Bearing in mind that #Werewolf is NOT a game that is in any way to my taste, that could affect my enjoyment of #Gnosia considerably.
In some respects, there’s similarities in premise/set up here to both #TheyWere11 and #AstraLostInSpace but I doubting the sustainability of the premise here across a full season.
#MangaMonday 58 “They Were 11” by Moto Hagio
This reads like a seventies space opera, unsurprisingly since it was originally published in 1975.
The story revolves around a group of ten candidates for a space academy doing a final practical exam aboard a drifting space ship, only to realize there are eleven of them. Suspicions run high, but they pass or fail as a group. There’s a hidden connection to the past and a subplot about gender identity. (I imagine the last would be written a little differently today, but I think it holds up fairly well.)
It’s a short story, and in the current digital release (Denpa) it has been paired with its sequel, “Horizon of the East, Eternity of the West,” to fill out a standard size volume.
This is an early work by Hagio, an extremely influential #manga creator and a certified Person of Cultural Merit. A ninety minute #anime adaptation was released in 1986. That even got an English dub and a DVD rerelease, but it is hard to find now.
Based on the manga by Moto Hagio, They Were 11 focuses on young Tada, a teenage boy in the distant future who joins 10 other people from various races aboard a derelict spaceship. Their objective is to get the ship’s systems working and survive the duration of the testing session, thus securing their entrance into the galactic academy and a chance to have a better life.
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