I honestly can’t say how old I was when I watched this for the first time. I’m 25 now but this song has stuck with me for all these years. So serene and emotional. How could I forget it? It’s been years since I actually watched this show but I always find myself every once and awhile coming back to this song just to re-experience that old joy from my childhood. God speed to those who are still here and listening. Remembering better times and a happier place. I pray for you all. With love.
It's one of those hidden gems. It really left a huge impression on me as a kid. It was the first anime of its kind to give me a taste of that "deep" stuff that contrast the high-action anime I was watching until that point. Really awesome, may it never be forgotten.
many people talk about how they watched this when they were kids. im glad i watched it in my 20s because i have experiences now that makes me understand Haibane Renmei better than my child self
Penguindrummer It probably had problems, but unlike even some of my favorite animes, they were so small they didn't get in the way of enjoyment or hamper the story.
I've had this song stuck in my head for the past 20 years and i forgot where it came from, i spent so much time searching for it, until one day recently i found it. I love it so much and wish there was a longer version.
This show was amazing… and one I will never watch again. For much of my life, I have been suicidal. A childhood full of major traumas, untreated major depression, and being a millennial trying to find her feet in the middle of financial collapse will do that to a person. I’ve made several attempts on my own life, from pharmacological solutions when I was young, to the most recent incident that landed me in the hospital and finally getting doctors who could help me. That most recent incident? It was catalyzed by Hibane Remni. I was already in a bad place, so my housemate wanted to share their comfort animes with me and this was the one they picked. I don’t remember if it was the first episode or the second, but something about all the Hibane’s eyes stood out to me, and then without thinking I blurted out “I know those eyes. they are all victims of suicide” regarding the Hibane. My housemate was like “my god, it took me till much later in the show to realize that!” But the ball had started to roll. The world of Hibane Remni represented a kind of purgatory for the Hibane to let go of their self-hatred to ascend to the next life, and I wanted that. I started to convince myself that if I successfully ended myself, either there would be nothing, or I could end up in a world like that, and both sounded better than the life I had. It’s implied that the Hibane took forms that match their living bodies, but are aged down to teens or early 20’s (not talking about the children Hibane. They aren’t really explored in the show). I’d do anything for a chance to go back and be a kid and get to act like a kid for the first time in my life. I’d do anything to have a world that was kind to me, that allowed me to have a peaceful, low stress life where the damage could finally heal. I may have been developing a bit of depressive psychosis at the time. I got all the supplies I needed to self-terminate in such a way as to go out without suffering and pain, and without leaving a mess for my family and friends to find. Inert gas asphyxiation was my plan… I won’t go into any more details than that because the method is surprisingly (and scarily) accessible. But it was a Wednesday afternoon last September that I had picked to do the deed and be free from my personal hell. I didn’t realize, however, that I had scheduled a psychiatrist appointment for that very day. I figured I could at least talk to my psychiatrist one last time to see if I could maybe get one little mote of hope to hold onto that would make me want to live. At that point I’d exhausted just about every minor and major treatment available for MDD. Heck, even now I take an impressive amount of antidepressants, and even missing one day of them will send me down a self destructive spiral. She did NOT give me that more of hope. No, what happened is that I blurted out my plan to her. Part of me really didn’t want to go, and that part of me broke through. She ordered me to take myself to the ER, and that she would be in contact with the ER; if I didn’t arrive, she would call the police to escort me to the hospital. If you’ve ever been admitted to a psychiatric unit at a hospital, it can feel otherworldly. A lot of people are working around you and talking about you and the other patients and you get a brick of a bed to sleep on and furniture too heavy to move alone and group sessions where everyone is working through their own shit free from the worries of the real world outside the hospital. No bill collection calls, no shitty job… you are stuck in that place for a minimum of 72 hours while the docs and nurses try to get you stable for discharge. It feels like purgatory, for sure. It was because of that stay, though, that my work reduced my load and had me back down to 40 hours a week. My family started being kinder to me. And I was set up to get a newer form of intensive therapy called transcranial magnetic stimulation, which seems to have worked for me. I can see the world unclouded by depression which has freed me up to start working through the trauma. As for Hibane Remni, I couldn’t bring myself to finish it, so I looked up clips and watched it piecemeal so that I knew how it played out, and oh my goddesses did I identify with Rakka and her struggles, and being “sin-bound,” and the self-harming to try to hide just how damaged you were. This show now acts as a trigger for me for all of those emotions I experienced last September, which is why I will never watch it again. But it is a beautiful, powerful show with themes of loss, grieving, depression, becoming free of sadness and shame and learning to just live. To just “be.” And so I recommend it to everyone but myself; Hibane Remni is a 9.99/10 show in my book; it doesn’t get that last .01 because it does run the risk of doing what it did to me, but ymmv.
