Voices of a Distant Star
By: story by Makaoto Shinkai ; art by Mizu Sahara ; translation, Melissa Tanaka
Contributors: Sahara, Mizu, artist; Tanaka, Melissa, translator
Edition: A Vertical Comics Edition
Publisher: Vertical, Inc.
Published: 2018
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9781945054662
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Space warfare; High school students; Interplanetary voyages; Comic books, strips
Work titles: Hoshi no koe
Description: Schoolgirl Mikako has been recruited into the UN Space Army to fight in a war against an alien race known as the Tarsians. Mikako's close friend Noboru remains on Earth. The two continue to communicate across space using text messages. But as the distance between them increases, the wait between messages gets longer and longer.
Notes: "First published in Japan in 2005 by Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo."