Voices of a Distant Star

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VerticalCovers this volume completely

PhysicalpaperbackFeb 20, 2018$12.95
ISBN-139781945054662ISBN-101945054662
Award-winning director and author Makoto Shinkai offers a romantic sci-fi tale about young love and space adventure, based on his 2003 animated film. 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. Mikako’s only connection to Noboru Terao, who continues living the life of an ordinary student, is through cell phone text messages. 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…

TokyopopCovers this volume completely

PhysicalpaperbackAug 2006
ISBN-139781598165296ISBN-101598165291
Mikako becomes part of a research team that journeys into space in order to explore reported contacts between humans and aliens, leaving behind Nobaru, the man that she loves. They keep in touch, but Mikako's long absence and his aging faster than she is, has Nobaru wondering if he should move on with his life.