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Season 1

25 Episodes

2009

Letter and Letter Bee

E01

Letter and Letter Bee

10/3/2009·21m

One day Lag Seeing finds himself shipped. His mother abducted by someone, he's now just a package sent by her to be delivered to a friend's house. Gauche Suede is a Letter Bee, a member of the Amberground national postal service, who is tasked with delivering this "letter," together with his partner Roda. The still young Lag rebels at Gauche's seemingly emotionless focus on his work, his heart still reeling from being torn from his mother, but as they head into a valley they are attacked by a ferocious creature known as a Gaichuu.

My Friend

E02

My Friend

10/10/2009·21m

Lag, having glimpsed into Gauche's heart, comes to know about his dream to be chosen for the highest title the Bee's that work in the capital can obtain, Head Bee, and that he will soon be transferred there, a first step toward that dream. Nearing the end of their journey, one day before reaching their destination Lag and Gauche get in a fight after Lag asks Gauche to take him with him to the capital so he can search for his mother. Angry, Lag takes off with Gauche's shindanjuu and hurries along by himself, but wanders into Gaichuu territory without realizing it and falls into a trap.

Crybaby Boy, Letter Girl

E03

Crybaby Boy, Letter Girl

10/17/2009·21m

Some years after he met Gauche, Lag heads to the main post office in Yuusari to take the interview to become a Letter Bee after passing the preliminary examination. After saying all his goodbyes to the people he loves, he heads to the train station with a Letter Bee named Connor that came to pick him up. But when he arrives, he discovers a small girl hiding herself in a small crevice. And what's more, she's a letter, just like Lag was!

Lag's Dingo

E04

Lag's Dingo

10/24/2009·21m

Lag gave the name "Niche" to a girl that was a letter whose delivery slip was incomplete and couldn't be delivered, and started taking her to her destination. Lag is enchanted with her hair while he escorts her, and on his way after dropping her off, he learns from some passersby that her destination was actually a freak-show, advertising a new attraction: A child who received the blood of the legendary creature "Maka."

Dead-End Town

E05

Dead-End Town

10/31/2009·21m

Lag, as well as Niche and Steak, a strange animal that tags along with Niche, reaches the town of Kyrie where the bridge Bifrost connects to Yuusari. There they meet Nelli, who guides them to an inn to stay the night, and volunteers to take Lag's bag up to his room, but then suddenly disappears. Nelli's aim is actually to get Lag's crossing pass into Yuusari.

The Letter to Jiggy Pepper

E06

The Letter to Jiggy Pepper

11/7/2009·21m

Lag and Niche run after Nelli to get their crossing pass back, however Nelli is found out as an impostor and is going to be punished! Lag and Niche come up to save Nelli, but just then the letter Nelli's late brother Nello wrote to Jiggy Pepper flies away. Lag stretches out his arm with all his might trying to save the letter, and suddenly a shindan flies out from his hand!

Yuusari Central Nocturne Hood #13 Head Post Office Bee-Hive

E07

Yuusari Central Nocturne Hood #13 Head Post Office Bee-Hive

11/14/2009·21m

Lag decides to make Niche his dingo officially, and reaches the Yuusari Head Post Office, known as the Bee-Hive. He and another boy named Macky Gee begin the Bee suitability interview examination, which consists of delivering one real letter safely to its destination. Knowing he is delivering a real letter, Lag's determination is strengthened yet again.

Seeing Sylvette Suede

E08

Seeing Sylvette Suede

11/21/2009·21m

Gauche is no longer a Bee. When Lag heard this from the Bee examination proctor Zazie, he's shocked and depressed. Lag, Nice, and Steak go to see Sylvette, Gauche's sister, but are mistaken for debt collectors and met by a stern, wheelchair bound girl who points a gun at them.

The Crybaby Boy's Vow

E09

The Crybaby Boy's Vow

11/28/2009·21m

Lag goes once again to see Sylvette, alone in her house, and his heart is struck when he sees her crying on the veranda. Lag shoots a shindan from his own body into the shindanjuu Gauche left behind, the Nocturne Op. 20 Shindan Custom, and he, along with Sylvette, learn what was in Gauche's heart. The memories in Gauche's shindanjuu are...

Under the Light

E10

Under the Light

12/5/2009·21m

On the morning of the first day of work for new Letter Bee, Lag Seeing, and his dingo Niche, the sub-master of the Bee-Hive, Aria Link, stops by Sylvette's house where Lag is now living. She shows him to a place known as the Hill of Prayer, where everything with Gauche had its beginnings.

