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Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee (2010)
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Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee (2010)
Original name: テガミバチ
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Apparently abandoned by his mother, orphan Lag Seeing is taken as a "letter" by "Letter Bee" Gauche Suede to a town where his aunt raises him. His affection and admiration for Gauche give Lag the ambition to become a Letter Bee himself, carrying mail through the dangerous wasteland between towns on his world. When he becomes a teenager, he makes the trip to the capital to take the examination to become a trainee Letter Bee. En route, he meets the strange, powerful girl-like creature Niche, who becomes his "dingo," a Letter Bee's travelling companion. Lag yearns to find his mother, and discover why she abandoned him, if she did.
Style: anime, philosophical, thought provoking, suspense, futuristic, iyashikei
Plot: poverty, social differences, life & death, class differences, social injustice, wealth, life is a bitch, changing lives, chases and races, escapades, mother son relationship, society, greed, existentialism, life philosophy, dystopian future, magical, steampunk, supernatural, delivery man, dystopic future, future dystopia, delivery boy
Time: future

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