History Main / LoveLetterLunacy

* In the first episode of ''Anime/SchoolRumble'', Tenma Tsukamoto spends all night writing a long love letter to Oji Karasuma. He spends all day and night reading it, and finally ignores it when he realizes the letter wasn't signed. Later in that same episode, Kenji Harima writes a (considerably shorter) love poem to Tenma, and she adores it. Naturally, someone else she just happens to meet in the park after school (who is big enough to pound Harima into paste without a second thought) finds out about the poem [[GladIThoughtOfIt and takes the credit for writing it]]. Later Harima beats the guy to a pulp.

* ''Manga/KaitouSaintTail'' has an unusual example in that Meimi/Saint Tail does this to deliver her [[CallingCard calling cards]] to SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Asuka Jr.; they're delivered with stage magic in ways ranging from a doll with a note popping out of nowhere on his head (Saint Tail was improvising and was flustered) to a ''blimp''. It was actually her way of taunting him back when they were on mere WorthyOpponent status, but after he'd nearly hitting the DespairEventHorizon from believing everyone had given up on him, he'd gotten her to make [[ThePromise a promise to keep sending them]] so he could always have a fair shot at trying to catch her during her heists. Once Meimi actually falls in love with him, she starts sending them as her way of keeping her promise and asking him to come see her. The anime takes it a step further by adding even more flirtatious and over-the-top delivery methods, a message written on his ''[[CovertPervert bath towel as he was getting a shower]]''. [[spoiler:Eventually, when [[TheDragon Maju]] mocks Saint Tail's most recent card by calling it a "love letter", it [[InsultBackfire backfires spectacularly]] because Asuka Jr. had been spending the entire series wondering what Meimi thought of him, only for the answer to have been in [[ItWasWithYouAllAlong the cards he'd been getting the entire time]].]]

* Narrowly averted in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV Stormblood''. A rushed courier in Kugane mixes up a large technical manual meant for the Scions of the Seventh Dawn and a love letter addressed to the barracks of the Sekiseigumi (samurai law enforcers), leaving the latter at the Scions' headquarters in the Ruby Bazaar. Fortunately, Hancock notices the scent of perfume coming off the package before it's opened, realizes the mistaken delivery, and sends [[PlayerCharacter the Warrior of Light]] after the courier to get the manual and see the letter to its intended recipient.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyType0''[='=]s secret ending features Sice trying to work up the courage to give one of these [[TeacherStudentRomance to Kurasame]]. She apparently believes that a good way to deliver it is to wait around the corner after she sees him walking towards her and wait until the footsteps sound close, then turn around blindly and hold it out with a loud and nervous "Here!" without checking to see if the one standing there is Kurasame and not [[HoYay her fellow classmate Seven]].

Traditionally, a love letter is quietly placed in the recipient's locker, or even handed to them in person. But due to teens being unsure when it comes to love, things can start getting... weird. Such as by giving the letter to the wrong person, forgetting to sign the letter, signing the letter with the ''[[EpicFail wrong name]]'', or maybe deciding that lockers are outmoded, and shooting the letter at the recipient instead. Or it could be a fake letter and a cruel joke, a la ''Theatre/TwelfthNight''.

* In ''Manga/AttackOnTitanJuniorHigh'', Jean receives a love letter in his locker that has no signature. He nearly goes crazy trying to figure out who wrote it. Eventually, Annie confesses to writing it. He tries to hit on her, but she beats him up and clarifies that she ''wrote'' it... for a female Titan who was his real secret admirer. He then goes crazy at the revelation.

* In episode 4 of ''Manga/KiniroMosaic'', Youko receives what appears to be a love letter in her shoe locker. [[spoiler:Turns out Shinobu wrote a letter to Alice's parents, hoping Alice would translate it into English.]] However, it seems like it was Aya [[HoYay who has a problem with that for the whole time]].

** Kagami finds a love letter in her locker, and worries about it. [[spoiler:Seeing that, Konata can't bring herself to admit it was an AprilFoolsDay joke.]]

