The Haibane are treated as guests in down and are donated area to live and leftover material and food to have for free, though they frequently return the favour by working in local stores. They have non-functional wings, making them very distinct from the local populace. Okay, maybe they are a -little- more than humanoid. Haibane are unusual beings, humanoids born from cocoons midlife. Unique are the Haibane (approximate translation is of beings similar to angels). The town is very much isolated from the rest of the world, almost nobody ever entering or leaving the area. And, surprisingly, this isn’t the weirdest thing ABe has associated himself with.Īnyways, the base story takes place in a small village called Glie. There is a lot of symbolism and hints of certain elements that can lead you down one path or another, the concept of a representation of Purgatory pops up a lot. ABe has mentioned this is entirely intentional to let fans write in their own background. The first notable point about the story is the utter lack of exposition. This show has imprints of this relationship: the art and psychological edge still exist, though to a much lower edge than they did in Lain.
#SERIAL EXPERIMENTS LAIN SUB VS DUB SERIAL#
The company that made this, Radix, loves the chemistry between Tokoro and ABe this anime came after the two worked out NieA_7 and Serial Experiments Lain (though Tokoro wasn’t the director in that). The director for the show is Tomozaku Tokoro. Haibane Renmei is the first work which really let ABe take the lead, which is about the only point the above comments on his dojinshi project actually comes into play. For those unfamiliar with ABe, he was the character designer for Serial Experiments Lain, for which this blog is named. Okay, so that’s not really all that important, but I thought it was a really cool little tidbit of information. That never finished though and he transferred the story and characters to Haibane Renmei. Okay, so the story of Haibane Renmei was created by Yoshitori ABe (capitalization intentional) as a dojinshi project.