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Voices of a Distant Star (OAV)

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Alternative title:
Hoshi no Koe (Japanese)
La Voce delle Stelle (Italian)
La Voix des Etoiles (French)
The voices of a distant star
Голос далекой звезды (Russian)
نداء النجوم (Arabic)
ほしのこえ (Japanese)
星之聲 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Genres: drama, romance, science fiction
Themes: Mecha, Military, Real Robot, space
Age rating: Older Children (May contain mild bad language, bloodless violence)
Plot Summary: 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.
User Ratings: 2187 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 594 votes (sub:437, dub:127, Spa.sub:9, ?:6, raw:5, Ger.sub:2, edit.dub:2, Por.sub:2, Rus.sub:2, Fre.sub:1, Rus.dub:1)
 Excellent: 589 votes (sub:455, dub:104, ?:8, Spa.sub:5, Swe.sub:4, raw:3, Rus.sub:2, Fre.sub:2, Por.sub:2, edit.dub:1, Pol.sub:1, Ita.dub:1, Spa.dub:1)
 Very good: 452 votes (sub:350, dub:80, Spa.sub:4, raw:3, Fre.sub:3, ?:2, Rus.dub:2, Pol.sub:1, Ita.dub:1, edit.dub:1, English:1, Ita.sub:1, Rus.sub:1, Por.sub:1, Dut.sub:1)
 Good: 276 votes (sub:217, dub:45, raw:3, Rus.sub:3, ?:2, Ita.sub:1, Spa.sub:1, edit.dub:1, Fre.sub:1, Rus.dub:1, Ita.dub:1)
 Decent: 120 votes (sub:99, dub:17, raw:1, Spa.sub:1, ?:1, Swe.sub:1)
 So-so: 72 votes (sub:52, dub:17, Spa.sub:1, Ger.sub:1, ?:1)
 Not really good: 28 votes (sub:25, dub:2, raw:1)
 Weak: 24 votes (sub:19, dub:4, ?:1, raw:0)
 Bad: 12 votes (sub:11, dub:1)
 Awful: 8 votes (sub:6, dub:1, raw:1)
 Worst ever: 12 votes (sub:8, dub:4)
Seen in part or in whole by 3210 users, rank: #141
Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.2879 (Very good+.28), std. dev.: 1.7671, rank: #241
Weighted mean: 8.2048 (Very good+.20), rank: #204
Bayesian estimate: 8.20174 (Very good+.20), rank: #135
Running time: 25 minutes
Number of episodes: 1
Vintage:
2002-02-02
2002-04-19
2007-09-08 (Sweden)
Releases: We have 1
Ending Theme:
"Through The Years And Far Away" by Low
Official website:
Madman NZ's Official Voices of a Distant Star Website
Madman's Official Voices of a Distant Star Website
Voices of a Distant Star
ほしのこえ @ Other voices (Japanese)
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 5
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Comment:
There are two versions of this Anime; The original director's version, where the main characters are voiced by the director and his fiancee, and the Voice Actor's Version, where the main characters are voiced by a professional voice actor and actress.
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Related reviews:
    Voices of a Distant Star DVD

Related releases:
    Shinkai Collection (DVD) 2005-12-06 (from $22.99)
    Voices of a Distant Star (DVD) 2003-06-10 (from $12.93)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Makoto Shinkai

Screenplay: Makoto Shinkai

Music: Tenmon

Producer: Yoshihiro Hagiwara

Animation: Makoto Shinkai

Sound Producer: Kiyoshi Okabe

Sound Recording: Youji Nishimura

Voice Direction: Toshiki Kameyama

 

Chihiro Suzuki as Noboru Terao

Makoto Shinkai as Noboru Terao (Original Version)

Mika Shinohara as Mikako Nagamine (Original Version)

Sumi Mutoh as Mikako Nagamine

Donna Burke as Operator of the Lysithea

Japanese companies 

Production: CoMix Wave Inc.

Sound Effects: Pastral Sound

English staff 
English cast 

Director: Steven Foster

Executive producer:
John Ledford
Mark Williams

Creative Director:
Chris Hawley
David Del Rio

DVD Coordination: Janice Williams

DVD Producer: Thomas Meerbott

Editing: Joey Goubeaud

International Coordination: Toru Iwakami

Post-Production Manager: Shelly Thomas

Production Assistant:
Carole Pavlik
Christopher Williams
Marta Bechtol

Recording engineer: Stanley Thomas

Sound Design: Wade Shemwell

Subtitle Script & Timing: Neal Barnes

 

Adam Conlon as Noboru Terao

Cynthia Martinez as Mikako Nagamine

Donna Burke as Lysithea Operator

English companies 

ADR Recording: Industrial Smoke & Mirrors

Broadcaster: The Anime Network

Distributor:
ADV Films (UK) (UK)
Madman Entertainment Pty. Ltd. (Australia & New Zealand)

DVD Authoring & Encoding: M.O.F.C.

Licensed by: ADV Films

Post Production: Monkey Boy Studios

Italian cast 
Italian staff 

Dubbing Director: Fabrizio Mazzotta

Executive producer: Federico Colpi

Daniele Raffaeli as Noboru Terao

Valentina Mari as Mikako Nagamine

Italian companies 

Distributor: d/visual

Dubbing: E.T.S. European Television Service

Russian staff 
(none)
Russian companies 

Distributor: XL Media

Dubbing: XL Media

Translation: XL Media

Russian cast 
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff 
Chinese (Taiwan) companies 
(none)
 

Licensed by: Proware Multimedia International Co., Ltd.

Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
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