This season I have room to blog 7 new series. After the first week, there was one show that you forced me to blog, two shows that instantly convinced me that they’re interesting to blog, and one series that I was guaranteed to blog right from the start. I’m still not really sure about the final three, though.
In any case, Letter Bee was the only series that I was guaranteed to blog (I blogged the first season, after all), but for it to turn out this good was beyond what I could have expected. The first episode was already a fantastic aftermath, and this episode again blew my expectations, especially considering so little happened. I mean, this pretty much is an episode in which Nichi runs away, gets a bit of time to think for herself and then goes back to Lag in the end. On paper it should be nothing special. But dammit, Nichi was beyond adorable.
I’m not really sure what it is about her, but just her being on the screen is fun enough to watch. And on top of that, this episode was just really subtle. Again, it rushed nothing and actually took its time to flesh Nichi out a bit more, on top of showing much more about the gunsmith and his bread baking wife who were already introduced in the first season. The time that Nichi spent with them felt really natural. I also loved that a lot was also going o off-screen, like how we suddenly switched to Lag, trying to keep that drunk performer under control: we didn’t exactly see how it happened, but knowing both of them, there really was no need to animate those scenes, as you’d know what happened to them anyway.
This was quite a unique start to a sequel. I mean, even sequels like to start off slowly, or with some kind of introduction or semi-introduction. Letter Bee instead goes for a very touching opening arc that is chock full of character-development. Most of that happened in the previous episode, but this episode also had plenty of it. In particular, it brought the relationship between Lag and Nichi much closer. By far my favourite part of this episode was the point in which Lag and Nichi rejoined with each other.
Rating: ** (Excellent)
“But dammit, Nichi was beyond adorable.”
But Steak..!! He was the most adorable thing to me.. I went all ‘awww’ when he was willing to sacrifice himself again, and it was funny how he got all puffy from the fire. xD I really want a Steak plushie..so I can huggle him..
I need to catch up to your pace (almost). I’m still @ first serie ep 14. Luckily i read all the manga so far, so i know what to expect.
I think i know why you mentioned fillers before. Keep in mind the anime follows the manga colosely, so there really arent fillers, or better said the anime shares the same fillers with the manga.
Those filler consisted mainly in mission Lag has to accompplish, so i wouldn’t call them exactly fillers. Moreover any of those missions give out additional information about being a bee and stuff 😛
I finished it all today and i have to say i wasn’t correct as there are indeed fillers that weren’t in the manga at all. Weird how the first serie ended with such a cliffhanger. I bet the audience was really upset back then.
I finally hit the second season as well, today and wow. This show really does just keep escalating. The first episode of REVERSE was beautiful with the emotions and the second isn’t a let down by any means. Meep, I agree about Steak ^^. He’s so noble about being eaten now!