

Niche displays animal-like characteristics, such as licking wounds and sniffing the air for any trace of danger. She has bearlike forearms and claws which she usually keeps covered with oven mitt-like gloves. 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 travels with Lag, acting as his bodyguard against Gaichuu, and sticks closely to Lag along with her "pet", "Steak", on her head. Niche ( ニッチ, Nicchi) Voiced by: Ayumi Fujimura Lag's personal Girl Without a Smile. 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 Shindanjuu. His name is derived from "lagrima", a Spanish word for "tears", "rag", " Lú"/"Lugh", the name of the Celtic god of the sun of the Danann family, and "seeing", the measure of sight. In chapter 29, after Sunny lost her heart to a Gaichuu, Lag's body glowed like spirit amber as he fired a special letter bullet at Noir (Gauche) in hopes of restoring his heart. He originally has an antique from Campbell, though he receives the Nocturne #20, Gauche's gun. His left eye is made of red spirit amber, allowing him to better use the Shindanjuu and also allowing him to fire a heart bullet from his own body. He is searching for his mother, who was kidnapped to the capital of the country. As a child, he was "delivered" by the letter bee Gauche Suede, and was inspired by him to become a letter bee. His spirit amber visualizes memories of an animated object. He is seemingly able to control the direction of the shot. He has a special gun called the Shindanjuu, literally the "heart bullet gun" where he loads a "fragment of heart" into the gun, then fires Akabari (Red Needle) at the target. He's very emotional and is nearly constantly crying. He was also born on the day of the Flicker. At the same time, Gauche awakens a giant flying Gaichuu that is headed for the town Yuusari, the location of the Bee Hive and later Akatsuki to destroy AmberGround's man-made sun.Ĭharacters Lag Seeing ( ラグ・シーイング, Ragu Shīingu) Voiced by: Miyuki Sawashiro A 12-year-old boy with a very focused mindset, regardless of what situations he gets into and always focuses on delivering the package. In desperation, Lag vainly tries to make Gauche remember. Lag later encounters Gauche, who appears to have no memory of his past, and is now devoted to Reverse's cause. But as Lag becomes a Letter Bee, he is informed that Gauche has disappeared at the same time, a resistance movement called "Reverse" begins stealing letters from travelling Bees. He was sent as a "delivery" to his aunt thanks to Gauche Suede, who Lag started to idolize and was inspired to become a Letter Bee. When Lag was very young, his mother was kidnapped by men from AmberGround's capital of Akatsuki. As a Letter Bee, Lag's job is to deliver letters and packages from town to town while avoiding AmberGround's deadliest hazard- Gaichuu, giant armoured insects who attempt to feed off the "heart" that reside within these letters and packages.

Lag Seeing is a newly minted delivery boy, called a "Letter Bee", who worked at the Bee Hive delivery service with his Dingo, Niche, and her "pet", Steak, travelling with him.

The story takes place in AmberGround, a land of perpetual night only partly illuminated by an artificial sun. Both seasons of the anime have been licensed by Sentai Filmworks. It is currently releasing the English version of the manga in the tankōbon format, with all 20 volumes released by 2017. The company serialized the manga in the North American Shonen Jump magazine from March 2009 to March 2010.

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At the 2010 Comic-Con International, Viz Media announced that it acquired the license for Tegami Bachi in North America.
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Tegami Bachi was adapted into an anime television series by Pierrot+, which aired for two seasons from October 2009 to March 2011. Set in a fictional land illuminated by an artificial sun, it 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 AmberGround. It chapters were collected in twenty tankōbon. The series was first serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Monthly Shōnen Jump from 2006 to 2007, and then transferred to Jump Square, where it ran from 2007 to 2015. Tegami Bachi ( テガミバチ, "Letter Bee") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiroyuki Asada.
