Chrome Shelled Regios Missing Mail Manga Discussion thread

[xris]

Welcome to the discussion thread for the second manga series of Chrome Shelled Regios (Chrome Shelled Regios Missing Mail) by Shūsuke Amagi, drawn by Nodoka Kiyose.

First published June 2007 in Monthly Dragon Age.

[prototype_sky]

How many chapters have been released in japan so far?

[TrueKnight]

3 volumes are currently released in Japan. Assuming that 1 volume has 5 chapters, then until now there are 15 chapters altogether.

[ipernorris]

In the last chapter 5 it is reveal a bit about the reason Layfon was exiled. Felli comments that he wanted to be liked by evreyone but when he revealed his true colors evreybody rejected him, with the exception of Lirin.
I think the reason he was exiled in the manga is different than the one from the novel because otherwise people would have praised him...

[cynicalicious]

Read volume 1 recently. Interesting take on Regios. If the dollar-yen exchange rate wasn't so horrible, I'd be more willing to crack open my wallet and get the other two. I have to admit that I like the art in this series. It's a little shoujo-y, but I like how the mangaka draws Felli and Naruki. The sheep-hugging was a little weird, though. (Yes, sheep hugging.)

Geez, so many different Regios properties out there these days. I guess Fon-Fon will wind up with a different girl in each of them, just to make each set of rabid fanboys happy. lol.

[cynicalicious]

Woot. Kinokuniya NY just found vols 2 & 3 for me, and they're on the way here. Looking forward to finding out what happens now.

Good thing, because those volumes are backordered all to heck in the usual places I'd buy them from online JP bookstores. But that's not too surprising, considering that that's usually what happens when a property gets turned into an anime.

[TrueKnight]

Dude, if you have the time please at least make a summary on each of the volumes. There're tons of rabid Felli x Fon-fon fans (me included) want to know how their relationship progresses in Missing Mail. Oh...ultra bishoujo Felli. >.>

[cynicalicious]

Well, I got my copies of Missing Mail vols. 2 & 3 today. I've had a chance to read volume 2, and I'm about halfway through volume 3. Great thing about shoujo manga is that with the giant pictures, there's not much in the way of giant walls o' text to slow you down.

Spoiler for This is a summary of volume 2:

Spoiler for If you press this button, you'll get spoiled:

Volume 2 starts off with Layfon having nightmares about the SCP telling everyone about his past. (If you remember, at the end of vol. 1, he had threatened to tell all of Fon-Fon's friends and platoon mates about his dirty little secret if he didn't cooperate.)

Anyway, Fon-Fon is on edge. Then Fon-Fon, Mifi, Naruki, and Felli go to the cafe, where Meichi is working in a maid costume. (Difference from canon right there.) Fon-Fon is Mr. Suave, and tells her that she looks cute. Meichi acts all Meichi and cowers. While she, Mifi and Naruki are off-screen, Felli asks Fon-Fon if he's into those kinds of clothes. He says oh, no! Then she asks, "What if I wore something like that?" Then his eyes get all far-away, and he says, "It would look great on you." Ah, fun stuff.

But the mood is spoiled when she tells him she has a message for him from her brother. He wigs out, and she leaves, because he gets a creepy look in his eyes, because he's terrified that she might know his secret.

He tries to write a letter to Leerin, crumples it up, then fails at squad practice, pissing off Nina, then there's a funny scene. After Sharnid and Felli have run away from a ranting Nina, Harley (who we haven't seen at all) comes in and asks if everyone's dites are ok. Fon-Fon has forgotten Harley's name, and calls him Harem instead. lol.

As the days before the first interplatoon match with the 16th come, Fon-Fon is miserable. He can't sleep, he's torn up, he feels tormented by the SCP.

When they announce the teams, he runs back into the locker room, and hears the other squads all betting against them. Mifi, however, puts a lot of money on the 17th, because they're her friends, and she believes in them. This inspires him, I guess.

Then Felli tells him that they're just normal humans, and whether they display their powers is their personal right. She won't hold it against him if he doesn't want to. Of course Nina ruins that mood by getting all... Nina. lol.

The people in the 16th aren't quite the same kind of jerks as in the anime, but they want to win, and they're trying to crush the 17th just the same. Different characters, too. (I don't know what the deal was with the dude leading the 16th in the anime. He looked like one of those 40 year old dudes acting in a college movie. Weird.)

Anyway, Fon-Fon and Nina are in a tight spot, Fon-Fon uses his 2-hour, and wipes the floor with the 16th, royally pissing off Nina, and totally depressing him, because now he realizes he's in the clutches of the SCP for good. "O noez! They haz seen mah powahs!"

