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Shigofumi: Letters from the Departed (TV)

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Alternative title:
Shigofumi: ~Stories of Last Letter~ (Japanese)
シゴフミ ~Stories of Last Letter~ (Japanese)
사후편지 (Korean)
Plot Summary: Fumika and Kanaka are mail carriers- but not the typical kind. For one, Kanaka is a talking staff and for two, Fumika delivers shigofumi: letters from the dead addressed to the living. These letters are a final, true, communication derived from hate, hope, and love. The story unfolds following this pair and their uncommon job as well as Fumika's unique 'situation'.
User Ratings: 486 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 57 votes (sub:51, Spa.sub:3, dub:2, Pol.sub:1)
 Excellent: 149 votes (sub:131, Spa.sub:10, ?:2, raw:2, dub:2, Ger.sub:1, Kor.sub:1)
 Very good: 133 votes (sub:128, dub:2, raw:1, Kor.sub:1, Spa.edit.dub:1)
 Good: 94 votes (sub:90, raw:2, dub:1, ?:1)
 Decent: 33 votes (sub:31, Spa.sub:1, Ger.sub:1)
 So-so: 11 votes (sub:10, dub:1)
 Not really good: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Weak: 3 votes (sub:2, dub:1)
 Bad: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 807 users, rank: #750
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 8.051 (Very good+.05), std. dev.: 1.3905, rank: #351
Weighted mean: 7.944 (Very good-.05), rank: #412 (seen all: 7.99 / seen some: 8.01 / won't finish: 5.10)
Bayesian estimate: 7.935 (Very good-.06), rank: #270
Running time: half hour per episode
Number of episodes: 12
Episode titles: We have 13
Vintage:
2008-01-05
2008-01-05 to 2008-03-22
Opening Theme:
"Kotodama (コトダマ)" by ALI PROJECT
Ending Theme:
"Chain" by Snow*
Trivia: We have 2
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Related releases:
    Shigofumi: Letters from the Departed (Sub.DVD 1) 2008-05-13

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Tatsuo Sato

Series Composition: Ichiro Okouchi

Episode Director:
Katsushi Sakurabi (1,3)
Tatsuyuki Nagai (2)

Music: Hikaru Nanase

Original creator: Ryo Amamiya

Original Character Design: Kouhaku Kuroboshi

Character Design: Tetsuya Kawakami

Art director: Nobuto Sakamoto

Sound director: Yota Tsuruoka

Director of Photography: Yoshio Ookouchi

Assistant director: Katsushi Sakurabi

Color design: Mayumi Misehashi

Editing: Shigeru Nishiyama

Prop Design: Mayumi Okamoto

Theme Song Performance:
Ali Project (OP)
Snow* (ED)

 

Kana Ueda as Fumika

Yuki Matsuoka as Kanaka

Akio Nojima as Tatsumi Nojima

Eri Sendai as Fumika Mikawa

Fumiko Orikasa as Haruno Kasai

Masayuki Katou as Matoma

Masumi Asano as Chiaki

Rikiya Koyama as Kirameki Mikawa

Saeko Chiba as Natsuka Kasai

Takuma Terashima as Kaname Nojima

Akane Omae as Miku Ayase

Akiko Tanaka as Junior (ep 4)

Akiko Yajima as Fumika (ep 10)

Akimitsu Takase as Bully (ep 6)

Atsuko Tanaka as Naoko Tateishi (ep 4)

Atsushi Abe as Tooru Kotake (eps 3, 6, 12)

Ayumi Fujimura as Woman (ep 2)

Dai Matsumoto as Teacher (ep 6)

Daisuke Hirakawa as Shunsuke Morishita (ep 6)

Eri Kitamura as Ran Yahiro (ep 4)

Eri Sendai as Asuna Ayase (eps 1-2)

Erina Nakayama as Girl (ep 6)

Gô Shinomiya as Commentator (ep 12)

Haruka Kimura as Female student (ep 1)

Hideki Tasaka as Detective Oda

Hiromi Sugino as Policeman (ep 3)

Ikuko Shimizu as Girl (ep 10)

Ikumi Sugiyama as Kindred (ep 10)

