Hoshi wo Ou Kodomo


Children Who Chase Lost Voices

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Alternative Titles

Synonyms: Children who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below, Journey to Agartha
Japanese: 星を追う子ども
English: Children Who Chase Lost Voices
German: Children Who Chase Lost Voices
Spanish: Viaje a Agartha
French: Children Who Chase Lost Voices
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Information

Type: Movie
Episodes: 1
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: May 7, 2011
Licensors: Sentai Filmworks, GKIDS
Studios: CoMix Wave Films
Source: Original
Genres: AdventureAdventure, FantasyFantasy, RomanceRomance
Duration: 1 hr. 56 min.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 7.501 (scored by 101833101,833 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #20392
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #1187
Members: 225,362
Favorites: 703

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Synopsis

If you could turn all your memories into a song, what would it resemble?

Between being an exceptional student and taking care of the house alone during her mother's absence, Asuna Watase's only distraction is listening to her old crystal radio in her secret mountain hideout. One day, she accidentally tunes to a mysterious and melancholic melody, different from anything she has ever heard before. Soon after, an enigmatic boy named Shun saves her from a dangerous creature, unknowingly dragging Asuna on a long journey to a long lost land bound to surpass her very imagination, turning her once melodic life into an intricate requiem.

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Background

Winner of the Platinum Grand Prize during the 2012 Future Film Festival, held in Italy.

Characters & Voice Actors

Mana

Supporting
Hidaka, Rina
Japanese

Risa

Supporting
Shimamoto, Sumi
Japanese

Soldier

Supporting
Hamada, Kenji
Japanese

Watase, Father

Supporting
Maeda, Takeshi
Japanese

Seri

Supporting
Itou, Kanae
Japanese

Staff

Shinkai, Makoto
Director, Director of Photography, Editing, Color Design, Creator, Screenplay
Kumaki, Anri
Theme Song Lyrics, Theme Song Composition, Theme Song Performance


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Ending Theme

"Hello Goodbye & Hello" by Anri Kumaki (熊木杏里)




Reviews

Mar 25, 2024
Story: Much of a new genre story, Unexpected twists and turns. Adventurous for sure.
Characters: the respect, coordination, waiting, wanting, giving and spirited all are up for the whole movie.
Art: it's great that all those spiritual sensation made through the vision of the anime artist.
Fitting: as like most Comixwave productions involves cat as their privilege of honorable tradition hereby it shows the exact timing where it's the purpose of most of the main leads taking them to their destination throughout the journey. Love cats!!
Overall: Typically the music, the soul and the humility all go hand on hand with this anime movie, it ...
May 28, 2025
Mixed Feelings
I think this is perhaps the lightest, featheriest 5 I've given a film. It's like on the cusp between a 4 and 5. The reasoning for this is that the quality gap between the writing and the art of this film is massive. The OST is georgous, perhaps the best from Tenmon we've ever seen. However, the story is incredibly tedious and monotonous with Shikai attempting to go full Studio Ghibli. On one hand it's a bit nice that each of his earlier films did not turn out to be beta versions of Kimi No Na Wa, on the other hand this seems kinda worse ...
May 21, 2025
Lots of parts are very reminiscent of Laputa Castle in the Sky but this is far worse, really wastes 2 hours of screen time on barely anything. It's more like Shuna's Journey or The Boy and the Heron or The Cat Returns, hell even like Paradise Island or Atlantis or any other of a million stories just like it that journey into the mcguffin fantasy land to do the mcguffin thing. The problem is this doesn't do anything with it. It's a generic journey through the Underworld to save the dead lover noncharacter, and even lampshades itself as such.
I'm confused why they decided to do ...

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