Fon-Fon never shows at the after party, and is cowering somewhere in the city. Felli is trying to hunt him down. She finds him, and lets him know that the SCP won't say anything about his secret, but he realizes that Felli knows it, and he totally wigs out, and turns into Dark Fon-Fon. She tells him she doesn't care about his past, he calms down, and they decide to run away from Zuellni together!

Well, sort of. Fon-Fon decides to run away, and Felli declares that she's going with him no matter what. Fon-Fon is kind of confused, because he's dumb. You can definitely see Felli's love interest in Fon-Fon, but not necessarily Fon-Fon's interest in Felli yet. He's slow.

They agree to meet in an hour's time. Fon-Fon goes back, packs his bags, and finds victory cookies from Meichi. How sweet. Then he goes back to the farm to meet Felli, and feeds them to Flossie the sheep, who doesn't like them. He eats one and realizes it's good! Then he gets depressed, goes to the bus stop, where Felli meets him. She's pissed because he was trying to leave without her. Then she tells him to wait there, because she forgot her makeup case. lol.

She leaves behind a nen-i petal, which she uses to yell at him some more.

Then who comes to the bus station, but Nina, to yell at him for being so strong and hiding it, and then asks him what's up with that funny-sounding name of his... Volfstein... Fon-Fon freaks out, because now he knows the SCP has double-crossed him, and is going to leak out his secret to his friends if he doesn't come clean.

Nina crushes Felli's nen-i petal, then demands the truth. Then we get the flashback of Fon-Fon's fall from grace. It's the same as in the books, so I'm not going to repeat it.

Nina, of course, calls him a coward, but before she can start turning dere-dere, the Filth Monsters attack!

Fon-Fon, now in full "I'm running from everything mode" tells Nina to pack it in and run away. Nina of course berates him for *really* being a coward now, because she's going to use what little power she has in comparison to him to protect the city.

He walks off in a bad mood, then runs into the SCP, and he asks the SCP if he's going to threaten him again. The SCP says he got it all wrong. He's trying to protect 60,000 people, and he'll do what he has to to make sure that their lives are safe, and that he loves the city and the school. Then Fon-Fon asks him if he loves it enough to sacrifice his little sister for it. The SCP gets angry about that, and tells him to stop being conceited. Then the SCP says that he wants to be a good leader, and he'll find a way to save the city. Fon-Fon makes a comment along the lines of, I hope to see your solution. The SCP says, You'll definitely take action. Fon-Fon walks off, but has a chill up his spine. (Don't mess with the megane!)

Cut to Mifi and Meichi running to the shelter with the other cannon fodder, all panicky. They spot Fon-Fon wandering aimlessly, and ask him what he's up to. Meichi asks why he's not defending the city. He says he's not going to. She tugs on his sleeve, and says that she doesn't understand why-- he's strong, so why isn't he helping? He looks away, all mopey n' stuff.

Cut to Nina and Sharnid, fighting the bugs. Same stuff you've seen before. No Felli, no Fon-Fon.

Then Fon-Fon is back in his now empty room. (He had cleared it out to leave on the bus earlier.) He's all mopey until he finds a letter from Leerin. Surprise! Gee, I wonder how THAT got there... (I bet it was the Megane!)

She tells him to stop lying to himself. She's upset that he's managed to make friends and move on, but she's really mad at him for constantly dwelling on his past, and his failures, instead of what the future holds for him and what he can do instead. She tells him to stop sniveling, stop worrying about what could happen if he screws up, and move forward. Oh, and she hopes he can come back to Grendan someday. Lol.

He gets his dite retuned by Harem--err, Harley--then goes to see Felli to ask for her help.

Felli, of course, freaks out when he asks her to help him fight and slams the door on him, because just one hour ago, he was ready to ditch the city. How could he betray her like that and try to USE her like everyone else does? He realizes that she doesn't have a Leerin to cheer her on and straighten him out like he does.

So he's says he understands. He'll go off and fight them all himself to protect her. He may die without her help, but that's okay with him. He won't force her. This of course upsets her, but he's already run off. She opens the door to stop him, but it's too late. (Why doesn't she use her nen-i powers to tell him to wait up?)

As he's heading off to the battlefield (and certain death? lol), he runs across Mifi and Meichi, who are happy to see him going off to fight.

To be continued in Volume 3....

I'll post a summary of Vol. 3 some other time.

