History Main / LoveLetterLunacy

* ''Manga/AsagiriNoMiko'' bases one episode largely around a misunderstood love letter.

* ''Manga/AkumaDeSourou'' begins with shy Kayano trying to give her crush a letter but handing it to [[BastardBoyfriend another guy]] instead, prompting a lot of harassment.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'' had Timmy write a love letter e-mail to [[AlphaBitch Trixie]], but lacks the courage to send it. [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents So his parents do it for him]]. Since magic can't interfere with love (including love letters) he has to enter {{Cyberspace}} to get it back.

* ''Film/{{Amelie}}'' features a very dragged out version of this that starts out with a note to pick up a lost scrapbook and ends in a romance.

* In the ValentinesDayEpisode of ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'', Ned writes a letter to his crush Suzy and is prompted by Moze to write another one (anonymously)to [[AbhorrentAdmirer the Huge Crew]]. Unfortunately he put them in the wrong envelopes, meaning Suzy got a simple "Happy Valentines Day" and the Huge Crew got a beautifully written love confession.

* In the ValentinesDayEpisode of ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'', Ned writes a letter to his crush Suzy and is prompted by Moze to write another one (anonymously)to [[AbhorrentAdmirer the Huge Crew]]. Unfortunately he put them in the wrong envelopes, meaning Suzy got a simple "Happy Valentines Day" the Huge Crew got a beautifully written love confession.

-->''Roy Disney:'' ...What'd I ever do to him?

* One of the ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' Drama Cd's revolves around the Digidestined discovering [[TheSmartGuy Izzy]] typing up a love letter on his laptop. They try to force him to tell them who it is, and when he doesn't, he tries to escape, leading them to tie him up and gag him. They spend the rest of the CD discussing who they think it could possibly be while the poor boy squirms. At one point they actually come to a conclusion that it ''has'' to be [[SpoiledSweet Mimi]], to which he protests as loudly as he could whilst being gagged. He eventually tells them who it is...[[spoiler:Too bad the name is edited out. They can hear it, we can't.]]

* In ''Series/TheAdventuresOfPeteAndPete'', the episode "Recap/PeteAndPeteS2E12YellowFever'" has Ellen receiving an anonymous love letter, much to Pete's annoyance. In season 3 episode "Crisis In The Love Zone", a sweeping epidemic of amore has Ellen writing a love letter to Big Pete, only for Little Pete to wind up with it and thinking it's from ''his'' crush.

* In an early chapter of ''Manga/HappyHappyClover'', Shallot falls in love with Mallow and want 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. [[http://awesomemangacomics.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/7/8/12785472/___3604785.jpg 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 an early chapter of ''Manga/HappyHappyClover'', Shallot falls in love with Mallow and want 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.

* The storyline between [[Wrestling/RubyRiott Heidi Lovelace]] and Taeler Hendrix in OVW started in April 2013, when Taeler was receiving gifts from a secret admirer. Taeler thought they were from either her boyfriend Dylan Bostic or from Ryan Howe, leading to many pull-apart brawls. On the April 24th episode, Bostic and Doug Williams fought Howe and then-[[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ky/ovw/ovw-h.html OVW Heavyweight Champion]] Jamin Olivencia to a double-countout. After Williams and Olivencia left, Bostic and Howe continued fighting until Taeler ran in to stop them. Both guys denied sending Taeler the presents. Then Heidi walked to the ring and said that she was the one who sent them. The following week, Heidi confronted Taeler in the ring and said that Bostic and Howe didn't care about her but that she, Heidi, really does. Taeler said she'd need some time to think about that. This would eventually lead to the reveal that Taeler was manipulating Heidi to make it easier for her to regain the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ky/ovw/ovw-wm.html OVW Women's Title]] (which she never did.) Heidi eventually gave Taeler a TakeThatKiss after realizing that Taeler had been manipulating her.

* In a ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' short, Mickey buys a fax machine and decides to test it out by sending Minnie a love letter and sending an angry letter to [[SitcomArchnemesis Mortimer Mouse]]. But Mortimer receives the love letter, making Mickey think Minnie got the angry one. HilarityEnsues as he tries to retrieve it before she reads it. (She didn't receive it in the first place. [[BreakingTheFourthWall Roy Disney did]].

