Cute angel girls doing cute angel girl things.
>>139131270
If i felt mixed feelings about lain, would i still probably enjoy this?
>>139131826
The anime is pretty good and def worth a watch. This is coming from someone with a very select taste.
>>139131826
Kind of hard to tell. Haibane Renmei is a lot different from Lain. I think Haibane is exceptional though and would recommend it to almost everyone.
>>139131270
I watched like 4 episodes
Does it get better? Whole show feels pointless
>>139131954
>Whole show feels pointless
that's the point newfag
>>139131954
These shows are about observation, you see the situation that is presented and you wonder how it will all end. The ride from this show will give you good and bad vibes.
>>139131989
But this isn't NieA_7.
Reki is my waifu.
>>139132068
>NieA_7
Earth is such a wonderful place, just when you think you've seen it all some contrarian edgelord shows you something new.
>>139132217
Bitch got what she deserved ;)
>>139132323
Why does this look lewd to me?
>>139132253
>Bitch got what she deserved ;)
>Moved on and is now in a good place
Yep, seems about right.
>>139132360
Because you're sick.
>>139132384
JESUS DUDE SPOILERS
>>139132360
Because you're thinking about how cute it would be for her to fluff her wings around whiles she rides on top of you.
HQ Version: https://d.maxfile.ro/jltichpozp.webm
it's a must watch
>>139131270
>tfw Haibane
>tfw my name is John because I dreamed sucking a dick
I WANT TO BELIEVE
>>139132253
>Earth is such a wonderful place, just when you think you've seen it all some contrarian edgelord shows you something new.
Niea isn't really a contrarian edgelord show though, it's pretty much your average slice of life just with aliens and ABe designs
>>139135097
THAT ONE DAY, DESPERA WILL BE RELEASED FOR ALL TO SEE
>>139132253
>;)
Any good torrent batches around? The ones I tried didn't have openings and endings, only a spanish one had but the quality wasn't so good.
>>139135384
You sound pretty desperate, anon
>>139135539
ARE YOU HAVING A GIGGLE MATE?
DOES THIS SEEM LIKE A GAME TO YOU?
>>139132068
What's Ryuushika doing here?
Just watched this last week. Went into it with a very interpretive, 2deep4u mindset.
The city was Purgatory, right?
>>139135715
Disregard, am retarded.
So it's by ABe too, you learn something new everyday.
>>139135715
>>139135854
>He didn't know
>>139131270
more likecute angel girls being depressed af
Is Lain cyberpunk?
>>139135490
If you can find Cestfait, that's the best version available. Note that it's 480p which is actually the best resolution - the upscales were completely awful and actually worse than DVD resolution.
Does somebody have a picture of Lain as a haibane? I need this.
>inb4 they arr rook same
>>139136345
Thanks.
>>139136799
>>139137033
Meh, it's not the same without that "x" thingie on her hair, still pretty good.
Smoke!
Is Ran cute?
>>139137365
>Rakka takes up smoking
>Lain being Lain
This is adorable.
>>139137368
Yes. Best eyes.
>>139137368
How do Doc-fags even compete?
>>139137365
Too damn cute
>>139137365
>not to be continued...
Heavy shit mate.
>>139137534
From what I've watched so far going through Texhnolyze is Doc is more hands on with Ichise and Ran is more an aloof guardian
![texhnolyze01(how do i unfail my ivtc holy shit).mkv_snapshot_14.51_[2015.09.14_02.30.07].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/sKQZYaS.jpg "texhnolyze01(how do i unfail my ivtc holy shit).mkv_snapshot_14.51_[2015.09.14_02.30.07].jpg")
>>139137531
Damn straight.
>>139135097
>>139135384
What is dis?
>>139137966
The story centers around a 12-year-old girl named Ain, who often builds devices despite the lack of scientific background for them.
>>139137368
Fuck Lain
Marry Rakka
Kill Ran
>>139138099
Alright I kek'd but let's keep the shitposting at a minimum here.
>>139138485
Love Lain
Love Rakka
Love Ran
>>139138578
You cutie.