Major differences-- there's are a lot of characters missing in this manga. It's not just mail that's missing, it's the Queen, the other Heaven Blades... a lot of stuff, actually. Some of the plot elements are switched around a bit, but the major stuff is all there. It's just a matter of the details being reworked.

And the art is positively awesome. Shoujo Felli FTW. The color inside cover of volume 2 alone is worth the 580 yen for the book, but the back jacket drawing of Felli is even better.

[TrueKnight]

Originally Posted by cynicalicious

Well, I got my copies of Missing Mail vols. 2 & 3 today. I've had a chance to read volume 2, and I'm about halfway through volume 3. Great thing about shoujo manga is that with the giant pictures, there's not much in the way of giant walls o' text to slow you down.

Spoiler for This is a summary of volume 2:

Spoiler for If you press this button, you'll get spoiled:

Volume 2 starts off with Layfon having nightmares about the SCP telling everyone about his past. (If you remember, at the end of vol. 1, he had threatened to tell all of Fon-Fon's friends and platoon mates about his dirty little secret if he didn't cooperate.)

Anyway, Fon-Fon is on edge. Then Fon-Fon, Mifi, Naruki, and Felli go to the cafe, where Meichi is working in a maid costume. (Difference from canon right there.) Fon-Fon is Mr. Suave, and tells her that she looks cute. Meichi acts all Meichi and cowers. While she, Mifi and Naruki are off-screen, Felli asks Fon-Fon if he's into those kinds of clothes. He says oh, no! Then she asks, "What if I wore something like that?" Then his eyes get all far-away, and he says, "It would look great on you." Ah, fun stuff.

But the mood is spoiled when she tells him she has a message for him from her brother. He wigs out, and she leaves, because he gets a creepy look in his eyes, because he's terrified that she might know his secret.

He tries to write a letter to Leerin, crumples it up, then fails at squad practice, pissing off Nina, then there's a funny scene. After Sharnid and Felli have run away from a ranting Nina, Harley (who we haven't seen at all) comes in and asks if everyone's dites are ok. Fon-Fon has forgotten Harley's name, and calls him Harem instead. lol.

As the days before the first interplatoon match with the 16th come, Fon-Fon is miserable. He can't sleep, he's torn up, he feels tormented by the SCP.

When they announce the teams, he runs back into the locker room, and hears the other squads all betting against them. Mifi, however, puts a lot of money on the 17th, because they're her friends, and she believes in them. This inspires him, I guess.

Then Felli tells him that they're just normal humans, and whether they display their powers is their personal right. She won't hold it against him if he doesn't want to. Of course Nina ruins that mood by getting all... Nina. lol.

The people in the 16th aren't quite the same kind of jerks as in the anime, but they want to win, and they're trying to crush the 17th just the same. Different characters, too. (I don't know what the deal was with the dude leading the 16th in the anime. He looked like one of those 40 year old dudes acting in a college movie. Weird.)

Anyway, Fon-Fon and Nina are in a tight spot, Fon-Fon uses his 2-hour, and wipes the floor with the 16th, royally pissing off Nina, and totally depressing him, because now he realizes he's in the clutches of the SCP for good. "O noez! They haz seen mah powahs!"

Fon-Fon never shows at the after party, and is cowering somewhere in the city. Felli is trying to hunt him down. She finds him, and lets him know that the SCP won't say anything about his secret, but he realizes that Felli knows it, and he totally wigs out, and turns into Dark Fon-Fon. She tells him she doesn't care about his past, he calms down, and they decide to run away from Zuellni together!

Well, sort of. Fon-Fon decides to run away, and Felli declares that she's going with him no matter what. Fon-Fon is kind of confused, because he's dumb. You can definitely see Felli's love interest in Fon-Fon, but not necessarily Fon-Fon's interest in Felli yet. He's slow.

They agree to meet in an hour's time. Fon-Fon goes back, packs his bags, and finds victory cookies from Meichi. How sweet. Then he goes back to the farm to meet Felli, and feeds them to Flossie the sheep, who doesn't like them. He eats one and realizes it's good! Then he gets depressed, goes to the bus stop, where Felli meets him. She's pissed because he was trying to leave without her. Then she tells him to wait there, because she forgot her makeup case. lol.

She leaves behind a nen-i petal, which she uses to yell at him some more.

Then who comes to the bus station, but Nina, to yell at him for being so strong and hiding it, and then asks him what's up with that funny-sounding name of his... Volfstein... Fon-Fon freaks out, because now he knows the SCP has double-crossed him, and is going to leak out his secret to his friends if he doesn't come clean.