* The storyline between Wrestling/HeidiLovelace and Taeler Hendrix in OVW started in April 2013, when Taeler was receiving gifts from a secret admirer. Taeler thought they were from either her boyfriend Dylan Bostic or from Ryan Howe, leading to many pull-apart brawls. On the April 24th episode, Bostic and Doug Williams fought Howe and then-[[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ky/ovw/ovw-h.html OVW Heavyweight Champion]] Jamin Olivencia to a double-countout. After Williams and Olivencia left, Bostic and Howe continued fighting until Taeler ran in to stop them. Both guys denied sending Taeler the presents. Then Heidi walked to the ring and said that she was the one who sent them. The following week, Heidi confronted Taeler in the ring and said that Bostic and Howe didn't care about her but that she, Heidi, really does. Taeler said she'd need some time to think about that. This would eventually lead to the reveal that Taeler was manipulating Heidi to make it easier for her to regain the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ky/ovw/ovw-wm.html OVW Women's Title]] (which she never did.) Heidi eventually gave Taeler a TakeThatKiss after realizing that Taeler had been manipulating her.

* In the first episode of ''Anime/FullMetalPanicFumoffu'', Sousuke receives a love letter in his shoebox. His perfectly sensible (from the perspective of a former {{Child Soldier|s}} who grew up in an area where [=IEDs=] are a common problem) response is ''to blow up the school's entry hall because his shoebox has been opened'', and interpret the signed fragments of letter he retrieves from the ruins as a death threat. To make matters worse (or more humorous), the StudentCouncilPresident agrees with Sousuke that his actions were the most correct ones. Kaname's reaction look is hilarious.

* In the first episode of ''Anime/FullMetalPanicFumoffu'', Sousuke receives a love letter in his shoebox. His perfectly sensible (from the perspective of a former {{Child Soldier|s}} who grew up in an area where [=IEDs=] are a common problem) response is ''to blow up the school's entry hall because his shoebox has been opened'', and interpret the signed fragments of letter he retrieves from the ruins as a death threat. To make matters worse (or more humorous), the StudentCouncilPresident agrees with Sousuke that his actions were the most correct ones. Kaname's reaction look is hilarious.

* Shows up almost as often as cooking duels in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf''
** Very early in the series, Kuno sends what appears to be a challenge letters to Ranma's girl form. It turned out to be a love letter, much to Ranma's distress. Kuno goes on to do this several times over the course of seven seasons.
** Ryoga pulls this at least twice in both the anime and the manga. One story has Ryoga send Akane a love letter written in green ink (it's complicated). The letter gets wet and the ink bleeds so Akane never actually gets to read it. In another, Ryoga's dog Shirokiro actually manages to deliver a love letter to Akane and return with her reply, which says she's already in love with somebody else. Ryoga is devastated until Ranma points out that "somebody else" could just as well be him, since both letters were anonymous- the adaption of this story is actually Ryoga's final appearance in the anime, up until the OAV series.
** In Ukyo's first story after being introduced to the cast, she tries to set up a blind date between Ryoga and Akane using a love letter written on an Okonomiyaki, which Akane naturally mistakes for a challenge from Ukyo. Of course, this isn't helped by the fact that [[{{Jerkass}} Happosai]] took a bite out of it (manga)/Ranma stepped on it while chasing Happosai (anime) before Akane could read it, thus blotting out some key kanji.
* ''Manga/AsagiriNoMiko'' bases one episode largely around a misunderstood love letter.

* 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.
** A few episodes later, Tenma is watching a period drama, and gets the wonderful idea to shoot a love letter at Karasuma with a bow and arrow. She follows him across town as he nonchalantly dodges every attack, unintentionally makes Harima parody ''Film/TheMatrix'', and follows Karasuma into a bank just in time to FOIL A BANK ROBBERY.
* In ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}'', Taiga attempts to leave a love letter for Yuusaku in his bag--but accidentally puts it in ''Ryuuji's'' instead. When he finds it later and attempts to look inside, he discovers it's a sealed, empty envelope. She's so [[CuteClumsyGirl klutzy]] she ''forgot to put the letter in''.