This anime doesn't follow normal anime tropes . The story is very character driven. No explosion, antagonist or fight sequences. Just a lot of fantastic world building. I've often wished for a second season. There is so much of this world to explore. What's outside the city? Who and what are the elders. Are Haibene allowed to fall in lòve? Can they have children? Has a human ever harmed a Haibene?
I think while it be great to have a second season, I think the mysteries of the world are better left unsolved. It’s more fun to imagine said mysteries then to solve them. At least for me.
(Spoilers ahead for anyone who hasn't finished) It's heavily implied that the town is limbo between life and the underworld in the last couple episodes. The wings and halos themselves kind of hint at this. Birds, the only ones able to cross the wall, may be seen as prayers from the real world: consequently, since Rakka needed to be forgiven by someone else to not be sin-bound, it can be seen that the one who forgave her, the bird in the well, was a prayer made out for her salvation by someone she once knew after departing the last world. Haibane depart for "outside the walls" only when they are ready (accept death), and we can see with Kuu that she didn't actually leave the city to go beyond the walls, she just found a final resting place where her spirit could be at peace. Rakka is just tending the monuments/graves to the departed in the second half of the series. Reki did not have anyone to pray for her salvation when she died in the real world (potentially suicide by train), but she found Rakka and penitence in purgatory as a sort of "final chance" at peace. The toga are haibane that never reached final rest, and them being able to travel between the real world and the purgatory of the city may be attributed to them having transformed into some form of kami that can travel between the material world and the spirit world to help guide spirits of the lost.
This song is going to be stuck with me forever, what an amazing opening for this series. My favorite anime of all time, I am going to be rewatching it as I get older, and hopefully I am going to find the strenght to get out of the well the same way that Rakka did.
Just hearing this song makes my entire body well up with emotion. It's been about six months since I watched this anime for the 29000'th time, but now I'm sobbing. I don't think anything in this world will ever touch me more deeply.
I was browsing through anime OSTs and came across this. I remember watching this anime years ago and loved it. Don't know how I almost forgot about it...This is my favorite song from the soundtrack.
How can someone transmit such innate sensation as the one of being in heaven with this music, and then live a normal life? I don't know. Guess Kow Otani simply goes his way like everybody, every now and then doing his job only as he knows how. Yet he can be able to get us in places not many others can. Not my favorite composer, yet one who must be remembered.
Hey all. I’m from the south in Alabama and finally got to see the northern lights from my front porch. This song came to mind while I enjoyed the show. Hope everyone is doing well.
@КГБ - CCCP Y si la verdad es bastante genial, me gustan bastante los diseños de personajes de Abe y la ambientación. Este junto a Serial Experiments Lain y NHK ni youkoso son mis favoritos.
vi el anime hace poco en realidad, pero la musica de su op es tan relajante y nostálgica, transmite mociones muy bonitas la verdad, no me arrepiento de buscar cada cierto tiempo animes viejos porque siempre puedo encontrarme con cosas como esta.