Nina crushes Felli's nen-i petal, then demands the truth. Then we get the flashback of Fon-Fon's fall from grace. It's the same as in the books, so I'm not going to repeat it.

Nina, of course, calls him a coward, but before she can start turning dere-dere, the Filth Monsters attack!

Fon-Fon, now in full "I'm running from everything mode" tells Nina to pack it in and run away. Nina of course berates him for *really* being a coward now, because she's going to use what little power she has in comparison to him to protect the city.

He walks off in a bad mood, then runs into the SCP, and he asks the SCP if he's going to threaten him again. The SCP says he got it all wrong. He's trying to protect 60,000 people, and he'll do what he has to to make sure that their lives are safe, and that he loves the city and the school. Then Fon-Fon asks him if he loves it enough to sacrifice his little sister for it. The SCP gets angry about that, and tells him to stop being conceited. Then the SCP says that he wants to be a good leader, and he'll find a way to save the city. Fon-Fon makes a comment along the lines of, I hope to see your solution. The SCP says, You'll definitely take action. Fon-Fon walks off, but has a chill up his spine. (Don't mess with the megane!)

Cut to Mifi and Meichi running to the shelter with the other cannon fodder, all panicky. They spot Fon-Fon wandering aimlessly, and ask him what he's up to. Meichi asks why he's not defending the city. He says he's not going to. She tugs on his sleeve, and says that she doesn't understand why-- he's strong, so why isn't he helping? He looks away, all mopey n' stuff.

Cut to Nina and Sharnid, fighting the bugs. Same stuff you've seen before. No Felli, no Fon-Fon.

Then Fon-Fon is back in his now empty room. (He had cleared it out to leave on the bus earlier.) He's all mopey until he finds a letter from Leerin. Surprise! Gee, I wonder how THAT got there... (I bet it was the Megane!)

She tells him to stop lying to himself. She's upset that he's managed to make friends and move on, but she's really mad at him for constantly dwelling on his past, and his failures, instead of what the future holds for him and what he can do instead. She tells him to stop sniveling, stop worrying about what could happen if he screws up, and move forward. Oh, and she hopes he can come back to Grendan someday. Lol.

He gets his dite retuned by Harem--err, Harley--then goes to see Felli to ask for her help.

Felli, of course, freaks out when he asks her to help him fight and slams the door on him, because just one hour ago, he was ready to ditch the city. How could he betray her like that and try to USE her like everyone else does? He realizes that she doesn't have a Leerin to cheer her on and straighten him out like he does.

So he's says he understands. He'll go off and fight them all himself to protect her. He may die without her help, but that's okay with him. He won't force her. This of course upsets her, but he's already run off. She opens the door to stop him, but it's too late. (Why doesn't she use her nen-i powers to tell him to wait up?)

As he's heading off to the battlefield (and certain death? lol), he runs across Mifi and Meichi, who are happy to see him going off to fight.

To be continued in Volume 3....

Wow. Dude, this is unreal, awesome and perfect bedtime stories. Can’t believe you actually posted a whole freaking detailed summary where I thought it’d be just a paragraph of two. Thanks a lot for the detailed and comprehensive summary including explanations in some parts.

Missing Mail is truly a gem for Felli x Fon-fon fans in its own right.

Originally Posted by cynicalicious

I'll post a summary of Vol. 3 some other time.

Major differences-- there's are a lot of characters missing in this manga. It's not just mail that's missing, it's the Queen, the other Heaven Blades... a lot of stuff, actually. Some of the plot elements are switched around a bit, but the major stuff is all there. It's just a matter of the details being reworked.

And the art is positively awesome. Shoujo Felli FTW. The color inside cover of volume 2 alone is worth the 580 yen for the book, but the back jacket drawing of Felli is even better.

Take your time dude, take your time.

So far Missing Mail is about character developments, but seems all the major stuff are still present (like Kallian’s patriotism) with some additional information, such as Zuellni had around 60,000 citizens.

[cynicalicious]

The thing is, it's hard to summarize it in just a couple of grafs. It was easier to just sit there with the book and summarize the whole thing in a few pages. It's not perfect, but it's close enough.

We know that Zuellni has 60,000 citizens from the anime/books, too, BTW.

I'll say this about Missing Mail, however. As much as the Felli x Fon-Fon relationship gets played up, the other three main interests also loom large, especially Leerin, whose letters keep showing up throughout the manga. But there's a lot of emphasis given to Felli. Maybe it's because the mangaka likes drawing her. Who knows?