Letter of Lies

E11

Letter of Lies

12/12/2009·21m

Lag begins his daily life as a Letter Bee, and one day goes to pick up a letter from a young man named Vincent Alcott. He has been unsuccessful in fulfilling his dream of becoming an author and in order not to worry his mother back in his hometown, he writes letters filled with lies about his success. When Lag finds out about this, he worries whether such a "letter of lies" really holds any heart.

Red and Green Ribbon

E12

Red and Green Ribbon

12/19/2009·21m

It's the "Holy Night" season, a festival from the northern area of Amberground. They say that two old men go around on the Holy Night delivering presents to children. In order to continue that tradition, Lag, along with Zazie, deliver presents to children that have been collected by charitable organizations. They meet a girl, Sonja Malmola, and granting her wish, they stay for dinner with her. Zazie helps with the shopping, but the way the villagers treat the girl is suspicious. Her parents were killed by gaichuu, and she lives all by herself.

The Promised Land

E13

The Promised Land

12/26/2009·21m

One day a man named Promessa Prometas came to the Bee-Hive asking for a letter he sent back. But the letter had already been sent out on delivery, with the new Letter Bee Lag Seeing. When Promessa hears this he chases off after Lag. On the other hand, Lag is worried that his journey is going too smoothly, because the letter has a fixed delivery-date. At this rate he'll end up arriving at the destination early. Just then,Lag runs into a man named Galador...

The Corpse Doctor

E14

The Corpse Doctor

1/9/2010·21m

Lag's friends Zazie and Connor recommend he go for a checkup with the medical team, after he arrives at work one day exhausted from his busy days as a Letter Bee. The head of the medical team is Dr. Thunderland Jr., a man with an odd taste for dissection, leading him to be called "The Corpse Doctor" by many out of fear. He takes an interest in Steak and captures him, because Steak is a species known as a Kapellmeister which was thought to be extinct. Lag and Niche hurry after the doctor to rescue their friend...

The Elopement

E15

The Elopement

1/16/2010·21m

Lag and Niche are riding a carriage on the way back from a delivery, and the two other passengers are a passionate couple named Bonny and Moss. They've promised to marry each other, but Frank and his gang, who's proposal was rejected, are chasing after them. Niche, after hearing that eloping means getting to be together with the one you love, drives away Frank so Bonny and Moss can be happy together, but the real reason Frank was chasing them turns out to be something else...

Fan Letter to a Musician

E16

Fan Letter to a Musician

1/23/2010·21m

Lag delivers a fan letter to the popular pianist Mathilda Rein from a passionate fan of hers named Joey, and learns that she always enjoys reading his letters. But by accident he finds out that those letters are actually written by a different person...

Letter Bee and Dingo

E17

Letter Bee and Dingo

1/30/2010·21m

Lag and Niche are to deliver a small package to a town in Yodaka named Silencio, sent by the Bee-Hive master Largo Lloyd himself. The recipient is a woman who once worked as a Letter Bee, Elena Bran. However unlike a usual delivery, this time Lag is assigned with him a guide named Darwin...

Letter Pigeon

E18

Letter Pigeon

2/6/2010·21m

One day, a trio calling themselves the "Letter Pigeons" barge into the Bee-Hive and challenge the Bees to a race, in order to make a name for themselves and start a letter delivery service besides the Letter Bees. Master Largo thinks it sounds like fun so Lag, Zazie, and Connor take on the Letter Pigeons in a fierce delivery battle!

A Sick Letter Bee and the Girls

E19

A Sick Letter Bee and the Girls

2/13/2010·21m

Lag gets a fever. Sylvette and Niche are worried and try nursing him back to health, but Niche isn't used to it and makes mistake after mistake. And whether it's on an errand or shopping she keeps getting distracted as well. Sylvette takes care of them one after another, but Niche dislikes how Sylvette is always nagging her.

Lost Letters

E20

Lost Letters

2/20/2010·21m

Zazie comes back after having lost important letters, and he's injured, too. As the rumor goes around that Zazie threw away the letters in order to escape from the gaichuu, another Letter Bee is to be dispatched from the Bee-Hive to recover the letters and finish the delivery. Lag jumps in to volunteer, but it seems that Zazie braved a dangerous route spotted with gaichuu territories.

