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Voices of a Distant Star
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Voices of a Distant Star (Hoshi no Koe) is Makoto Shinkai's first major work. This 2003 short film is considered one of the most poignant anime romances around, though it is particularly well-known for another reason: Shinkai scripted, drew, animated, and produced the entire movie on his own. In its original release, Shinkai himself voiced Noboru, as well.Middle-school student Mikako Nagamine and her friend Noboru Terao had looked forward to attending high school together, but when humanity declared war on an alien force known as the Tarsians in 2046, she was drafted by the UN Space Army to serve as a Tracer pilot in a task force assigned to the spaceship Lysithea. Mikako leaves Noboru behind on Earth as the UN Forces pursue the Tarsians deeper into space. 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.In addition to the OVA, a drama CD was released a few months later. A light novel by Waku Ooba was published the same year. A manga adaptation began serialization in 2004 and was published in compiled form in 2005. Finally, a second novel, Words of Love/Across the Stars, this time by Arata Kanoh, was published in 2006 but only received an English translation in 2019. | |
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Time-Travel Romance | |
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Time-Travel Romance: Time travel is not explicitly involved, but the lack of FTL communications means that past Mikako is essentially sending messages to future Noboru. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: Thinking about the distance between herself and Noboru causes Mikako to bawl her eyes out in her cockpit mid-battle, but she manages to pull herself together. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: Those who missed the newspaper headlines in the movie's finale might misinterpret it as either a Downer Ending or a bittersweet one. However, those headlines report the Lysithea's victory at Agartha. Additional details like Noboru's Navy uniform in the closet suggest his eventual reunion with Mikako. The supplementary Novelization states outright that the Lysithea won the battle, but their FTL drive was damaged beyond repair, so they had no choice but to call for help and wait eight years for the message to reach Earth. Furthermore, the UN is said to be deploying a second fleet on a rescue mission, with Noboru being part of it. | |
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Short Film | |
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Short Film: The running time of the film is 25 minutes. | |
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Good Is Not Soft | |
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Good Is Not Soft: Despite her tender heart, Mikako shows absolutely no hesitation in Goomba Stomping a Tarsian so she can finish it off with close-range gunfire or cutting them apart with her Tracer's energy swords. | |
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Adaptation Expansion | |
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Adaptation Expansion: The manga expounds considerably on the film, introducing new subplots and characters into the mix. All while retaining the same focus and plot. Words of Love/Across the Stars does this differently. It goes into Mikako and Noboru's thoughts to a depth impossible in the film proper, while also adding a lot of worldbuilding, and shows more of what Noboru went through on Earth. | |
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Earth That Used to Be Better | |
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Earth That Used to Be Better: Not apparent in the film proper, but according to Words of Love/Across the Stars, the sight of the Scottish Highlands only exist in films anymore. Whether this is because they were ruined by natural disaster or war by human or tarsian is unfortunately not elaborated on. | |
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Disappeared Dad | |
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Disappeared Dad: According to Voices of Love/Across the Stars, Mikako's father "stopped coming home", although it isn't elaborated on. | |
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Limited Wardrobe | |
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Limited Wardrobe: Mikako still wears her school uniform while fighting Tarsians, contrasting the expectation that pilots would be supplied with plugsuits. | |
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Starfish Aliens | |
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Starfish Aliens: The Tarsians have an anatomy similar to those of starfish. | |
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Long-Distance Relationship | |
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Long-Distance Relationship: Noboru and Mikako attempt to do the best they can to maintain contact during the latter's deployment. Even when this involves light-years of separation between them. | |
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Grave Clouds | |
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Grave Clouds: When Noboru is waiting futilely for Mikako's messages the first winter of her being out at space, the weather is overcast and snowing. | |
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Ungrateful Bastard | |
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Ungrateful Bastard: In Words of Love/Across the Stars, we learn that Mikako's cousin hates her even though she willingly gave up on her own dreams to go fight in space, something that also came with the benefit of letting said cousin get free healthcare. | |
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Alien Sky | |
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Alien Sky: From Agartha's surface, the sky is a green tinge and at least one of its moons◊ are visible. | |
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Tranquil Fury | |
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Tranquil Fury: Once she realizes that defeating the Tarsians is the only way to see Noboru again, Mikako stems her tears and proceeds to decimate opposing Tarsian forces with surprising efficacy. | |
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I Just Want to Be Normal | |
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I Just Want to Be Normal: As the stress of being away from Earth and Noboru starts to take its toll, Mikako begins wishing that she was home rather than out fighting in space. | |
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Scenery Porn | |
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Scenery Porn: The landscapes and attention to detail are staggering; terrestrial locations within the film were designed from actual locations in Japan◊. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: "Message delivery time 1 year" drives home for the viewer just how far away Mikako will be going. From Words of Love/Across the Stars, "I got a girlfriend." | |
