It's a tragedy that Haibane Renmei isn't more well known. It's such a beautifully emotional short series. Here's hoping Yoshitoshi ABe is doing well these days.
I just finished rewatching this after many many years. The show I watched before was "Frieren", which some called the best Anime Show of 2023. I'm like: "If this is the best, then how bad was the rest?" The world and characters of Haibane Renmei feel so unique and relatable. Whereas the world of Frieren feels so generic and soulless. As if they deliberately try to avoid invoking emotions or don't know how to actually do that.
you just gave me nam flashbacks of an anime sample boxset I was bought when I was younger that only had 4 episodes of about 20 anime, and this was one of them.
Back in the good old days of physical media 👴. I can remember watching random stuff from my local library like Metropolis. Maybe I'll go back and re-watch that at some point.
Oh damn, didn't expect to see you here Creeps! Been watching your videos for years. I've seen Haibane probably at the same time I started watching your videos, a long time ago - really takes me back! Love ya buddy ✌️
Can't believe it has been almost 2 decades since I first watched this show. Yoshitoshi old work is such a unique experience with the most depressing theme that evokes the deepest fear in your mind yet in the end left you with a slightest glimpse of hope just enough to carry on.
Haibane Renmei is amazing, one of the best of the best (depending on category but that's subjective) Never expected you to review it Fuck I liked it so much I made a tribute album for this piece of art
My theory on why haibane children exist, is that these are children who died young. My theory is that the village is a sort of a purgatory and the haibane are half angels that didn’t get into heaven and the time at the village is to give them a second chance. The children haven’t had a chance to prove themselves worthy of heaven yet and the adults have to come to terms with whatever sins haunts them. For Rekki at least and perhaps the others too, I suspect they died to suicide and this is a second chance in purgatory to redeem themselves before moving onto to heaven or fall to hell.
This series has found me at the perfect time. I was in a pretty dark place and it helped me to see the light, and that I was not alone. I'm forever grateful to Yoshitoshi ABe for this. Sometimes I think about rewatching Haibane, but I'm not sure if I should do it. Emotional weight behind it might be to big for me.
Same, this anime got me through some stuff. Haibane Renmei is a true piece of art. I really want to rewatch it but I'm scared I'll just be an emotional mess the whole time.
loved how you talk about this with enough depth but without getting too lost in the weeds. haibane renmei is my favorite anime and i'm always suggesting it to friends so i can get their thoughts on it. it's always really interesting to see what people have to say about the show. many thanks
I just finished the show and felt overwhelmed. so I immediately started searching for youtube videos talking about this show and sharing their experiences, and i stumbled upon this one. Thanks for sharing Mr.Chair. and to those who haven't seen it yet, please give it a try, I think you'll at least find one thing that you can relate to.
Another Yoshitoshi ABe series have never seen but should. Serial Experiment Lain is one of my introductions to anime back when it was easy to pirate cultured cartoons from the internet. Thanks for reminding me that this exists.
I also watched Lain, and liked it (I didn't especially like most of the other anime my friend showed me). Then read about ABe making a doujinshi about people with wings living in an abandoned home, thought "that sounded interesting", and promptly forgot it for about 20 years. I really didn't regret eventually watching it.
I remember reading somewhere that the children are victims of violence or other tragedies that really weren't their fault. They are reborn to give them a chance to heal like the older haibane's who checked out of life too soon.
This is an anime I’ve had on my backlog for a long time, but thanks to wanting to watch this video with the proper context I’ve finally watched it. So thanks for that, the show was wonderful.
Chair. Love all the new content you’re making. I can’t wait to see what’s next! Yes. I did watch Princess Principal after you reviewed it. The English dub is gold.
I’m really digging the variety content. For other videos I say “hey, I don’t know anything at all about God Hand, but I’ll check this out.” This is the first time you’ve made a video where I had absolutely no clue what the subject matter was. But putting it on the list along with Dokuro-Chan, Girls Bravo and Sekirei certainly takes me back.
Watched this again in one go last night and was worth the watch. Had first seen this sub back in the day when it came out in japan. Characters and concept is unique, and the journey through the 13 episode has a wholesome conclusion. def recommend.
