These little snips of Letter Bee continue to amuse. The irony of this release is that Niche & Steak are pretty much identical in chibi form to their regular form. The topic of the first mini-episode this week is “Dingoes”, and the second focuses on the much-rumored arrival of a […] Read more
I’d say it takes a pretty cynical person not to feel at least a little something for “Letter Bee”. One of the things that’s appealed to me about this show from Day One is that it’s quite different from the overwhelming majority of anime. In short, the emotional palette of […] Read more
I am… the light! I can’t really complain about the entertainment value of this final episode of “Letter Bee”. It was moving, exciting, sad and hopeful. In short, it stuck to what this series does well and achieved a predictably agreeable result. But the fact is that it dodged the […] Read more
Epic was definitely the order of the day for the penultimate episode of Letter Bee. Some of it was predictable, some surprising – but it packed a good deal of excitement and emotional punch. Of course this space correctly called out what Largo Lloyd’s “business trip” was – he was […] Read more
Curse you, PV – you spoiled the cliffhanger ending! But then I suppose no one really thought the Cabernet was dead – we still have two episodes to go. I admit it’s not easy to put much focus on anime reviews what with everything that’s going on right now in […] Read more
This was a truly excellent episode of Tegami Bachi for a number of reasons, which I’ll detail below. First and foremost, though, it excels as the all-important setup episode. In a series with a big plot arc like this one (we’re at almost 50 episodes) there’s a tremendous amount of […] Read more
All the cards are pretty much on the table after this episode. Lawrence has revealed his true nature, the true intentions of Reverse are exposed, and Gauche is forced to choose a side once and for all. I can’t say I found much of what happened in this episode surprising, […] Read more
It’s the return of Connor this week in a wistful but ultimately hopeful episode of “Letter Bee”. It was obvious that there would be a lot of sadness in the aptly named town of Lament, but the script managed to throw the audience a few curveballs. It’s almost remarkable how […] Read more
I’m certainly struck by how much moral ambiguity we’re seeing in anime at the moment. From Madoka Magica to Fractale to Letter Bee, we see a similar scenario playing out – innocents caught in between two sides of dubious moral standing. What’s more, we also seem to be seeing a […] Read more
Tegami Bachi was doing moral ambiguity before Madoka Magica and Fractale made it all hip and cool, and it’s still doing it pretty well. We’re wandering into anime-original territory now and the episodes may have lost a bit of the urgency we were seeing a few weeks ago, but the […] Read more