If you want more, hunt down ABe's Charcoal Feather Federation works. It's what the anime was based on. lots of amazing drawings and characters and world building. He is an amazing illustrator.
@@shipapalod5693 ну почему если слегка по фантазировать то можно и 2 сезон сделать, Реки ушла куда она ушла ? в рай , тут можно поспорить. Она самоубийца и в рай она как бы не может попасть, из-за этого, да она искупила свой грех да её простили ,но в рай она не может из-за этого попасть, но она это сделала ещё ребёнком и детям прощается многое. Так что можно было сделать второй сезон как она заново рождается в нашем мире через какое-то время встречает Раку, так как похоже она то-же ушла вслед Нему. Вы скажите что Нему не ушла , но в конце 13 серии весной она стоит на балконе и смотрит в западного леса , и ещё она хотела совершить полёт после полёта Реки, также когда Рака находит коконы близнецов, она говорит что скоро придёт её черёд становится старшей серокрылой. Ещё есть трейлер где показывают как Рака идёт летом в храм находит на последней ступени перья и нимб плачет встаёт на последнию ступень и фр налетает ветер и перья во все стороны, из этого можно предположить что она тоже вознеслась вслед за Нему.
I honestly can’t say how old I was when I watched this for the first time. I’m 25 now but this song has stuck with me for all these years. So serene and emotional. How could I forget it? It’s been years since I actually watched this show but I always find myself every once and awhile coming back to this song just to re-experience that old joy from my childhood. God speed to those who are still here and listening. Remembering better times and a happier place. I pray for you all. With love.
It's one of those hidden gems. It really left a huge impression on me as a kid. It was the first anime of its kind to give me a taste of that "deep" stuff that contrast the high-action anime I was watching until that point. Really awesome, may it never be forgotten.
Composed by Kow Otani, who also composed Shadow of the Colossus's soundtrack.
Woow
no way, and no wonder. He brings my soul out of this world, maybe I could too.
Wow
The anime and the game actually have the same vibes, especially the last guardian
I thought of Soc when i heard this..wow
many people talk about how they watched this when they were kids.
im glad i watched it in my 20s because i have experiences now that makes me understand Haibane Renmei better than my child self
"Rakka.....Help me."
where is my rakka?
@hayhay055 that moment put my heart in stitches 😭
まず、雰囲気が最高。そして内容も後半の盛り上がり、視聴者に問いかけるような名言の数々、あの雰囲気の中での「罪憑き」というダークな感じ最高だね。見終わって自分なりに解釈し、余韻に浸る。これまでが本番だ。
I watched this anime 14 years ago. I still often have this beautiful song in my head.
Haibane Renmei will always have a special place in my heart. 💚
based kuuchuu buranko pfp
This is the perfect opening for this anime.
It matches the tone and it is almost perfect like the anime
Penguindrummer Almost perfect?
LJK401 Don't like throwing around big words but for me personally I'd say it is perfect.
Penguindrummer Couldn't find any flaws. The only anime I give a 10/10 to.
LJK401 I'm a little more loose when it comes to giving shows the highest rating it seems.
Penguindrummer It probably had problems, but unlike even some of my favorite animes, they were so small they didn't get in the way of enjoyment or hamper the story.
I've had this song stuck in my head for the past 20 years and i forgot where it came from, i spent so much time searching for it, until one day recently i found it. I love it so much and wish there was a longer version.
This show was amazing… and one I will never watch again.
For much of my life, I have been suicidal. A childhood full of major traumas, untreated major depression, and being a millennial trying to find her feet in the middle of financial collapse will do that to a person. I’ve made several attempts on my own life, from pharmacological solutions when I was young, to the most recent incident that landed me in the hospital and finally getting doctors who could help me. That most recent incident? It was catalyzed by Hibane Remni.