Really weird seeing people say things like "back when anime was on UA-cam" (even though it probably applies to people under the age of like 30+ now). Back In My Day my first anime was being lent Escaflowne VHSes in 9th grade (and later in high school I would download RealPlayer episodes of stuff in what had to be like 30p resolution; later on I started to be able to find stuff in watchable resolutions). Haibane Renmei actually had a very good reputation back then (it was a contemporary anime when I was in high school) and was commonly recommended alongside stuff like Cowboy Bebop as "the serious anime it is okay to show normal people"
i just rewatched this after 20 years haha and was wondering if anyone ever talked about it cause it feels all most completely forgotten, i gotta say i really liked the concept and setting of this when i watched it at 13, i thought it was really unique, witch it still is, but i can relate the the themes so much more now that I'm older good review
This was a really good video, the mixing of music and commentary at the end was very well done, giving the content a deeper meaning. Please do more videos like this, they're really good
One of my favorite anime and few DVDs I held on to. The book "Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" by Haruki Murakami has a pretty similar setting and probably inspired Yoshitoshi ABe. I recommend a read.
Okay I'm going to be a bit real here and trigger warning for Self harm. This girl I was madly in love with in highschool recommended this to me when I was a freshman, at the time I was branching out from shounen as I had just discovered subbed anime on youtube and also had just built my first computer. I gave the first episode of this a watch and at the time I LOGICALLY understood the feeling of being totally lost, feeling out of place, of knowing nothing of tgis world you're in, but I didn't EMOTIONALLY understand or feel it. So to me this show just came off as boring and something that was trying to be too hard to be "deep". Like an edgy highschool poem filled with angst that you look back and cringe at. Well that was 2009-10, and here we are in 2023 and wow...I still never watched the show but the way chair describes it almost feels like the last 10 years of my life summed up. Graduating highschool i quickly went on to university only to realize these haunting thoughts of my jenoir year of highschool weren't just a passing mood from thebpressures at the time, they were the start of my endless battle with severe anxiety and the resulting depression. I was steadily failing more and more until I dropped out and pretended to go to class at a community college near home until I finally realized what was wrong..mostly. Some meds later I got my associates but as I tried to hold a job, anxiety and insomnia would always ruin things and a growing sense of unease with myself which turned to disgust as my meds made me gain weight. Add ontop of that me finally cracking my egg and coming out to my family that my crossdressing wasn't a phase or me being gay, it was me trying to wear the clothes of my true gender, it all just crushed me as my family took my comming out very negatively and insulted me and mocked me. It was a total blindside opposite to how I'd been treated ever before by them in my life. All this pushed me to try to escape that pain to want to end this cycle of crying alone at night, feeling worthless, and just being a burden to those around me. This landed me in the osych ward but even that was just a small vacation from the burdens and pains pol f life as they accepted me for who Are was and placed me in the female ward where I was loved and accepted. But it was only a week long stay and right after I was back to the razors and ropes. That was last year and this year started with me crying alone on new years. This year sucks and I'm still lost, but dang, who knows, maybe in this messed up life of small blessings I will find reason and purpose that will give me the haopy ending chair says exists in this show. Also sorry I'm like half sobbing typing this out in my mom's family room on my phone after having just slept for 17hours on accident and only clicking thisbout of curiousity at what that girl wanted to show me all those years ago...i really shoukd watch this show, but not alone.
Haibane was one of my absolute favorite shows when it came out and I still love it. I had watched mostly generic action shows until that point, Haibane renmei was a revelation that animation could do entirely different things.
I randomly watched this with my wife about a decade ago based off of no reviews or suggestions. I thought it was pretty average at first and wasn't sure about the slow pacing, but by the end I was mad that there wasn't more. Ever since I've been chasing more shows like this and [the original] Kino's Journey. A lot of these one season shows like this, Death Parade, GANGSTA, Land of Lustrous, etc almost seem like an advertisement for the manga which sucks because manga is hella expensive. Would def recommend people watch this anime though, just be prepared to have a lot of questions and desire to know more lore at the end
I'm curious how you feel about Serial Experiments Lain from the same creator. It's a very, very different show but it's also really focused on what it means to be connected to other people, and how that changes with the advent of the internet. As social media has blown up and we live more of our lives online it's a show I come back to a lot.
