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「ユウサリ中央（セントラル） 夜想道13番地 郵便館BEE-HIVE」 (Yuusari Chuuou (Sentoraru) Yasoukyoku Michi 13 Banchi Yuubinkan BEE-HIVE)
“Yuusari Central Nocturne Street #13 Post Office BEE-HIVE”
Damn, this show is such a tease. Just as I start settling into an episode, it ends the very next minute. I wish this series was already done airing so that I could marathon the whole thing in a day or two, but I guess that means they’re doing something right here. Since I’m watching a lot of shows concurrently, I rarely have the urge to see the next episode of a series right away — there’s always the next episode of another series I can watch in the meantime. However, Tegami Bachi has an odd way of keeping me enticed. While watching the steady character growth of Lag and Niche is interesting enough, the story drops little hints along the way to foreshadow things to come.
Early on in the episode, Connor’s ominous response to Lag’s enthusiastic desire to meet Sylvette alone kept me watching attentively. After that, I was eagerly hoping to hear about what happened to her and Gauche, making the rest of the episode just fly by. Ultimately, the topic wasn’t brought up again until the end when Zazie referred to Gauche as a former Bee, but the introduction of Aria, reappearance of Largo as the master of the Bee-Hive, and Lag’s examination kept me distracted enough to not even mind. They did an awesome job of giving me things to look forward to and letting that feeling linger around for a bit by delving into another part of the story before finally getting back to it. I’m not sure whether this is accredited to good directing, screenplay, or both, but there’s never a dull moment this way and pacing is never an issue.
This week, we see Lag’s arrival to Yuusari Central where the Bee-Hive post office is located. After crossing the water surface level Bifrost bridge (watched by the Signal/Signaless twins), accepting Niche as his dingo, diving into the water to save Steak, and meeting up with Connor again, Lag finally arrives at the Letter Bee post office for his exam. There, he’s surprised to run into Aria Link (Koshimizu Ami), who now serves as the sub-master (i.e. vice president) of the Bee-Hive. However, him and Niche are even more surprised by the fact that Largo Lloyd, the rare animal collector from before, is actually the master of the whole place. Once everything’s cleared up, Lag is dispatched on his examination of delivering an actual letter to the town of Raspberry Hill. Taking the test with him is one Macky Gee, who is overconfident in his abilities despite lacking any understanding on how to use a shindan and 22 others failing before him. While there is no time limit for the delivery, an encounter with Gaichuu is guaranteed on route.
During the eventual run-in with a centipede-like Gaichuu, a Glen Keith, Macky proves to be completely useless and can’t fire a shindan for the life of him. Luckily, Lag and Niche arrive in time to take out the Gaichuu, saving the examiner Zazie (Kishio Daisuke) and his black panther dingo Wasiolka from stepping in themselves. At Raspberry Hill, the recipient isn’t happy about the muddied up letter Lag delivered and praises Macky’s work instead. Zazie arrives shortly after though, and with the help of Lag’s shindan, reveals how Macky forged a clean copy of his letter to make up for the one he muddied up as well. As the examiner, Zazie deems Macky unfit to be Letter Bee and asks for his shindan gun back, but praises Lag’s abilities and speedy delivery, which rivals the record time for exam takers. Zazie adds that he’s actually the top record holder now that Gauche Suede is no longer a Letter Bee, leaving Lag in disbelief.
Back to what I was saying about keeping me enticed by foreshadowing things to come: what the hell happened to Gauche (and Sylvette) these past five years? Based on the preview, Lag will meet up with Sylvette next time and probably answer that question, but waiting another week before finding out sucks! Also, it looks like we’ll hear more about Aria’s past with Gauche, which she’s reminded of by Lag’s silver hair and sepia-colored eyes — the same Albisian traits as Gauche.
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I feel absolutely the same as what you written in the first pharagraph. It’s the most entertaining show in this season for me, I can’t wait for the next episodes, but I don’t want to read the manga either, because it would spoil the whole thing.
If you think the anime is like this, the manga is far worse. You will be reading it and then it comes to the end of the chapter and you will be screaming WTF I WANT MOARRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *collapse* and cry for a month for the next chapter to come out.