* 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.]]
** Ana gets her love letter too, after the first day of school. With the plus of being written in GratuitousEnglish because the writer didn't know she could read Japanese (when in fact the ''opposite'' was true).
* Ritsu, the drummer from the ''[=K-On!=]'' Band, spends an episode wondering about some mysterious love letters she receives. Then her friend Mio (bassist-songwriter) asks her opinion about those song lyrics she left in Ritsu's mail box. [[YuriFan Mugi]] would be [[ShipTease disappointed]]--nor not.

* ''Manga/AkumaDeSourou'' begins with shy Kayano trying to give her crush a letter but handing it to [[BastardBoyfriend another guy]] instead, prompting a lot of harassment.
* One of the ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' Drama Cd's revolves around the Digidestined discovering [[TheSmartGuy Izzy]] typing up a love letter on his laptop. They try to force him to tell them who it is, and when he doesn't, he tries to escape, leading them to tie him up and gag him. They spend the rest of the CD discussing who they think it could possibly be while the poor boy squirms. At one point they actually come to a conclusion that it ''has'' to be [[SpoiledSweet Mimi]], to which he protests as loudly as he could whilst being gagged. He eventually tells them who it is...[[spoiler:Too bad the name is edited out. They can hear it, we can't.]]
* ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'': Sunohara writes an anonymous love letter to Kyou, telling her to meet in a certain place after school. Upon arriving, she finds a message left on the chalkboard, saying that her admirer is actually waiting someplace else. After four or five iterations of being sent to a new location, Sunohara's prank ends when Kyou catches him in the act of writing the next message.
* 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]].
* ''Manga/KaitouSaintTail'' is rather 'unusual' in this: the love letters are sent by the titular PhantomThief to the SympatheticInspectorAntagonist chasing her, they're (barely) masked as the 'burglary warnings' he dared her to send him, 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 ''zeppelin'' (she was showing off) and a message written on his ''[[CovertPervert bath towel as he was getting a shower]]'', and, in spite of the very romantic tone, [[ObliviousToLove he didn't realize they were love letters]] until TheDragon of the final villain [[LampshadeHanging called him an idiot and stated the one he had just received while imprisoned and that stated she was about to steal]] ''[[LampshadeHanging him]]'' [[LampshadeHanging was an obvious love letter]].
* 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.]]
** In a later manga episode, Kou finds a love letter in her desk, again addressed to Kagami. It passes through Hiyori's hands to Tsukasa, who delivers it to Kagami (not without some teasing from their older sisters). [[spoiler:Later, Konata calls and admits that she left a fake love letter in Kagami's desk at graduation, but Kagami went home without noticing it.]]
** As if Kagami didn't have enough fake love letter issues in the manga, the anime has her receiving a note while on their ClassTrip, leaving her distracted the rest of the day. [[spoiler:It is actually from a boy this time, and he does actually want to talk to her... about begging the Yatsuhashi doll she bought off of her.]]
* In episode 3 of ''Manga/KamenNoMaidGuy'', Naeka recieves a love letter at her school and spends the episode wondering if she should meet with the sender. At the end she decides to go and even warms up to the idea that she could have a boyfriend, [[spoiler:until she discovers that her admirer is actually a [[SchoolgirlLesbian female classmate]] named Saki and when she tries to leave the scene her crazy male butler traps them both in room together so that she "move forward" with her dilemma. [[BlackComedyRape It's not hard to tell what happened next.]]]]
* In the AnimeOfTheGame for ''VideoGame/MegaManStarForce'', Cancer Bubble tries to infuriate Luna by "accidentally" delivering spurious love letters from Mega Man to Harp Note. He does this because he's mistaken her for a BarrierMaiden whose powers are awakened by wrath, but he only succeeds in getting her angry [[ButtMonkey at him]].
* 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.
* 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.

* ''{{Film/Amelie}}'' features a very dragged out version of this that starts out with a note to pick up a lost scrapbook and ends in a romance.
* In ''Film/TheScienceOfSleep'' Stéphane puts a note under Stéphanie's door while he's asleep sleepwalking. Except a) he believed it was actually a dream, b) she saw him do it and c) it was asking for her roommate's phone number even though he isn't interested in her. The next morning he goes to get it back, realising his mistake, [[spoiler: except she's already read it]].

