Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee

Story There is a strange land called Amberground where it is constantly night, and an artificial sun only partially illuminates it. A mail delivery service known as “Bee Hive” recruits young “Letter Bees” to travel near and far and deliver letters. To make things difficult, the land on which they travel is teeming with monsters called “Gaichuu.” The letter bees are equipped with special guns and a protective pet called a “dingo” to overcome such challenges. Lag Seeing is our main letter bee with a special power and dingo, and he strives to become the top letter bee. With such an interesting andoriginal premise, was the story executed well? I have to say that Letter Bee started out strong. We first see Lag as a distressed, confused young child whose mother was taken away by the capital. He is nothing more than a “letter” needing to be delivered to a person who will take care of him. You follow Lag as he encounters an inspirational letter bee named Gauche, and upon being delivered safely, he swears to become a letter bee just like him. Eventually, Lag takes a letter bee exam, finds a dingo, and meets many other letter bees who will occasionally work alongside him. Unfortunately, Gauche isn't among them because he suddenly goes missing before Lag arrives. The series manages to develop a lot of mystery up to this point about his whereabouts, Lag's mother, and the strange events that occur in their world. Letter Bee also becomes a bit political as we gain insight into Amberground's system of government. Just before midway of the series, all of the mysteries are temporarily forgotten, and filler episodes take over. The majority of the show consists of Lag making deliveries to random people whose personal stories range from compelling to cheesy, looking at flashbacks, blasting up Gaichuu, getting sick with a fever, racing, celebrating Christmas, and so on. After a while, these episodes feel like a waste of time. I personally wanted the story to move back to the mystery, especially with the anime nearing its end so fast. The final few episodes actually grow darker in nature and return to the mystery that made this series so fascinating in the beginning. My friend and I thought that this was what Letter Bee should have been all along. In the end, the story leaves off with much to be desired; however, a second season has recently been announced which explains why we ended up watching so many fillers. Hopefully Letter Bee’s continuation will explore more of its dark mystery and answer some questions. To answer my own question, I would say that the story was not executed as well as it could have been, but I do look at this anime under a more positive light knowing that a second season is soon on its way. There is much potential left for Letter Bee to bring out. Characters The characters certainly drive the series and make it very interesting. Lag Seeing, as I have so often mentioned already, is an innocent, determined child who possesses the power to look directly into people’s hearts upon shooting his gun. He views himself as delivering the hearts of people rather than just mere letters. However, his major drawback is that he is a crybaby in every single episode. Every little thing seems to touch his heart and bring tears down his cheeks. Either you like him or you don’t. I found him to be quite likeable despite his drawback. Lag travels with his dingo called Niche who is rather compulsive in attacking others and is protective of him. It is very fun to watch them interact during their travels. We also get to really know the other letter bees and Bee Hive officers. They each have their own personality, strength, motive, and unique dingo. Their backgrounds are slowly revealed through flashbacks; however, a few of them have yet to receive proper development which I suspect has been saved for season two. Nevertheless, they are strong and memorable characters. The rest of the cast consists of people whom Lag meets while delivering letters: a lonely little girl, a pair of lovers, a worried mother, a con artist, you name it. While a few of them are pretty interesting, it is hard to just care about them all and to see the show focused on them so much. Their purpose more or less serves to give Lag and the other letter bees some character development. Animation, Setting, and Music The animation is a mixed bag. The character designs are great, as well as the background scenery for the towns and such. However, it has not been a thrill ride to watch the fights that occur during every delivery. The animation there is so-so, and the monsters are a bit too CGI for my tastes. They never feel like they fit quite right in the show. This season worked very hard on developing its setting and atmosphere. They are simply Letter Bee’s strongest points as of right now. The atmosphere can be rather haunting because the world is always dark and bleak beyond the lively, warm towns. The background music largely contributes to this with its gentle, spooky tunes and classical music. Overall Letter Bee is a very unique and atmospheric anime full of deep mysteries and strong characters. Its story might have gotten a bit weak midway with all its fillers and flashbacks, but it has so much potential for the second season. This season was all about building up the characters and atmosphere; the second one just might get straight to business. With high anticipation for its continuation, I recommend this anime.