I was already in a bad place, so my housemate wanted to share their comfort animes with me and this was the one they picked. I don’t remember if it was the first episode or the second, but something about all the Hibane’s eyes stood out to me, and then without thinking I blurted out “I know those eyes. they are all victims of suicide” regarding the Hibane.
My housemate was like “my god, it took me till much later in the show to realize that!” But the ball had started to roll. The world of Hibane Remni represented a kind of purgatory for the Hibane to let go of their self-hatred to ascend to the next life, and I wanted that. I started to convince myself that if I successfully ended myself, either there would be nothing, or I could end up in a world like that, and both sounded better than the life I had.
It’s implied that the Hibane took forms that match their living bodies, but are aged down to teens or early 20’s (not talking about the children Hibane. They aren’t really explored in the show). I’d do anything for a chance to go back and be a kid and get to act like a kid for the first time in my life. I’d do anything to have a world that was kind to me, that allowed me to have a peaceful, low stress life where the damage could finally heal.
I may have been developing a bit of depressive psychosis at the time.
I got all the supplies I needed to self-terminate in such a way as to go out without suffering and pain, and without leaving a mess for my family and friends to find. Inert gas asphyxiation was my plan… I won’t go into any more details than that because the method is surprisingly (and scarily) accessible. But it was a Wednesday afternoon last September that I had picked to do the deed and be free from my personal hell.
I didn’t realize, however, that I had scheduled a psychiatrist appointment for that very day. I figured I could at least talk to my psychiatrist one last time to see if I could maybe get one little mote of hope to hold onto that would make me want to live. At that point I’d exhausted just about every minor and major treatment available for MDD. Heck, even now I take an impressive amount of antidepressants, and even missing one day of them will send me down a self destructive spiral.
She did NOT give me that more of hope. No, what happened is that I blurted out my plan to her. Part of me really didn’t want to go, and that part of me broke through. She ordered me to take myself to the ER, and that she would be in contact with the ER; if I didn’t arrive, she would call the police to escort me to the hospital.
If you’ve ever been admitted to a psychiatric unit at a hospital, it can feel otherworldly. A lot of people are working around you and talking about you and the other patients and you get a brick of a bed to sleep on and furniture too heavy to move alone and group sessions where everyone is working through their own shit free from the worries of the real world outside the hospital. No bill collection calls, no shitty job… you are stuck in that place for a minimum of 72 hours while the docs and nurses try to get you stable for discharge.
It feels like purgatory, for sure.
It was because of that stay, though, that my work reduced my load and had me back down to 40 hours a week. My family started being kinder to me. And I was set up to get a newer form of intensive therapy called transcranial magnetic stimulation, which seems to have worked for me. I can see the world unclouded by depression which has freed me up to start working through the trauma.
As for Hibane Remni, I couldn’t bring myself to finish it, so I looked up clips and watched it piecemeal so that I knew how it played out, and oh my goddesses did I identify with Rakka and her struggles, and being “sin-bound,” and the self-harming to try to hide just how damaged you were.
This show now acts as a trigger for me for all of those emotions I experienced last September, which is why I will never watch it again. But it is a beautiful, powerful show with themes of loss, grieving, depression, becoming free of sadness and shame and learning to just live. To just “be.”
And so I recommend it to everyone but myself; Hibane Remni is a 9.99/10 show in my book; it doesn’t get that last .01 because it does run the risk of doing what it did to me, but ymmv.
This anime doesn't follow normal anime tropes . The story is very character driven. No explosion, antagonist or fight sequences. Just a lot of fantastic world building. I've often wished for a second season. There is so much of this world to explore. What's outside the city? Who and what are the elders. Are Haibene allowed to fall in lòve? Can they have children? Has a human ever harmed a Haibene?
My experience: The city is a sort of purgatory. The stay is a test for suiciders, and there isn't anything outside the city.
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I think while it be great to have a second season, I think the mysteries of the world are better left unsolved. It’s more fun to imagine said mysteries then to solve them. At least for me.