Potpourri of Memories

E21

Potpourri of Memories

2/27/2010·21m

A therapy relaxation room planned out by Thunderland Jr. has opened up in the Bee-Hive. Lag and Connor are curious and drag along Zazie to go check it out right away. The caretaker for the rest and relaxation room, Mana Jones, lost her sight in an accident, but she has an amazing sense of smell and is a plant specialist. Mana heard about Lag from Gauche in the past, and begins to tell him about what happened during the accident and why Gauche and Dr. Thunderland Jr. are the ones who enabled her to continue her work.

Dream Link Notebook

E22

Dream Link Notebook

3/6/2010·21m

Gauche hurries to deliver a letter from Dr. Thunderland Jr. to Dr. Whitman, the foremost authority on vegetation and herbal research, asking him for a recommendation in order to prove the value of Mana Jones's research to the council. However Dr. Whitman lives far away, and there is not enough time to make it there and back within the given deadline. Even so, Gauche takes on the nearly impossible task...

Honey Waters

E23

Honey Waters

3/13/2010·21m

Lag, Connor, and Niche encounter a married couple of Hunt and Sarah calling themselves "ones who were unable to become Spirit" in the town of Honey Waters after accepting a delivery of a letter there by Thunderland Jr, and Sarah seems to possess a black spirit amber like the one Gauche Suede had. The two of them have taken up the mantel of the anti-government organization "Reverse" and attack Lag and the others. Niche and Connor are captured, while Lag manages to barely escape, when a mysterious girl appears before him.

Heart's Recollections, Three

E24

Heart's Recollections, Three

3/20/2010·21m

The larger number of letters that Ann Grado, the girl Lag met, brought out, drew a gaichuu to the town. Lag and Connor worked together to defeat it, but the people in the town got in their way and things were looking bad! Just then, Zazie shows up on his way back from a delivery. The three of them team up and corner the gaichuu, but...

One Unable to Become Spirit

E25

One Unable to Become Spirit

3/27/2010·21m

Ann and Hunt are grabbed by the gaichuu. While Zazie and Connor struggle desperately to attack it, Lag lets loose a shindan that finally catches the gaichuu. His strength exhausted, Hunt falls toward the ground. Hunt, hit with Lag's shindan, projects an image of Sarah and Hunt's cruel past as Gauche and Roda fight to protect the two from a gaichuu.

Reverse poster

Reverse

25 Episodes

2010

Promise

E01

Promise

10/3/2010·21m

Lag Seeing, who was rescued at a young age by a national postal service worker known as a Letter Bee named Gauche Suede, idolized this Bee and finally met him again after he went missing. However he calls himself the Marauder Noir and steals the letter from Lag. Lag, injured, is saved by the Express Delivery Bee Jiggy Pepper and taken to the Bee Hive, but Lag's partner, his dingo Niche, doesn't take it very well...

Underwear and Bread

E02

Underwear and Bread

10/10/2010·21m

Niche thinks she has failed at being Lag's dingo, so she runs away from home with her pet(?) Steak. Worried, Lag and Connor head out to search for Niche. However Niche, hungry and wandering aimlessly around town, sneaks into the bread and weapons shop Sinners and tries to finally cook Steak, but the Gobenis catch her in the act.

The Hydrangea Colored Picture-Letter

E03

The Hydrangea Colored Picture-Letter

10/16/2010·21m

One day, while on a delivery to a certain mansion, Lag is asked by Ray Attlee the owner of the mansion, to search for the person who sent a picture-letter to her. Ray says that the pictures in the letters reminded her of her hometown, and gave her the will to continue to live on and fight her illness. Lag, after being called a "Letter Specialist" by Ray, decides not to rely on his shindan that allows him to see the heart contained in letters, and does his best to search for the sender. He discovers that the paints used to paint the letters have some connection to Ray's hometown, and then...

Wilderness Imagery Lighthouse

E04

Wilderness Imagery Lighthouse

10/23/2010·21m

"Get away from here"... The boy Lugh works together with an old man he calls "Grandpa" in an imagery lighthouse built out in the wilderness, but he keeps hearing voices from somewhere. Around the same time, Jiggy Pepper is passing by the area on a delivery, and notices that a Gaichuu, Korona, has made a nest on top of the imagery lighthouse. Riding his "iron horse" up the imagery lighthouse, Jiggy Pepper's shindan Lapis Lazuli explodes!

Reverse World

E05

Reverse World

10/30/2010·21m

Two inspectors from the capital, Akatsuki, come to the Bee Hive. Caribs Garrard and his dingo, Hazle Valentine. They came to investigate a string of letter robberies happening to the south. During one of them, Moc Sullivan is attacked, and the letters he was carrying fall into a ravine. Garrard suspects that there's someone on the inside for Reverse, since they know so much about the Letter Bee's routes and movements, so he forbids them from going to the south. However, one of the letters Moc was carrying was a letter from a sick girl that Lag dictated for her...

