Asada Hiroyuki | Tegami Bachi (R13)

Japanese: テガミバチ
English: Letter Bee
Synonyms: Tegamibachi, Tegami Bachi to Dingo
Information
Type: Manga
Volumes: 20
Chapters: 100
Status: Completed
Published: Sep 6, 2006 to Nov 4, 2015
Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Psychological, Shounen, Slice of Life, Supernatural
Mangaka: Asada Hiroyuki (Story & Art)
Serialization: Jump SQ

Synopsis: 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 Amber Ground.

Tegami Bachi (or Letter Bees) are couriers that deliver important letters and packages throughout the land of eternal dusk, Amber Ground.

Related Manga

Adaptation:

• Tegami Bachi: Hikari to Ao no Gensou Yawa,
• Tegami Bachi, 
• Tegami Bachi Reverse

Groups Scanlating

Binktopia

D.A.M.O.S

DBR

J.A.C. Group

L.A.G. Scans

LetterBee

Ryozawamono

Schin-ken

Spirit Manga

Splinterinq

fan.service

helz0ne

Mr. Death

motley

Licensed in English
Viz (18 Volumes - Ongoing) 

Source: MAL Manga info, Baka updates

Side notes: I saw the anime first and then searched the manga. They both got my heart stolen so I can't say no for presenting them shortly here.^-^b Art is good and charas marvellously made so it's really something that I like. With a great plot and variating themes it's really nice add on to any reading list at any time.^-^b

Lag Seeing (ラグ・シーイング)

The main protagonist in Letter Bee. He is, a young boy who was born on The Day of Flicker, 12 years ago when the man-made sun went down for unknown reasons. The manga follows his ambition to become a Letter Bee and how he follows the path of his idol Gauche Suede who suddenly went missing one day...
He has a very focused mindset, regardless of what situations he gets into and always focuses on delivering the package. He has a special gun called the Shin Ganjuu, literally the "heart bullet gun" where he loads a "fragment of heart" into the gun, then fires it at the target. He is seemingly being able to control the direction of the shot. As a child, he was "delivered" by the letter bee Gauche Suede, and was inspired by him to become a letter bee. He is searching for his mother, who was kidnapped to the capital of the country. His left eye is made of red spirit amber, allowing him to better use the Shin Ganjuu. 

His "Dingo" is Niche, a girl he saved from a Gaichuu (armored insect) who decided to stay at his side when he said yes to her asking him if saying goodbye would make him sad after seeing his memories via the Shin Ganjuu. 

Niche (ニッチ)

Lag's personal Dingo. She travels with Lag, acting as his bodyguard against Gaichuu, and sticks closely to Lag along with her "pet", "Steak", on her head. She battles using her hair, also known as "The Golden Sword", manipulating it into powerful blade-like tentacles capable of lifting things several times her size. She has bearlike forearms and claws which she usually keeps covered with oven mitt-like gloves. Niche displays animal-like characteristics, such as licking wounds and sniffing the air for any trace of danger. She dislikes wearing pants, but wears them for Lag's sake, claiming that he is the first male to make her wear pants. Lag assumes that she is 7 years old based on her appearance. 

Lag found Niche at a train station on his way to his Bee Interview. She was a "letter", but the address on her mailing label was incomplete and she was scheduled to be "abandoned" in two more days. Lag offered to take her to her new home ("Rabusamu Wandaun" according to the mailing label, which he thought was an orphanage) even though he was on a deadline for his Bee job interview. While traveling, Lag found she had multiple names, so he named her Niche after where he found her - in a niche at the station. 

After delivering Niche, Lag found out she was to be put in a side show act as "The Child of Makka", Makka being a mysterious being both worshipped and feared in AmberGround's Northern territories. Lag hurried back to Rabusamu Wandaun with the excuse that Niche's delivery receipt had not been signed. When he got there he found that Niche had already wrecked the sideshow tent with her "Golden Sword" and gone on the run towards Gaichuu territory. He followed her and consequently saved her from a Gaichuu. She decided to stay with Lag after he explained that her address had become unknown (since she had destroyed the sideshow), and she insisted that from then on she would be Lag's "Dingo".

Steak (ステーキ)

Steak is Niche's "pet" and emergency food supply. He followed her from the Love Someone Down freak show after she destroyed it. He is usually seen traveling on her head, very rarely moving from his perch even while she is battling Gaichuu. He has the ability to sniff out the weak spots of Gaichuu, allowing Lag to fire his Shin Ganjuu at the weak spot, killing the armored insect. 

Niche has remarked that Steak would taste delicious (hence his name). Steak seems to have accepted his fate as a future meal and appears to have meekly submitted to Niche's (interrupted) attempt to cook him. 

Steak may be the last of the Kapel Meister, a species that once co-existed harmoniously with the Spirit Insects, and was thought to be extinct. 

Gauche Suede (ゴーシュ・スエード)

Lag's rescuer, who first appears in chapter 1. He is the letter bee that finds young Lag Seeing marked as a letter in "Coza Bel", a small town in the "Yodaka District" (The low class district in Amberground). He has to deliver to "Cambel Litus" a town also on the "Yodaka District" so he can join his aunt which was trusted to take care of him from the person who wrote Lag's letter data. Gauche is also a a caring and enthusiastic letter bee, he is trying to become the "Head Bee" (Captain of the letter bees) so he has enough money to help his sister and live peacefully.

Source: MAL

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