Haibane Renmei Episodes 8 & 9 Reactions | 'Well'
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- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2024
- Aussie Ravenclaw plunges the depths and meets a dead bird in Episodes 8 and 9 of Haibane Renmei.
0:00 - answers!, coasting in life; 5:07 - therapy, support, the cup; 10:46 - left behind, bells, ready to go; 16:02 - preserving normality, Rakka's worry; 20:01 - light ascension, crows death, Socrates; 25:02 - interpreting walls, impermanence, guides, ancient ruins; 33:52 - grief and loss, vote for the saddest moment, Rakka's loneliness; 45:25 - black spots, wings and mental health; 50:35 - medicine, paradox, Garden of Eden; 58:58 - Sin-Bound, Reki's painting, Kuramori, old wounds.
Comment shoutouts: @ronsturtevant9335 (0:43), @Dirdle (5:07), @Tommidaux (6:52), @osakaki (36:24), @DavidGarcia-kw4sf (42:36), @IsenoAlpha (59:25),
1:10:22 - Episode 8 Reaction
└ 1:33:17 - mini thoughts, ie. well theory, uhh... lady
1:38:15 - Episode 9 Reaction
2:01:03 - final thoughts, ie.
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This is a time-synched reaction, so watch along with your own copy of the show! English captions (for the stuff I say) coming soon.
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I'm double-cursed with an excessively laid back accent and tendency for brain overload. Oh, and I recently discovered a little thing called 'anime'. Cue amazement, and a bad case of playing catch up.
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14
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Aria the Animation
Hibike! Euphonium
Fate/Zero
Haibane Renmei
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Episode 8 is my favorite episode of the series. The well parts especially are probably my favorite parts of the series. I'm glad it still holds up on a rewatch. You're likely right that the haibane dreams are how they died, whether through suicide or not. And the crow that tried saving her in her dream is someone who tried to stop her from dying in her previous life but wasn't able to, and seems to be the same crow that's dead at the bottom of the well.
I find in really cool how Rakka noticed crows in every epiosde, intensely, she felt that there was something important with them, but was ignoring them or straight up running away. Which reminds me of how oftentimes people know or at least feel what might be the problem or issue that causes them psychological distress but they choose to ignore it. And I am not even judging, often it is a self-preservation coping mechanism , i just state that to me these crows can serve as stand-in metaphors for these ever looming issues we all know exist but are not ready to face yet. And only after Rakka finally descended to the bottom of her well and confronted what she was ignoring did she find some closure.
Overall I appreciate how realistic is the portrayal of depression and mental problems in this show, because it IS messy and our feelings can often times be contradictory (the whole wanting to help, but then getting sad and jealous when the other person does recover from their ordeal ), deflecting, repressing, hiding, going in cycles of destructive thought patters ("searching where the sin lies only to eventually lose your way out").
1:51:24 - When Rakka was telling the communicator how she wants to come back and apologize it reminded me of a quote from Beyond Ghibli's video essay about Haibane Renmei : "As much as it would like to be, Haibane Renmei isnt about an angel coming to terms with her new life, its about the pain of letting her old one go".
1:58:24 - Rakka went from wanting to disappear & feeling that she doesnt belong in episode 8 (as well as in her preious life i assume) to now actively cherishing the life she has and not wanting to leave.
also i was so mad at that Toga from the well because he didnt bring Rakka's shoes back up, like wth man :)
Def one of my fav episodes
Sorry for commenting so many times.
In addition, the third season of Hibike Euphonium will start airing in Japan from April. This is a story about KUMIKO, who is now a third year high school student. I’m looking forward to it!
I'm looking forward to the continuation of the videos you post. I'm a big fan of this anime, so I like watching videos like this that are well thought out. Please do your best! from japan
Aye thank you!
We have 4 more episodes, 10 - 13.
Just a few comments.
It's a real delight watching with you lose the very conspiratorial mindset as more of the story and setting unfold!
If in fact the dreams are related to each haibane's "transition" to Guri, that leads to some rather macabre speculation:
Kana - drowned in a river
Nemu - passed in her sleep
Hikari - bright light (oncoming headlights?)
Kuu - falling, akin to Rakka
The little ones...
With Reki and Rakka, I think they intentionally blocked out parts of the dream because what happened was so very traumatic. Reki states that she knows something horrible happened, but refuses to face the event. Rakka does eventually remember her cocoon dream in the well, and recognizes the dead bird as a protector whom she hurt. Perhaps this person tried to save her and ended up also falling? The bird grabbing her clothing in the dream could imply that (and then is again given a chance to help, as a crow!). Rakka realizing too late she was not alone but now she's caused harm to her loved one by her actions; I'd want to block that out.
I think Rakka's experience in the well and afterwards fit quite well with the ending song.
In your final thoughts on Reki: her spiralling is a perfect example of "going in circles, losing sight of the way out", isn't she? What's a spiral but a circle with a downward motion?
Oh yep as we get closer to the end, I'm kinda laughing at myself for my conspiratorial mindset, especially over the Communicator 😆
Ahh I hadn't thought of extending the implication of their dreams = how they died to the other Haibane :/ It did make me think given how young the other kids are that it's not necessarily that they took their own lives, but that they all end up there in all different ways.
Also agree that a huge part of why their dreams are fuzzy is because remembering how they died in vivid detail would be too traumatic. I think they handled Rakka's recovery of her memories really well, by showing her falling in the sky (but then down into the well). Enough imagery is there to draw implications, but it's also not explicit enough to be too grim.
1:35:50 - Magical Realism might be the genre you're thinking of, where things happen largely as metaphors for personal or social narratives. Haibane borrows fairly directly from an author in the genre, Haruki Murakami - he was a top-selling Japanese writer at the time so that's hardly surprising. However, the events we see internally to the story all *also* make sense as more traditional rules-based fantasy. To me that's a big part of the magic of the show.
And, ha, yes, the Communicator's a bit like a therapist, maybe gave that away too clearly - but at the same time, he speaks in these frustrating riddles and tells people to go figure it out themselves. Not very Communicative! It's zen, maybe.
Magical Realism, yes thank you!
Haha I'm like a huge fan of the Communicator now. Yeah he doesn't make it easy to figure things out, though that seems to be by design - revealing too much might rob Rakka of the opportunity to lean into her journey of self-discovery and really absorb whatever she learns (?)