The episodes of the Tegami Bachi

Tegami Bachi

is a ongoing shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Hiroyuki Asada. This manga is set in the fictional land called "AmberGround", where a artificial sun only illuminates the capital of the land, Akatsuki...

anime

Anime

is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

 are an adaptation of the manga

Manga

Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

 series by creator Hiroyuki Asada

Hiroyuki Asada

is a Japanese manga artist who is best known for his steampunk series Tegami Bachi . The first manga series he created was called I'll, and was a basketball series. All of Asada's manga were serialized in the monthly shōnen anthology Monthly Shōnen Jump...

, currently serialized on the Japanese monthly Jump SQ. magazine. The story is about a boy named Lag Seeing, who is a "Letter Bee", a delivery boy at the "Bee Hive" which fulfills everyone's delivery requests. Lag's "Dingo", or personal bodyguard, keeps him out of danger from the Gaichuu, giant insects that roam the darkness and attacks anyone near them. The series explores Lag's adventures as he helps deliver packages for the inhabitants of AmberGround. The animation will be handled by Studio Pierrot

Studio Pierrot

is a Japanese animation/animation studio, founded in 1979 by former employees of Tatsunoko Production. Its headquarters is located in Mitaka, Tokyo.The company has a simple logo of the face of a clown...

, while the cast that voiced some of the characters featured in the Tegami Bachi special will return for the regular anime.

The series premiered on TV Tokyo

TV Tokyo

is a television station headquartered in Toranomon, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Also known as , a blend of "terebi" and "Tokyo", it is the key station of TX Network. It is one of the major Tokyo television stations, particularly specializing in anime...

, TV Osaka, TV Aichi

Aichi Television Broadcasting

Aichi Television Broadcasting Co., Ltd. is a TV station in Nagoya. It is known as "TV Aichi"...

 and their affiliated stations on October 3, 2009. A total of seven DVDs were released in January 2010 by Bandai Visual

Bandai Visual

, is a Japanese anime, film production and distribution enterprise, established by Bandai Co., Ltd. and a subsidiary of Namco Bandai Holdings, Inc., which is based in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Since the reorganisation of Namco Bandai Holdings in 2006, Bandai Visual now heads the group's Visual and...

. The episodes have currently four pieces of theme music, two opening themes and two ending themes. The first opening theme is sung by Suga Shikao

Suga Shikao

is a Japanese musician and singer-songwriter from Tokyo. Though he uses katakana for his recording name, the kanji for his name are 菅 止戈男, but the romanization is the same. Suga is his family name and Shikao is his given name....

 featuring Japanese hip-hop DJ Mummy-D

Rhymester (group)

is a Japanese hip hop group consisting of MCs Mummy-D and Utamaru, and DJ Jin. The group is one of the oldest Japanese hip hop acts, having formed in 1989. They debuted on an independent label in 1993 with the EP , which was panned by critics...

 which appears in the first 13 episodes, while is sung by Seira, which serves as the second opening theme for episodes 14 onwards. The first ending theme is sung by HIMEKA

Himeka

Catherine St-Onge , better known by her stage name Himeka is an anime song singer of French Canadian descent. While fluent in English and her native French, she is moderately proficient in Japanese...

 which appear in the first 13 episodes, while is sung by Japanese rock band Angelo

Pierrot (band)

Pierrot was a Japanese visual kei rock band, originally founded as Dizy-Lizy in 1994 by Kirito and Jun in Nagano. The original band members were Hidelow on vocals, Kirito and Jun on guitar, Kohta on bass and Luka on drums. After changing their name to Pierrot, Luka left in November and Takeo joined...

, which serves as the second ending theme from episode 14 onwards.

Season 1

Ep#	Title	Original airdate	English airdate

Season 2: Tegami Bachi REVERSE

A 2nd season named was announced right after the final episode of the first series. A promotional movie is being shown on the official anime's website. The second season premieres on TV Tokyo

TV Tokyo

is a television station headquartered in Toranomon, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Also known as , a blend of "terebi" and "Tokyo", it is the key station of TX Network. It is one of the major Tokyo television stations, particularly specializing in anime...

, TV Osaka, TV Aichi

Aichi Television Broadcasting

Aichi Television Broadcasting Co., Ltd. is a TV station in Nagoya. It is known as "TV Aichi"...

 and their affiliated stations on October 2, 2010.

The series will have four pieces of theme music. The first opening theme, is sung by Stereopony

Stereopony

, is a Japanese rock band that formed in Okinawa, Japan in 2007, consisting of Aimi , Nohana , and Shiho...

, while the first ending theme is sung by Piko. The second opening theme is sung by Suga Shikao

Suga Shikao

is a Japanese musician and singer-songwriter from Tokyo. Though he uses katakana for his recording name, the kanji for his name are 菅 止戈男, but the romanization is the same. Suga is his family name and Shikao is his given name....

, while the second ending theme is sung by Yamazaru.

Ep#	Title	Original airdate	English airdate

Tegami Bachi Academy

A series of three minute original anime shorts will be included in each Japanese Region 2 DVD of Tegami Bachi. Titled , the omake series focuses on the background settings of the world of Amberground not touched upon or elaborated much in the anime, and provides a hilarious class setting with chibi

Chibi

is a Japanese slang word meaning "short person" or "small child". The word has gained currency amongst fans of manga and anime. Its meaning is of someone or some animal that is small. It can be translated as "little", but is not used the same way as chiisana [小さな] but rather cute...

versions of the characters.

Ep#	Title	Original release date