「ほしのこえ」
Posted on December 15th, 2003 by ivo
「私は、ここにいるよ」
「ほしのこえ」, also known as Voices of a distant star, is the product of Makoto Shinkai. It is a short anime movie that tells the tale of a young couple that is torn apart when Mikako enrolls in a UN mission to Pluto and ends up on Agharta, a planet of Sirius.
Even in this short film, Makoto Shinkai manages to depict the characters as well formed, complete personalities. The way the Mikako stays connected with Noboru by sending messages to him is touching.
I highly recommend this anime to anyone. I watched the fansub by Shinsen Subs, and I’m currently waiting for Amazon to deliver the DVD to me.
Random thoughts:
- Why does the U.N. enroll 15 year old girls in the army?
- Why do they allow loose objects to lie around in a fighter unit during combat?
- Why does it take 8 years for an email to reach earth, but only a few moments for a spaceship to go to Sirius? Surely they must have found out a way of accelerating the email if they can transport four entire spaceships over that distance… They do give a hint on this one: We haven’t yet found a way back to Earth yet. But why they chose to go to Sirius instead is beyond me.
thoughts…
My thoughts on your ‘random thoughts’…
> 3. Why does it take 8 years …
I’m not entirely up to speed on fictional warp technology. But I guess some complicated machinery is required, with skilled technicians to operate it. Even if
their fleet has a vessel capable of relaying communications it would presumably only be used when required for military purposes.
> But why they chose to go to Sirius instead is beyond me.
Hoshi no koe tells the story of Mikako and Noboru, we as viewers hardly get any details on this war with the Tarsians, certainly not enough to make any kind of judgement whether this choice of going to Sirius makes sense or not.
> 1. Why does the U.N. enroll 15 year old girls in the army?
In most anime as far as i can remember mecha pilots are teenagers. I have no answer to your question, but it is not an issue specific to Hoshi no Koe.
> 2. Why do they allow loose objects to lie around in a fighter unit during combat?
Perhaps it’s not allowed at all
I have another question:
- How can the message Mikako sent from Sirius end up being partly garbled/corrupted.. is it that hard to add enough redundancy? Perhaps the technology was never intended for this distance of 8 lightyears.. but in that case it’s a miracle the message arrived at all.
–warp.
blegh!
it b0rked my enters!
(any chance of re-edits or a preview button?)
Enters
I fixed your enters