But yeah, the Grendan characters don't show up at all. It's mostly the folks in the 17th (with very little Harley and not much Sharnid), the other 3 girls, the SCP.... Leerin through her letters... and that's really about it. There are a lot of "extras" who show up, but they're forgettable.

Then again, I understand why. The manga comes out with one chapter every 2 months, so it has to be sparse. If you start introducing a hojillion characters, you'll never finish the story. On the upside, this means that it'll resolve without a lot of excess crap in it.

Also, just FYI, the series hardly ends with volume 3.

[TrueKnight]

I see no appreciation for this series yet....so maybe I’ll begin.

For those of you who are new viewers and CSR fans, Missing Mail is a spin-off of the original CSR series set in some alternate universe. The main character is still Layfon, however for plot, it focuses more on the interactions between Layfon and the girls, especially Felli Loss, without of course, disregarding the role Nina or Leerin, because they also had screen time. The overall plot from the original are still there, and some are better explained than the anime (of which when this is posted, is up to episode 8 subbed).

This good summary sums it up,

Originally Posted by cynicalicious

I'll say this about Missing Mail, however. As much as the Felli x Fon-Fon relationship gets played up, the other three main interests also loom large, especially Leerin, whose letters keep showing up throughout the manga. But there's a lot of emphasis given to Felli. Maybe it's because the mangaka likes drawing her. Who knows?

But yeah, the Grendan characters don't show up at all. It's mostly the folks in the 17th (with very little Harley and not much Sharnid), the other 3 girls, the SCP.... Leerin through her letters... and that's really about it. There are a lot of "extras" who show up, but they're forgettable.

Then again, I understand why. The manga comes out with one chapter every 2 months, so it has to be sparse. If you start introducing a hojillion characters, you'll never finish the story. On the upside, this means that it'll resolve without a lot of excess crap in it.

Also, just FYI, the series hardly ends with volume 3.

Now for the art itself, it is shoujouish considering the mangaka probably female, but in return we have an ultra bishoujo Felli, Leerin and Nina so its definitely an eye candy.

So far up until this post is submitted, up to 5 chapters have been scanlated, 6 if you includes chapter 0. You can view the scanlations here,

http://www.onemanga.com/Chrome_Shell..._Missing_Mail/

And mangafox also has them. So happy reading.

[willyvereb]

I don't know but somehow no matter how much work the artist killed in Felli she not changed much(somehow i think the artist have more skill drawing short haired girls...Nina became a whole other person in terms of looks...not to mention Narki!!!)
Layfon's personality dragged down to the level of a high school boy's(at least he pays more attention to women)...not to mention that Felli has little problem showing her emotions.
Not to mention some other things...It's much more peacefull than the original.
Interesting...

[TrueKnight]

Layfon is definitely emo in this one. But the bishoujoness of Felli definitely makes up for it. Overall I like the girls designs much more in this one, especially Felli and Nina. Bishoujo goddesses lol.

[MrTerrorist]

From what all you guys are saying, i definitely can't wait for the 2nd volume to be translated.

[Redlar]

Well, they're waiting for Kinokuniya/other importer to get the stuff in stock so they can scan raws, so...

[cynicalicious]

I got my books from Kinokuniya NYC last week. They said it would take 2-3 weeks, it took 4 days. Weird.

I have to say, I really dig the artwork in this series... except maybe the way they draw Meichi and Naruki. Meichi just looks way too weepy, and Naruki's eyes are too small and too far apart. Mifi looks better in this version, though, and Nina and of course Felli look great.

Anyway, here's the summary of the first half of volume 3. I'll do the summary for part two later. It's a new storyline. This one finishes up the storyline from volume 2.

Spoiler for Missing Mail Vol. 3 part one Summary:

Spoiler for If you click here, you will be spoiled:

The volume starts off with a great inside front cover color artwork of Felli in her red waitress outfit. On the other side is Flossy the sheep. No, I don't know why. They seem to like the sheep for some reason.

Anyway, Nina is desperately fighting the FM, and she can barely see through the blood in her eyes. Sharnid warns her not to faint or collapse, or she'll get eaten. She's being very Nina about the whole thing, fighting with every last bit of her power to save the city. And when things look their most hopeless, as she's lying on the ground with a torn-up shoulder, about to become bug food... Fon-Fon saves the day and annihilates a bunch of bugs with his metal wires. (The artwork here is really good. The expressions on Nina's face are great.)

