/comic/news/41511 |website=[[Natalie (website)|Comic Natalie]] |access-date=November 10, 2019 |language=ja |date=December 3, 2010}}</ref><ref name="Flowers Stage Play 2011">{{cite web |script-title=ja:『11人いる！』舞台化決定 |url=http://flowers.shogakukan.co.jp/news/news_101127c.html |website=[[Flowers (magazine)|Monthly Flowers]] |access-date=November 10, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101128034858/http://flowers.shogakukan.co.jp/news/news_101127c.html |archive-date=November 28, 2010 |language=ja |url-status=dead}}</ref> the fourth, performed by Studio Life, ran throughout January 2013;<ref name="ANN Stage Play 2013">{{cite web |last1=Loo |first1=Egan |title=Moto Hagio's ''They Were Eleven'' Sequel Gets Stage Play |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2012-11-05/moto-hagio-they-were-eleven-sequel-gets-stage-play |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=June 27, 2018 |date=November 5, 2012}}</ref><ref name="Natalie Stage Play 2013">{{cite web |script-title=ja:「11人いる！」続編も舞台化、萩尾望都が田中芳樹と語る |url=https://natalie.mu/comic/news/79438 |website=[[Natalie (website)|Comic Natalie]] |access-date=November 10, 2019 |language=ja |date=November 5, 2012}}</ref> and the fifth, performed by Studio Life, ran from May to June 2019.<ref name="Natalie Stage Play 2019">{{cite web |script-title=ja:スタジオライフ×萩尾望都「音楽劇 11人いる！」に関戸博一・松本慎也ら |url=https://natalie.mu/stage/news/329108 |website=[[Natalie (website)|Stage Natalie]] |access-date=November 10, 2019 |language=ja |date=April 23, 2019}}</ref><ref name="Natalie Stage Play 2019 Report">{{cite web |script-title=ja:宇宙飛行の行方は？スタジオライフ×萩尾望都「音楽劇 11人いる！」開幕 |url=https://natalie.mu/stage/news/332004 |website=[[Natalie (website)|Stage Natalie]] |access-date=November 10, 2019 |language=ja |date=May 19, 2019}}</ref>

The sequel manga series has also been adapted into two stage plays in Japan: one performed by Studio Life, which ran from February to April 2013,<ref name="ANN Stage Play 2013"/><ref name="Natalie Stage Play 2013"/> and another performed by the female [[Japanese idol|idol]] group [[Morning Musume#2015–2016: Riho Sayashi and Kanon Suzuki's graduation and 13th Generation|Morning Musume '16]], which ran throughout June 2016.<ref name="ANN Stage Play 2016">{{cite web |last1=Ressler |first1=Karen |title=Morning Musume Idols Star in Stage Play of Moto Hagio's ''They Were Eleven'' Sequel |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-04-16/morning-musume-idols-star-in-stage-play-of-moto-hagio-they-were-eleven-sequel/.101112 |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=November 10, 2019 |date=April 16, 2016}}</ref><ref name="Natalie Stage Play 2016">{{cite web |script-title=ja: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 |url=https://natalie.mu/comic/news/183752 |website=[[Natalie (website)|Comic Natalie]] |access-date=November 10, 2019 |language=ja |date=April 15, 2016}}</ref><ref name="Natalie Stage Play 2016 Interview">{{cite web |script-title=ja: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」 |url=https://natalie.mu/comic/news/184906 |website=[[Natalie (website)|Comic Natalie]] |access-date=November 10, 2019 |language=ja |date=April 15, 2016}}</ref>

