Hoshizora Kiseki

Kozue is a girl in love with the stars, full of life, dreams and hopes of a summer romance. With her treasured fragment of a fallen star hanging from her wrist, she begins to hear someone calling her – something summoning her to a place far away from her home.

Ginga is a boy with a strange affinity for the Flowlight satellite that holds a hope of contact with distant travelers of the stars. As part of a government program, he lives in a bubble of sterile filtered air and isolation intended to better permit him to harmonize with the Flowlight.

On one summer night, they are both drawn to an isolated planetarium, to a place where direct contact with the Flowlight is possible and to a fateful meeting with each other.

This is a bit of a saccharine fantasy romance story of boy and girl in unusual circumstances, who are drawn together by their fates.

I had never heard of an animation company directly releasing a new title via the web, but after I did some research, I was surprised to learn that CoMix Wave also worked a number of other uncommon series – such as Voices of a Distant Star, The Promised Place and the upcoming Byousoku 5 Centimeter - All of which are unusual and beautiful animation stories.

And Hoshizora Kiseki lives up to this reputation. The artistry is great, the music is strangely entrancing, and the story is bewilderingly simple, but it works to be both entertaining and distinctive. And if you don't mind the loose ends and unanswered questions, then you might find some enjoyment in this short single episode OVA.

I have posted some snaps of the series.