Tegami Bachi/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Crowning Moment of Funny (Hazel Valentine's interactions with Wasiolka and Niche are comedy gold and must be seen to be believed.)
  • Crowning Moment of Heartwarming (Lag and his aunt, Sabrina, get a very touching moment before his departure, reminiscent of a mother and son.)
  • Complete Monster (Jikku Vallore is responsible for the deaths & mutilations of countless people including his own wife & son.)
  • I Knew It! (Vallore appeared in the VERY FIRST CHAPTER doing terrible things.)
  • Lawful Stupid: Lag refuses to doubt the Amberground government even for a second, despite increasing evidence that they're extremely evil, guilty at the very least of performing horrible experiments on humans. Possibly justified by the fact that he's a naive kid with a serious case of hero worship towards the Bees, who serve said government, and that the main opposition, Reverse, is possibly just as bad or worse.
  • Moe: Lag, Lily Confort
  • Moral Event Horizon (Lawrence, the "Man Unable to Become a Spirit" sends a Gaichuu to the Veritably Abbey to eat the hearts of its residents. WHO ARE ALSO A PART OF REVERSE.)
    • (Averted for Sunny, who is a victim of the above.)
  • Tear Jerker (Oh god, episode 17. It's Jurassic Bark all over again!)
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Just what happened in the past that caused the real sun to go out? Where did the gaichuu come from and why do they anachronistically look like robots? Why is there an Eldritch Abomination inside the artificial sun? What’s up with Lag’s mother and why was she taken away from him? If you’re curious about these questions, prepare to be disappointed because rather than answering any of them the production team instead decided to pad out the show with endless, repetitive filler about the “power of heart”. They had 50 episodes (the same as the first Fullmetal Alchemist anime) but somehow ended up with less story development than most twelve-episode series.
  • Toy Ship (Lag gets a Ship Tease with Sylvette, Niche and Lily.)
  • True Neutral (Niche's Sister and Maka)
  • Viewer Gender Confusion (Is Zaji male or female)?
    • In the OVA, this happened to Lag himself at the first part.
    • Chapter 27 seems to imply that Zaji is in fact male. If Zaji was a female then why didn't he infiltrate to the abbey? Or even volunteer? Even the butchest woman can wear a dress sometimes.
    • Word of God says Zazie is a boy.