This is 100% the worst piece of hot garbage i have ever seen in my life. It's about an ugly sh*ta stalking some man he met years ago, stalking his sister just because they're related, destroying the mail he delivers and then getting praised for it, etc. Not to mention the author is most certainly attracted to minors, given how many weird, uncomfortable scenes there are of actual children with extensive talk of their underwear habits. This show legitimately made me uncomfortable numerous times and I think nobody should watch this. Even prisoners at Guantanamo Bay should be spared from this sorry excuse for ashow.

THIS SHOW MAKES FAMILY GUY LOOK LIKE A STORYTELLING MASTERPIECE Seriously, literal garbage "Family Guy Funny Moments" compilations are far more captivating and enjoyable than this show, because at least some of them are so terrible you can make fun of them. Anyways, I don't typically write reviews, but seeing not a single negative review on this show I feel absolutely compelled to rip into this horrendous show. "Letter Bee" is one of the absolute worst things I have ever had the displeasure of watching, for so many different reasons. The show is a lazy, uninspired, generic, piece of garbage that fails at anything it could've hadgoing for it. The thing that makes this worse though, is it's not even so bad that you can sit and laugh at it; it's boring. I will try my best to breakdown why I feel this way. The Characters This show has one of the worst cast of characters in any show I have ever seen, and almost every major character aids in on being a problem for the show, the major offenders will get their own category but before anything goes further, this show has one of the most boring and lazy character naming convention ever. Nobody's name is clever or smart and almost all of them are lazy ranging from words like "Lag Seeing" and "Niche" to just the first name you get when you look up most popular baby names for boys like Connor. Anyone not mentioned is extremely one note, and the only character with a semblance of personality that gets actual screen time is Gauche. Lag Seeing The star and protagonist of the show, Lag Seeing, the perfect place to begin. The first major problem with him is that almost everything that happens in the show is handed to him on a silver platter, and within the realm of the show he is incredibly overpowered and no problem is actually an issue for him. Now that doesn't sound bad; protagonists like Goku, Ainz Ooal Gown, and Rimuru Tempest all fall into being overpowered and solve things with almost no issue, and they're great protagonists, but Lag Seeing fails to do anything to make himself likable when it comes to these situations. Often times Lag will just start crying, his magical overpowered red eye starts glowing, and boom problem is over. Nothing more to it. No Kamehameha, no wits, no nothing. His red amber just starts glowing and the problem is gone. He's also a particularly bad crybaby, he responds to almost everything by crying and often feels like a frustrating protagonist more than anything. I really mean it when I say every solution is handed to him on a silver platter; there is a part where he doesn't have a partner dingo (which is essential to becoming a Letter Bee) and literally within the next 5 seconds he meets an overpowered dragon girl that has never listened to anyone before but now listens to him for some reason, we'll get more into her later. And even when he isn't crying, his personality is just boring and bland. His only motivation to become a Letter Bee is because he met some guy when he was like 4 years old and has spent his whole life obsessing over this singular guy. Even when he's finally becoming a Letter Bee after passing all the tests with flying colours, he is STILL crying about this guy he met when he was 5 years old. Let's not lag on this topic any longer, otherwise I'll begin repeating myself. Before we move on, he's also a bit of a nosy brat too, there's an episode where a man is writing letters to his mom that he fills with lies to not worry her, but the whole episode Lag keeps going WAH THIS LETTER IS FILLED WITH LIES THIS LETTER IS ALL LIES I CAN'T DELIVER LIES despite some of his idol's first words to him being that he does not inquire about the letter whatsoever, he just delivers it. Niche This might unironically be the worst character in the show. She is the previously mentioned dingo of Lag Seeing that is some kind of dragon hybrid thing with claws and has supposedly never listened to anyone aside Lag. There is nothing more to say other than the writers used this character to write all their fetishes into. That's it. She hates wearing panties, she has a kink for being treated like a dog or slave, and those two traits make up her entire existence outside of her being overpowered and beating up anything Lag needs help with, and by that I mean she hits someone once and then Lag blasts his red beam and wins. There's nothing more to say, she's the fetish character. The Plot This shows