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On Haibane Renmei: life, loss and redemption

By almost any measure, Haibane Renmei is odd. Perhaps because its creator came from a different type of artistic training from most people in the anime and manga…

Spilled Pixels

Jun 3, 2023 • Subscribe

Fanart Friday: Haibane Renmei

★ 【椎名ヤスヒラ】「灰羽」 ☆

Jul 3, 2020 • Subscribe

Haibane Renmei – 2 [Town and Wall/Touga/Haibane Renmei] – Throwback Thursday

Welcome everyone to week 2 of Haibane Renmei! This episode isn’t to surprising. It establishes the setting of the story and a number of surrounding locations, but what…

Aug 12, 2021 • Subscribe

Like Water: An Anime Blog

Inspiration Part One: Haibane Renmei

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May 26, 2006 • Subscribe

Boku no Bible Toads of the Rebellion

Haibane Renmei Appreciation with Murakami

It was the cry of a bird. The boy carried a chair over to the window and climbed up onto it. He pulled the curtains back and opened…

Feb 28, 2010 • Subscribe

The trans resonance of Haibane Renmei

The series’ use of transformation and body horror resonate with the physical experiences of dysphoria and transitioning; its depictions of mental health struggles, particularly self-harm and suicide, may…

Nov 16, 2022 • Subscribe

Haibane Renmei – 8 [The Bird] – Throwback Thursday

Welcome everyone to another episode of Haibane Renmei! This week’s episode is one of the more unique ones, though the solo title alone probably gives that away. Is…

Sep 23, 2021 • Subscribe

Haibane Renmei (Collector’s Edition Blu-ray) Unboxing

One of Yoshitoshi ABe’s shows received a Blu-ray release in the west in recent years, and I picked it up during a sale.

The Normanic Vault

Jul 1, 2022 • Subscribe

Thoughts on catching up on One Piece

I can’t believe it, guys. It has been year or possibly more since I started reading One Piece and I caught up somehow. The journey has been very…

Mechanical Anime Reviews

Feb 27, 2021 • Subscribe

One Piece

Haibane Renmei – 10 [Kuramori/Haibane of Abandoned Factory/Rakka’s Job] – Throwback Thursday

Welcome all to a (late) episode of Haibane Renmei! This week is a bit slower compared to the last few but no less lighter. We got a lot…

Oct 7, 2021 • Subscribe

Catching Up On Under The Greenlight

Grab Atlas VPN for just $1.83/mo + 3 months extra before the BIG DEAL deal expires: https://get.atlasvpn.com/KrisPNatz Walk on Water by Jang Mokdan and Jaxx is one of my…

KrisPNatz

May 22, 2023 • Subscribe

Haibane Renmei Anime Review – 86/100 – Throwback Thursday

Yoshitoshi ABe is, or at least should be, a pretty recognizable name. You’ve no doubt seen his work and influence across many series while watching anime. From the…

Texhnolyze, Welcome to the N.H.K., Haibane Renmei

Nov 5, 2021 • Subscribe

Still catching up

The problem is that I have a couple of free days to watch, then more days when I’m busy and too tired to watch, so I fall behind…

Healer Girl, Ya Boy Kongming!

Jun 14, 2022 • Subscribe

Just Catching Up

It has been a while which is certainly my fault, but things have been on the rougher side and I just feel like listing things off that I…

KamenSentai

Dec 7, 2022 • Subscribe

Digimon Ghost Game, Gundam Build Fighters, Monster Rancher, Pretty Cure

What series are you catching up on?

Have any beloved faves on streaming you want to recommend? What series have you been meaning to get to since forever? Any comforting suggestions? The post What series are…

Mar 17, 2020 • Subscribe

Chatty AF 177: Haibane Renmei Retrospective – Episodes 1-7

Chiaki leads Vrai and Cy on a look back at the first half of Abe Yoshitoshi's second landmark series, Haibane Renmei!

Jan 23, 2023 • Subscribe

Chatty AF 178: Haibane Renmei Retrospective – Episodes 8-13

Chiaki, Vrai, and Cy return with the second half of Haibane Renmei to discuss its thematic inspirations, depictions of suicide in anime, and the impactful finale.