===Audio drama===
An [[audio drama]] adaptation of the manga was produced by the drama CD label E-Star and released in Japan on September 25, 2013. It starred [[Atsushi Abe]] as Tada, [[Kazutomi Yamamoto]] as Frol, [[Kōsuke Toriumi]] as King Mayan Baceska, and [[Daisuke Kishio]] as Doricas Soldam IV.<ref name="Drama CD">{{cite web |script-title=ja:11人いる、パープル・アイ、やじきた学園のドラマCD同発 |url=https://natalie.mu/comic/news/100068 |website=[[Natalie (website)|Comic Natalie]] |access-date=November 10, 2019 |language=ja |date=September 25, 2013}}</ref><ref name="Drama CD Official Website">{{cite web |script-title=ja:ドラマＣＤ『 11人いる！』 |url=http://www.eigeki.jp/estar/11niniru.html |website=eigeki.jp/estar |access-date=November 10, 2019 |language=ja}}</ref><ref name="Drama CD Cast Interview">{{cite web |script-title=ja:『11人いる！』キャストインタビュー |url=http://www.eigeki.jp/estar/interview_11ninniru.html |website=eigeki.jp/estar |access-date=November 10, 2019 |language=ja |date=September 6, 2013}}</ref>

==Reception==
In 1976, ''They Were Eleven'' won the 21st (1975) [[Shogakukan Manga Award]] in the combined [[Shōjo manga|{{transl|ja|shōjo}}]] and [[Shōnen manga|{{transl|ja|shōnen}}]] category.<ref name="Kotobank"/><ref name="Shogakukan Award">{{cite web |url=https://www.shogakukan.co.jp/mangasho/kako/ |script-title=ja:小学館漫画賞：歴代受賞者 |website=[[Shogakukan]] |language=ja |access-date=November 10, 2019}}</ref>


==See also==
==See also==
*[[Lily C.A.T.]]
* ''[[Lily C.A.T.]]''


==References==
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They Were Eleven
Cover of the 2019 reissued collected edition
11人いる！
(Jūichinin Iru!)
GenreScience fiction, suspense[1]
Manga
Written byMoto Hagio
Published byShogakukan
English publisher
MagazineBessatsu Shōjo Comic
DemographicShōjo
Original runSeptember 1975 (1975-09) – November 1975 (1975-11)
Volumes1
Manga
  • Zoku Jūichinin Iru!
  • Higashi no Chihei, Nishi no Towa
Written byMoto Hagio
Published byShogakukan
English publisher
MagazineBessatsu Shōjo Comic
DemographicShōjo
Original runDecember 1976 (1976-12) – February 1977 (1977-02)
Volumes1
Live-action television film
Directed byTōru Minegishi
Written byMamoru Sasaki
Music byRyōhei Hirose
Original networkNHK
Released
  • January 2, 1977 (1977-01-02)
Runtime45 minutes
Anime film
Directed by
Written by
  • Toshiaki Imaizumi
  • Kazumi Koide
Music byYasuhiko Fukuda
StudioMagic Bus
Licensed by
(expired)
Released
  • November 1, 1986 (1986-11-01)
Runtime91 minutes
Stage plays
  • They Were Eleven
    • Axel: June 25, 2004 – July 11, 2004
    • Axel: December 26, 2008 – January 12, 2009
    • Studio Life: February 5, 2011 – March 27, 2011
    • Studio Life: January 10, 2013 – January 20, 2013
    • Studio Life: May 18, 2019 – June 2, 2019
  • Sequel manga series
    • Studio Life: February 28, 2013 – April 7, 2013
    • Morning Musume '16: June 11, 2016 – June 26, 2016
Audio drama
Produced by
  • Yoshiaki Imanishi
  • Shima Yoshida
Written byHikari Onodera
ReleasedSeptember 25, 2013 (2013-09-25)
Episodes8

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 Shogakukan's Bessatsu Shōjo Comic magazine in 1975. The following year, it won the 21st Shogakukan Manga Award in the combined shōjo and shōnen category. The series has inspired a live-action television film, an anime film, multiple stage plays, and an audio drama CD. It also inspired a sequel manga series, Zoku Jūichinin Iru! Higashi no Chihei, Nishi no Towa (続・11人いる！東の地平・西の永遠, "They Were Eleven, Continued: Horizon of the East, Eternity of the West"), serialized in Bessatsu Shōjo Comic magazine from 1976 to 1977. They Were Eleven was originally licensed in English by Viz Media and published in the manga anthology Four Shōjo Stories in 1996. The series and its sequel have been licensed by Denpa for a new English-language release in 2022. The anime film was originally licensed in English by Central Park Media, but it was discontinued in 2004.

