Synopsis:
Based on a light novel series by Amamiya Ryo, illustrated by Poko.
A story about a miracle, involving Fumika, a quiet but hard working girl who wears a uniform of a mail carrier, and her talkative staff and partner Kanaka. 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. (From AniDB)
The first episode start with a two high school girl talking about a shinigami who delivered letter from a dead person. The letters in question are called “shigofumi”, and are written by the deceased after time of death, where they supposedly get remarkably honest. The scene change to a crime scene where the police are investigating. Coming from the sky our two main characters show up. Fumika, a mysterious and quiet girl who delivers letters from dead people, and her sidekick Kanaka, a talking staff which also functions as transportation.
Shouta, an ordinary high school boy with a dream of flying a rocket that revolved around the earth’s orbit was having fun with ayase a friend she meet on during her rocket test lunch. When shouta trying to confess, ayase fone rings telling her that her father’s body has already been found. On the next day fumika appeared to shouta, delivering a letter from ayase’s father to the lover of ayase. shouta is confuse about fumika weird appearance but he still believed to what fumika is saying. to his dismay the letter is send to ayase’s lover and he’s not a lover at all. After talking to fumika shouta decided to be accept the letter but before that he will have to be a lover of ayase. Shouta call ayase to confess but hes too “torpe” that he can say it and of course its really not the right time, instead shouta talk about his rocket that he already completed, and hoping that she could see it flying. ayase agreed to that. On the following days shouta is being busy fixing his rocket and finally he succeed.
Fumika and kanaka is exploring the building, again they debating about their true job, they found a room with bed and fumika seen what had happen to that place. she then decided to return to shouta’s place but kanaka said that shouta needs time. that because he was reading the shigofumi. Fumika rush to shouta but its too late. the letter has been read. and shouta is so angry. and calling himself stupid on believing on such thing. He then rush to ayase to prove ayase inocent.
Shouta and ayase are talking in a park, and shouta finally confess his love, but ayase rejected her that when fumika appeared and shouta still protecting ayase and believing that she can never do that kind of thing to her father. To his shock as he face ayase he was stabed…. ayase is also targeting fumika… that how it end.
This anime is quite interesting, i love the way they delivered the story and the mature stuffs are surprising from a child pornography to murdering your parents. The character design is ok but the animation is kinda lame. i dont like fumika height she’s so small ( categorizing her a loli ) and also the thing that bind her hair looks like an ear to me heheheh. Also Shigofumi is an episodic type, some review said its just like shinigami no ballad. well i cant react yet since i didnt watch it ^_^ So far shigofumi got my interest, and i’ll be watching this anime