Feb 6, 2023 • Subscribe

Haibane Renmei – 3 [Temple/The Communicator/Pancakes] – Throwback Thursday

Welcome everyone to week 3 of Haibane Renmei! This is a pretty slow one all things considered but there’s still plenty for us to talk about. So without…

Aug 19, 2021 • Subscribe

Haibane Renmei – 9 [Water Well/Rebirth/Riddle] – Throwback Thursday

Welcome everyone to another week of Haibane Renmei! This is a rather uplifting episode compared to the last few, a sort of breathe of fresh air. Rakka has…

Sep 30, 2021 • Subscribe

Haibane Renmei – 13 [Reki’s World/Prayer/Epilogue] – Throwback Thursday

Welcome everyone to the finale of Haibane Renmei! We’ve made it through another season of Throwback Thursday and you know what that means: Time to vote for the…

Oct 28, 2021 • Subscribe

Haibane Renmei – 7 [Scar/Illness/Arrival of Winter] – Throwback Thursday

Welcome back everyone to another episode of Haibane Renmei! This post accidentally got deleted so I had to rewrite it, so apologies for being slightly late. Last week…

Sep 17, 2021 • Subscribe

Haibane Renmei – 6 [End of Summer/Rain/Loss] – Throwback Thursday

Welcome all to the halfway point of Haibane Renmei! Or close enough to it at least since it’s thirteen episodes. We have a lot to cover this week…

Sep 10, 2021 • Subscribe

Mobile Suit Gundam, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury, My Hero Academia, Encouragement of Climb

Fall 2022 – Catching Up…

Take a week off for the holiday, hit a writer’s block, and all the sudden I have four weeks to catch up on… Which I have finally managed…

Apprentice Mages Lounge.

Dec 16, 2022 • Subscribe

Haibane Renmei: Questions With No Answer [Part 1, (Mostly) Spoiler-Free]

“The story is a little unusual. It has very few elements that are intended to hype up the viewers’ emotions. Instead, by seeing the characters go through whatever…

SatchiiKoma

Oct 9, 2022 • Subscribe

Catching up: Usagi, Fruit Tart

They’re actually customers, but they can’t help it. Gochuumon wa Usagi Desu ka Bloom 4 brings us the school festival. Of course it’s all happy-happy, with Rize and…

Nov 20, 2020 • Subscribe

Dropout Idol Fruit Tart

Catching Up To Gear 5

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Totally Not Mark

Jul 21, 2023 • Subscribe

Catching up with Railgun T

Toaru Kagaku no Railgun T, after my long dive into the spring series, picks up right where it left off with Misaka and Shokuho infiltrating the building where…

Apr 14, 2020 • Subscribe

Catching up–Sigrdrifa and Tonikaku

Apart from herself. It’s been ages since I last looked at Senyoku no Sigrdrifa, but I remembered that episode 7 wasn’t going to go well for the good…

Warlords of Sigrdrifa, TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You

Nov 29, 2020 • Subscribe

Catching up: KimiSen, Kuma Bear

I wondered that about the entire episode. KimiSen 4 is a frustrating excuse of setting things up and not following through. First it’s a casino, where Iska and…

Everlasting Heart, Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear, Alice

Nov 14, 2020 • Subscribe

Catching Up With Anime? HA

So, a short post for today. Hopefully. You know, if everything goes to plan and I don’t ramble too much. Trying not to with this one because I…

Mechanical Anime Reviews

May 23, 2020 • Subscribe

Haibane Renmei – 11 [Parting/Darkness in the Heart/Irreplaceable Thing] – Throwback Thursday

Hello everyone and welcome to a very late post about Haibane Renmei! I don’t really have an excuse. To be frank I thought this episode was rather dull.…

Oct 15, 2021 • Subscribe

Haibane Renmei – 5 [Library/Abandoned Factory/Beginning of the World] – Throwback Thursday

Welcome back everyone to another episode of Haibane Renmei! This week we are once again following a new character in Nemu. Is it any good? Was it as…

Sep 2, 2021 • Subscribe

Catching up with Kageki Shoujo!! – [Thoughts on Episodes 7-13]

Blood doesn’t really taste like you imagine it would. It’s red, sure. But it doesn’t taste red. It’s not sweet like the syrup mom gives you two teaspoons…

Sep 28, 2021 • Subscribe

Kageki Shojo!!

