How does voices of a distant star end

Now she died at the end yes? However, had she not died, I mean wouldn't she have been able to just fly back? You seem to be forgetting she was a soldier. Soldiers don't just not contact their loved ones because they will be back in a year or two, there is always a chance they might not come back.

Traveling faster than light doesn't somehow diminish the need for contact. Like I said, I sadly missed sections of it, need to watch it again. As for FTL, yeah, but I was asking, from her POV she would have been gone say 2 years whatever it is round trip while from his POV provided she never returned it would take X years to get the messages back.

So while all that stuff happened to her over the course of say a year or two, it took 10 or so years for all her messages to make her way back to him. Is that correct? Radio communication travels at the speed of light. Therefore, for every X light years traveled, communication will require X light years to travel from origin to destination.

You don't know if she really died or not. True, but she must have died, OR she didn't return home. As if she HAD returned home, then she would have been there long before he got those 8 year delayed messages.

I don't believe that she is dead. Sure she lost both her tracer's arms but, the center section where the cockpit is was untouched. In the end she is just completely, totally exhausted. As for the time differential. I don't think that it is simply a matter of going out and comming back and only 2 years have passed both for the armada and for earth. I think that its a matter of going out and comming back and, for Mikako and her shipmates only 2 ship years have passed.

But on earth over 16 years have passed. Mikako would be 16 or so while Noboru would be in his early 30's. Makoto's various roles included writing, storyboarding, and directing his story; also animation, as he created all the digital imagery on his home Macintosh computer.

A second Japanese dub was later created for the DVD release with professional voice actors. In Hoshi no Koe , the U. Army is recruiting crew in their battle against the Tarsians, a race of aliens. Middle school student Noboru is on the fringe of the battle because his nearly-girlfriend Nagamine Mikako, whom he hoped to attend high school with, has been chosen as a Special Agent by the U.

Space Force to pilot a giant mecha as part of the crew of the Lysisthea, one of the space force's battleships. The ship launches with Mikako onboard, and as the army pursues and retreats from the Tarsians farther and farther into deep space, the cell phone text messages that are Mikako's only way to reach Noboru take incresingly long to reach Earth. Fortunately, during a discussion thread on the Anime on DVD forum , Chadwick Ngan was kind enough to post a summary of the ending in the novelization of Voices of a Distant Star , which is extended beyond the end of the animation and, will probably provide a very satisfying finis to the story.

Hopefully the following will provide, in the words of one poster to the discussion thread, "closure" to those who watched the animation. Since a number of people have asked this already, and I'm sure a lot more will ask about this when the DVD comes out, I've summarized the novel ending, which has an extra 50 pages after the climatic battle.

News of the battle at Agharta has arrived on Earth. Initial reports are very confusing, but one thing is clear. Casualties were heavy, and the Lysithea was the sole survivor of the engagement. Noboru is called up to duty ahead of his deployment date. He is confused and worried. After all, he has just received the message Mikako sent before the battle earlier that day. As he is being shipped out to the moon base, another message from Mikako arrives.

Mikako wakes up at the medical room. It was a close call for her, as her Tracer had lost all power and was traveling under inertia only.

By the time the rescue crew got to her, she has already passed out. Mikako finds out that of the or so Tracer operators, only survived the battle. Due to the lack of hanger space, her damaged Tracer was deemed not worth repairing and abandoned.

Commander Rokomov, who is in charge of the expedition, gathers his crew and informs them he is aborting their mission and returning to Earth. He has already requested a rescue ship from Earth. It will take 8 years and 7 months before Earth receives his message. In the mean time, Lysithea will move under its own power to the nearest anchor point, Sirius Alpha, which is 2.

Traveling at sub-light speed, Lysithea can get there within the 8 years 7 months time span. Due to time dilation, only 4 years will pass for those onboard. You must have heard about the battle at Agharta by now. And, very happy. By the time this mail arrives, Mikako will be at anchor point Sirius Alpha. We can finally meet each other, Noboru-kun. When we meet, Mikako has something to tell Noboru-kun directly.