>Love Lain
>Marry Rakka
>befriend Ran
![623.52].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ndVv8iG.jpg "623.52].jpg")
>>139138485
Tenderly love Rakka and Ran
Marry Lain
Kill you
Ain (あいん Ain?) - A 12-year-old girl who resides in her workshop inside the basement of the Ryōunkaku in Asakusa, Tokyo. A technical genius with no prior scientific knowledge, she is able to create electronic devices far beyond the capabilities of the current era. Some of the devices created include early versions of a modern computer, complete with typewriter keyboards and cathode ray tube display monitors. In the novel version, one of her ongoing works is a mysterious robot which she refers to as Father (お父さん Otō-san?). Despite being 12 years old, she often displays a mature expression of an adult. She also displays an uncanny ability to generate electricity from her hands when she takes on a tank squadron later in the story.
The story is set in the early 1920's.
I want to see Ain chilling with Tesla!
![[DeadFish]_Haibane_Renmei_10_[BD][720p][MP4][AAC].mp4_snapshot_19.39_[2016.03.26_13.13.07].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/vMLyzyx.jpg "[DeadFish]_Haibane_Renmei_10_[BD][720p][MP4][AAC].mp4_snapshot_19.39_[2016.03.26_13.13.07].jpg")
Let's talk about this poetic philosophical piece of art.
what were your thoughts and interpretations about it ?
>>139138916
Are the novels available anywhere? Raw or translated?
>>139138952
It was cute.
>>139139101
I have no idea.
I want to nap with Nemu after we're too tired from reading books together.
>>139139240
Nap between her thighs?
>>139139306
This was Rakka in the before life
>>139138516
>kek
>>139139741
I thought it might be her mother.
I want tohugReki and Rakka at the same time
>>139139741
Was it? Did it not represent the person trying to save her in her life? Like the other anon said, her mother or something.
>>139139741
>>139139888
>implying lol is allowed
Fuck off, newcancer.
bigger and better version of pic related please , i couldn't find it anywhere
>>139140208
Just download the artbook you moron.
>>139138952
I think maybe Rakka commited suicide before getting reborn again in the city
>>139140287
Thank You
>>139140249
Thanks will do
>>139139306
This was honestly the scariest scene in the entire anime
Shit is going crazy, everyone's running around, suddenly boom a spooky bird skele in your face
I won't deny I shat myself a little
>>139140449
It's dead. I do love how Rakka at least buries it and talks to it.
>>139140528
Shti's hella symbolic, yo. Burying a bird, when you're trapped in a town that you can't leave? Damn.
>>139132617
I just spat out my drink 10/10
>>139139314
Obviously.
Stupid, sexy Nemu.
>>139132617
Still waiting on a Texhnolyze one
https://d.maxfile.ro/zdpuwxbyfc.webm
>>139141273
That scene was so fiunny to watch.
>The giant carrot monster will eat you!
>>139141254
>There are people out there who would sexualize a Haibane or a Lain or a Ran
There is no god.
>>139141372
Those people were a mistake, but it is just as well.
>>139141372
>>139141405
Sexuality is not bad
DUDE WEED
>>139141457
Tell that to Yosubato
>>139141457
It's possible for something to be morally permissible but aesthetically terrible, the canonical example being putting pineapple on pizza.
>>139141340
I want to kiss that midrif
There's something missing from this thread.
Ah - there it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSh7DFUnx-0
Lain or Haibane?
>saying Texhnolyze instead, I'm gonna kill your family
>>139140449
The scariest is when Reki gets her name stone then the train appears
>>139142182
The entire OST is amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN02kv2xPTU
>>139142251
Haibane for healing. Lain if you like cyber.
>>139141296
>The day you want anything at all... come to me, your guardian angel.
What did he meant by this ?
>>139142251Texhnolyze
question anonswhat's a haibane ?
>>139135854
It's odd to me that someone has found Ryushika without knowing that it's written by ABe. Was it recommended in a Yotsuba thread or something?
>>139141850
I think I'd love that too, Anon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0bzV7uQ2Pg
>When Onishi comes home to find his wife, puts her to bed, and wipes the blood from her face.
>>139142723
Haibanes are just haibanes.
>>139142723
A haibane is like a cup of hot cocoa on a cold winter night.
>>139133225
>Pigeon from Lain OP.webm
>>139139101
Someone did the first chapter, they have it available in PDF and ePub format
http://ain-and-lain.tumblr.com/post/51129123285/despera-first-translation
>>139142833
Would you pet rakka's wings?
>>139142940
So something warm, sweet, and with fluffy marshmallows?
>>139142251
Ryuushika Ryuushika
>>139131954
It picked up after the 4th episode you mong.