(Spoilers ahead for anyone who hasn't finished)
It's heavily implied that the town is limbo between life and the underworld in the last couple episodes. The wings and halos themselves kind of hint at this. Birds, the only ones able to cross the wall, may be seen as prayers from the real world: consequently, since Rakka needed to be forgiven by someone else to not be sin-bound, it can be seen that the one who forgave her, the bird in the well, was a prayer made out for her salvation by someone she once knew after departing the last world.
Haibane depart for "outside the walls" only when they are ready (accept death), and we can see with Kuu that she didn't actually leave the city to go beyond the walls, she just found a final resting place where her spirit could be at peace. Rakka is just tending the monuments/graves to the departed in the second half of the series.
Reki did not have anyone to pray for her salvation when she died in the real world (potentially suicide by train), but she found Rakka and penitence in purgatory as a sort of "final chance" at peace.
The toga are haibane that never reached final rest, and them being able to travel between the real world and the purgatory of the city may be attributed to them having transformed into some form of kami that can travel between the material world and the spirit world to help guide spirits of the lost.
it's not an anime. it's a recreation of a phylosophycal ways on human life.
this anime is genuinely the best show i’ve ever seen, i love everything about it
One of those animes that almost no one knows but that are very good
I've watched this for the first time when it aired on TV 20 years ago. it definitely held a special place in my heart.
This song is going to be stuck with me forever, what an amazing opening for this series. My favorite anime of all time, I am going to be rewatching it as I get older, and hopefully I am going to find the strenght to get out of the well the same way that Rakka did.
there's something impossibly nostalgic about the feel of this song
This was a great anime.
Those beautiful soundtracks, this touching story ... this anime is a true masterpiece !
I cry every time I hear this song
灰羽の世界にいつまでも浸っていたい…
Just hearing this song makes my entire body well up with emotion. It's been about six months since I watched this anime for the 29000'th time, but now I'm sobbing. I don't think anything in this world will ever touch me more deeply.
hmu babe i think we're soul mates
1:05の懐かしい感じが好き…
the song makes me cry:(
I really wish this version lasted longer. So beautiful.
Song randomly came to me one day, was lucky enough to actually remember where it's from.
This is a masterpiece! The greatest anime ever created.
remarkable composition and interpretation... I love this anime
So....beautiful...can't handle...the feels.....T-T
Eight years later, and it’s just as beautiful as I remember it to be.🥰
I was browsing through anime OSTs and came across this. I remember watching this anime years ago and loved it. Don't know how I almost forgot about it...This is my favorite song from the soundtrack.
How can someone transmit such innate sensation as the one of being in heaven with this music, and then live a normal life? I don't know. Guess Kow Otani simply goes his way like everybody, every now and then doing his job only as he knows how.
Yet he can be able to get us in places not many others can. Not my favorite composer, yet one who must be remembered.
Haibane Renmei - Synonym = Underrated.
Hey all. I’m from the south in Alabama and finally got to see the northern lights from my front porch. This song came to mind while I enjoyed the show. Hope everyone is doing well.
Haibane Renmei and Wolf's Rain are so underrated. I watched both of them when I was younger and damn they broke me.
this is so pure
あなたへのお勧めに出てきたこの曲
灰羽連盟は凄かったんだなって
Anime infravalorado, pero es que es excelente y este opening una maravilla
@КГБ - CCCP Y si la verdad es bastante genial, me gustan bastante los diseños de personajes de Abe y la ambientación. Este junto a Serial Experiments Lain y NHK ni youkoso son mis favoritos.
vi el anime hace poco en realidad, pero la musica de su op es tan relajante y nostálgica, transmite mociones muy bonitas la verdad, no me arrepiento de buscar cada cierto tiempo animes viejos porque siempre puedo encontrarme con cosas como esta.
If you want more, hunt down ABe's Charcoal Feather Federation works. It's what the anime was based on. lots of amazing drawings and characters and world building. He is an amazing illustrator.