Haibane Renmei – 12 [Bell Nuts/Passing of the Year Festival/Reconciliation] – Throwback Thursday

Welcome everyone to the penultimate episode of Haibane Renmei! Apologies for the wait on this one, I’ve been quite sick these past few days and didn’t get to…

Oct 22, 2021 • Subscribe

Still catching up: Kimisen, Kuma, Usagi

Iska in captivity. Let’s see, way way back when I last watched KimiSen, Alice and Rin had accidentally poisoned Iska’s drink and now have him in custody. Since…

Alice, Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear

Dec 5, 2020 • Subscribe

Winter 2021 Week 13 (Catching Up)

Welcome! This week I’m covering the very last of the anime from Winter 2021. The only two left are Attack on Titan and TenSura. Here goes! Attack On…

Anime Rants

Apr 10, 2021 • Subscribe

Attack on Titan

Haibane Renmei – 1 [Cocoon/Dream of Falling from the Sky/Old Home] – Throwback Thursday

Hello and welcome everyone to the next season of Throwback Thursday, Haibane Renmei! I know nothing of this show going into it and after 1 episode I can…

Aug 5, 2021 • Subscribe

Haibane Renmei – 4 [Trash Day/Clock Tower/Birds Flying Over the Walls] – Throwback Thursday

Welcome everyone to another week of Haibane Renmei! This is another slow one like the last, yet for some reason I can’t help but like it more. Is…

Aug 26, 2021 • Subscribe

Catching up: Assault Lily, Tabitabi, 100-man

Assault Lily Bouquet 7 is delayed because of COVID, but I haven’t watched episode 6 yet … Quite a good episode, too. It starts with comedy and infodumps…

Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina

Nov 24, 2020 • Subscribe

Arakawa x2 08 Almost Done Catching Up

I’m almost done with Arakawa x2 though I’m a bit disappointed from the very little plot advancement, the jokes are still funny but still I’d wish they’d wrap…

DarkAnimeOtaku's Blog!

Dec 22, 2010 • Subscribe

Catching up: Insomnia, Jijou no Shiranai, Lv999,

Back from a week in America, and no, I didn’t bring you back anything, I decided to cut what few shows I was still watching to the bare…

Insomniacs After School, Skip and Loafer

Jun 17, 2023 • Subscribe

Catching Up with Voice Actor Marisa Duran

One of our very favorite people in the whole world is Marisa Duran, a voice actor who burst onto the anime dub scene in 2021 as the voice…

Horimiya, I'm in Love with the Villainess, SHADOWS HOUSE

Dec 14, 2023 • Subscribe

Catching up with shows or dropping them.

Ho hum. I’ll zip through Shijou Saikyou etc since it’s possibly the least of the shows I’m watching. In episode 4 Ireena and Ginny, out of both friendship…

Fruits Basket, My Hero Academia

May 18, 2022 • Subscribe

Spring 2021 – Week 7/8, Catching up.

OK, back online. With an aged machine. With an aged Mac (and me a PC person). Still, better than nothing… Lets me get a post out and that’s…

Apprentice Mages Lounge.

May 27, 2021 • Subscribe

Catching up with Spring 2020: Gal to Kyouryu

“From the collective that brought us the eponymous Pop Team Epic anime comes another stoner comedy that transcends the realms of animation”

SpaceWhales Anime Blog

May 16, 2020 • Subscribe

Catching Up With PEAK One Piece - Post Wano

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Peak Fiction With Ams

Mar 21, 2024 • Subscribe

One Piece

Catching Up With Christina Kelly at Ecchi Expo

Attending anime conventions is for us our mission on steroids. They’re huge gatherings where we have the opportunity to develop relationships with voice actors, other industry professionals, …

Akiba Maid War, Golden Time, The Eminence in Shadow

Feb 1, 2023 • Subscribe

Catching Dreams, Catching Fish, and Catching Fire at Anime Matsuri

Attending an anime convention is like turning a speaker up to 11. The noise of it all—emotional, mental, relational, and physical—can be so loud that it’s overwhelming and…