Nina is of course wondering, What woke him up? Because when she last saw him, he was in total coward mode. She asks him what the weapon is, and he explains how the metal wires work. He explains that this particular dite is difficult to control properly, so he has to be careful.

She's just in shock that those metal wires can cut through the hard shells of the FMs that she had such difficulty with.

Then he asks Nina if he helped her. She said it's okay now. He then gets all serious and says that he'll protect her and the city. (Score 1 point for Nina faction. Nice little scene.)

She starts tearing up and yelling at him because he was late. She's also frustrated because she feels like she couldn't protect Zuellni. Then Fon-Fon calls the medics on her to get her patched up. She tries to resist, because she's the captain. He tells her to get everyone to evacuate, and find him a nen-i controller so he can finish the job.

He realizes that he can't finish the job without Felli, because he can't see all of the targets without hurting friendlies.

Nina asks him why he came back, and he explains that it was because of a letter from a friend in Grendan. (Leerin of course.) Nina says she's a little jealous of that friend, since her words had no effect on him at all.

As Fon-Fon is wondering if he should try talking to Felli again, she appears. She says not to get the wrong idea, she just happened to come by. He asks her to come here, and that's where he lifts her up in the air, and if you've seen those pages, it's the scene where he's holding her up the air, and bringing her close. (Well, it's a totally misleading way to just stick one page in and lead you on like that, but Felli +1 anyway.) He tells her he wanted her to come, he wants her to help him, and if it's not Felli helping him, then it's no good.

"Just this one time," she says to him.

The SCP is overjoyed to see him. Fon-Fon lays out his plan. It's simple-- get everyone out of his way, and let Felli and him do their work. He'll kill all of the larvae, then they'll kill the mother body. The other troops would be in danger if they got too close to where the FM were.

Naturally, the other council members freak out when they hear this plan, because they don't know anything, but Megane-kun says it's okay, and he pulls rank and approves the plan. The SCP uses Felli's nen-i power to broadcast a message to all of the squads that they have a plan, and that all of the student troops need to evacuate.

Then they start the Final Countdown 10... by about 6, someone bursts in, yelling that if they kill all of the larvae, the mother will go nuts and call in reinforcements if they don't kill her in 30 minutes or less. (Like the reverse of Domino's Pizza?) The SCP pretty much ignores him, because he knows Fon-Fon will handle it. He knows Fon-Fon is a pro.

As Felli is using her nen-i powers to visualize the battlefield for Fon-Fon, he's impressed by her abilities. Felli counts 982 larvae, and she's a little freaked out by the sheer number. Fon-Fon, however, laughs it off. One time in Grendan, they killed as many as 10,000 at a time.

Then jump to the evac shelters, where Meichi is crying, and Mifi is trying to get her to eat a sandwich. Meichi is worried about Naruki and Fon-Fon, and Mifi tells her to have some faith in her friends, and when they get back, make them some nice food.

Now one of the cooler scenes... Fon-Fon gets on top of the highest building in Zuellni, and rains down death on the bugs from the center of the city. Bug bits are falling from the sky, everyone cheers, except for whiny random guy, who's going on about the mother bug again, but the SCP says he has faith in Felli and Fon-Fon. Fon-Fon says it's fine, because he's going to defeat it.

Felli is overwhelmed by Fon-Fon's power, as she sees the lights representing living bugs wink out of her perception. But now she's worried about his safety, leaving the air filter means he's only got 5 minutes outside to survive. She doesn't want him to die while everyone else sits safely inside. Why is he fighting for them? He's doing it because he doesn't want people to die because he didn't act, and because he wants to protect his "senpai-tachi," (his seniors.) Felli doesn't like that term, and says that he's no longer allowed to call her Felli-Senpai. "Come up with another name." Needless to say, she doesn't like any of the names he suggests. Felli-chan? Rejected. Fellichi? Rejected. Felliyan? Rejected. Fellirin? Rejected. Felli-tan? Do you want me to kill you?

Felli... and when he calls her that, it strikes a chord, but she tries to cover up, because it sounds like he could add the -sempai too easily. He needs to say it with more affection, but it can't be helped. Felli is fine, as long as he says it with more affection. He has to promise to call her that when he comes back from killing the monster.

Then he jumps through the filter, kills the momma bug, comes back, collapses on Nina's chest, and passes out. Of course, Felli yells at him for passing out before calling her by her name like he promised. He mumbles something about Leerin and her letter, at which point everyone goes "Who?" and then the sun rises.

Then in the last little joke frame, Fon-Fon pukes blood all over Nina's chest as she's calling for stretchers. Lol.

