Tegami Bachi

Tegami Bachi
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Lag Seeing (front) and Gauche Suede (back)
テガミバチ
Genre
Manga
Written byHiroyuki Asada
Published byShueisha
English publisher
ImprintJump Comics
Magazine
English magazine
DemographicShōnen
Original runSeptember 6, 2006 – November 4, 2015
Volumes20 (List of volumes)
Original video animation
Tegami Bachi: Hikari to Ao no Gensou Yawa
Directed byMamoru Kanbe
Produced by
  • Kazuteru Oshikiri
  • Tetsurou Saitou
Written byTetsuya Ooishi
Music byKunihiko Ryo
StudioPierrot+
ReleasedNovember 24, 2008
Runtime27 minutes
Anime television series
Directed byAkira Iwanaga
Produced by
  • Kazuteru Oshikiri
  • Noriko Kobayashi
  • Satoshi Adachi
Written by
  • Tetsuya Ooishi (S1)
  • Masanao Akahoshi (S2)
Music byKunihiko Ryo
StudioPierrot+
Licensed by
Original networkTV Tokyo
English network
Original run October 3, 2009 – March 26, 2011
Episodes50 + 25 OVA (List of episodes)
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Tegami Bachi (テガミバチ, "Letter Bee") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiroyuki Asada. It was first serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Monthly Shōnen Jump from September 2006 to June 2007; after the magazine ceased publication, it was transferred to Jump Square, where it ran from November 2007 to November 2015. Its chapters were collected in 20 tankōbon volumes. The series is set in AmberGround, a land illuminated by an artificial sun, and follows Lag Seeing, a Letter Bee with the ability to see the memories of people and objects, and his personal Dingo Niche on their journeys across AmberGround.

Tegami Bachi was adapted into an anime television series by Pierrot+, which aired for two seasons from October 2009 to March 2011. The manga was licensed for English release in North America by Viz Media; it was published in their Shonen Jump magazine, and they have released its 20 volumes. Both seasons of the anime series have been licensed by Sentai Filmworks.

  1. ^ a b "The Official Website for Tegami Bachi". Viz Media. Archived from the original on August 15, 2018. Retrieved March 11, 2018.
  2. ^ a b Aoki, Deb. "Fall 2009 New Manga Preview". About.com. Archived from the original on September 14, 2009. Retrieved May 17, 2022. Currently featured in Shonen Jump magazine, Tegami Bachi features a mix of fantasy, action and steampunk-flavored sci-fi, all wrapped up in a beautifully drawn package.
  3. ^ "Viz Media to Debut the Imaginative Steampunk Action Manga Series Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee" (Press release). Viz Media. August 24, 2009. Archived from the original on September 30, 2019. Retrieved January 7, 2020 – via Anime News Network.
  4. ^ "Animax Asia airs Letter Bee". Animax Asia, Sony India. Archived from the original on February 19, 2012. Retrieved March 27, 2013.