Claim: .Sunrise created a co-production with a design studio formed by Haruka Takachiho and it is Japanese.

is a series of science fiction light novels by Haruka Takachiho and released by Asahi Sonorama from 1977 to 2005 . During the late 1970s one of the founding fathers of Studio Nue , Takachiho decided that besides being a designer he would try his hand at penning novels . The result was Crusher Joe , a group of anti-heroes who were not the typical self-sacrificing types but noble in their own right nonetheless .   Crusher Joe was made into an animated film in 1983 , and a pair of for-video animated episodes in 1989 . The film version won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize in 1983 .