![]() ![]() ![]() Voices of a Distant Star takes this theme to the furthest level possible with the distance between the two main characters crossing time and space. As Mikako travels light years away, it takes longer and longer for Noboru to receive her messages, until finally one arrives eight years and seven months after she sent it…Ī theme that has been prevalent in most of Shinkai’s since the beginning is distance and connections. ![]() Mikako’s only connection to Noboru Terao, who continues living the life of an ordinary student, is through cell phone text messages. Mikako Nagamine is recruited as a pilot to fight in the interstellar war against a force of alien invaders, leaving behind her one true love. Vertical continues their release of acclaimed anime director Makoto Shinkai’s back catalogue with a new printing of the manga adaptation of one his earliest works, the 2002 short film Voices of a Distant Star. ![]()
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