在朴素小镇里土生土长的少女三叶，因周围的环境和家传神社加诸的职责等因素心生不满，憧憬着有一天能离开小镇到大都市里生活。某天，她在睡梦中与生活在东京的少年泷交换了灵魂，原本素不相识的少年与少女，在时空奇迹的作用下产生了命运的交集，而唯一维系着两人的，便是彼此的“名字”。

未曾相識的兩人，
不可解的相遇，
讓命運的齒輪開始轉動──
家住深山的女高中生三葉，每天過著鬱鬱寡歡的生活。身為町長的父親參與的選舉、家中神社的古老習俗、狹小的村莊──在莫名在意四周眼光的年紀，她對都會生活懷抱強烈憧憬。
「下輩子，請讓我生為東京的帥哥！」
某日，三葉夢見自己變成男高中生。不曾看過的房間、不認識的朋友、繁華的街道與時髦的咖啡廳──三葉在夢裡盡情享受了渴望的都市生活。
而住在東京的男高中生──瀧，也做了奇怪的夢。在夢裡，他是家住深山的女高中生。
偶有遺落的記憶與時間，不可思議卻不斷持續的夢境……三葉和瀧終於察覺：
「我和他（她）交換了身體嗎？」

Mikako Nagamine is recruited as a pilot to fight in the interstellar war against a force of alien invaders, leaving behind her one true love. Mikako’s only connection to Noboru Terao, who continues living the life of an ordinary student, is through cell phone text messages. As Mikako travels light years away, it takes longer and longer for Noboru to receive her messages, until finally one arrives eight years and seven months after she sent it…

生活在东京的高中男生泷以及生活在乡下的高中女生三叶，以做梦为契机交换了灵魂。泷对女孩的身体感到陌生，对未知的乡下生活感到困惑，但还是逐渐习惯了这种感觉。他想更多地了解这具身体的主人——三叶，而“三叶”不同寻常的举止也让身边的人逐渐生疑……

ABOUT VOICES OF A DISTANT STAR
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).

夢で見た少年と少女が経験する恋と奇跡の物語。山深い田舎町に暮らす女子高校生・宮水三葉が夢で見た、東京に暮らす男子高校生・立花瀧。出会うことのない二人の出逢い。少女と少年の奇跡の物語が、いま動き出す。

The story is set one month after a comet has fallen for the first time in a thousand years in Japan. Mitsuha, a high school girl living in the countryside, wants to live in the city because she is tired of life in the country. Then, there's Taki. He's a high school student living in Tokyo with his friends while working as a part-timer at an Italian restaurant. He also has a strong interest in fine arts involving architecture. One day, Mitsuha dreams of herself as a young man. On the other hand, Taki also has a dream where he is a female student attending high school in the countryside. What's the secret behind their dreams?

The third installment of the manga adaptation of the film that took the world by storm!
To save Mitsuha and all of Itomori from the comet Tiamat, Taki joins up with Saya-chin and Tesshi to evacuate the town. But Mitsuha's father is stubborn and refuses to listen...

On rainy mornings, Takao can never bring him-self to go to school-instead, he spends that time at the beautiful Shinjuku Gyoen gardens and finds a brief reprieve from everything else in his life among the trees and flowers. And on one of those mornings, he discovers a mysterious woman named Yukino in his haven, skipping work, and an unlikely friendship blooms between them. But though these two are the center of this story, they are far from the only ones trying to find their way in life.
From director Makoto Shinkai comes a deeper look at his award-winning 2013 film, The Garden of Words, full of additional scenes and perspectives to show a whole new side of the many characters who brought the film to life.

For fans of Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs and Murata Sayaka’s Earthlings, this Japanese bestseller from renowned anime director Makoto Shinkai features four inspirational and heartwarming vignettes following women and their cats in their quests for love and connection.

Lying alone on the edge of the sidewalk in an abandoned cardboard box, a nameless narrator contemplates the indifferent world around him. With his mother long gone, his only company is the sound of the nearby train. Just as he fears that the end is near, a young woman peers down at him, this fateful encounter changing their lives forever.

So begins the first story in She and Her Cat, a collection of four interrelated, stream-of-conscious short stories in which four women and their feline companions explore the frailty of life, the pain of isolation, and the limits of communication.

With clever narration alternating between the cats and their owners, She and Her Cat offers a unique and sly commentary on human foibles and our desire for connection. A whimsical short story anthology unlike any other, it effortlessly demonstrates that even in our darkest, most lonesome moments, we are still united to this wonderous world—often in ways we could never have expected.

“Era um dia de chuva, no começo da primavera. Eu fui acolhido por ela.” Um gato e uma garota que mora sozinha se conhecem na primavera… ao viver sozinha, ela aprende a alegria e a solidão de ser independente, enquanto o gato, que recebeu o nome de Chobi, descobre a existência do mundo através dessa garota. O tempo desses dois passa lentamente, mas a severidade do mundo acaba por alcançá-la…