* Early in ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'', [[SadistTeacher Dr. Crowler]] leaves a fake love letter from Alexis in Jaden's locker as part of a plan to lure him into a trap. Unfortunately, Jaden is currently sharing a locker with Syrus who ends up getting the letter and sending Crowler's plan completely OffTheRails.

** Touma finds a letter in his locker telling him to come to the roof, which he thinks is a love letter. [[CluelessChickMagnet He rejoices at having "finally" found someone interested in him]], while the aforementioned Seria is next to him and [[{{Tsundere}} Mikoto]] is nearby. Ignoring the former's blatant hints of her own feelings, he rushes to the roof. It turns out that the letter was never a love letter after all, but was merely an invitation by the High Priest. Considering the High Priest's [[{{Troll}} personality]], he may have made it look like a love letter on purpose.

** Kyo gets two in quick succession. [[spoiler:The first is anonymous, and it turns out that Ryoko used it to lure him somewhere private so she could kill him without any witnesses. The second leads to a confusing encounter with Mikuru from the future.]]

* Sean Bateman receives these in ''Literature/TheRulesOfAttraction''. [[spoiler: he doesn't even know the girl who's sending them to him is alive, and she eventually commits suicide. Nobody cares.]]

* In Rin's route in ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'', Riki receives a very generic love letter in his shoe locker one day. When he waits after school, very confused and curious about who could have left it, the last person to leave is Suginami, a shy girl he's never really talked to. But when he confronts her she clearly didn't know anything about it, and it's revealed that her friends left it on her behalf. Riki is a little relieved...and ''then'' she explains that she ''does'' like him and that her friends apparently did it to force her to say something. Riki is flattered and polite but not really interested, and it's this event that leads to Rin asking him out later that day.

* In ''Webcomic/PennyAndAggie'', Aggie tries to get Duane a date with Penny by leaving a note and concert tickets in her locker. Unfortunately, Penny walks up to the wrong guy at the concert (the note only gave a vague description to identify the secret admirer, which coincidentally applied to two boys) and doesn't see Duane at all. Plus Penny's friend Sarah spots Aggie planting the note, leading her to believe that Aggie is a lesbian with a secret crush on Penny.

* ''Webcomic/OurWorld'': A StalkerWithACrush left a letter in Art's locker, mentioned watching him sleep, invited him to a date, asked to leave the answer ''in the same locker''. [[spoiler:To top it, she was his runaway sister.]]

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'', Doug receives several letters in his locker from a secret admirer, but when he goes to meet her at the time she requested, she never showed. He later finds out it's Beebee sending him the notes. He feels like it wouldn't work between them, and tries to talk to her about it, only to find out she thought it was somebody else's locker. She's initially embarrassed, only to realize it meant that this was the reason why the guy she really liked kept ignoring her. She's then overjoyed but also apologizes to Doug, and tells him who the notes were actually for. [[spoiler: Turns out they were for Skeeter.]]

* There's a quest at the beginning of ''VideoGame/FableII'' called "The Love Letter". In it, a poor man asks [[HeroicMime the Hero]] to deliver a love letter with a proposal to his girlfriend without her bitter mother finding out. The good option has the Hero deliver the letter to the girlfriend without a hitch. In the evil option, however, the hero gives the letter to the mother who gets angry. When confronted by her the man lies and tells her the letter is for her to get out of trouble. She then quickly becomes enraptured with him and accepts his wedding proposal, much to the man's horror.

* ''Manga/KaitouSaintTail'' has an unusual example in that Meimi/Saint Tail does this to deliver her [[CallingCard calling cards]] to SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Asuka Jr.; they're delivered with stage magic in ways ranging from a doll with a note popping out of nowhere on his head (Saint Tail was improvising and was flustered) to a ''blimp''. It was actually her way of taunting him back when they were on mere WorthyOpponent status, but after nearly hitting the DespairEventHorizon from believing everyone had given up on him, he'd gotten her to make [[ThePromise a promise to keep sending them]] so he could always have a fair shot at trying to catch her during her heists. Once Meimi actually falls in love with him, she starts sending them as her way of keeping her promise and asking him to come see her. The anime takes it a step further by adding even more flirtatious and over-the-top delivery methods, a message written on his ''[[CovertPervert bath towel as he was getting a shower]]''. [[spoiler:Eventually, when [[TheDragon Maju]] mocks Saint Tail's most recent card by calling it a "love letter", it [[InsultBackfire backfires spectacularly]] because Asuka Jr. had been spending the entire series wondering what Meimi thought of him, only for the answer to have been in [[ItWasWithYouAllAlong the cards he'd been getting the entire time]].]]

