Have you read it? I've got the first three volumes and they are pretty great! The art is very pretty and the atmosphere and depth the Amberground world has is great.
I'd also like to say that I feel like the author truly puts more work into Tegami Bachi than is the norm. I mean just look at this cover art. - http://i.imgur.com/NZs0b.jpg
Most of the time cover art is simply a profile of one of the characters and then some gradient or pattern made with an automated photoshop tool for the background. But Asada makes whole friggin paintings for this cover art.
I read this about a couple of months ago.really liked it.
However I've totally forgotten these character's name.
wow it is really great cover work! ahh just think one day i'll be that good ...have you made any books yet?
Poor lad. I mean Lag. I wonder why all English or European names were chosen. I mean, it's not like any of it's Japanese readers will ever be able to pronounce them correctly.
I imagine fans fighting over how to pronounce it right on 2ch.
I watched the anime then read the manga. In retrospect it would have been better if I had just read the manga, because it was one of those occasions where the anime gets ahead of the manga and makes up its own incomplete storyline.
20 volumes is a good amount of story to chew through and I don't remember everything from it, but a lot of cool things happened.
Oh shit, my own thread from 20friggin12! That photo I took! I recognize my childhood room! That's the flooring and my old desk! What a blast from the past!
Is the room much different now?
It's certainly a trip to look at old photos like that, when you're personally familiar with how the location looked then and now. I have a bunch of photos of my house and my cat that I took when I had a bit of a photography phase in high school ten years ago. It's surprising to see how much has changed, though I also find myself getting surprised by things that have stayed the same.
The reason I watched Tegami Bachi in the first place was because ages before I actually watched the whole anime, I was browsing some streaming website and I saw "Tegami Bachi - Letter Bee". I wondered what something called Letter Bee could possibly be about, and I clicked on an episode in the middle to flick through it. There was some big glowing ball, probably the Amberground sun, and stuff was getting sucked up into it. Years later when I got better at using torrents to grab anime I thought I'd revisit Letter Bee and try to put that memory in context. But at no point did I ever think "Ah, that's the scene I remembered".
