Award-winning director and author Makoto Shinkai offers a romantic
sci-fi tale about young love and space adventure, based on his animated
film. This new novel gives readers more insight into Mikako and Noboru's
relationship.
Fans of the original series will again be immersed in the beautiful
world of Shinkai.
The word, "world"...
I vaguely thought it meant anywhere there was cell phone reception.
It's the year 2046. Mikako Nagamine and Noboru Terao are middle school
classmates, tentatively sharing an unspoken first love--but unbeknownst
to him, Mikako has been recruited into the UN Space Force, and instead
of going on to high school, will join the spacecraft Lysithea to search
for alien Tarsians. As she travels further and further to the outer
reaches of the solar system, the time it takes for a text message to
reach the Earth grows longer and longer. Back on Earth, time passes
normally for Noboru, but as the years pass he still can't forget the
voice on the other side of the cell phone...
Steeped in nostalgia and memory, Arata Kanoh brings to the page the
award-winning OVA by acclaimed filmmaker Makoto Shinkai, director of
She and Her Cat, The Place Promised in Our Early Days, Garden of
Words, 5 Centimeters per Second, and the highest-grossing anime film of
all time, Your Name.
Arata Kanoh is a writer who has produced novelizations of Makoto
Shinkai's other works, including 5 Centimeters Per Second (also
available from Vertical).