* ''Manga/KaitouSaintTail'' has an unusual example in that Meimi/Saint Tail does this to deliver her [[CallingCard calling cards]] to SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Asuka Jr.; they're delivered with stage magic in ways ranging from a doll with a note popping out of nowhere on his head (Saint Tail was improvising and was flustered) to a message written on his ''[[CovertPervert bath towel as he was getting a shower]]''. It was actually her way of taunting him back when they were on mere WorthyOpponent status, and he'd even recognized their flirtatious nature enough to find it embarrassing, but after nearly hitting the DespairEventHorizon from believing everyone had given up on him, he'd gotten her to make [[ThePromise a promise to keep sending them]] so he could always have a fair shot at trying to catch her during her heists. Once Meimi actually falls in love with him, she starts sending them as her way of keeping her promise and asking him to come see her. [[spoiler:Eventually, when [[TheDragon Maju]] mocks Saint Tail's most recent card by calling it a "love letter", it [[InsultBackfire backfires spectacularly]] because Asuka Jr. had been spending the entire series wondering what Meimi thought of him, only for the answer to have been in [[ItWasWithYouAllAlong the cards he'd been getting the entire time]].]]

* ''Manga/KaitouSaintTail'' has an unusual example in that Meimi/Saint Tail does this to deliver her [[CallingCard calling cards]] to SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Asuka Jr.; they're delivered with stage magic in ways ranging from a doll with a note popping out of nowhere on his head (Saint Tail was improvising and was flustered) to a message written on his ''[[CovertPervert bath towel as he was getting a shower]]''. It was actually her way of taunting him back when they were on mere WorthyOpponent status, and he'd even recognized their flirtatious nature enough to find it embarrassing, but he'd gotten her to make [[ThePromise a promise to keep sending them]] so he could always have a fair shot at trying to catch her during her heists. Once Meimi actually falls in love with him, she starts sending them as her way of keeping her promise and asking him to come see her. [[spoiler:Eventually, when [[TheDragon Maju]] mocks Saint Tail's most recent card by calling it a "love letter", it [[InsultBackfire backfires spectacularly]] because Asuka Jr. had been spending the last half a series wondering what Meimi thought of him, only for the answer to have been in [[ItWasWithYouAllAlong the cards he'd been getting the entire time]].]]

* In the final "bonus" episode of ''Anime/DualParallelTroubleAdventure'', Kazuki becomes the victim of a mostly-benign kidnapping when he responds to what, from his reactions, is the first love letter he's ever received.

* In ''Manga/LuckyStar'', Kagami finds a love letter in her locker, and worries about it. [[spoiler:Seeing that, Konata can't bring herself to admit it was an AprilFoolsDay joke.]]

* ''Manga/NyanKoi'' plays with this one interestingly. First Junpei receives a letter, which he thinks might be a love letter, from Nagi, but it turns out to be a challenge letter.
** Then he receives a second (handed to him) by Kotone, which he thinks is about another challenge, but is surprised to find is an actual love letter, only to get it ripped out of his hands only moments after he's read it by who he thinks is Kotone, but is actually her twin sister Akari who challenges him to meet her at a shrine by his house. He finds that Kotone actually does like him (to the point of being a complete stalker) and Akari is trying to keep from being requited. The challenge was more about his curse though.

* In ''Manga/StrawberryMarshmallow'', Nobue receives a love letter asking to meet her in front of the Hamamatsu Station. The girls try to change her dress and rehearse the meeting... it doesn't go well. [[spoiler:It was Miu all along (explaining the feminine handwriting), having gotten the idea from a manga she was reading. Miu crafts another letter from "Junya" saying that he's flying to India... but makes the mistake of signing her own name to the envelope.]]

