Is Hoshi no Koe good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. Hoshi no Koe (The Voices of a Distant Star) is a OVA (home-video release) from Winter 2002 by Comix Wave Films, Makoto Shinkai: 1 episodes, about 24 minutes in total, finished, 7.31/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a quiet night. Tagged tragedy and not comedy: this wants attention and the right mood, not background chatter. Rule: heavy drama or psychological tags without comedy → quiet night.
This verdict comes from rules over the title's format, length and tags, not from a review — the rule that fired is named above.
The facts
- Type
- OVA (home-video release)
- Episodes
- 1
- Episode length
- 24 min
- Total time
- about 24 minutes — one evening
- First aired
- Winter 2002
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Comix Wave Films, Makoto Shinkai
- Score
- 7.31/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, aliens, coming of age, drama, mecha, military, space, robots & AI, romance, school, sci-fi, tragedy, war
Data from anime-offline-database (ODbL) as of 2026-07-04; the score is the median of the scores the anime listing sites give it, on a 1–10 scale. Also listed as: Voices of a Distant Star.
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More like this: action · aliens · coming of age · drama · mecha · military · space · robots & AI · romance · school · sci-fi · tragedy · war.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Hoshi no Koe?
- About 24 minutes for all 1 episodes at 24 min each — one evening; at two episodes a night that is 1 evening.
- How many episodes does Hoshi no Koe have?
- 1 episode of 24 min.
- Is Hoshi no Koe finished?
- Yes, Hoshi no Koe is finished (1 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Hoshi no Koe good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. Hoshi no Koe is tagged drama, romance, tragedy; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
- Where is Hoshi no Koe listed?
- Hoshi no Koe is on AniList (id 256) and MyAnimeList (id 256); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
Queue Up is a free tool: enter two AniList usernames and it ranks the anime you both want to watch, rolls one for tonight, runs a bracket to settle it and finds new anime that fit both of you. List data from AniList; title data: anime-offline-database (ODbL), dataset of 2026-07-04; page updated 2026-07-04. Not affiliated with AniList or MyAnimeList. Queue Up is a Somebody Decide program. How it works · Legal & privacy · All lists