Dolly

E06

Dolly

11/6/2010·21m

Sylvette receives a fan letter addressed to her from a girl named M. Croce, asking her to make a doll that looks like her to give to her brother who will be leaving his hometown to work in a coal mine shortly. The doll maker, Sylvette, hurries to make the doll, and after spending all night, heads out the next morning to deliver it. Lag is worried and goes with her, but the two of them are tired and end up falling asleep on the rhino carriage!

Film Noir

E07

Film Noir

11/13/2010·21m

A person spotted Noir up in the northern reaches of Yodaka. Lag is ordered by the Bee-Hive Master Largo Lloyd to find out what Noir is up to, and he heads there with Niche and Steak. There he discovers a shell of what looks like a giant gaichuu, as well as a used cartridge which Noir left behind. Lag shoots his own shindan into the cartridge!

Blue Notes Blues

E08

Blue Notes Blues

11/20/2010·21m

Lag visits the town of Blue Notes Blues, steeped in the legend of the Maka, the mysterious creature deeply connected to Niche. The people in town witnessed someone like Noir heading into a cave, however the Mayor, Khari Tonov, tells them that cave is where the Maka lives and is dangerous, and entry is forbidden no matter who it may be. But despite this, at Niche's suggestion, Lag heads toward the cave wanting to find out more about what Noir was up to.

200 Years of Solitude

E09

200 Years of Solitude

11/27/2010·21m

200 years ago, Niche and her twin sister were shunned as cursed, and were eventually disposed of. Thrown into a river, with the most precious thing in the world, her sister, split apart from her, she matured all on her own, and has lived together with the Maka ever since. When Niche finally encounters her, she has no recollection of what happened, and instead protects Lag, a "human." Shocked by seeing her sister in such a state, she tries to kill both her sister and the other people. Lag tries to stop her, and shoots a shindan into her with his feelings...

Veritably Abbey

E10

Veritably Abbey

12/4/2010·21m

With the wounded Niche left in the "Garden of Spirits" which the Maka protects, Lag runs into Zazie on his way back to the Bee Hive, and they stop by the town of Lament where Connor is. There, the two of them are surprised to find Connor collapsed, but it was because he'd eaten too many cookies from a nun named Sunny. Lag witnesses Roda, Noir's dingo, picking up a delivery of letters at the Abbey where Sunny lives, so he goes undercover and infiltrates the Abbey to find out if it is a Reverse base.

Cabernet Attacks

E11

Cabernet Attacks

12/11/2010·21m

Sunny is ordered to put poison in the cookies that she bakes in the Abbey for Connor by the Abbess. Sunny is shocked at the order... Meanwhile, Connor is shocked when he sees Lag fighting with Roda and realises that the girl he fell in love with was actually a member of Reverse. And during all the confusion, a giant gaichuu Cabernet comes to attack!

Light Shines on the Darkness

E12

Light Shines on the Darkness

12/18/2010·21m

The fight between Lag and Noir continues, and Zazie comes back to help after sending Wasiolka to report. Just then a ton of swarming type gaichuu, Lao-Lao, come to attack. Lag and Zazie do their best to fight the gaichuu, but the huge numbers and lack of dingos to back them up makes it a tough battle. But then a trusty ally appears, and finally it's time for Lag to shoot that Letter Bullet!

Crimson Melody

E13

Crimson Melody

12/25/2010·21m

The Letter Bees are requested by the government to go after the Cabernet, as they still consider it a serious threat. With not enough personnel, the Sub Master of the Bee Hive and now office worker, Aria Link, heads out on a delivery herself. The letter is addressed to a Houdai Franklin, who was on the airship during the Day of Flicker and experienced that terrible accident. Since it's her first delivery in a long while, Niche tags along as her dingo, but the new duo has a tough time working together.

The Day of Flicker

E14

The Day of Flicker

1/8/2011·21m

Aria and Niche final make it to Houdai's house. Aria tries to hand over the letter right away, but is injured when Houdai suddenly attacks her. But Aria doesn't flinch, and tries to convince him by talking about how a person dear to her lost something important on the Day of Flicker. Houdai hears this, lets them into his house, and begins to tell the story of his memories of the incident that happened on board that airship. At around the same time, Dr. Thunderland is treating Lag and Gauche, and the unthinkable occurs...