I think this is what I'm going to rewatch next. I remember even less about it than I did about Haibane Renmei. I think it's one of these things that played "in the near future" when it came out that would now be in the past.
I'm compelled to say, this show had excellent excellent music. Such a fantastic soundtrack. At risk of sounding elitist, this is not a show for everyone. I also thought the pacing in the first half of the show was a little slower than it needed to be. However, The depictions of guilt and what it can do to a person, the need to make peace with yourself and with others, no matter how unfair life may seem to be, no matter your own pride, really struck home with me. The relationship between Rakka and Rekki felt so real. It was almost painful to watch them part at the end. Such a beautiful show. Definitely on my top ten and even my top five.
More than anything this anime to me is about learning to accept help but also overcome one's own sin. It seems very obvious to me that the haibane seem to be in a sort of purgatory and that they may have died in ways that made them unable to go to heaven or their souls move on. In particular raka who dreams of falling from the sky. I always interpreted as if she had potential commited suicide or had died in an accident and is unable to move on. She however is there also to help reki be able to finally move on and accept someone's help instead of being so caught up in her own dejection and thinking that if she's nice to raka that she'd be forgiven. In a way people help each other to help themselves. Whether it be for the feeling or some sort of gain. For reki what was an almost selfish want to gain forgiveness of sorts became a genuine care for raka and then helps her be able to accept raka's help. To recognize ones own sin is to have no sin and as soon as reki sees this she's able to move on from the past at and leave purgatory. To me as soon as a haibane realizes the thing they hadn't before they died they are able to move on and thus have a day of flight. The story from the art, music, and symbolism is simply beautiful and helped me find myself when I was lost. Reki's journey is one many people will have and it's only when you accept help and recognize your own sin do you find peace. There's so much to say about this anime. I freaking love it so much.
not the first, but definitely one of the first anime I've watched didn't have access to internet back then so it was just buying random pirated CDs that I didn't realise were pirated because I was smol and had some lunch money i could not understand why I was crying by the end ._.
I watched this way back when YT wasn't a thing yet. You know, when you popped on a certain program and hoped you were getting what you wanted and not some VD for your PC lol.
It's not a morgue. Just an abandoned building. And about whether they are dead is what I think is to be speculated about. It's never fully explained but heavily implied that this is some sort of place where certain people temporarily end up after their death. But seemingly they can die (again) there which is different from "leaving". The area has a massive wall around it but unlike in Attack on Titan we never learn what's on the other side. The weirdest and hardest to explain part though is that there's also normal humans without wings or halos in this "enclosure" who also don't really know any more about it than the Haibane and also have to abide to their own set of rules. Overall it's minimally supernatural.
I assume you are a decade younger than me but the things you do cover that are older are surprisingly in line with my interests? Like this is absolutely not what i expected here today but boy does it take me back Have you seen kinos journey, boogiepop phantom, and NieA_7?
I thought i overcome the pain of Kuu departure, but it hurts as much as it did years ago. 😞 I'm always jumping at chances to recommend this show, with no success. The only one person i convinced was "It was alright", so i guess Haibane no Renmei is not that simple to appreciate and seen trough the misleading cozy slice of life story.
It's a tragedy that Haibane Renmei isn't more well known. It's such a beautifully emotional short series. Here's hoping Yoshitoshi ABe is doing well these days.
I love anime from the early 2000’s they really tried to tell interesting stories sadly today anime fell victim to soulless marketing
Fr even I loved this anime so much man new gen is complete garbage
Not all.
Isekai edgelords
I just finished rewatching this after many many years. The show I watched before was "Frieren", which some called the best Anime Show of 2023. I'm like: "If this is the best, then how bad was the rest?" The world and characters of Haibane Renmei feel so unique and relatable. Whereas the world of Frieren feels so generic and soulless. As if they deliberately try to avoid invoking emotions or don't know how to actually do that.
@@ailst luckily dungeon meshi exists and boy did it wash the bad flavor away from having to slog through freiren.
you just gave me nam flashbacks of an anime sample boxset I was bought when I was younger that only had 4 episodes of about 20 anime, and this was one of them.
