Shigofumi - Stories of Last Letter
| Shigofumi | |
|---|---|
| Original title | シ ゴ フ ミ |
| transcription | Shigofumi |
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| Book series and anime logo | |
| genre | Fantasy |
| Light novel | |
| title | Shigofumi - Stories of Last Letter |
| Original title | シ ゴ フ ミ〜Stories of Last Letter〜 |
| country |
 Japan
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| author | Tomorō Yuzawa (design), Ryō Amamiya |
| illustrator | Kōhaku Kuroboshi (draft), Poko |
| publishing company | Media Works |
| First publication | October 2006 - March 2008 |
| expenditure | 4th |
| Anime television series | |
| Country of production |
Japan
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| original language | Japanese |
| Studio | JCStaff |
| length | 24 minutes |
| Episodes | 13 |
| Director | Tatsuo Sato |
| idea | Tomorō Yuzawa |
| music | Hikaru Nanase |
| First broadcast | January 6 - March 23, 2008 on TV Chiba |
Shigofumi - Stories of Last Letter ( Japanese シ ゴ フ ミ〜Stories of Last Letter〜, Eng. "Letter from the dead - stories of the last letter") is the title of a four-volume light novel series from 2006–2008. Building on the series of novels, the thirteen-part anime television series Shigofumi ( シ ゴ フ ミ ) was created, directed by Tatsuo Satō in the animation studio JCStaff and shown for the first time on Japanese television in early 2008.
The story is about the messenger Fumika, who brings letters from the dead to the living. First of all, the focus is on the stories of different senders of such letters and the reactions of their recipients. However, it soon becomes apparent that Fumika herself also has a tragic past, which she approaches with the help of her friends.
Shigofumi is a psychological drama with supernatural elements in which the themes of death and psychological violence (especially bullying at school and child abuse ), but also love and friendship, are central elements.
action
The main protagonist of the story is Fumika , whose task it is to deliver the last words of recently deceased people in the form of letters - the Shigofumi ("after- death letters") - to the living. She is accompanied by Kanaka , a speaking wand with magical powers that Fumika can use with the help of codes. While Fumika goes about her job very seriously, quietly and conscientiously, Kanaka is lively and reckless. By delivering the Shigofumi, Fumika and Kanaka trigger very different reactions from the recipients: Some people are overjoyed, others commit acts of desperation. Just as different are the motives of the dead for their last words - care, hate, love.
In the course of the story, Fumika and Kanaka repeatedly meet Fumika's superior and colleague Chiaki , who realizes that Fumika is not a dead person like all the other Shigofumi messengers. On one of their assignments, Fumika and Kanaka meet the intelligent student Kaname Nojima . He believes he recognizes his lost love in Fumika, Fumika Mikawa, who has disappeared after attempting to murder her father. With the help of Natsuka Kasai , who was her best friend until Fumika's disappearance, he tries to solve the mystery of Fumika. The two find their friend in a hospital, where she has been in a comatose state since she disappeared three years earlier.
It turns out that Fumika's father, the famous writer Kirameki Mikawa , abused her from a young age to stimulate his creativity. Since Fumika cannot cope with the contradiction that on the one hand she hates her father, who torments her so much, and on the other hand loves him when he happily plays with her, she has split her personality: Fumi, who endures everything defenseless, and Mika who bravely faces difficult situations. While trying to protect himself from particularly bad abuse, Fumika shoots her father. Fumi falls into a coma out of guilt, while Mika becomes a Shigofumi messenger.
When Fumi wakes up again from the coma, it is not initially clear whether Mika, the other part of Fumika's personality, has to disappear for Fumika to live on as a single personality. However, the two decide to remain two separate people, and Mika continues to do her job as a Shigofumi messenger while Fumi finally begins a completely normal life.
Light novel
The light novel was published from October 2006 to March 2008 by Media Works Light Novel Imprint Dengeki Bunko . It was written by Ryō Amamiya , the original draft of Tomorō Yuzawa ( 湯 澤 友 楼 , sometimes also transcribed as the identical Tomorrow Yuzawa). Tomorō Yuzawa is a collective pseudonym made up of those involved in the anime production that took place at the same time as the light novel. Tomo comes from the name of the producer of JCStaff Yū ji Matsukura - whereby the character 友 is used in the Kun reading tomo instead of the On reading yū . Furthermore, the pseudonym is composed of the names of the scriptwriter Ichi rō Ōkouchi , the producer of Bandai Visual Jun Yu kawa and the producer of Genco Nobuhiro Ō sawa .
The illustrations are from Poko using the original character design by Kōhaku Kuroboshi.
Anime
From January 6 to March 23, 2008 after midnight (and thus on the previous television day ), the anime for the light novel was broadcast on TV Chiba. TV Kanagawa followed with a delay of one hour , and a few days later TV Saitama , KBS Kyōto , Tokyo MX , Sun TV , Mie TV , BS11 , GBS and the Internet Bandai Channel .
The anime was produced by Bandai Visual and animated by JCStaff . Involved were u. a. Ichirō Ōkouchi (screenplay), Tatsuo Satō (director) and Tetsuya Kawakami (character design), the latter using Kōhaku Kuroboshi's designs.
The series addresses various social grievances, which is why changes were made to the broadcasting of some episodes. For example, episode 3, which deals with the suicide of a young person, and episode 8, the subject of parental child abuse, were changed shortly before the broadcast from “ Consideration for the current social situation” (「昨 今 の 社会 情勢 に 配 慮」). Episode 6, which is about bullying among school students ( Ijime ), was skipped by SunTV when it aired.
| role | Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) |
|---|---|
| Fumika | Kana Ueda |
| Kanaka / Mayama | Yuki Matsuoka |
| Chiaki | Masumi Asano |
| Natsuka Kasai | Saeko Chiba |
| Kaname Nojima | Takuma Terashima |
Web links
- Light Novel website (Japanese)
- Anime website (Japanese)
- Entry of the anime in the Anime News Network (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Tomorō Yuzawa: 湯澤友 楼 コ メ ン ト . In: Shigofumi. Retrieved October 23, 2010 (Japanese).
- ↑ Bandai Visual USA Gets Shigofumi, True Tears Anime (Updated). In: Anime News Network. January 30, 2008, accessed on October 23, 2010 (English, the source mentions, probably accidentally, Ryō Amamiya, but explains the name Tomorō Yuzawa).
- ↑ 最新 情報 . 1 月 16 日 第 ３ 話 『ト モ ダ チ』 の 内容 修正 に 関 す る お こ と わ り and 2 月 22 日 第 ８ 話 『ハ ジ マ リ』 の 内容 修正 に 関 す る お こ と わ り . In: Shigofumi. February 22, 2008, Retrieved October 23, 2010 (Japanese).
- ↑ Shigofumi # 3 Altered after Recent Events in Japan. In: Anime News Network. October 23, 2010, accessed January 17, 2008 .
- ↑ Shigofumi # 8 Altered after Recent Events in Japan. In: Anime News Network. February 22, 2008, accessed January 17, 2008 .
- ↑ Central Japan's Sun TV Preempts Shigofumi Episode 6. In: Anime News Network. February 6, 2008, accessed January 17, 2008 .