Tegami Bachi episodes 11 & 12

PANTSU AKINASAI!

Episode 11: Lag's first real mission, yaay! He has to deliver a letter full of lies to someone's mother. This, along with an encounter with some jerkey Letter Bee calles Moc or something makes him wonder is he's fit for being a Letter Bee, considering his shindan exposes people's heart and stuff. So after a couple of hilarious Niche moments about her having made a deal with Sylvette (Niche wears Sylvette's pantsu and in return, Sylvette promises to not make her disgusting soup for three days. x'D), Lag runs into the woman while trying to cross a terrifying ropebrigde. This woman already knows her son's letters are full of lies, but after having a couple of nice Gauche flashbacks, Lag still puts his life on the line to save the letter. The episode ends with Lag throwing himself in the lady's arms bawling like a baby. As it should be. =)

Judging from what the people in the discussion threads who read the manga say, episode 12 was supposed to be a filler, but it didn't feel like one at all! In the beginning of the episode I could believe it was gonna be a filler, cuz it was a christmas episode! And of course, the Bees got to wear SANTA SUITS! \(>,<)/ But then again, it had a lot of character development. We learn that Zazies parents are killed by Gaichuu, and so he hates them so much, that his shindan consists of hatred. But besides that, he seems to have a weak spot for cute kitties. x'D Another great part was Niche, who wasn't allowed to come along on Lag and Zazie's Holy Night (Ambergroundish for Christmas) messenger-mission, which was a Dingo-free event, so she went socializing with Zazie's dingo, telling him she understands her fellow dingo. x'D And she listens to Aria! =O Thumbs up Aria! Next ep seems filler-ish again, but if it's the same kind of filler we got this time, I don't mind that much!

Oh, and of course there was a scene like this too x'D