>>139143090
>>139142830
So Ryushika is just like Yotsuba, except with AbE designs?
>>139143220
It's similar but different.
>>139143318
>A skele inside me
Holy shit, I'm scared now!
>>139143220
Pretty much but there's more of a focus on how Ryushika interpenetrates the world around her.
>>139142964
It's a crow actually, not a filthy pigeon.
>>139142251
Texhnolyze is excellent though.
Lain is one of my all time favoritesbut Haibane is better.
What do you think of Range Murata designs?
I find them to be kinda similar to AbE.
>>139143548
I love them. Murata is one of my favorite artists. Glad I'm not the only one to think that they're similar.
>>139143602
Yep. I love them both!
>>139143548
I really like Murata's art, he knows how to do sexy designs with taste and class.
>>139143863
He sure does.
>>139135853
Maybe not literally, but something similar. It doesn't need too much interpretation, the city is a sort of purgatory like place, and everything else is straightforward.
>>139144880
I wondered why not even humans were allowed outside the walls.
You'd think that some would try to get out.
>>139145142
I wonder if the walls punish humans too
>>139146345
Cute!
it's from that early 00s era, unpleasant to look at it
>>139146485
>unpleasant to look at it
Is it? I think it looks lovely and comfy.
>>139146754
Sometimes the designs can be wonky, and there are noticeable quality changes in some episodes. But it's still a lovely series.
>>139146485
>>139146485
I rewatched it recently expecting to find the animation a bit jarring but was pleasantly surprised at how well it holds up. They really did a decent job considering when it was made and the fact that it can't have had that great of a budget.
>>139146814
The animation quality sure hasn't aged very well, I blame it on a tight budget (I'm assuming), but the color palette and overall direction remains top notch in my book.
>>139146975
I think it's held up very well imho. But that's just a matter of taste.
>>139131270
Wow, a Kino and a Haibane thread both up at the same time?
Pinch me I'm dreaming
>>139148245
Should I watch Kino after Texhnolyze?
>>139148310
I don't see why not.
>>139148399
It's either that or Aria.
>>139148447
Why not both?
>>139148310
They're not alike in the slightest but Kino is still a great show.
>>139139741
The bird was someone who tried to help her before. I'm pretty sure that was stated in the anime, or at the least heavily implied.
>>139142182
The piano version of the song was beautiful as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCgQZFMG3Mg
Imagine if Artland does a remake of Haibane...the atmosphere will be more powerful
>>139150094
But anon, we still need Despera to come out before we can focus on remakes.
>>139150217
Despera, it sounds so good yet I have only heard people speculating about it.
Will we ever get anything?
>>139150465
Let's just hope we get any new information in the next year or two.
I mean, that's all we can do. Hope
>>139148310
>>139150892
There was something in January 2015 about Despera still being alive.
I know that was fourteen months ago, but we have to hold on to the will to believe.
>>139142940
That's quite the astute analogy, anon
>>139151728
It would be wonderful to snuggle your haibane friend on a cold winter night and make her hot chocolate with big marshmallows and a comfy movie.
man I really wanna FUCK an angel
>>139151243
Oh boy, Boogiepop Phantom looked so great but I just couldn't get into it, I remember the stories were pretty fucked up but the plot was so messy (even more so than lain), nothing made sense to me and it felt terrible paced and structured, as if they were aiming for a Pulp Fiction or Memento type of narrative but done wrong, it was so slow and not even relaxing, but rather oppressing and frustrating, if that was the intended reaction of the public, then I must say they did a great job, but it was hard to watch, I just had to drop it after 5 or so episodes.
I might give it another chance in the future.
>>139151973
The only angels you can fuck are fallen angels.
>>139152027
>they were aiming for a Pulp Fiction or Memento type of narrative but done wrong
wow that sounds shit remind me never to watch that
>>139152121
I won't tell you what to do, you should definitely watch it for yourself and form your own opinion, that was just mine...although a lot of people have agreed with it in the past.
Do what you must.
>>139152027
The thing is Boogiepop Phantom is the last thing cronologicaly in the Boogiepop franchise, no wonder the it felt messy, the anime is more enjoyable if your just take it as a collection of weird/spooky/Twilight Zone-like episodes. All the recurring characters had their stories told in the LNs, so is no surprise to you get lost just watching the anime.
>>139152121
Watch alone and after midnight
Did that one anon ever upload his Haibane scans?
>>139153890
Anyone?
