Alien Nine

Alien Nine (エイリアン9) is a manga by Hitoshi Tomizawa serialised in the seinen magazine Young Champion. Some of the comic's artwork has been featured in Takashi Murakami's superflat exhibitions.

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In 2001 an anime adaptation by J.C.STAFF and GENCO was produced as a four episode OVA. This OVA was directed by Yuri Fujimoto and written by Sadayuki Murai. English versions of both were released in North America by Central Park Media in 2003. While it may seem childish and cutesy at first, featuring eleven year olds roller skating around trying to catch aliens, like the later Narutaru there is a darker and more serious subtext waiting to surface.

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Manga: :This article is about the Japanese medium. For other uses see Manga (disambiguation)...

Hitoshi Tomizawa: is a Japanese manga artist. Alien 9 is his best known work; his manga tend to be short, with sci-fi stories involving children and insects. His art was fairly standard sh?nen manga style for his first series, but starting with Alien 9 it became very distinctive, but with very large eyes and unnatura...

Seinen: Seinen (Japanese: ??, not to be confused with "seinen" (成年; adult)) is a subset of anime or manga that is generally targeted at a 18 - 25 year old male audience, but the audience can be much older with some comics aimed at businessmen well into their 40s....

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