My Grades: Animation: 10/10 Story: 8/10 Characters: 7/10
Summary:
The Story takes place in a small town surrounded by walls that no one can leave. In this world there are humans, but there are also winged beings called the Haibane. What they are or where they came from are never specified, because they themselves don't know, but they are born out of cacoons that randomly appear.
When they emerge from these cacoons, they have no memories of their past or names, but know they came from somewhere different from where they are. But when they came they all have a dream of some sort in the Cacoon and this is what they're named after. In the main characters case she was named Rakka (falling) because in her dream she was falling through the sky. Shortly after their "birth" they grow wings (which is extremely painfull and bloody O.o), and they receive Halos from the leaders of the Haibane.
The town allows the Haibane to live with them and give them what they need to survive as long as they work.
Throughout the story the main character has to deal with having no memories and what lies beyond the wall. She is also cursed for much of the series with bad feelings for not remembering everything that happened in her dream.
I'm not really going to go into any more because it would spoil show=(
Although the beggining of this series is kind of slow (Ok.. REALLY SLOW) but about 1/2 way it starts to get better once the actual plot begins to unfold=) The ending was satisfactory... But it had so much more potentialT_T There was so much more they could have done in the story, so many questions unanswered. It just starts to get deep and then it seems they dumb it down and end it=(