>>139155898
Bumping for interest too.
>>139145142
The way I see it:
To the Haibane, the walled city is Purgatory, in the traditional sense of Heaven's "waiting chamber", a place that's only their home for a limited time.
For the humans however, the city represents their final resting place. To them this is already heaven - or hell, if you want.
That's why they don't have wings -not only because they'll never go on their "Day of Flight", but also because the wings are symbols of the Haibane's purity, or (in case they're tainted) the lack thereof. The humans don't need wings because their purity doesn't have to be tested.
There's another explanation that the humans are in fact fallen Haibane, who missed their day of flight and are doomed to stay forever in Purgatory, but I think that causes some inconsistancies with the show's narrative.
>>139157712
>For the humans however, the city represents their final resting place. To them this is already heaven - or hell, if you want.
Still doesn't really explain why they can't leave (or, if it's a punishment, why their town is so. Well, not cozy exactly, but. Blessed?). That said, Glie is small. There probably are at least that many people for whom not having a vast world out there would be a comfort rather than a constraint.
>>139155898
Looks like the answer is no.
I'll just upload the rest for whoever didn't see it.
>>139159346
Great show, loved every second of it.
Is there a gif or webm of that wing clap that cute loli angel does in the first episode?
>>139159394I'd tenderly violate her.
>look up the kanji that was used for Reki's real name
>"rock/gravel"
>the kanji is almost exactly identical to another word
>"to be run over"
Everything was going well but suddenly Kuu disappears and Rakka starts to hate herself episode, the scene where she keeps saying she wants to disappear
I'm getting too depressed for this.
>>139143548
>>139143602
They're actually close friends
ABe made Murata buy a chameleon
>ABe made Murata buy a chameleon
Kawaii as fuck.
>>139131270
One of the best first episodes of all time. They really could have made a compelling story out of it but I don't hate the direction that it went. Gives the 2deep4u fags something to sperg about.
>>139162768All the Haibanes died as humans. Fell from a great height, hit by a train, drowned, coma possibly, fire.
>>139163110
Specifically they all committed suicide.
Reki: Walked in front of a train
Kana: Drowned herself in a river
Nemu: Overdosed on Sleeping Pills
Hikari: Jumped in front of a car
Kuu: Asphyxiated on Carbon Monoxide
>>139162835
It died soon after.
A newbie with reptilians like Murata is no match for ABe the Lizard Master.
>>139163250
Only the sin bound committed suicide
>>139163420
A lot of people think this, it's wrong though. The sin bound are the ones who remember why they committed suicide.
>>139163468
Reki had her spots right out of the cocoon. What metaphysical point would there be to punishing those who remember their suicides while letting those who don't pass on without struggle?
>>139150094
No.
>>139163468
>>139163534
Also, Reki and Rakka did not remember their suicides until later in their trials, yet they had already been marked and identified as sin bound. The series makes it painfully clear that the sin bound are of remarkable difference from the other Haibane.
>>139163534
The point of the village is to give people who gave up on life a second chance. The village is populated with the best of humanity and the Haibane are placed there with no memories for the best chance of actually finding meaning in their own existence. They get surrounded by good people, are encouraged to work and have the memories of the previous world erased so they can start with a blank slate.
The Haibane who start giving into despair get the spots and become 'sin bound' because they're falling back into the same mindset that ruined their previous life, they lose hope, fall prey to depression and lose sight of the people who support them. Just like what happened to Rakka, she started isolating herself and running away from the people who cared about her, probably the same reasons why she committed suicide in her previous life, and so she became 'sin bound'.
Reki had her wings from the start because she was born into an empty room with no-one in it. Remember that she had been there for over a day before she was found. She started off on the wrong foot and wasn't able to escape the despair she dragged along with her because of it.
If all the Haibane are not suicide victims then it makes no sense. Why do some people get reincarnated as Haibane? The idea that they all committed suicide makes thematic sense, and explains a lot about why they need to be there in the first place.
>>139163997
>If all the Haibane are not suicide victims then it makes no sense. Why do some people get reincarnated as Haibane?
Because they, in general, had grievances prior to death - unrealized ideas about themselves and their perceptions of their destinies.
You make an interesting point, but I don't see much in series evidence in favor of the idea that everyone else committed suicide. The above idea that I present is supported by Kuu's departure, which to me did not hint at suicide.
>>139131270
I still can not believe they have a little boy literally named Shota.