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Umbrella of Togetherness | |
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Umbrella of Togetherness: Mikako and Noboru in their flashbacks. | |
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Hyperspeed Escape | |
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Hyperspeed Escape: When a large Tarsian force approaches near Pluto, the Lysithea task force bugs out via FTL jump rather than take their chances trying to fight the enemy head-on. | |
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Asteroid Thicket | |
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Asteroid Thicket | |
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Ring World Planet | |
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Ringworld Planet: The Lysithea is briefly shown docking at a ring-shaped structure built around a moon, which Words of Love/Across the Stars states is Europa. | |
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Theme-and-Variations Soundtrack | |
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Theme-and-Variations Soundtrack: Many of the songs in the soundtrack share motifs with either "Through the Years and Far Away" or "Ame no Boss Tei/Rainy Bus Stop". | |
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Heroic Safe Mode | |
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Heroic Safe Mode: Mikako's longing to reunite with Noboru drives her into fighting the Tarsians with a much greater resolve and ferocity. | |
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Super Cell Reception | |
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Super Cell Reception: Accommodated by the Lysithea's communications array, Mikako's phone is able to piggyback on the network to send out messages to Noboru at increasingly long intervals, first interplanetary and then interstellar distances. | |
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How We Got Here | |
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How We Got Here: The anime starts with Mikako already a spaceborne Tracer pilot, then flashbacks to before her enlistment. | |
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BFS | |
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BFS: The Tracers possess a powerful beam saber that can be used to slice an alien battleship in half. | |
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Macross Missile Massacre | |
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Macross Missile Massacre: The Tracers wield missile pods as part of their loadout. | |
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Time Dilation | |
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Time Dilation: While the fleet has FTL travel, its vessels lack FTL communications and so, it takes an increasingly long amount of time for Mikako's messages to reach Noboru as she travels farther from Earth; she compares it to twentieth-century air mail. | |
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Minimalist Cast | |
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Minimalist Cast: Mikako and Noboru are the only two characters ever seen onscreen, at least in the original film; the Lysithea's Computer Voice doesn't really count. | |
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Subspace Ansible | |
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Subspace Ansible: Inverted; while UN spacecraft are capable of FTL travel, they lack FTL communications. Ironically, a newspaper near the end of the film reports that the generation of starships built after Mikako departed will have the FTL communication capability that the ships of her fleet lack. | |
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Reactionless Drive | |
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Reactionless Drive: According to Words of Love/Across the Stars, Tracers use gravity control to move. | |
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False Camera Effects: This aspect is particularly impressive and demonstrates Shinkai's attention to detail, giving the anime a greater degree of realism. | |
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No New Fashions in the Future | |
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No New Fashions in the Future: Fashions don't seem to have changed much over the course of the story. Noboru's UN Navy tunic even resembles something a Cold War-era officer would wear rather than someone about to go into space. | |
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Gray Rain of Depression | |
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Gray Rain of Depression: It is raining heavily when Noboru tries to gather the resolve to let go of Mikako. And then the message she had sent 1 year ago arrives; by the time he finishes reading it, so does the rain. | |
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Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass | |
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Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Despite her young age and appearance being out of place in a military setting, Mikako proves to be a highly effective pilot, engaging and defeating numerous Tarsians during the film's final battles. | |
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Heartbroken Badass | |
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Heartbroken Badass: When the fleet is makes a series of long-distance jumps, it increases the communications delay between her and Noboru. Their increasing distance leads Mikako to wonder if Noboru will wait for her, and this culminates in her putting her feelings into the final battle, where she tallies a large number of kills against the Tarsians. | |
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Religious and Mythological Theme Naming | |
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Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: Words of Love/Across the Stars names the other three starships with the Lysithea. They are Elara, Himala and Leda, all named for women from Greek myth. | |
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Foreign Language Theme | |
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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. | |
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FTLTravel | |
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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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Fantastic Romance | |
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Fantastic Romance: The degree of separation between Mikako and Noboru is a consequence of FTL Travel. | |
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Angst | |
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Angst: The genuine, increasing anguish of both characters resulting from their separation is central to the story. | |
