I just finished watching this series and I must say it is amazing. It's hard to say if it tops Cowboy Bebop or not for my favorite anime ever, but it definitely comes close.
Gist of it: There are a race of people called Haibane who have wings and halos and are born in cocoons, but other than that appear to be normal people. But there are humans living alongside them as well, in a massive town called Glie. The town is surrounded by a massive insurmountable wall, and no one is permitted to pass beyond it.
The story starts in the spring, as a new Haibane named Rakka emerges from her cocoon (she appears to be about 15 or 16, despite being a newborn.) For about the first 4 episodes, the series focuses on daily life in Glie and how the Haibane live their lives. But as the year approaches winter, things get darker, moodier, and deeper. The show becomes intensely more psychological, symbolic, and mature. To reveal anything would be to ruin too much, but needless to say this is is a wonderful, suspenseful, gripping, compelling, series. I found myself empathizing with the six Haibane of Old Home more than I have with any fictitious characters in recent memory.
I would recommend it to everyone. I'd give it an age rating of 15+, purely because anyone younger would likely be unable to appreciate it. (It definitely requires CT skills to grasp - the series spoon-feeds you nothing.)
Amazing. A work of art. The rare series that reminds you why you like anime so much to begin with.
Gist of it: There are a race of people called Haibane who have wings and halos and are born in cocoons, but other than that appear to be normal people. But there are humans living alongside them as well, in a massive town called Glie. The town is surrounded by a massive insurmountable wall, and no one is permitted to pass beyond it.
The story starts in the spring, as a new Haibane named Rakka emerges from her cocoon (she appears to be about 15 or 16, despite being a newborn.) For about the first 4 episodes, the series focuses on daily life in Glie and how the Haibane live their lives. But as the year approaches winter, things get darker, moodier, and deeper. The show becomes intensely more psychological, symbolic, and mature. To reveal anything would be to ruin too much, but needless to say this is is a wonderful, suspenseful, gripping, compelling, series. I found myself empathizing with the six Haibane of Old Home more than I have with any fictitious characters in recent memory.
I would recommend it to everyone. I'd give it an age rating of 15+, purely because anyone younger would likely be unable to appreciate it. (It definitely requires CT skills to grasp - the series spoon-feeds you nothing.)
Amazing. A work of art. The rare series that reminds you why you like anime so much to begin with.
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