Then there's a sequence where everyone is celebrating, Fon-Fon is in the hospital, then everyone is happy, smiling and so on, and then they make a group photo for Leerin, because if she hadn't written that letter, they'd all be bug food by now. Felli is hugging the sheep in the photo next to Fon-Fon. Sharnid is pushing Nina into Fon-Fon, and Mifi is pushing Meichi into him.

The next 3 chapters are called the The Last Mail From Grendan. Dun-Dun-Duuuun! It's an interesting mashup of a lot of different stories you've already seen in Regios, plus some new stuff. (Like extreme sheep shearing!)

I'll post a summary later. Right now, I'm wiped out.

[Master Assassin]

... Did it occur to me that Missing Mail somehow follows the anime/novel/whichever is related only with some differences? Looks like Secret Side is the actual alternate story since Secret Side started out nothing like what we have known so far...

By the way, thanks Cynicalicious! Man that's a lot of plus points indeed.

[TrueKnight]

Cynicalicous strikes again, delivering us Felli fans great amount of justice.

Thanks yet again for the time and well detailed summary.

Originally Posted by cynocalicious

I got my books from Kinokuniya NYC last week. They said it would take 2-3 weeks, it took 4 days. Weird.

I have to say, I really dig the artwork in this series... except maybe the way they draw Meichi and Naruki. Meichi just looks way too weepy, and Naruki's eyes are too small and too far apart. Mifi looks better in this version, though, and Nina and of course Felli look great.

Anyway, here's the summary of the first half of volume 3. I'll do the summary for part two later. It's a new storyline. This one finishes up the storyline from volume 2.

Spoiler for Missing Mail Vol. 3 part one Summary:

Spoiler for If you click here, you will be spoiled:

The volume starts off with a great inside front cover color artwork of Felli in her red waitress outfit. On the other side is Flossy the sheep. No, I don't know why. They seem to like the sheep for some reason.

Anyway, Nina is desperately fighting the FM, and she can barely see through the blood in her eyes. Sharnid warns her not to faint or collapse, or she'll get eaten. She's being very Nina about the whole thing, fighting with every last bit of her power to save the city. And when things look their most hopeless, as she's lying on the ground with a torn-up shoulder, about to become bug food... Fon-Fon saves the day and annihilates a bunch of bugs with his metal wires. (The artwork here is really good. The expressions on Nina's face are great.)

Nina is of course wondering, What woke him up? Because when she last saw him, he was in total coward mode. She asks him what the weapon is, and he explains how the metal wires work. He explains that this particular dite is difficult to control properly, so he has to be careful.

She's just in shock that those metal wires can cut through the hard shells of the FMs that she had such difficulty with.

Then he asks Nina if he helped her. She said it's okay now. He then gets all serious and says that he'll protect her and the city. (Score 1 point for Nina faction. Nice little scene.)

She starts tearing up and yelling at him because he was late. She's also frustrated because she feels like she couldn't protect Zuellni. Then Fon-Fon calls the medics on her to get her patched up. She tries to resist, because she's the captain. He tells her to get everyone to evacuate, and find him a nen-i controller so he can finish the job.

He realizes that he can't finish the job without Felli, because he can't see all of the targets without hurting friendlies.

Nina asks him why he came back, and he explains that it was because of a letter from a friend in Grendan. (Leerin of course.) Nina says she's a little jealous of that friend, since her words had no effect on him at all.

As Fon-Fon is wondering if he should try talking to Felli again, she appears. She says not to get the wrong idea, she just happened to come by. He asks her to come here, and that's where he lifts her up in the air, and if you've seen those pages, it's the scene where he's holding her up the air, and bringing her close. (Well, it's a totally misleading way to just stick one page in and lead you on like that, but Felli +1 anyway.) He tells her he wanted her to come, he wants her to help him, and if it's not Felli helping him, then it's no good.

"Just this one time," she says to him.

The SCP is overjoyed to see him. Fon-Fon lays out his plan. It's simple-- get everyone out of his way, and let Felli and him do their work. He'll kill all of the larvae, then they'll kill the mother body. The other troops would be in danger if they got too close to where the FM were.

Naturally, the other council members freak out when they hear this plan, because they don't know anything, but Megane-kun says it's okay, and he pulls rank and approves the plan. The SCP uses Felli's nen-i power to broadcast a message to all of the squads that they have a plan, and that all of the student troops need to evacuate.