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Offscreen Moment of Awesome | |
| Voices of a Distant Star / int_c5b47b36 | comment |
Offscreen Moment of Awesome: The manga doesn't depict the Final Battle. The penultimate chapter ends with Mikako flying up from Agartha's surface towards the fight, and the final one jumps right to the aftermath. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: A couple of times, trains bearing containers marked "United Nations Spacy" are seen. | |
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Cool Starship | |
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Cool Starship: The Lysithea and its sister vessels of the UN Navy possess a warp engine and beam weaponry that can curve at right angles to hit enemies. | |
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I Will Wait for You | |
| Voices of a Distant Star / int_c8d6d621 | comment |
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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Magic Skirt | |
| Voices of a Distant Star / int_c978ad0b | comment |
Magic Skirt: The skirt of Mikako's school uniform stays down even in zero-g. | |
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Child Soldiers | |
| Voices of a Distant Star / int_c9c756a8 | comment |
Child Soldiers: Mikako is decidedly of the precocious variety, being the only member of the fleet's crew to appear in the anime. The manga does lampshade her lack of experience. | |
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Lead the Target | |
| Voices of a Distant Star / int_d2f577a1 | comment |
Lead the Target: Mikako is shown doing this against a drone during her Tracer training. In Words of Love/Across the Stars, Tarsians do it to her too. | |
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Imported Alien Phlebotinum | |
| Voices of a Distant Star / int_d45ad2f5 | comment |
Imported Alien Phlebotinum: According to Words of Love/Across the Stars, Tracers are based on the remains of technology found in Martian ruins. | |
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Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale | |
| Voices of a Distant Star / int_d525f857 | comment |
Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: Several times, the Lysithea's computer declares that Tarsian forces are at something thousand without stating any units. From context, distance of some sort is implied, but never outright stated. | |
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Roboteching | |
| Voices of a Distant Star / int_d5995bfd | comment |
Roboteching: Ships in the Lysithea task force use their particle cannons to great effect against the smaller Tarsian mecha: the cannons are mounted in groups and fire beams that can curve at right angles. | |
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Benevolent Alien Invasion | |
| Voices of a Distant Star / int_d8ec79d5 | comment |
Benevolent Alien Invasion: It is implied the Tarsians attacked humanity to give them the motivation to venture into space and challenge them as a species. | |
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Action Girl | |
| Voices of a Distant Star / int_dae5c997 | comment |
Action Girl: Mikako is a capable combat pilot despite her emotional burdens. | |
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High-Pressure Blood | |
| Voices of a Distant Star / int_dc0d80ee | comment |
High-Pressure Blood: Tarsians bleed in dramatic delayed-reaction jets when they are critically injured. | |
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Rain Aura | |
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Rain Aura | |
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Determinator | |
| Voices of a Distant Star / int_e567510d | comment |
Determinator: After coming to terms with her feelings for Noboru during the Final Battle, Mikako realises that she desires nothing more than to return to his side and subsequently displays a hitherto unseen combat prowess, shooting down multiple Tarsians in the process. | |
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| Voices of a Distant Star / int_e596f27b | type |
Star-Crossed Lovers | |
| Voices of a Distant Star / int_e596f27b | comment |
Star-Crossed Lovers: The first of Shinkai's major uses of this trope, with Mikako and Noboru being separated by FTL travel without FTL communications, leaving an increasingly large time gap between her emails to him. Words of Love/Across the Stars's English translation even outright uses the phrase. | |
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Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder | |
| Voices of a Distant Star / int_e67ff203 | comment |
Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder: In Words of Love/Across the Stars Noboru gets a girlfriend during the one-year silence from Mikako. He rationalises it away as never having formalised a relationship with Mikako. Even after getting the email, they don't break up until the second year of college, and he mentions having had two more in the eight-year gap between that and her final email depicted in the film. | |
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Humongous Mecha | |
| Voices of a Distant Star / int_e6f18344 | comment |
Humongous Mecha: The suits deployed by the UN Navy are called Tracers. | |
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No Ending | |
| Voices of a Distant Star / int_ea2e9f2d | comment |
No Ending / Ambiguous Ending: The anime is open-ended and only subtly implies that Mikako and Noboru are eventually reunited. Conversely, the manga adaptation adds some resolution by making it explicit that Noboru is in the rescue force coming for them. | |
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Product Placement | |
| Voices of a Distant Star / int_f511ea9b | comment |
Product Placement: At one point, a can of Qoo is shown. | |
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Laser Blade | |
| Voices of a Distant Star / int_f8cddfb2 | comment |
Laser Blade: Energy swords are part of the Tracer's combat loadout, though according to Words of Love/Across the Stars it is actually a particle cutter rather than using light or plasma. | |
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Darkest Hour | |
| Voices of a Distant Star / int_f91d1d4f | comment |
Darkest Hour: For both characters, it is not the Final Battle, but how dangerously close they are to reaching the Despair Event Horizon over their separation. | |
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| Voices of a Distant Star / int_fceae121 | type |
Alternate Self | |
| Voices of a Distant Star / int_fceae121 | comment |
Alternate Self: Possibly. In a Mind Screw sequence late in the film, Mikako sees another version of herself, one who is older and has a wedding band. Whether this is a self-induced hallucination out of her anguish, a psychic attack from the Tarsians or something else is left unanswered. | |
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