Back in the good old days of physical media 👴. I can remember watching random stuff from my local library like Metropolis. Maybe I'll go back and re-watch that at some point.
Oh damn, didn't expect to see you here Creeps! Been watching your videos for years. I've seen Haibane probably at the same time I started watching your videos, a long time ago - really takes me back!
Love ya buddy ✌️
I watched it after I saw animes like lain and ergo proxy and it was so worth it.
Can't believe it has been almost 2 decades since I first watched this show. Yoshitoshi old work is such a unique experience with the most depressing theme that evokes the deepest fear in your mind yet in the end left you with a slightest glimpse of hope just enough to carry on.
I watched this show when I was in high school, it was hard to follow when you're a 9th grader but the OP was so good I would never skip it.
Watched it when I was 8 💀
Haibane Renmei is amazing, one of the best of the best (depending on category but that's subjective)
Never expected you to review it
Fuck I liked it so much I made a tribute album for this piece of art
My theory on why haibane children exist, is that these are children who died young. My theory is that the village is a sort of a purgatory and the haibane are half angels that didn’t get into heaven and the time at the village is to give them a second chance. The children haven’t had a chance to prove themselves worthy of heaven yet and the adults have to come to terms with whatever sins haunts them. For Rekki at least and perhaps the others too, I suspect they died to suicide and this is a second chance in purgatory to redeem themselves before moving onto to heaven or fall to hell.
Yeah i never saw an old haibane either
Maybe this might be true
Music Used:
0:10 - Rustle - Haibane Renmei
0:38 - Halena’s theme - 100% Orange Juice
1:20 - Free Bird - Haibane Renmei
2:11 - Wind Touches My Cheeks Gently - Haibane Renmei
2:32 - Fading - Haibane Renmei
2:40 - To The Town - Haibane Renmei
4:24 - Song of Dream, Words of Bubble - Haibane Renmei
4:44 - Ripples by the drop - Haibane Renmei
5:15 - Starting of the world - Haibane Renmei
6:19 - Ripples by the drop - Haibane Renmei
7:00- Blight - Haibane Renmei
7:46 - Bitter Cry - Haibane Renmei
9:09 - A Lonely Lullaby - Haibane Renmei
9:57 - Refrain of Memory - Haibane Renmei
11:14 - Cook’s Theme - 100% Orange Juice
12:52 - Sweet Maker’s Theme - 100% Orange Juice
This series has found me at the perfect time. I was in a pretty dark place and it helped me to see the light, and that I was not alone. I'm forever grateful to Yoshitoshi ABe for this.
Sometimes I think about rewatching Haibane, but I'm not sure if I should do it. Emotional weight behind it might be to big for me.
Same dude I was in a weird place when I saw this anime and found myself.
Same, this anime got me through some stuff. Haibane Renmei is a true piece of art.
I really want to rewatch it but I'm scared I'll just be an emotional mess the whole time.
loved how you talk about this with enough depth but without getting too lost in the weeds. haibane renmei is my favorite anime and i'm always suggesting it to friends so i can get their thoughts on it. it's always really interesting to see what people have to say about the show. many thanks
This scratches my Demolition D itch that I’ve been suffering from since he stepped into the void one day, never to return
I always see this as part of a set along with serial lain and texnolhyze
Same character designer and similar staff
I just finished the show and felt overwhelmed. so I immediately started searching for youtube videos talking about this show and sharing their experiences, and i stumbled upon this one. Thanks for sharing Mr.Chair.
and to those who haven't seen it yet, please give it a try, I think you'll at least find one thing that you can relate to.
Another Yoshitoshi ABe series have never seen but should. Serial Experiment Lain is one of my introductions to anime back when it was easy to pirate cultured cartoons from the internet. Thanks for reminding me that this exists.
I also watched Lain, and liked it (I didn't especially like most of the other anime my friend showed me). Then read about ABe making a doujinshi about people with wings living in an abandoned home, thought "that sounded interesting", and promptly forgot it for about 20 years. I really didn't regret eventually watching it.
this is my favorite anime and my favorite work of fiction. The music, the characters, the atmosphere, and the story just resonates with me
also i love how i listened to the soundtrack of the show so much that I can name all the background music in this vid : )
This anime is one of my beloved and I appreciate you making a video on it.
