Info:
Main Title: Hoshi no Koe
English Title: Voices of a Distant Star
Japanese Title: ほしのこえ
Short: hoshi, voices

Type: OVA, 1 episode
Year: 02.02.2002

Categories: Future, Mina, Romance, SciFi, Tragedy
Producers: Shinkai Makoto, CoMix Wave

Rating: 8.14 (2986)
Tmp. Rating: 7.80 (23)
Review Rating: 8.78 (7)

Links:
AniDB
Anime News Network
Official page
Wikipedia (usually w/spoilers)

Description:
   A female mecha pilot tries to keep in touch with her boyfriend on earth while she is in space using cell phone text messages. The farther away they get from each other, the harder it is for the text messages to get to each other. — ANN

   Hoshi no Koe ~The Voices of a Distant Stars~, uses full 2D and 3D digital animation, is a story of a long distance love and mail messages between a boy and girl. Set in 2046 after the discovery of the ruins of an alien civilization on Mars, man has been able to make leaps in technology and is planning to send an expedition into space in the next year. Nagamine Mikako and Terao Noboru are junior high school students. However, while Noboru will be entering senior high next winter, Mikako is selected to join the space expedition. — AniDB

   Voices of a Distant Star (ほしのこえ, Hoshi no Koe, lit. "Voices of a Star" is a Japanese anime OVA by Makoto Shinkai. It chronicles a long-distance relationship between a teenage couple who communicate by sending emails via their mobile phones across interstellar space. The series has been broadcast across Japan by the anime satellite television network, Animax.
   Hoshi no Koe was written, directed and produced entirely by Makoto on his Macintosh computer. Makoto and his fiancée provided the voice acting for the working dub. (A second Japanese dub was later created for the DVD release with professional voice actors.) Makoto's friend Tenmon, who had worked with Makoto at his video game company, provided the soundtrack. Shinkai and Tenmon had earlier worked together in the making of Kanojo to Kanojo no Neko ('She and her Cat'). The duo later also collaborated in the 2004 release of The Place Promised in Our Early Days. This half hour OVA also represents the "long distance" relationship between Makoto Shinkai and his wife, as Shinkai spent often long hours in the studio and communicated with his wife via text messaging. — Wikipedia

Release Info:
Group: niizk

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