Letter Bee
| Tegami Bachi | |
Cover of the first volume as published by Shueisha, featuring Gauche Suede and Lag Seeing
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テガミバチ (Tegamibachi) |
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| Genre | Gaslamp Fantasy, Adventure, Drama, |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Hiroyuki Asada |
| Published by | Shueisha |
| English publisher | |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Monthly Shōnen Jump, Weekly Shōnen Jump, Jump Square |
| English magazine | |
| Original run | September 2006 – November 2015 |
| Volumes | 20 |
| Original video animation | |
| Tegami Bachi: Hikari to Ao no Gensou Yawa | |
| Directed by | Mamoru Kanbe |
| Music by | Kunihiko Ryo |
| Studio | Studio Pierrot |
| Released | November 24, 2008 |
| Runtime | 27 minutes |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Akira Iwanaga |
| Music by | Kunihiko Ryo |
| Studio | Studio Pierrot |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | TV Tokyo |
| Original run | October 3, 2009 – March 27, 2010 |
| Episodes | 25 |
| Original video animation | |
| Tegami Bachi Academy | |
| Studio | Studio Pierrot |
| Released | January 27, 2010 – July 23, 2010 |
| Runtime | 3 minutes (per episode) |
| Episodes | 25 |
| Anime television series | |
| Tegami Bachi REVERSE | |
| Directed by | Akira Iwanaga |
| Music by | Kunihiko Ryo |
| Studio | Studio Pierrot |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | TV Tokyo |
| English network | |
| Original run | October 2, 2010 – March 26, 2011 |
| Episodes | 25 |
Tegami Bachi (テガミバチ Tegami Bachi?, lit. Letter Bee) is a shōnen manga written and illustrated by Hiroyuki Asada. The manga is set in "AmberGround", a fictional land illuminated by an artificial sun. The story follows Lag Seeing, a Letter Bee with the ability to see the memories of people and items, and his personal dingo Niche on their journeys across AmberGround.
The series was first serialized in the September 2006 issue of Monthly Shōnen Jump. After ten chapters, the manga was moved to the new monthly magazine Jump SQ. after the Monthly Shōnen Jump was ended by Shueisha in June 2007. Tegami Bachi was adapted into two separate anime television series, entitled Tegami Bachi and Tegami Bachi REVERSE respectively.
At the 2010 Comic-Con International, Viz Media announced that it acquired the license for Tegami Bachi in North America. The company serialized the manga in the North American Shonen Jump magazine from March 2009 to March 2010. It is currently releasing the English version of the manga in the tankōbon format, with 19 volumes released as of June 2016. Both seasons of the anime have been licensed by Sentai Filmworks.
It was confirmed in April 2015 that the 20th volume would be the last, with the Japanese manga releasing Winter 2015.
The story takes place in AmberGround, a land of perpetual night only partly illuminated by an artificial sun. Lag Seeing is a newly minted delivery boy, called a "Letter Bee", who worked at the Bee Hive delivery service with his Dingo, Niche, and her "pet", Steak, travelling with him. As a Letter Bee, Lag's job is to deliver letters and packages from town to town while avoiding AmberGround's deadliest hazard—Gaichuu, giant armoured insects who attempt to feed off the "heart" that reside within these letters and packages.
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