* In ''Film/{{Atonement}}'', the lead male is frustrated trying to write a letter to the lead female, and writes a vulgar, sexually charged one to work out this frustration. Afterwards, he writes a perfectly lovely one and gives it to his love's young sister to deliver. Guess what? Remarkably, rather than wacky hi-jinks ensuing, the vulgar letter works. Well, hi-jinks ensue. They're just not hilarious. More like [[ShootTheShaggyDog downright depressing]].

* In the first episode of ''Anime/FullMetalPanicFumoffu'', Sousuke receives a love letter in his shoebox. His perfectly sensible (from the perspective of a former ChildSoldier who grew up in an area where [=IEDs=] are a common problem) response is ''to blow up the school's entry hall because his shoebox has been opened'', and interpret the signed fragments of letter he retrieves from the ruins as a death threat. To make matters worse (or more humorous), the StudentCouncilPresident agrees with Sousuke that his actions were the most correct ones. Kaname's reaction look is hilarious.

* On Series/SchittsCreek Moira is incensed to find Johnny has been reading old love letters from an unknown woman while she was away. The letters become a minor town scandal, but Johnny eventually [[spoiler: informs Moira that she was the author of the letters during a time when she was working on Sunrise Bay and was in a plot related body cast, which explains why the handwriting was different. Moira then advises Johnny to let the townspeople think the letters were from a mystery woman to give him an edge.]]

* On Series/SchittsCreek Moira is incensed to find Johnny has been reading old love letters from an unknown woman while she was away. The letters become a minor town scandal, but Johnny eventually [[spoiler: informs Moira that she was the author of the letters during a time when she was working on Sunrise Bay and was in a plot related body cast, which explains why the handwriting was different. Moira then advices Johnny to let the townspeople think the letters were from a mystery woman to give him an edge.]]

* ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac'': This trope is a plot point in the play. In Act II, Cyrano, [[TheGrotesque a man with a ridiculous long nose]], [[TheAce loves beautiful and eloquent Roxane]], [[CannotSpitItOut but is utterly afraid of her rejection]]. So he writes a love letter to her, [[DirtyCoward hoping to give it to her and run]]. When Cyrano discovers Roxane [[LoveAtFirstSight is interested]] in [[BrainlessBeauty fair but ineloquent Christian]], he realizes that Roxane will be disillusioned with Christian and [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy he cannot let that happen]]. So [[PlayingCyrano he proposes to teach Christian to be eloquent, and lends Christian the love letter he wrote to Roxane to so Christian can send it to her in his own name]]. In Act III, Cyrano realizes that the [[WittyBanter eloquence]] Roxane admires so highly is shallow and decides to speak of his real feelings in the letters he keeps sending her in Christian’s name from the Battlefield twice a day. The whole point is that these new love letters are so powerful in expressing Cyrano’s love to Roxane, that Roxane evolves from a self–admitted SatelliteLoveInterest into a full fleshed heroine, deciding to save Christian from peril in Act IV.

* In the first episode of ''Anime/FullMetalPanicFumoffu'', Sousuke receives a love letter in his shoebox. His perfectly sensible (From the perspective of a former ChildSoldier who grew up in an area where [=IEDs=] are a common problem) response is ''to blow up the school's entry hall because his shoebox has been opened'', and interpret the signed fragments of letter he retrieves from the ruins as a death threat. To make matters worse (or more humorous), the StudentCouncilPresident agrees with Sousuke that his actions were the most correct ones. Kaname's reaction look is hilarious.

** In Ukyo's first story after being introduced to the cast, she tries to set up a blind date between Ryoga and Akane using a love letter written on an Okonomiyaki, which Akane naturally mistakes for a challenge from Ukyo. Of course, this isn't helped by the fact that [[JerkAss Happosai]] took a bite out of it (manga)/Ranma stepped on it while chasing Happosai (anime) before Akane could read it, thus blotting out some key kanji.

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* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyType0''[='=]s secret ending features Sice trying to work up the courage to give one of these [[HotForTeacher 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 [[LesYay her fellow classmate Seven]].

* In Capcom's self-parodying game ''Chibi-Fighters'', one of Chun Li's combo enders is her turning into a school girl and shyly handing her opponent a love letter. If she hits, the target reads the letter and then rockets across the screen with hearts in their eyes. If she misses, she gets stunned as she cries rivers of tears.

** ''Videogame/FableI'' also has a quest involving delivery of a love letter. The evil option in that one is to tell the recipient that you wrote it yourself.