Voices of a Distant Star

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Original video animation
title Voices of a Distant Star
Original title ほ し の こ え
transcription Hoshi no Koe
The voices of a distant star anime logo.png
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
year 2002
length 25 minutes
Director Makoto Shinkai
idea Makoto Shinkai
script Makoto Shinkai
music Tenmon

Voices of a Distant Star ( Japanese ほ し の こ え , Hoshi no Koe , Eng. "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 .

The work is about the relationship between two teenagers who use their cell phones to maintain contact over immense distances through interstellar space. The film can be classified into the genres of science fiction and drama .

action

Mikako Nagamine ( 長峰 美加 子 ) attends middle school and is called up by the UN space patrol. She is supposed to fight in the war against aliens , the Tarsians . These are named after the Mars region of Tharsis , where they were first encountered. As a special agent, she is to steer a mecha to the carrier spacecraft Lysithea as a member of a combat squadron .

Mikako's friend Noboru Terao ( 寺 尾 昇 ) has to stay behind when the Lysithea leaves the earth with Mikako to search for said Tarsians . The two teenagers keep in touch with the help of their cell phones, initially over interplanetary distances, and finally over immeasurably large interstellar distances.

The Lysithea is traveling deeper and deeper into space and Mikako's messages take longer and longer to reach Noboru; at last the time difference is several years.

In 2047, Mikako is in Agartha , the fourth world of the Sirius system. There she fights against the aliens, is tormented by homesickness and tries to send a message to Earth. The news can only reach Noboru after a long time, if at all, but she still wants to tell him that she loves him. At that moment she is attacked by the Tarsians and a fight breaks out. After the battle, in which the mothership can be saved from destruction, she drifts into space.

Nine years later, Noboru receives the message from Mikako, but it can hardly be deciphered.

production

The 25-minute anime Hoshi no Koe was written and produced by Makoto Shinkai alone, using Adobe Photoshop 5.0 , Adobe After Effects 4.1 , LightWave 3D 6.5 and Commotion 3.1 DV to create the animations on a Power Mac G4 .

Noboru was spoken by himself and Mikako by his fiancé Mika Shinohara ( 篠 原 美 香 ), who helped him with his previous work Kanojo to Kanojo no Neko . Later, however, the film was professionally dubbed for the DVD release, in which Mikako was voiced by Sumi Muto and Noboru by Chihiro Suzuki . Makoto's friend Tenmon provided the soundtrack.

The final title Through The Years And Far Away (Hello, Little Star) was also composed by Tenmon, texted by K. Juno and sung by Low (Yūki Mizusawa).

Publications

Anime

The film premiered in Japan on February 2, 2002 and was released on DVD on April 19, 2002. ADV Films released the anime on DVD in the US in May 2003. The film was also released in Italian , Russian and French and in Sweden . A German version was released on June 25, 2010 on the anime label Kazé on a single DVD, as well as a complete edition with Makoto Shinkai's film 5 cm per second .

The film's soundtrack was also released on CD.

Light novel

The work was implemented as a novel, which was published on July 25, 2002 by Media Factory . The text is by Waku Ōba , the illustrations by Makoto Shinkai and Kō Yaginuma . A new edition followed on December 25, 2009 with illustrations by Miho Takeoka.

Arata Kanō wrote the novel Hoshi no Koe: Ai no Kotoba / Hoshi o Koeru ( ほ し の こ え あ い の こ と ば / ほ し を こ え る ), which was published by Enterbrain on September 29, 2006 . This represents a reinterpretation of the plot.

Manga

The anime was published under the title The Voices of a Distant Star as a manga in the Afternoon magazine of the Kodansha publishing house and appeared monthly from February to December 2004. The story in the manga begins like that in the film, but continues the plot a little further. The text is from Shinkai, the illustrations from Mizu Sahara .

The manga was published in English by Tokyopop and was published in Italian by d / visual. In June 2008 the manga was published in German by Egmont Manga and Anime .

reception

The anime won numerous awards, such as the 2002 Digital Contents Grand Prix for the drawings in the entertainment category and the special award in the digital arts category of the 6th Bunka-chō-Media Geijutsusai of the Ministry of Education . The award for outstanding performance in the open competition at the Tōkyō Kokusai Anime Fair 21 , the Top o Nerae! -Prize at the 2nd Nihon Otaku Taishō and the AMD Award for best director. In 2003, the Seiun Prize in the Media category was added.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ビ ジ ュ ア ル 表現 . (No longer available online.) In: Other voices - 遠 い 声 - . CoMix Wave, archived from the original on September 2, 2012 ; Retrieved June 19, 2016 (Japanese).
  2. ↑ ト リ ウ ッ ド に て 『ほ し の こ え』 急遽 上映 決定！ . CoMix Wave, archived from the original ; Retrieved June 19, 2016 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ DVD. (No longer available online.) In: Other voices - 遠 い 声 - . CoMix Wave, archived from the original on September 27, 2016 ; Retrieved June 19, 2016 (Japanese).
  4. ↑ ほ し の こ え The voices of a distant star. In: MF 文庫 J オ フ ィ シ ャ ル ウ ェ ブ サ イ ト . Media Factory, accessed June 19, 2016 (Japanese).
  5. ↑ ほ し の こ え The voices of a distant star （MF 文庫 ダ ・ ヴ ィ ン チ） . In: MF 文庫 J オ フ ィ シ ャ ル ウ ェ ブ サ イ ト . Media Factory, accessed June 19, 2016 (Japanese).
  6. ↑ ほ し の こ え あ い の こ と ば / ほ し を こ え る . Enterbrain, accessed June 19, 2016 (Japanese).
  7. ↑ super-otc.com/ ( Memento from March 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ amd.or.jpg ( Memento from February 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive )