Anime Secret Santa: THEY WERE ELEVEN
This post is brought to you by this year's Anime Secret Santa. Thanks to the folks at All Geeks Considered for hosting this year, and thanks to Evan Minto ( @VamptVo ) for the suggestion! For all the fuss that manga fans make over the Magnificent Forty-Niners, shockingly few of their works have made the leap to animation. Keiko Takemiya has been the most fortunate, with three works total including two of her most notable manga. Rikoyo Ikeda had two works that became landmarks in shojo anime. Even Yumiko Ooshima got a lovely, lavish adaptation of her best-known work. Meanwhile, Moto Hagio's contributions to anime have been limited to character designs for The Time Stranger (not to be confused with GoShogun: The Time Etranger ) and the 1986 adaptation of her 1974 short story They Were Eleven .