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★ 7.7 7K votes 2016–2016 1 season · 13 episodes Ended AT-X
AnimeJapanese animation traditions and grammar.This show: 10/10TearjerkerEngineered to make you cry, and it works.This show: 9/10Mental healthPsychological struggle treated with real seriousness.This show: 8/10BittersweetJoy and loss mixed so thoroughly they can't be separated.This show: 8/10FriendshipA friend group's dynamics carry the show.This show: 8/10Emotionally heavyDemands real emotional stamina from the viewer.This show: 8/10SentimentalOpenly emotional storytelling that reaches straight for the heartstrings.This show: 7/10MelancholicA wistful sadness woven through the story, even in its lighter moments.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Kana HanazawaSeiichiro YamashitaMakoto FurukawaRika KinugawaKazuyuki OkitsuNatsumi Takamori
Written by
Ichigo Takano
Starring
Kana HanazawaSeiichiro YamashitaMakoto FurukawaRika KinugawaKazuyuki OkitsuNatsumi Takamori
Written by
Ichigo Takano
Ratings per Episode
246810
Votes per Episode
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S18.07.37.98.17.77.98.28.77.77.47.97.98.18.8

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About

"Regret written as a letter from tomorrow"

A teenage girl starts receiving letters from herself, ten years in the future, urging her to pay closer attention to a new transfer student and make different choices than she once did. The letters hint at a deep regret her older self carries. What follows is a quiet, melancholy high-school drama about friendship, guilt, and second chances, told at a gentle pace with understated animation. It leans emotional rather than plot-twisty, building slowly toward an ending that many viewers find genuinely moving.

Watch it for

the slow-burn emotional payoff of watching friends try to rewrite a painful regret.

Maybe skip if

you need fast pacing or dislike quiet, dialogue-heavy melodrama.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12016
8.02K135h 14m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Letter 017.3
19823 min
▶2Letter 027.9
17123 min
▶3Letter 038.1
16123 min
▶4Letter 047.7
15323 min
▶5Letter 057.9
15323 min
▶6Letter 068.2
15623 min
▶7Letter 078.7
19223 min
▶8Letter 087.7
14723 min
▶9LETTER 097.4
14323 min
▶10Letter 107.9
14523 min
▶11Letter 117.9
14223 min
▶12Letter 128.1
15323 min
▶13Last Letter8.8
20038 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Kana Hanazawa Naho Takamiya, Takamiya Naho
Seiichiro Yamashita Kakeru Naruse, Naruse Kakeru
Makoto Furukawa Hiroto Suwa, Suwa Hiroto
Rika Kinugawa Takako Chino
Kazuyuki Okitsu Saku Hagita
Natsumi Takamori Azusa Murasaka
Jeannie Tirado Takako
Jill Harris Naho
Micah Solusod Kakeru Naruse
Sarah Wiedenheft Azusa

Crew

Ichigo Takano

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