Tegamibachi Reverse

After Niche carries the wounded and stunned Lag back to the Bee Hive, the Letter Bee finally begins to piece the puzzle together. Now he knows what's happened to Gauche, why the Marauders are so focused on stealing mail and the actual intent of the group controlling both, Reverse. However, when he's forbidden to reveal the truth, Lag is soon forced out of the artificial sunlight and back into the world of perpetual night. And soon Reverse's plot to take down the Letter Bees and overthrow the Amberground government begins to accelerate. If things weren't already bad enough, the giant insect creatures called gaichuu are apparently evolving into something new; there may be traitors working within the Hive; and Niche's sister, who's definitely not human friendly, shows up to turn family drama into a full-scale siege! It all spells serious trouble for the Letter Bees, but if anyone can weather the storms and gloom of night, Lag and his team are the ones who'll deliver.

(Source: FUNimation)

Seeing, Lag Main

Sawashiro, Miyuki Japanese

Niche Main

Fujimura, Ayumi Japanese

Steak Main

Nagasawa, Nao Japanese

Suede, Gauche Supporting

Fukuyama, Jun Japanese

Winters, Zazie Supporting

Kishio, Daisuke Japanese

Pepper, Jiggy Supporting

Nakai, Kazuya Japanese

Thunderland Jr. Supporting

Ishikawa, Hideo Japanese

Suede, Sylvette Supporting

Mizuki, Nana Japanese

Roda Supporting

Horie, Yui Japanese

Kluff, Connor Supporting

Suganuma, Hisayoshi Japanese

Adachi, Satoshi Producer

Iwanaga, Akira Director, Episode Director

Shimizu, Katsunori Sound Director

Tsuchiya, Hiroyuki Episode Director

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Sep 23, 2019

Mr_Yaz

Recommended

Disclaimer: I am going to review Tegamibachi as a whole, which means that I will cover its 1st season as well.


✪ Genre: action (gunfights, swordplay), adventure, drama, high fantasy, shounen, superpower


✔ Positive Aspects ✔

◧ Excellent animation, with very clear character designs (not allowing room for the viewing audience to confuse one character for another), with very elaborate and majestic physical structures, with some wonderfully melancholic and vast landscapes, on high saturated and very vibrant colors. The end result is very similar to another work by the same studio (Pierrot Plus), Tokyo Ghoul (a phenomenal anime, at least its 1st season), and to another outstanding anime ... by TMS entertainment, D-Gray Man. In my view, comparatively, Tegamibachi is more akin to the latter.

◧ Very creative choices for a soundtrack, ranging from Asia-influenced folk music, new age with various kinds of instruments, music suited to video-games, to more 'classical' kind of stuff (sort of). Overall, the editing team did a wonderful job using tracks that were very suitable for their respective circumstances.

◧ The series's character development is, by far, its best attribute. Due to the series's unique concept (at least for the action/adventure/shounen genre), the use of the flashback device was narratively necessary. This has allowed for the portrayal of most characters' personal histories, motivations, and intentions (protagonists and deuteragonists alike), which, in turn, has allowed for a very cohesive and balanced unfolding of the plot.

◧ As I alluded to in the previous paragraph, the series's concept is very unique and quite beautiful at that. The story takes place in a high-fantasy world which does not resemble our world in any substantive way, besides the existence of an artificial sun. While this world does appear to be heliocentric, we have no clue about whether or not this is the case for the planetary system that this planet belongs to (assuming that it is part of one). Both aided by the perpetual night that engulfs this world, and the themes of sadness and nostalgia that frequently take center stage, this work feels very similar to D-Gray Man's atmosphere but without being as dark, because of its emphasis on attachment and solidarity, even among people with conflicting interests.


✘ Negative Aspects ✘

◧ It is genuinely rare for me, when critiquing an anime, to not stumble across multiple shortcomings. Yet, as far as Tegamibachi as a whole goes, I can only think of (3) minor ones:

1) action scenes → they could have been more drawn out and more challenging, especially as the plot was moving forward, at least for my taste
2) skills development → the main character (and the protagonists in general) did not seem to grow with regard to combat in a consistent and explicit manner, as is expected of the genre itself
3) fillers → the 1st season contained 10-12 filler episodes


Overall: In my view, this anime belongs in the rare shounen class of 9-10 level rankings, which up until now had only one member, D.Gray Man. Highly recommended!

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Jan 23, 2019

TheFutureIsAni1

Recommended

The second season of Letter Bee was little different then the first because now you know more about the characters, that being say there was still a lot mystery surrounding the story. I think I may have like the first season first just because it had more Lae and Niche interactions, and often time there very funny but still love this series because it was more intense and more action with the story-line.

That being said there were some plot holes missing in the series (which you need to read manga to find out) that could be good thing or bad thing. If you ... love the series you don't mind rereading the story which I don't mind. But they left the series way open for future series if they like., which I don't mind to happen in the future.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Sep 10, 2011

deadeaddead

Not Recommended

This show was amazing. It had brilliant music which fit perfectly with the scenes, great art which was beautiful and awesome characters. It also had an amazing story...... at the start of the series that is.

Art: 9
The animation was beautiful like I said before. Great graphics, lighting, colour, just made me happy =D. It was all lies to try and deceive me.

Sound: 10
Other than the bitchy crying 24/7, outstanding sound. The music at most scenes was wonderful and fit perfectly. The voices did too, but I haven't heard such great music that sorta made me feel good in other shows. I feel weird talking.. or ... typing about how I feel. Oops I did it again.

Character: 8
Not much to say here, these characters were original. I would give it a 10 if it wasn't for Gauche's stupid memory loss thing which caused him to think he was Noir and leave HER POOR SISTER BEHIND JUST LIKE THAT EVEN THOUGH HE SAID HE'D HELP HER FIX HER LEGS. What the fuck.. now that I think about it...... WHY, NOT, ASK, DOCTOR THUNDERLAND FOR SURGERY?
YOU DUMBSHIT GAUCHE, DUMB SHIT.

Enjoyment: 6
I enjoyment-ed nothing. Nothing from the story plot. But the music and art was enjoymentingfull =D. (My own word)

Now to the story.

Story: 3
Letter Bee left us with a cliffhanger. Reverse continued on from that, with a story which pretty much says "Fck you all, we're gonna hide the story behind Lag's mother, the artificial sun and gonna take away Gauche with all his memories gone like the assholes we are, you motha fckers can go watch Pokemon." Well fk you people too. This continued series solves NONE of the questions people may have, all it does is give more questions like a fking math teacher, and tells us to solve it or leave it. And then we're left thinking of what might have the story about Lag's mother and the Sun been about.

Overall: 3
I loved season 1.
Hell with season 2.
Hell.
Hell.
HELLL.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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