I don't understand. It leaves you depressed and then just ends? FUCK YOU
I don't understand. It leaves you depressed and then just ends? FUCK YOU
If that was your impression you really didn't understand.
Fuck me? Fuck you!
That is why I made this low quality thread
Once you learn to let go you won't get depressed.
It leaves you comfy and satisfied.
>Everything will disappear and you should just get over it
How am I supposed to accept that. Why didn't ABe leave me a happy ending?
How was that depressing? Reki got saved and redeemed, and Rakka moved on from the negative feelings that (arguably) drove her to suicide. At best it's bittersweet, or melancholic.
Compared what could have happened I'd say Reki reaching her day of flight was a happy ending even if bittersweet.
Isn't it about the meaning of life to her or something like that? At least what I remember of the ending was about this. Maybe I need to re-resist.
If the Haibane are only allowed to wear used clothes does that go for their underwear as well?
That doesn't look like a world with modern day standards of washing and hygiene either.
*Compared to
that's lain, not haibane.
it was a happy ending as the day of flight isn't a metaphor for death after all. if the haibane represent liminality, the day of flight represents post-liminality; growth, adulthood, reaching the true potential. while it's hard seeing loved ones move on and away, ultimately the lesson is you need to keep moving in order not to be left behind.
I thought it was a purgatory
monks live in a permanent state of anthropological liminality, so the metaphor for purgatory falls flat. take angel beats for example, that's a purgatory as the consequences for not moving on isn't becoming a human, that's what happens when you graduate (the next life). it's the opposite for haibane, failure results in humanity and a permanent liminal state. the day of flight is literally "spreading your wings" and becoming a functional adult. it's like eva but done correctly
How do I reconcile with this? I don’t want to, or, I don’t know how/why/what
I’m going to sleep now, thank you for your answers
all the little birds are young people who comitted suicide or otherwise died before their time that have been granted a chance to experience a better life and breakthrough their now-repressed traumas so that they can re-enter the cycle of reincarnation unburdered and with a clean bill of karma
I love this chain smoking angel like you wouldn't believe
>made a Haibane Renmei thread earlier that got almost no attention
I just wanted to talk about how good Omori's direction was in episode 8.
>all the little birds are young people who comitted suicide
This is only true for sin-bound Haibane.
It haunts you forever, OP. You'll never get over this fucking show.