The Voices of a Distant Star by Makoto Shinkai

Steeped in nostalgia and memory, Arata Kanoh brings to the page the award-winning OVA by acclaimed filmmaker Makoto Shinkai, director of She and Her Cat, The Place Promised in Our Early Days, Garden of Words, 5 Centimeters per Second, and the highest-grossing anime film of all time, Your Name.Īrata Kanoh is a writer who has produced novelizations of Makoto Shinkai’s other works, including 5 Centimeters Per Second (also available from Vertical). It’s a sc-fi story in which a couple is separated by space and time. Back on Earth, time passes normally for Noboru, but as the years pass he still can’t forget the voice on the other side of the cell phone… Voices Of A Distant Star, 2002: Despite being only 30 minutes in length, Voices Of A Distant Star is generally considered as Makoto Shinkai’s first film. As she travels further and further to the outer reaches of the solar system, the time it takes for a text message to reach the Earth grows longer and longer.

Mikako Nagamine and Noboru Terao are middle school classmates, tentatively sharing an unspoken first love-but unbeknownst to him, Mikako has been recruited into the UN Space Force, and instead of going on to high school, will join the spacecraft Lysithea to search for alien Tarsians. I vaguely thought it meant anywhere there was cell phone reception. It was published by Media Factory s imprint MF Bunko J on July 25, 2002, five months after the premiere of the short its a novelization of. This new novel gives readers more insight into Mikako and Noboru's relationship.įans of the original series will again be immersed in the beautiful world of Shinkai. (, Hoshi no Koe) is a Japanese novel written by Ooba Waku and illustrated by Makoto Shinkai and Kou Yaginuma. Award-winning director and author Makoto Shinkai offers a romantic sci-fi tale about young love and space adventure, based on his animated film.

The Voices of a Distant Star by Makoto Shinkai