Then they start the Final Countdown 10... by about 6, someone bursts in, yelling that if they kill all of the larvae, the mother will go nuts and call in reinforcements if they don't kill her in 30 minutes or less. (Like the reverse of Domino's Pizza?) The SCP pretty much ignores him, because he knows Fon-Fon will handle it. He knows Fon-Fon is a pro.

As Felli is using her nen-i powers to visualize the battlefield for Fon-Fon, he's impressed by her abilities. Felli counts 982 larvae, and she's a little freaked out by the sheer number. Fon-Fon, however, laughs it off. One time in Grendan, they killed as many as 10,000 at a time.

Then jump to the evac shelters, where Meichi is crying, and Mifi is trying to get her to eat a sandwich. Meichi is worried about Naruki and Fon-Fon, and Mifi tells her to have some faith in her friends, and when they get back, make them some nice food.

Now one of the cooler scenes... Fon-Fon gets on top of the highest building in Zuellni, and rains down death on the bugs from the center of the city. Bug bits are falling from the sky, everyone cheers, except for whiny random guy, who's going on about the mother bug again, but the SCP says he has faith in Felli and Fon-Fon. Fon-Fon says it's fine, because he's going to defeat it.

Felli is overwhelmed by Fon-Fon's power, as she sees the lights representing living bugs wink out of her perception. But now she's worried about his safety, leaving the air filter means he's only got 5 minutes outside to survive. She doesn't want him to die while everyone else sits safely inside. Why is he fighting for them? He's doing it because he doesn't want people to die because he didn't act, and because he wants to protect his "senpai-tachi," (his seniors.) Felli doesn't like that term, and says that he's no longer allowed to call her Felli-Senpai. "Come up with another name." Needless to say, she doesn't like any of the names he suggests. Felli-chan? Rejected. Fellichi? Rejected. Felliyan? Rejected. Fellirin? Rejected. Felli-tan? Do you want me to kill you?

Felli... and when he calls her that, it strikes a chord, but she tries to cover up, because it sounds like he could add the -sempai too easily. He needs to say it with more affection, but it can't be helped. Felli is fine, as long as he says it with more affection. He has to promise to call her that when he comes back from killing the monster.

Then he jumps through the filter, kills the momma bug, comes back, collapses on Nina's chest, and passes out. Of course, Felli yells at him for passing out before calling her by her name like he promised. He mumbles something about Leerin and her letter, at which point everyone goes "Who?" and then the sun rises.

Then in the last little joke frame, Fon-Fon pukes blood all over Nina's chest as she's calling for stretchers. Lol.

Then there's a sequence where everyone is celebrating, Fon-Fon is in the hospital, then everyone is happy, smiling and so on, and then they make a group photo for Leerin, because if she hadn't written that letter, they'd all be bug food by now. Felli is hugging the sheep in the photo next to Fon-Fon. Sharnid is pushing Nina into Fon-Fon, and Mifi is pushing Meichi into him.

The next 3 chapters are called the The Last Mail From Grendan. Dun-Dun-Duuuun! It's an interesting mashup of a lot of different stories you've already seen in Regios, plus some new stuff. (Like extreme sheep shearing!)

I'll post a summary later. Right now, I'm wiped out.

I just shit bricks, so many awesomeness. It’s a dream come true for Fon-fon x Felli and to my biggest surprise Fon-fon stepped up so hardcore in this one much more than anime massacring the whole bugs. They portrayed Kallian, his councils and all Zuellni’s soldiers shock and awe on Fon-fon’s sheer strength display in a more dramatic scale, which is awesome.

I’d be shedding tears if no one pick this up and scanlated.

[willyvereb]

With that summary i would be happy even with the raws...
Every scene has much more emotion...I still not certain that it's realy a "Felli manga", but perhaps it have a huge focus on Felli. Perhaps we're only at Vol 3 and at the time of ep 5...

[Master Assassin]

Originally Posted by TrueKnight

Cynicalicous strikes again, delivering us Felli fans great amount of justice.

Thanks yet again for the time and well detailed summary.


I just shit bricks, so many awesomeness. It’s a dream come true for Fon-fon x Felli and to my biggest surprise Fon-fon stepped up so hardcore in this one much more than anime massacring the whole bugs. They portrayed Kallian, his councils and all Zuellni’s soldiers shock and awe on Fon-fon’s sheer strength display in a more dramatic scale, which is awesome.

I’d be shedding tears if no one pick this up and scanlated.

A "fan" gift towards the other fans, indeed!

Considering Missing Mail is of the shoujo demography... or at least, looks shoujo to me... there's no way a shoujo manga won't have a pairing, right?