この雰囲気が最高
神曲すぎ
I'M AS FREE AS A BIRRRD NOW
AND THIS BIRD YOU CANNOT CHAYEEAYYNGE
Loved this anime. Listening to this is like watching it for the first time again.
So warm as the anime itself!
i wake up everday to this song
NEEDS . MORE . VIEWS!!!!
Thanks for putting this on youtube :)
I love this song
i came here for this part
2:05
when the piano gets lower i feel...
Just started watching this anime and I’m like four episodes in and I love it so far:333
Hontoni love the orchestration of this piece. Counterpoint so well exploited. All those cello's second voices...
perfect anime ❤
good times...
Can you feel the music?
好きだ。
fills my heart with warm
1:05 ❤
Brilliant
Peaceful.
Thx i love this song ^_^
Who is that one person that disliked this?!
Don't worry, he/she is in hell now.
I'm sure it was a complete accident...
Yes a true accident or maybe he didn´t know what he was doing xd, sure.
Its true that on mobile devices people sometime click elsewhere than they want, thats really the case.
Somebody expecting Lynyrd Skynyrd's Free Bird?
Это прекрасная музыка) как и сериал)
Remaind me why exist people that says that angel beats is better than this?
This show is a masterpiece... The other one... Eh
Тот самый момент, когда понимаешь, что следующие 20 минут пройдут офигенно
Most wholsome anime
Esos 6 dislikes son de gente que todavía está atada al pecado
Hermoso
So beautiful 😁😁
Raka ❤
my favorite Lynyrd Skynyrd song
lmao
Face it, we live because of 0:31.
exactly
Нужно больше подобных аниме, оно ни с чем не сравнимо
жалко что нет второго сезона
@@user-fw9qx4xk9w да там продолжать и нечего
@@shipapalod5693 ну почему если слегка по фантазировать то можно и 2 сезон сделать, Реки ушла куда она ушла ? в рай , тут можно поспорить. Она самоубийца и в рай она как бы не может попасть, из-за этого, да она искупила свой грех да её простили ,но в рай она не может из-за этого попасть, но она это сделала ещё ребёнком и детям прощается многое. Так что можно было сделать второй сезон как она заново рождается в нашем мире через какое-то время встречает Раку, так как похоже она то-же ушла вслед Нему. Вы скажите что Нему не ушла , но в конце 13 серии весной она стоит на балконе и смотрит в западного леса , и ещё она хотела совершить полёт после полёта Реки, также когда Рака находит коконы близнецов, она говорит что скоро придёт её черёд становится старшей серокрылой. Ещё есть трейлер где показывают как Рака идёт летом в храм находит на последней ступени перья и нимб плачет встаёт на последнию ступень и фр налетает ветер и перья во все стороны, из этого можно предположить что она тоже вознеслась вслед за Нему.
I miss you, fall ;_;
se oye tan bien. .
壁に閉ざされた世界。
The closed world by wall.
привет из 2020)
you all will say this is underrated,bcs you didnt know the means of the story
What's your favorite translation of this masterpiece?
was here
Wait, this isn't the free bird I was looking for.
2021 عربي
Never heard of that anime before until now (thanks UA-cam), but now, I have a question...
Am I in heaven? Yes, probably.
I'll take anime that destroyed me for 800.
is this even a lynyrd skynyrd cover? i thought free bird has some of the most epic guitar solos even in the 1970s
1:06
😢
이시절 애니의 풍요로움은 대단햇지 지금은 그냥 유치뽕짝 학원몰.
日本人はいないのか、、
green ever
私がいるよ👍
。薬売り ノシ
やってるー？＾＾
いるﾝｺﾞｺﾞｺﾞｺﾞｺﾞｺﾞｺﾞｺﾞ
ごめんなさい🙇♂️
Aglamak icin geldim
いま聞いてる人いる？
ラッカとレキは俺の嫁