They Were Eleven

They Were Eleven (11人いる!) 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, and a sequel Horizon of the East, Eternity of the West was produced in 1976. 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 preduced English Dub. It was later re-released on DVD in 2004 (with both language tracks). It is now out of print.

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.

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...

Cast

 * Tadatos Lane: Akira Kamiya
 * Frolbericheri Frol: Michiko Kawai
 * King Mayan Baceska: Hideyuki Tanaka
 * Doricas Soldam IV: Toshio Furukawa
 * Ganigus Gagtos (Ganga): Tesshō Genda
 * Amazon Carnias: Hirotaka Suzuoki
 * Vidminer Knume (Knu): Norio Wakamoto
 * Glenn Groff: Michihiro Ikemizu
 * Dolph Tasta: Kōzō Shioya
 * Toto Ni: Tarako
 * Chaco Kacka: Tsutomu Kashiwakura

Staff

 * Director: Satoshi Dezaki, Tsuneo Tominaga
 * Executive Producer: Hidenori Taga
 * Original Story: Moto Hagio
 * Planning: Moichi Ochiai
 * 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: Junichi Azuma
 * Cinematography: Nobuo Koyama
 * Audio Director: Shigeharu Shiba
 * Music Director: Zen Oikawa
 * Music: Hirohiko Fukuda
 * Theme Song: Boku no Honesty, Shinichirō Kawakami
 * Producer: Kotoku Minoru
 * Production: Magic Bus, Kitty Film