Yep but anime version is almost identical for manga so its par with cliffhangers 🙂
I’d really love to know how Lag reacts when Sylvette points a gun at him. 😀
Ahh, much better episode than the last few ones. The whole thing about Lag and Niche being called ‘pantsu kyoudai’ is hilarious.
Niche was throwing out some incredibly cute faces today. Her blushing was like a whole new level of cute.
I thought the fight against the Gaichuu this week was very well done.
Koshimizu Ami and Fukuyama Jun in another couple pairing show… Coincidence? I think not.
Anyways, I never expected Lag and Niche to catch up with Macky since they were gonna walk all the way. I guess some noob was needed in order for Lag to shine at the exam. I’m really looking forward to next episode primarily because of Sylvette (I’m curious to see how Mizuki Nana will voice this character).
@ Kit Kat
I think you might laugh at how Lag reacts to Syvette pointing a gun at him. Anyway, YES! Syvette finally shows up next episode. Both her and Niche are really cool. Her coolness won’t show until probably a while later unfortunately but still, I’m going to like this. Overall so far, this series is great. The animation in my opinion is nice as well as the art style. The world itself is pretty interesting. In some ways, it sort of reminds me of Kino no Tabi.
@ Cherubium
I guess that means the manga is good right? Every chapter so far leaves you wanting more and it just sucks that you then have to wait. So it’s good and bad then. Good that it makes you want more and bad because you freaking have to wait!
The 2 series I look most foward to each week are this one and Kimi No Todake. Each is very well drawn, the storylines are superb and the characters are memorable. Niche is just way too cute (and dangerous)!!!! When he finally calls her his “dingo” she whips out the boxer shorts and steps right into them. Way too funny!
@Silver
Yes you are correct. If you read the manga, be prepared to regret it since it will draw you in so much and then you reach the end of the chapter with a GIANT cliffhanger.
Watched the raw and it follows the manga closley. I personally find Steak my fav char and it’s funny when you learn what Steak really is.
There is NO way that was 20 minutes long… O____o.
This is pure evil. You don’t expect an otaku to wait a entire week for after a cliffhanger like that. Its just cruel.
Since there are only 33 chapters out for the manga, I thought 20 was a good place to stop at or else I might regret reading all of it ^_^
I’m surprised that they went through 3 chapters in a single episode yet it didn’t seem rushed at all O.O
I can’t wait until the next episode XD
Thank you so much for the screenshots. Really wanna know what happen to Gauche since Lag respect him so much. >_<
Nice ep, Niche face is cute XD.
https://randomc.net/image/Letter%20Bee/Letter%20Bee%20-%2007%20-%20Large%2018.jpg
DAwwwww
@ Cherubium
If I’m not mistaken, isn’t Steak
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Shoot. I really don’t know how to use those spoiler brackets.
@Silver
you use instead of []. anyways yeah as well as other stuff and just love the fact that he realises that one day Niche will eat him
I felt the chills when Zazie casually said that Gauche is no longer a letter bee. It’s going to be fun finding out what exactly happened during these 5 years.
Also, I totally want to take Sylvette home even though I haven’t even met her yet!
Wait, sorry but I’m still confuse how to use the spoiler brackets. So it’s suppose to be something like [spoiler] some text [/ending code] right?
Also yeah, it’s funny how he knows Niche will eat him one day yet he is still traveling with her.
@ Eater-of-All
Isn’t she great? Her personality are awesome too! It was surprising though she is totally different than what you would expect seeing from those “memories” that Lag saw of her.
But yeah, it was shocking when Zazie said that. All those long years Lag worded hard to catch up and BAM, Gauche is no longer there.
Silver
Use HTML style tags with angle brackets for spoilers. There’s a little blurp right above the comment box explaining how.
Also, I edited your comment above to fix the tags there.
noooo gauche isnt a bee anymore??? TT
i hate how fast the time goes when im watching thisss
Second best show of the season (Sawako better watch out or you getting down from #1 position). Can we call this suffering a troll? They are punishing us by forcing a full week wait! There must be a way to complain. 🙂 Make Tegami a Mon-Fri show!!!
From happiness (Niche stepping into the pantsu) to total disbelieve (Gauche not a Bee anymore) this ep had it all KUDOS!
from the manga I only read chapter 7,
I liked it and started the anime,
hooray for SJmagazine 😀
I like the young Aria Link, (I wanna cosplay her)