Oh my, this is a flash from the past. That one OST with the piano is god tier
I remember reading somewhere that the children are victims of violence or other tragedies that really weren't their fault. They are reborn to give them a chance to heal like the older haibane's who checked out of life too soon.
i just rewatched this a couple weeks ago. an all time fav. thank you for preaching the gospel
This is an anime I’ve had on my backlog for a long time, but thanks to wanting to watch this video with the proper context I’ve finally watched it. So thanks for that, the show was wonderful.
Chair. Love all the new content you’re making. I can’t wait to see what’s next! Yes. I did watch Princess Principal after you reviewed it. The English dub is gold.
It's been like a decade since I've watched this show and I'm glad that u mentioned it.
Here I thought this guy can only do FF14 content
jokes aside, great job
i my mum rented this at blcok buster forever ago and i could never remeber the name to go finish it! thx so much!
Goddamn, a Haibane Renmei video in 2023. It's been well over a decade since I first watched it.
I finished this show recently, it’s so beautiful and this review is wonderful!!!
Honestly one of my favorite anime I watched a year ago still love rewatching it even until now it’s heartwarming and amazing
Thank you for making this video. I really want to watch it now.
sorry Chair, cant watch the video because you sold me in 3 minutes and now i want to be not spoiled
reaching out to and hugging a crow fucking life goals.
I’m really digging the variety content. For other videos I say “hey, I don’t know anything at all about God Hand, but I’ll check this out.”
This is the first time you’ve made a video where I had absolutely no clue what the subject matter was. But putting it on the list along with Dokuro-Chan, Girls Bravo and Sekirei certainly takes me back.
Thank you Chair always love your vids and taste in media. Will check it out.
Thanks Chair, just finished watching it
Teared up and felt good, thanks for the recommendation
Watched this again in one go last night and was worth the watch. Had first seen this sub back in the day when it came out in japan. Characters and concept is unique, and the journey through the 13 episode has a wholesome conclusion. def recommend.
Really weird seeing people say things like "back when anime was on UA-cam" (even though it probably applies to people under the age of like 30+ now).
Back In My Day my first anime was being lent Escaflowne VHSes in 9th grade (and later in high school I would download RealPlayer episodes of stuff in what had to be like 30p resolution; later on I started to be able to find stuff in watchable resolutions).
Haibane Renmei actually had a very good reputation back then (it was a contemporary anime when I was in high school) and was commonly recommended alongside stuff like Cowboy Bebop as "the serious anime it is okay to show normal people"
"Watched Rurouni Kenshin on RealPlayer" represent!
great reveiw my guy, will forever be a amazing show
Hell yeah starting off the week with a new Misshapen Chair video!
i just rewatched this after 20 years haha and was wondering if anyone ever talked about it cause it feels all most completely forgotten, i gotta say i really liked the concept and setting of this when i watched it at 13, i thought it was really unique, witch it still is, but i can relate the the themes so much more now that I'm older
good review
Huh. I never watched this but remember seeing posters and images of it. Oh the early 2000s. Thanks for covering it.
This was a really good video, the mixing of music and commentary at the end was very well done, giving the content a deeper meaning. Please do more videos like this, they're really good
Loved that show so much, thank you for reminding me about it
eyyyy great video Chair- Lovely way to wake up :D
God damn it now I need to watch Haibane Renmei again so that I can view it with more experienced eyes than I had as a teenager
I adore this series! Thanks for getting the word out about it.
One of my favorite anime and few DVDs I held on to. The book "Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" by Haruki Murakami has a pretty similar setting and probably inspired Yoshitoshi ABe. I recommend a read.
He has said as much.
One of my favorite UA-camrs talking about one of my favorite anime? It's Christmas, February edition!
Okay I'm going to be a bit real here and trigger warning for Self harm.
This girl I was madly in love with in highschool recommended this to me when I was a freshman, at the time I was branching out from shounen as I had just discovered subbed anime on youtube and also had just built my first computer. I gave the first episode of this a watch and at the time I LOGICALLY understood the feeling of being totally lost, feeling out of place, of knowing nothing of tgis world you're in, but I didn't EMOTIONALLY understand or feel it. So to me this show just came off as boring and something that was trying to be too hard to be "deep". Like an edgy highschool poem filled with angst that you look back and cringe at. Well that was 2009-10, and here we are in 2023 and wow...I still never watched the show but the way chair describes it almost feels like the last 10 years of my life summed up.
