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''[[Voices of a Distant Star]]'' is [[Makoto Shinkai]]'s first major work. This short film was released in 2003 and is considered one of the most poignant [[Anime]] romances around. However, it is better known for the the fact that Shinkai [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|scripted, drew, animated and produced the entire movie]] ''[[One
Fourteen-year-old Nagamine Mikako and her friend Noboru had looked forward to attending high school together, but when humanity declared war on the mysterious alien force known as the Tarsians, she was drafted by the UN Space Army to serve as a [[Humongous Mecha|Tracer]] pilot in the task force assigned to the ''Lysithea''. Mikako leaves Noboru behind on Earth as the UN Forces pursue the Tarsians deeper into space.
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During their separation, she communicates with Noboru via email, but as the fleet travels farther from the Earth, the transmission time grows increasingly longer, until eventually Noboru must wait years for any word that Mikako is even still alive.
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* [[Alien Sky]]: From Agartha's surface, [http://duplave.freeblog.hu/files/voices_of_a_distant_star_006.jpg the sky is a green tinge and at least one of its moons] are visible.
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* [[Foreign Language Theme]]: "Through the Years and Far Away" (performed in English by LOW aka Yuuki Mizusawa) is played during the final battle.
* [[FTL Travel]]: The UN vessels like the ''Lysithea'' are capable of FTL travel using warp engines, although they lack the FTL communications capabilities to complement it.
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* [[Humongous Mecha]]: The suits deployed by the UN Navy are called Tracers.
* [[I Will Wait for You]]: Noboru struggles a great deal with whether or not to keep waiting for Mikako, and tries to give up on her a few times. Ultimately, the trope is subverted when he chooses to follow her into space.
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