Haibane Renmei
TV Show • 2002 • Animation
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A dream of falling from the sky...and then birth. Rakka is born from a large cocoon into the Old Home, greeted by a group of females with small wings on their backs and shining halos above their heads. Soon Rakka’s own wings grow, a halo is placed on her head and she is told that she must work in the nearby town of Grie. She soon realizes that the town and the entire world they live in are confined behind the Wall, a tall, impenetrable wall that none except the mysterious Toga are allowed to exit.
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Needs More Answers
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Abandonment
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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A parent-like figure abandons a child.
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Does someone leave without saying goodbye?
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It happens multiple times and is a major plot point. It is shown to be distressing to the characters left behind as well.
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Abuse
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Is there domestic violence?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Gaslighting, as in a form of abuse where an abuser deliberately undermines a person's sense of reality, doesn't happen at all in the show. There are a few places where characters lie, but even that is usually well intentioned.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
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Nicotine Addiction
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Animal
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A dead crow is a major plot point.
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Is there a dead animal?
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The skeleton of a bird is shown.
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Assault
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Is someone restrained?
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S1
E13
A character is held by the wrist.
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S1
E10
A girl is slapped, then immediately comforted afterwards.
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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A character's mouth is covered briefly. It is not particularly forceful or distressing.
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Bodily Harm
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Is there excessive gore?
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Not quite excessive. In the first episode, we see wings coming out of a character's back. It's bloody, but it's the only instance in the series.
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Is there body horror?
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E1
Wings are shown emerging through the skin from a character's back.
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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No cutting, but a character hastily clips their wings in a way that easily reads as a metaphor for it.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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E4
A character tries to eat too fast and chokes slightly. It's very brief and played as a joke.
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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A character hurts their foot at one point but is seen later to be walking normally.
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Does someone break a bone?
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S1
E8
A character sprains her ankle.
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Are any hands damaged?
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A character involuntarily bites another's thumb in the first episode, leaving a temporary mark but no lingering damage.
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Are there dislocations?
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S1
E8
A character sprains her ankle.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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S1
E8
A character falls down a ladder.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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The death is not explicitly shown, but it's heavily implied. The fall without death is shown.
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Does someone become unconscious?
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S1
E10
A character is shown collapsed unconscious on the ground.
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Children
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Does a kid die?
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One character of indeterminate (but clearly young) age passes on in an act which is treated with a similar gravity as death. Certain interpretations of the setting (such as that it is the afterlife) would also imply that children present died at some point, but this is never stated, emphasized, or even particularly suggested by the plot.
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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Does someone die?
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It is heavily implied that all of the main characters are dead and the show takes place in the afterlife.
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Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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S1
E13
A character risks her life to save someone else, but both survive.
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
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Does a family member die?
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none of the haibane are related, though some have connections which can be read as familial and can approach this
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Fear
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Are there ghosts?
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E13
A ghost-like younger version of a character appears.
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Are there mannequins?
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A stone bust appears briefly in episodes seven and eight.
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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There are many scenes showing rivers, a lake, and a waterfall, appearing throughout the show. There is also underwater imagery in the opening and ending credits.
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Gross
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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Loss
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Medical
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Mental Health
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The entire anime features suicide as a theme.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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A character is shown to skip meals, but it is presented as self-neglect rather than an actual eating disorder.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Not directly, but it's heavily implied (e.g. "choosing to disappear", "abandoning oneself").
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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A character has recurring nightmares of a traumatic past event.
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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Episodes eight and thirteen feature characters' dreams partially bleeding into reality. In both cases things return to normal afterwards. Reality is completely stable and consistent outside of this.
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Multiple characters are distressed by a particular aspect of their bodies.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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E8
A character gets stuck at the bottom of a well. It's fairly spacious but the situation might still be claustrophobic to some viewers.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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E8
A character has a panic attack.
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Does someone have a mental illness?
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nothing is explicitly stated, though it's hardly a stretch to interpret a few characters as having mental illnesses. all handled carefully and respectfully, though
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Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
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Briefly, in the opening credits.
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Are there underwater scenes?
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S1
E1
In episode one, and in the opening and ending credits.
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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S1
E10
A character makes a rude hand gesture.
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
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Is there childbirth?
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It's implied to happen offscreen between episodes 11 and 12.
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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E12
There is a pregnant woman in episodes 5 and 11. She appears very briefly with her baby in episode 12.
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Prejudice
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Kuu is mistakenly referred to as a boy and with he/him pronouns by a shopkeep, but not maliciously.
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Race
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Relationships
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Religious
Is religion discussed?
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There is a temple and a few mentions of God. The actual religion, if any, appears to be fictional.
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Sex
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Are there nude scenes?
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A character is briefly shown nude in the opening credits. Nothing explicit is shown and it's entirely non-sexual.
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Is someone terminally ill?
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It depends on what you definition of terminally and ill are. While the answer is probably _technically_ no, the whole show centers around the type of grief that one might feel when they know someone is leaving the world and will never see them again. The "Day of Flight" is painted as not an illness but a salvation, but it hurts all the same.
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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Multiple characters have a condition described as an illness, but it's more like a spiritual status or curse rather than an actual physical sickness.
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Social
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Is existentialism debated?
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There are a few fairly existential discussions, especially in the latter half of the show.
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
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More Bittersweet, but sad all the less
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Vehicular
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
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A character jumps off of a motor-scooter and it slides away from her, but stops not long after, and the tires make no noise.
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
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There is blood and body horror.
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Does someone drown?
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Not explicitly shown, but a character is implied to have died by drowning.
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