They Were Eleven

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They Were Eleven

11人いる! (Jūichinin Iru!)
Genre	Space opera, Mystery, Romance
Manga
Authored by	Moto Hagio
Publisher	Kodansha
Serialized in	Shōjo Comic
Original run	September 1975 – November 1975
No. of volumes	1
TV drama
Directed by
Studio
Network	NHK
Original run	January 2, 1977 –
No. of episodes	1
Movie
Directed by	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. On January 2, 1977, a one episode, 40-minute TV drama was broadcast as part of the Shōnen Drama Series on NHK. The manga was adapted to anime ten years later and released as a movie in November 1986. In 2004, a theatrical adaptation was produced.

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

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

[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.