Voices of a Distant Star
Voices of a Distant Star (Japaneseほしのこえ, Hoshi no Koe, dt " voice of the star " ) is an anime by Makoto Shinkai, which was produced in 2002 as OVA. The film was also adapted as a light novel and manga.
Action
Mikako Nagamine (长峰 美加 子) visited the middle school and shall be convened by the United Nations Space Patrol. You should in the war against aliens, fight the Tarsianer. These are named after the Mars Tharsis region in which you met them for the first time. As a special agent, she will not only be a member of a combat squadron a Mecha to the carrier spacecraft Lysithea.
Mikakos friend Noboru Terao (寺 尾 升) must remain as the Lysithea with Mikako leaves Earth to search for said Tarsianern. The two teens, the use of mobile phones but further contact, initially interplanetary distances, most recently immeasurably large interstellar distances.
The Lysithea travels deeper into space and Mikakos news always need longer to reach Noboru; last the time shift of several years.
In the year 2047 itself Mikako is in Agartha, the fourth world of the Sirius system. There she is fighting against the aliens, is tormented by homesickness and tried to send a message to Earth. The message can reach Noboru only after a long time, if ever, but they still want to tell him that she loves him. At this moment it is attacked by the Tarsianern and a fight breaks out. After the battle, in which the mother ship can be saved from destruction, she drifts into space.
Nine years later, Noboru receives the message from Mikako, which is, however, to decipher any more.
Production
The 25-minute anime Hoshi no Koe was written solely by Makoto on his Macintosh and produced. Noboru was by himself and Mikako from his fiancee Mika Shinohara (筱 原 美 香) speaking, the already helped him in his previous work Kanojo to Kanojo no Neko. Later, the film for the DVD release, however, was dubbed professionally in which Mikako were spoken by Sumi Muto and Noboru Chihiro Suzuki. Makoto's friend Tenmon provided the soundtrack.
The credits title Through The Years And Far Away comes from Low ( Yūki Mizusawa ).
Publications
Anime
The film was broadcast in Japan from the Animax satellite television. ADV Films released the anime in the United States in May 2003 on DVD. In addition, the film was released in Italian, Russian and French, and in Sweden. A German version was published on 25 June 2010 at Anime - label Kazé on a single DVD, and in a complete edition with Makoto Shinkai film 5 cm per second.
The film's soundtrack was released on CD as well.
Light Novel
In 2002 an implementation of a novel, which appeared in the Light Novel Label MF Bunko J. The text comes from Waku Oba, the illustrations by Makoto Shinkai and Kō Yaginuma.
Manga
The anime was moved under the title The Voices of a Distant Star as manga in Afternoon magazine of Kodansha Publishing and appeared monthly from February to December 2004. The story begins in the manga as in the film, but the plot carries a little further away. The text is by Shinkai, Mizu Sahara 's illustrations.
The manga was published by Tokyopop in English and appeared at d / visual in Italian. In June 2008, the manga was published in German in Egmont Manga and Anime.
Reception
The anime won numerous prizes, including the 2002 Digital Contents Grand Prix for the drawings in the Entertainment category and the special prize in the category Digital Arts of the 6th Bunka -chō - Media Geijutsusai Ministry of Education. The award for excellence in open competition on the Tōkyō Kokusai Anime Fair 21, the Top o Nerae! Prize at the 2nd Nihon Otaku Taishō and the AMD Award for Best Director. 2003 Seiun price came in the category of Media to do so.