Shigofumi ~Stories of Last Letter~

Japanese Title: シゴフミ 〜Stories of Last Letter〜
Genre: Fantasy, Shounen
Premier: TBA......fall 2007 or 2008.
Animation Studio: ???
Director: ???
Original creator: Amemiya Ryou or Amamiya Ryo


Based on a light novel by Amemiya Ryou thats published under MediaWorks' shounen light novel label - Dengeki Bunko.

Summary:

“A story about a miracle, involving Fumika, a quiet but hard working girl who wears a uniform that of a mail carrier, and her talkative staff and partner Mayama. The Shigofumi is a posthumous letter, the last resort of relaying a deceased person’s last message to his/her loved ones: family, friends, and significant other.”

The concept really sounds interesting and add that to the fact that the character design done by the same guy who did Kino no Tabi....who is Kohaku Kuroboshi. It all depends now whether the original stories feature some interesting enough twists. A strange thing is that the anime for this series has been announced on the same day that the first volume of the novel it’s going to be based on got published. This probably means that the creators are expecting a lot from this story. While this isn’t always a good choice, I like how they didn’t choose the most popular story, but instead went with a concept from which they didn’t exactly know how good it would sell. Its got a similar concept to Shinigami no Ballad.