Reviews
Haibane renmei (2002) IMDb
Categorization |
Mutilated romanticism. Bleakly philosophical fantasy. |
Subject |
A girl is born from a dream into a world where she is told she is a creature much like an angel, but without any supernatural power. Useless wings grow painfully from her back, her halo is artificial and the new world around her is a single pleasant city, inescapably and inexplicably walled in. |
Commentary |
More lyrical and subtly dramatic than epic. Excellent character development and low-key philosophy, much more meditative than Cogswell’s escapist The Wall Around the World (1953). Manga-based. |
References here: Hitsuji no uta (2003). |
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