plot is dumb. Lag Seeing is just obsessed with Gauche, and the plot quickly spirals into a horribly generic "government is bad who would've guessed" plot that a million other things have done before and did it better too. Every single character interaction is Lag shooting something, memories and "feelings of the heart" are revealed, they all cry. If you want to watch a show with an overpowered main character obsessed with an older man they only knew as a baby where everyone's weapons absorb their life force that also eventually twists into a "the government is evil" plot, PLEASE do yourself a favour and go watch Kill la Kill instead. Setting, Music, Visuals As for music, this show has a god awful opening and ending song while the music within the actual show is just forgettable. The setting is somewhat generic, and the pretty night skies looming over desert being every location starts to wear real fast. The actual animation is terribly mediocre and the CGI for the robot enemies are absolutely awful. To save your time, it's bland to look at and anything that did look nice either rarely gets used or will get stale fast. Worldbuilding is actually horrendous in this show even though they try to make it out as if the world they are in is an extremely important part. The show also has an obsession with raining konpeito all over the screen. Speaking of... Flashbacks This show is obsessed with flashbacks, stuff that doesn't need to be flashbacks will still be put into flashbacks for no reason, and they always put a sepia/greyscale filter for them alongside raining konpeito all over the screen. In the Christmas episode, there was a scene that would've flowed finely but they skipped to Lag and his friend on a train and then showed a flashback that occurred roughly 5 minutes ago in world. It gets annoying fast. Not much more to say on that. The Singular Diamond There is one good thing I can say about this show. One singular good thing. Every episode ends with these funny yet strangely long chibi segments featuring Dr. Thunderland teaching at the "Letter Bee Academy." This is the sole thing that holds up the show. It's pure chaos in a jar trying to be held together by Dr. Thunderland alongside a lot of actually funny fourth wall breaking jokes, such as a character who hadn't shown up in the main show yet commented on the fact that he hasn't. Almost all focus is taken off any of the main characters and shifted onto Dr. Thunderland; even the segments that don't star him, the full focus of those segments is usually about him not being there. The strange thing though is that Letter Bee Academy segments almost always succeed at humour, while every attempt at humour in the main show is cringe worthy. Speaking of comparisons to the main show, the Dr. Thunderland segments do more world building than the actual show. Summary aka TL;DR Characters annoying. Protagonist horrible. Plot generic. Too many flashbacks. Very forgettable overall. Dr. Thunderland Letter Bee Academy segments funny. Only watch Dr. Thunderland segments and enjoyment will be raised tenfold.

Wow what a favorite of mine. Tegami Bachi for me, is one of my kind of secret favorites, or rather prized possessions that really hasn't been seen by that many people, unfortunately (I know not that well explained couldn't really say it in any other way). So what makes it so special? A lot of things really. For one, no Anime, none has really anything similar to this plot and setting. When have you ever seen an Anime that is based on delivering Letters to people, that also are memories, stories and many other assortments of things. Not to deny any credit to the amazingsetting, that is almost dream like in its conception, dark, cold and dangerous, yet filled with history and adventure. But lets get to the meat of the show, Lag Seeing, our main character. Lag had always wanted to be a Letter Bee, and after seeing a massive role model Gauche Suede, a Letter Bee who went missing and at a legendary cost as well. But wait, why? This is likely due to the fact that this amazing land, it is also filled with dangerous creatures "Gaichu" which are un-killable by traditional means. So therefore, you need a lot of heart to take them down, literally. That's right, to get your Letter to the destination, you have to make it through these monsters, and to do so, YOU GOTTA HAVE HEART. So cliche' yet so good. Most of these scenes have a great dramatic aspect to them, and a pretty good scene of action. And on these escapades, most Letter Bees have a "Dingo" a assistant that travels along side the Bee on their adventures. Niche, your Loli that makes life so much better is fun, loyal and caring for Lag, a generally weak and young well, child. All in all, this show just has to be watched to be fully appreciated. Sure it may be a lot more lengthy than you may like, and with a good some of filler, but the ending and the show that it gives is so worth, and some genuinely meaningful moments. Please watch this show, and share it around, it deserves it.