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Please Save My Earth

Boku no Chikyuu wo Mamotte

1986, Manga, 138 ch, 79%

Recommended by 13 They Were 11! fans on AniList. The same kind of story: ragtag crews in space.

Life's hard when you're shy, harder still when you move from your quiet hometown to the bustle of a big city and a new high school. Poor Alice also has to cope with being regularly harassed by the bratty neighbor boy, Rin. Her life turns upside-down when she's stuck babysitting…

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About They Were 11!

1975, Manga, 4 ch, 72%

They Were 11 is about ten Galactic University recruits who have passed many levels only to be given one final test. They are told to travel to an ancient spaceship and live there, together, for fifty-three days. This is not a problem until the ten recruits, hailing from diverse backgrounds and planets, discover that there are actually eleven of them on the ship. In fact, this problem turns out to be the test, as they have to trust each other in order to survive, even though one of them is an impostor.

(Source: VIZ Media)

Note: Won the 21st Shogakukan Manga Award for Shoujo in 1975.

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