Graduating highschool i quickly went on to university only to realize these haunting thoughts of my jenoir year of highschool weren't just a passing mood from thebpressures at the time, they were the start of my endless battle with severe anxiety and the resulting depression. I was steadily failing more and more until I dropped out and pretended to go to class at a community college near home until I finally realized what was wrong..mostly. Some meds later I got my associates but as I tried to hold a job, anxiety and insomnia would always ruin things and a growing sense of unease with myself which turned to disgust as my meds made me gain weight. Add ontop of that me finally cracking my egg and coming out to my family that my crossdressing wasn't a phase or me being gay, it was me trying to wear the clothes of my true gender, it all just crushed me as my family took my comming out very negatively and insulted me and mocked me. It was a total blindside opposite to how I'd been treated ever before by them in my life. All this pushed me to try to escape that pain to want to end this cycle of crying alone at night, feeling worthless, and just being a burden to those around me. This landed me in the osych ward but even that was just a small vacation from the burdens and pains pol f life as they accepted me for who Are was and placed me in the female ward where I was loved and accepted. But it was only a week long stay and right after I was back to the razors and ropes.
That was last year and this year started with me crying alone on new years.
This year sucks and I'm still lost, but dang, who knows, maybe in this messed up life of small blessings I will find reason and purpose that will give me the haopy ending chair says exists in this show.
Also sorry I'm like half sobbing typing this out in my mom's family room on my phone after having just slept for 17hours on accident and only clicking thisbout of curiousity at what that girl wanted to show me all those years ago...i really shoukd watch this show, but not alone.
i feel like an old man knowing that only dozen of us watched and rememberet this show
Great Video Chairman, will give it a watch
who the actual fuck put these onions on my desk?
god i loved this show... i need it on BD...
Hated this show at 17, but stuff heavy on art and substance flew over my head back then. Will give this another try.
I'm so glad this gem of a series is getting noticed by new audiences today.
Haibane was one of my absolute favorite shows when it came out and I still love it. I had watched mostly generic action shows until that point, Haibane renmei was a revelation that animation could do entirely different things.
I remember seeing the wing sprouting scene when i was really young, but never got to watch the rest of the show. It still stuck with me though.
Saw this anime in a short a second ago and instantly got interested in what it is
Classic show I have it saved to my PC
Great video chairman
LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
This show is kino, thank you for covering it
omg I love your humor! Please do more anime overview XD
Thank you for recommendation
I randomly watched this with my wife about a decade ago based off of no reviews or suggestions. I thought it was pretty average at first and wasn't sure about the slow pacing, but by the end I was mad that there wasn't more. Ever since I've been chasing more shows like this and [the original] Kino's Journey. A lot of these one season shows like this, Death Parade, GANGSTA, Land of Lustrous, etc almost seem like an advertisement for the manga which sucks because manga is hella expensive. Would def recommend people watch this anime though, just be prepared to have a lot of questions and desire to know more lore at the end
*childhood memory unlocked*
I personally have haibane renmei in my top 3 anime of all time. Love this show.
What's the other 2?
I'm curious how you feel about Serial Experiments Lain from the same creator. It's a very, very different show but it's also really focused on what it means to be connected to other people, and how that changes with the advent of the internet. As social media has blown up and we live more of our lives online it's a show I come back to a lot.
I think this is what I'm going to rewatch next. I remember even less about it than I did about Haibane Renmei. I think it's one of these things that played "in the near future" when it came out that would now be in the past.
awesome
The ending music is gold.
I'm compelled to say, this show had excellent excellent music. Such a fantastic soundtrack.
At risk of sounding elitist, this is not a show for everyone. I also thought the pacing in the first half of the show was a little slower than it needed to be.
However, The depictions of guilt and what it can do to a person, the need to make peace with yourself and with others, no matter how unfair life may seem to be, no matter your own pride, really struck home with me. The relationship between Rakka and Rekki felt so real. It was almost painful to watch them part at the end.
Such a beautiful show. Definitely on my top ten and even my top five.
