Voices of a Distant Star

[Duke]

OK, so my roommate rented this one anime called Voices of a Distant Star and figured it'd be decent, even though it was only 30 minutes. After all, it had a giant robot on the cover and giant robots=cool.

Well, I have one question after watching this...thing.

WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON!?

Seriously, I have no idea. I'm guessing Mikako is fighting a space war against some weird alien race that has no background, and evidentally the war takes them to some planet for unknown reasons. That's all I can gather. Is there some reason this thing was created?

[Lord Dalek]

OK, so my roommate rented this one anime called Voices of a Distant Star and figured it'd be decent, even though it was only 30 minutes. After all, it had a giant robot on the cover and giant robots=cool.

Well, I have one question after watching this...thing.

WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON!?

Seriously, I have no idea. I'm guessing Mikako is fighting a space war against some weird alien race that has no background, and evidentally the war takes them to some planet for unknown reasons. That's all I can gather. Is there some reason this thing was created? The war between the UN SPACY and the Tarsians is really just a red-herring in the background. The true story is about how Noboru and Nagamine try to maintain their relationship durring the seven Earth years she's away in outer space. If you were hoping for esentially the same story but with more action, go rent Gunbuster!.

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

This anime is mostly notable for the fact that it was basically all animated by one man on his dinky computer. He and his wife also voice the two main characters on one track. It's kind of like a homemade anime.

Other than that, it seems somewhat like an experiment more than anything. I probably wouldn't pay too much to buy it, as I still prefer a slick, bigger budget studio production, but this is a pretty noteworthy anime and must be respected.

[Karl Olson]

basically, it is just a simple love story in an age where faster than light travel has been achieved, but faster than communication hasn't (so it takes years for e-mail to get from point a to point-b.)

Also, the newspaper towards the end notes that they are limping home with on engines that are near light, but don't have anti-temporal distortion element, so, she'll be arriving back age 15 to the guy's 24. Weird, but definetely sort of a classic sci-fi paradox.

It's a technical marvel considering that it's one man's work, and his next film will probably be even more impressive visually.

[Lord Dalek]

Also, the newspaper towards the end notes that they are limping home with on engines that are near light, but don't have anti-temporal distortion element, so, she'll be arriving back age 15 to the guy's 24. Weird, but definetely sort of a classic sci-fi paradox. Sorta like that episode of the Twilight Zone where the guy comes out of Suspended Hiberation for his girlfriend.

[Karl Olson]

Sorta like that episode of the Twilight Zone where the guy comes out of Suspended Hiberation for his girlfriend.

yeah, but a quite bit more poignent, and it's grounded in some pretty hardcore science (atleast outside of the fiction of faster than light travel.) the japanese version had a book explaining the physics of that universe and other info about the story which is unfortunately not included in the US release.