Voices of a Distant Star story
The story follows the lives of two close childhood friends, a boy and a girl, who get separated once the girl is sent into space to fight in a war against aliens. As the 15-year-old girl goes deeper and deeper into space, the texts she sends take longer to reach the Earth; the film simultaneously follows her battles and the boy's life as he receives her texts over the years.
12 total · 6 major · 6 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| interstellar space travel | major | Mikako traveled eight light-years on the spacecraft carrier Lysithea to the fourth planet of the Sirius star system. |
| loneliness | major | Mikako and Noboru were both lonely without each other after she left Earth on an eight light-year voyage to the Sirius star system. |
| romantic love | major | Mikako and Noboru's love for each other transcended time and space. |
| space colonization | major | The story is set in the near future when Earth has colonized space out as far as the moons of Jupiter. |
| theory of relativity | major | The 16-year-old Mikako didn't age on her eight light-year voyage to the Sirius star system, and, as a result, her old schoolmate on Earth was a 25 year old by the time she reached her destination. |
| war | major | The schoolgirl Mikako was recruited into the UN Space Army to fight in a big war against a group of aliens called the Tarsians. |
| colonization of Mars | minor | Humans |
| doppelgänger | minor | Mikako encountered her doppelgänger on the fourth planet in the Sirius star system of all places. |
| extraterrestrial being | minor | Humans had encountered a group of aliens called the Tarsians on the planet Mars. |
| interplanetary space travel | minor | Mikako traveled on the spacecraft carrier Lysithea past Mars, Jupiter and Pluto. |