Tegami Bachi
....needs to update soooon~ T_T I love the freaking manga but it needs to update, seriously, SOON, or else I may just lose my mind. Tegami Bachi (or Letter Bees) takes place in a fictional world called Amberground, a land of eternal night. There's a single man made sun which illumnates the capital and, to an extent, the other ares of the empire. There's a caste system of sorts, and depending on how far away the place is from the sun, the heirarchy moves down lower. Despite the fact that the actual conspiracies and discrimination have some dark undertones, the story as a whole is a very touching, heartwrending story of friendship, hope, and the value of memories (or the heart as it's commonly refered to in the manga). For anyone's who's read/watched Mushishi or Natsume Yuujinchou, it's got that very warm, nostalgic feel to it.
The main character, Lag, was saved by a Letter Bee (those working for the government to deliver letters) and, although a brat at first, warms up to Gauche, his savior and eventually aimed to be like him. In Amberground, where the cities are seperated and the lands plagued by monsters called Gaichuu as well as the caste system barring the cities and isolating them, it's very hard for people who are in different cities to contact each other. The letters they send are often characterized in the stories as containing the "heart" or precious thoughts and wishes of a person. The Letter Bees job is to ensure that it reaches the recipient. It's a very nice manga and the artwork is lovely as well....
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...but, the recent chapters.... kinda made me want to cry. It's getting pretty sad, with poor Gauche losing his heart and Lag suffering so much because that, stupid, stupid idiot can't remember him anymore.... T_T *sniff* Gauche!!! I'm not giving up! I'm going to keep believing this story'll have a happy ending, goddammit! *sniff* 'Cause if it doesn't, I know it's going to break my heart, ESPECIALLY SINCE THE REST OF THE STORY IS SO BEAUTIFUL. Even the sad arcs, at the end there's always the sense of closure, forgiveness, and pulling free of the chains of life, whether it's the past, or society, or someone's death or whatever. It has to happy ending! T_T It will! I know it will!
*sniff* Right, well that's it for my rant...again XD Go read the manga if you haven't. It's absolutely wonderful. One of my favorite. It's hosted on onemanga.com as well, for easy access.
The main character, Lag, was saved by a Letter Bee (those working for the government to deliver letters) and, although a brat at first, warms up to Gauche, his savior and eventually aimed to be like him. In Amberground, where the cities are seperated and the lands plagued by monsters called Gaichuu as well as the caste system barring the cities and isolating them, it's very hard for people who are in different cities to contact each other. The letters they send are often characterized in the stories as containing the "heart" or precious thoughts and wishes of a person. The Letter Bees job is to ensure that it reaches the recipient. It's a very nice manga and the artwork is lovely as well....
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...but, the recent chapters.... kinda made me want to cry. It's getting pretty sad, with poor Gauche losing his heart and Lag suffering so much because that, stupid, stupid idiot can't remember him anymore.... T_T *sniff* Gauche!!! I'm not giving up! I'm going to keep believing this story'll have a happy ending, goddammit! *sniff* 'Cause if it doesn't, I know it's going to break my heart, ESPECIALLY SINCE THE REST OF THE STORY IS SO BEAUTIFUL. Even the sad arcs, at the end there's always the sense of closure, forgiveness, and pulling free of the chains of life, whether it's the past, or society, or someone's death or whatever. It has to happy ending! T_T It will! I know it will!
*sniff* Right, well that's it for my rant...again XD Go read the manga if you haven't. It's absolutely wonderful. One of my favorite. It's hosted on onemanga.com as well, for easy access.