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. 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.

Media

Manga

They Were Eleven was serialized in the September, October, and November issues of Shogakukan's Bessatsu Shōjo Comic magazine in 1975.[2][3][4] Shogakukan collected the individual chapters, along with three unrelated short stories by Hagio, into a single bunkoban volume published on July 20, 1976.[5][6] Shogakukan has since reissued They Were Eleven several times: in 1978,[7] 1986,[8] 1994,[9] 2007,[10] and 2019.[11] Viz Media originally licensed the series for an English-language release in North America, published in the now out-of-print anthology Four Shōjo Stories in 1996.[12] In 2021, Denpa re-licensed the series for publication in the third quarter of 2022.[13][14] They Were Eleven is also licensed by Ediciones Tomodomo in Spain[15] and by Japonica Polonica Fantastica in Poland.[16]

Sequel

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, "They Were Eleven, Continued: Horizon of the East, Eternity of the West"), was serialized in the December, January, and February issues of Bessatsu Shōjo Comic magazine in 1976 and 1977.[17][18][19] Shogakukan collected the individual chapters into a single bunkoban volume published on August 20, 1977.[20][21] Shogakukan has since reissued Zoku Jūichinin Iru! several times: first in 1978,[22] and later in collected editions of They Were Eleven published in 1986,[8] 1994,[9] 2007,[10] and 2019.[11] In 2021, Denpa licensed the sequel series for an English-language release in North America and was published in the third quarter of 2022.[14]

Live-action film

A 45-minute live-action television film adaptation of the manga was broadcast in Japan on January 2, 1977, as part of the NHK's Shōnen Drama Series.[2][23][24] The film's screenplay was written by Mamoru Sasaki. It starred Taizō Sayama as Tada and the Takarazuka Revue's Haruka Yamashiro as Frol.[2]

Anime film

A 91-minute anime film adaptation of the manga was released in Japan on November 1, 1986.[25][26] It was licensed by Central Park Media in North America and released on VHS with English subtitles in the early 1990s.[27] It was re-released on VHS with a newly produced English dub in 1996 and on DVD with dual language audio tracks in 2004.[28] Central Park Media discontinued their home video release in 2004.[29] The New York company MYC & Associates liquidated the anime license in 2009.[30]

Cast

Staff

Stage plays

They Were Eleven has been adapted into several stage plays in Japan. The first, performed by the all-male acting troupe Axel [ja], ran from June to July 2004;[31] the second, performed by Axel, ran from December 2008 to January 2009;[32] the third, performed by the all-male acting troupe Studio Life [ja], ran from February to March 2011;[33][34] the fourth, performed by Studio Life, ran throughout January 2013;[1][35] and the fifth, performed by Studio Life, ran from May to June 2019.[36][37]

The sequel manga series has also been adapted into two stage plays in Japan: one performed by Studio Life, which ran from February to April 2013,[1][35] and another performed by the female idol group Morning Musume '16, which ran throughout June 2016.[18][38][39]

Audio drama

An audio drama adaptation of the manga was produced by the drama CD label E-Star and released in Japan on September 25, 2013. It starred Atsushi Abe as Tada, Kazutomi Yamamoto as Frol, Kōsuke Toriumi as King Mayan Baceska, and Daisuke Kishio as Doricas Soldam IV.[40][41][42]

Reception

In 1976, They Were Eleven won the 21st (1975) Shogakukan Manga Award in the combined shōjo and shōnen category.[2][43]

See also

References

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  2. ^ a b c d 11人いる！. Digital Daijisen Plus (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved December 21, 2019 – via Kotobank.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 【1970～80年代】ベツコミ作品年表. eBookJapan (in Japanese). Yahoo! Japan. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
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  13. ^ @denpa_books (March 26, 2021). "And our last new license announcement for this season is Moto Hagio's THEY WERE ELEVEN! -Complete-" (Tweet). Retrieved March 26, 2021 – via Twitter.
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  22. ^ 東の地平 西の永遠 1. Media Arts Database (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved April 2, 2021.
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