Welcome Home

E15

Welcome Home

1/16/2011·21m

After the effect of being shot with Lag's letter bullet, Noir has awakened back as Gauche Suede. Lag asks Largo and Thunderland Jr. to allow Gauche to go home to the waiting Sylvette, and somehow gets permission for it. However, Largo and Thunderland Jr. can't help but shake off a certain feeling...

Roda, Wanders

E16

Roda, Wanders

1/22/2011·21m

Torn apart from Noir, Roda chases after him to Yuusari Central, but when she sees Noir happily spending time together with Lag and Sylvette, she becomes distraught and her feelings fall into confusion. Just then, Roda is rescued from some men up to no good by Sarah and Hunt. Once acquaintances of Lag, Connor, and Zazie, they've begun living new lives in Central. Sarah works at an employment agency for "daily dingos" and when she hears that Roda used to be someone's dingo, she brings her to her workplace.

Truth and Lies

E17

Truth and Lies

1/29/2011·21m

Garrard and Valentine, who came from Akatsuki, will go to any lengths to find Noir, even interrogating Sylvette. When Lag hears this, he tries to do something to make sure Sylvette doesn't get wrapped up in it all. However, Noir, now reunited with Roda, arrive at what was once a Reverse base. There, Garrard and Valentine along with Lag appear. Lag tries to bring Noir back with him, but he says that he is a member of Reverse and aims a gun at him...

The Lost Shindan

E18

The Lost Shindan

2/5/2011·21m

Zazie finds out where the Cabernet ended up, but also finds a Reverse cell nearby at Shark Cape. There Zazie clashes with a Marauder who calls himself Jeel. Zazie shoots his shindan that consists of his malice, Blue Thorn, into Jeel, but Jeel's deep seated hatred for the Amberground government renders it ineffective and Zazie is cornered. On the other side, Lag heads toward Shark Cape after receiving word from Zazie, and encounters the leader of Reverse, Lawrence! Lag tries to shoot him with his shindanjuu, but for some reason he can't load any shindans...

Neither Malice, Nor Hatred

E19

Neither Malice, Nor Hatred

2/12/2011·21m

The many Blue Thorn shindans Zazie shot into Jeel awaken the Cabernet. Just as Zazie thought, it takes Jeel away. However, while Zazie and Lag give chase to finish it off, they see the fragments of Jeel's heart. After knowing Jeel's real motivation, Zazie saves him despite himself. But the two of them are not going to waver from their hearts so easily...

Smile of Hope Lead-in

E20

Smile of Hope Lead-in

2/19/2011·21m

Lag visits the city of Lament to see Connor, as he needs some ability to find the Cabernet which has buried itself into the ground. There, Connor is looking after Sunny, who had her heart eaten by the Cabernet. Lag reunites with Connor, and Sunny as well, but the Sunny that is there has none of the memories or heart of the Sunny that once was... But then, a smile pops onto her face, even though she was supposed to have lost all of her heart.

Lawrence's Ambition

E21

Lawrence's Ambition

2/26/2011·21m

The plan begins to lure out the Cabernet, which has buried itself into the ground, with the recently recovered Connor. But they do not know where it is hiding, where it is heading, or what place it will resurface at. At the same time, Reverse's plans are reaching their final stage at last. In order to raise the strength of the Cabernet even further, Lawrence will use the fortified "hearts" of the ones who were unable to become spirit, and transports them all to the appointed place.

A Place to Return To

E22

A Place to Return To

3/5/2011·21m

To stop Lawrence's plan and protect the ones who were unable to become spirit, Noir heads to the Bread and Weapon's Shop, Sinners. Noir asks Jacob, who is surprised to see him and worried, to give him a shindanjuu, and when he leaves the shop he runs into Sylvette. Sylvette is deeply worried, but pretends like she doesn't notice the changes in her brother. Noir is tugged back by those memories of Sylvette, but...

In Akatsuki

E23

In Akatsuki

3/12/2011·21m

During the battle with the gaichuu, the ground underneath the Hill of Prayer suddenly collapses, and Lag and Noir fall down into the caves below. Lag tries again to return Gauche's heart, but...

Battle in Yuusari Central!

E24

Battle in Yuusari Central!

3/19/2011·21m

Moc and Aria are prepared for the worst and are waiting at the Bee Hive for Lawrence, who came to see his evil plan come to fulfillment.

Light of Heart

E25

Light of Heart

3/26/2011·21m

The ultimate battle with the most powerful gaichuu, the Cabernet, wrecking havoc in Yuusari central, comes to a close. Lag stands up, together with the Heart of all of the friends who he's received and become entangled with.