05-21-2005, 11:38 PM
It's interesting that wikipedia mentions: "In an interview in the magazine Animerica, ABe stated that the series was inspired by Haruki Murakami's novel Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, which takes place half in a walled city with no apparent outside." Hard-Boiled Wonderland is like two stories combined into one.. the same main character guy has a "life/story" in a fantasy world and a story in the "real world." If Haibane is based on that concept and how the novel went, the characters from Haibane Renmei probably end up getting reincarnated back into the real world. I think that conclusion is clearer in the novel than in the anime. In Haibane Renmei, it really leaves a lot to the viewer to decide.