* Part of the backstory in ''Manga/MarmaladeBoy''. A couple years before the series began, Miki had a crush on her best guy friend and fellow tennis club member, Ginta. Her best girl friend, Meiko, convinced her to confess to him, so she wrote a love letter and stuck it in a magazine in his book bag. What she ''didn't'' know was that the magazine actually belonged to someone else, who took it back and read the love letter out loud to a very embarrassed Ginta and a bunch of other boys. Ginta ''loudly'' denied that he had any feelings for Miki. What ''he'' didn't know was that Miki and Meiko had come back to the classroom to get something they forgot, and Miki heard every word, breaking her heart. Ginta comes to school the next day with his hair cut drastically shorter as an apology, since cutting the hair short is a way that women mourn a lost love. It's taken until the time of the actual series beginning for Miki and Ginta to recover their friendship, and Miki starting to develop feelings for Yuu is what causes Ginta to 'fess up and tell her that no, he's ''actually'' been in love with her all along. He only denied it because she was popular with the other boys and he was embarrassed.
* In an early chapter of ''Manga/HappyHappyClover'', Shallot falls in love with Mallow and wants to give her a love letter. He asks Clover to deliver it secretly, but she loses it after getting sidetracked. Cue her asking for help, with word spreading across the ''entire forest'' about the missing letter. Even after it’s found, Kale’s siblings fight over who will deliver it, causing it to rip apart. Luckily, the present inside helps get Shallot’s message across.
* In one episode of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', Misty and Casey misunderstand the meaning behind a love letter sent to Misty. In the Japanese version, Casey thinks it's a death threat by an angry person who lost at Misty's gym. Misty declines the boy's offer for a date, potentially because she likes someone else.

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* ''Manga/KaitouSaintTail'' has an unusual example in that Meimi/Saint Tail does this to deliver her [[CallingCard calling cards]] to SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Asuka Jr.; they're delivered with stage magic in ways ranging from a doll with a note popping out of nowhere on his head (Saint Tail was improvising and was flustered) to a message written on his ''[[CovertPervert bath towel as he was getting a shower]]''. It was actually her way of taunting him back when they were on mere WorthyOpponent status, and he'd even recognized their flirtatious nature enough to find it embarrassing, but he'd gotten her to make [[ThePromise a promise to keep sending them]] so he could always have a fair shot at trying to catch her during her heists. Once Meimi actually falls in love with him, she starts sending them as her way of keeping her promise and asking him to come see her. [[spoiler:Eventually, when [[TheDragon Maju]] mocks Saint Tail's most recent card by calling it a "love letter", it [[InsultBackfire backfires spectacularly]] because Asuka Jr. had been spending the last half a series tormented by the question of what Meimi thought of him, only for the answer to have been in [[ItWasWithYouAllAlong the cards he'd been getting the entire time]].]]

* ''Manga/KaitouSaintTail'' has an unusual example in that Meimi/Saint Tail does this to deliver her [[CallingCard calling cards]] to SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Asuka Jr.; they're delivered with stage magic in ways ranging from a doll with a note popping out of nowhere on his head (Saint Tail was improvising and was flustered) to a message written on his ''[[CovertPervert bath towel as he was getting a shower]]''. It was actually her way of taunting him back when they were on mere WorthyOpponent status, and he even recognized their flirtatious nature enough to find it embarrassing, but he'd gotten her to make [[ThePromise a promise to keep sending them]] so he could always have a fair shot at trying to catch her during her heists. Once Meimi actually falls in love with him, she starts sending them as her way of keeping her promise and asking him to come see her. [[spoiler:Eventually, when [[TheDragon Maju]] mocks Saint Tail's most recent card by calling it a "love letter", it [[InsultBackfire backfires spectacularly]] because Asuka Jr. had been spending the last half a series tormented by the question of what Meimi thought of him, only for the answer to have been in [[ItWasWithYouAllAlong the cards he'd been getting the entire time]].]]