009-1
| 009-1 | |
Promotional poster from the 009-1 anime
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ゼロゼロナイン・ワン (Zero Zero Nain Wan) |
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| Genre | Action, Espionage |
| Manga | |
| 009ノ1 | |
| Written by | Shotaro Ishinomori |
| Published by | Futabasha |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Weekly Manga Action |
| Original run | August 10, 1967 – November 14, 1974 |
| Volumes | 6 |
| Television drama | |
| Flower Action 009ノ1 | |
| Studio | Toei |
| Original network | Fuji Television |
| Original run | October 7, 1969 – December 30, 1969 |
| Episodes | 13 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Naoyuki Konno |
| Music by | Taku Iwasaki |
| Studio | Ishimori Entertainment |
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| Original network | TBS, Animax |
| English network | |
| Original run | October 5, 2006 – December 21, 2006 |
| Episodes | 12 |
| Live-action film | |
| 009-1: The End of the Beginning | |
| Directed by | Koichi Sakamoto |
| Produced by | Kazuo Kato |
| Written by | Keiichi Hasegawa |
| Music by | Yasuhiro Misawa |
| Released | September 7, 2013 |
| Runtime | 84 minutes |
009-1 (ゼロゼロナイン・ワン Zero Zero Nain Wan?, pronounced "Zero Zero Nine-One") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shotaro Ishinomori. The manga was serialized in the Futabasha publication Weekly Manga Action from 1967 to 1970, then returned briefly in 1974. The story concerns Miléne Hoffman (ミレーヌ・ホフマン Mirēnu Hofuman; "Mylene" in the English translation), a female cyborg who works as a secret agent. The Japanese title of the manga was 009ノ1, or "Zero Zero Ku-no-ichi", a pun on kunoichi (female ninja) and a reference to the main character's espionage occupation.
The original manga was adapted into a live-action drama for Fuji Television in 1969 entitled Flower Action 009ノ1. The manga was also adapted into a 12-episode anime series by Ishimori Entertainment and first broadcast on TBS TV in Japan in late 2006. The anime has been licensed for a North American release by A.D. Vision for $325,000. The first volume was released on June 19, 2007, although it was originally scheduled for release in March 2007. In 2008, the show, along with 30 other ADV titles were relicensed to Funimation.
Although it was also created by Ishinomori, and features similar themes, this seinen manga, despite the "00" name and the cybernetized protagonists, has no relation to his previous work Cyborg 009, a shōnen manga (although in the original manga, the cyborgs from Cyborg 009 actually make appearances in some chapters). In the final episode, there are two homages to Gerry Anderson television shows involving the moon, an Eagle Transport from Space: 1999 and SHADO Mobile's from UFO. In the episode "Reverse-Explosion" a spaceship is destroyed by impacting the moon. This is Thunderbird 5 from Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds.
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