Voices of a Distant Star Manga

Award-winning director and author Makoto Shinkai teams up with comic artist Mizu Sahara to create a romantic sci-fi tale about young love and space adventure, based on his 2002 animated film.

Mikako Nagamine is recruited as a pilot to fight in the interstellar war against a force of alien invaders, leaving behind her one true love. Mikako’s only connection to Noboru Terao, who continues living the life of an ordinary student, is through cell phone text messages. As Mikako travels light years away, it takes longer and longer for Noboru to receive her messages, until finally one arrives eight years and seven months after she sent it…