I come here to laughing and then chair hits me with the one two ready to cry buckle my shoe
More than anything this anime to me is about learning to accept help but also overcome one's own sin.
It seems very obvious to me that the haibane seem to be in a sort of purgatory and that they may have died in ways that made them unable to go to heaven or their souls move on.
In particular raka who dreams of falling from the sky.
I always interpreted as if she had potential commited suicide or had died in an accident and is unable to move on.
She however is there also to help reki be able to finally move on and accept someone's help instead of being so caught up in her own dejection and thinking that if she's nice to raka that she'd be forgiven.
In a way people help each other to help themselves.
Whether it be for the feeling or some sort of gain.
For reki what was an almost selfish want to gain forgiveness of sorts became a genuine care for raka and then helps her be able to accept raka's help.
To recognize ones own sin is to have no sin and as soon as reki sees this she's able to move on from the past at and leave purgatory.
To me as soon as a haibane realizes the thing they hadn't before they died they are able to move on and thus have a day of flight.
The story from the art, music, and symbolism is simply beautiful and helped me find myself when I was lost.
Reki's journey is one many people will have and it's only when you accept help and recognize your own sin do you find peace.
There's so much to say about this anime.
I freaking love it so much.
not the first, but definitely one of the first anime I've watched
didn't have access to internet back then so it was just buying random pirated CDs that I didn't realise were pirated because I was smol and had some lunch money
i could not understand why I was crying by the end ._.
I fw it heavy
You and Hidinginpublic are on the same wavelength or something
Passion content > cookie cutter FFXIV drama stuff
damn, i guess i have to watch it now :D
Haibane Renmei
My sis was the number one place to go to watch hibane ripped off and uploaded onto youtube back in the day
nice!
Ngl I don't whether it's funny or sad that a poorly made chair has better taste than me. I'm gonna have to watch this soon
People better watch this video
I watched this way back when YT wasn't a thing yet. You know, when you popped on a certain program and hoped you were getting what you wanted and not some VD for your PC lol.
Back when this was new i got these dvds after lost exile cuz i think the same company did it....anyway it was a happy surprise
Number 666 like! You can't take that away from me!
U got all the messages in it, a very good analysis in the sea of brain-dead ani-tube :3
Very cute. Will watch. Also is the room where the coccoon shows up a morgue and are all the characters dead?
It's not a morgue. Just an abandoned building. And about whether they are dead is what I think is to be speculated about. It's never fully explained but heavily implied that this is some sort of place where certain people temporarily end up after their death. But seemingly they can die (again) there which is different from "leaving". The area has a massive wall around it but unlike in Attack on Titan we never learn what's on the other side. The weirdest and hardest to explain part though is that there's also normal humans without wings or halos in this "enclosure" who also don't really know any more about it than the Haibane and also have to abide to their own set of rules. Overall it's minimally supernatural.
I assume you are a decade younger than me but the things you do cover that are older are surprisingly in line with my interests? Like this is absolutely not what i expected here today but boy does it take me back
Have you seen kinos journey, boogiepop phantom, and NieA_7?
I've seen all of those.
It's nice to see people talk about them.
based chair video
Nice 😸
Still remember how upset I got as a kid watching the scene when she got her wings on her own.
durara, and zetsuen no tempest are both very good shows
I thought i overcome the pain of Kuu departure, but it hurts as much as it did years ago. 😞
I'm always jumping at chances to recommend this show, with no success. The only one person i convinced was "It was alright", so i guess Haibane no Renmei is not that simple to appreciate and seen trough the misleading cozy slice of life story.
have you played the game series gravity rush? If so, I think some kind of video on it would be rad.
Or don't, idk.
Call me crazy but sometimes I come back every now and then just for 8:03 and Rakka
Is this the start of Chair's Yoshitoshi ABe Arc?
Heyo, any chance you could make another evil video about FF14 combat?
ngl i thought it was pretty mid, did enjoy the exploration of reki rakka and kuu's charcter
Wasn't Haibane Renmei the Samurai ability they took away? (Great video btw)
hissatsu: depression
A great show that means a hell of a lot to me. Thanks for the reminder of how special it is.
you should watch wakfu, it is a french anime
neato