Isshin Chiba as Bully (ep 6)

Jun Sagawa as Woman (ep 4)

Jun'ya Miura as Man (ep 4)

Kanako Toujô as Kindred (ep 10)

Kanji Suzumori as Store keeper (ep 4)

Kazusa Murai as Kirei (ep 12)

Kazutaka Ishii as Man friend (ep 5)

Keiji Fujiwara as Senior Executive Manager (eps 7, 11-12)

Keikou Sakai as Detective (ep 10)

Keisuke Fujii as Policeman (ep 10)

Kenji Takahashi as
Lawrencio (ep 12)
Yakuza (ep 3)

Kenta Miyake as Saizou Kiyosumi (ep 9)

Kiyohito Yoshikai as Man (ep 2)

Kousuke Okano as Takehiko Hibiya (ep 10)

Kumi Sakuma as Female Student (ep 3)

Kumiko Takizawa as Kasai family's mother (eps 11-12)

Mahiru Konno as
Boy (ep 10)
Teacher (ep 6)

Mami Kameoka as Misuzu Seiryū (ep 4)

Miho Miyagawa as Waitress (ep 9)

Miki Nagasawa as Company Employee (ep 7)

Misa Watanabe as Ochiai Editor-in-Chief (eps 7, 9, 11-12)

Mutsumi Tamura as Female student (ep 3)

Nanaho Katsuragi as Female Doctor (ep 11)

Naoko Kouda as Hisako Nojima (ep 4)

Nozomi Masu as
Delivery person (ep 12)
Female student (ep 1)
Woman (ep 2)

Ogino Seirou as Fisherman (ep 9)

Ooki Matsumoto as Teacher (ep 6)

Rie Saitou as Ana girl (ep 12)

Ryohei Kimura as Daiki Senkawa (ep 3)

Ryouko Tanaka as Junior (ep 4)

Ryuugo Saito as Shopkeeper (ep 2)

Sachiko Okada as Female Student (ep 3)

Saori Hayami as Sweetheart (ep 5)

Saori Seto as Girl (ep 12)

Satomi Arai as Nanae Yotsugi (ep 4)

Sayaka Kinoshita as Staff (eps 1-2)

Shinsuke Fukui as
Male Student (ep 3)
Man (ep 2)
Staff (ep 7)
Teacher (ep 12)
Yankee (ep 10)

Shinya Fukumatsu as Yakuza (ep 3)

Shoko Tsuda as Risarra

Tadahisa Saizen as Yakuza (ep 3)

Takashi Hikida as Yankee (ep 10)

Takayuki Fujimoto as
Bully (ep 6)
Ueno (ep 10)

Takeshi Watabe as Senkawa's father (ep 3)

Takuo Kawamura as Kasai family's father (eps 11-12)

Tetsuya Iwanaga as Kouichi Kikugawa (ep 6)

Tomo Adachi as
Female Student (ep 3)
Girl (ep 12)

Tomomichi Nishimura as Takezou Ayase (ep 2)

Toshihide Tsuchiya as Math teacher (ep 6)

Tsubasa Yonaga as Shōta Machiya (eps 1-2)

Yasumichi Kushida as Male Student (ep 3)

Yoshiko Okamoto as
Chief (ep 2)
Hibiya's mother (ep 10)

Yui Horie as Suzune Shinozaki (ep 13)

Yuu Sugimoto as Fumika's mother (ep 10)

Yuuichi Ishigami as Commentator (ep 12)

Yuuna Inamura as Touko Shirakawa (ep 9)

Japanese companies 

Animation Production: J.C. Staff

Broadcaster:
BS11 Digital (2008-01-11)
Chiba TV (2008-01-05)
Gifu Broadcasting (2008-01-13)
KBS Kyoto (2008-01-08)
Mie TV (2008-01-10)
Sun TV (2008-01-08)
Tokyo MX TV (2008-01-08)
TV Kanagawa (2008-01-05)
TV Saitama (2008-01-07)

Music Production: Lantis

Production:
Bandai Visual
GENCO

Sound Production: Rakuonsha


English staff 
(none)
English companies 

Licensed by: Bandai Visual USA

English cast 
(none)
 
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