History WMG / HaibaneRenmei

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Supported in that Chisa died by falling from a building and the train girl [[CaptainObvious died by jumping in front of a train]]. Then the crow may be Wired!Lain or simply Chisa's doubts about dying (supported in that she tells the crow not to stop her falling).

Instead, the city of Glie is a place that gives those who died tragically due to their own mistakes and flaws a chance at redemption. By being put into a friendly and caring environment, something they often lacked when they were alive, the Haibane are given the chance to grow as a person and overcome the flaw that ultimately led to their downfall. If they succeed, then on the day of their flight they are returned to the outside world a few days before their demise with their development still intact. If they fail, then they remain dead in the outside world and spend the remainder of their natural life as members of the Haibane Renmei.

[[WMG: Glie is the same place as [[HardBoiledWonderlandAndTheEndOfTheWorld The End of The World]]]]

[[WMG:Reki is [[FobbiesAreBorange Paula]].]]

[[WMG:Alternatively, Rakka was Sheeta from Miyazaki's CastleInTheSky.]]
As well as Sheeta's apparent affinity for falling, the two are similar physically (especially at the end of CastleInTheSky, when Sheeta's hair is randomly shortened) and in personality. The crow in Rakka's dream and at the bottom of the well is actually Pazu. Furthermore, the glowing flecks that Rakka is harvesting inside the wall of Glie look like they could contain or be made of Volucite, a further implication that the stories' universes are connected.

* Reki's problems are created by her being from the lineage of the [[Literature/{{Dune}} Atreides]] family. The railroad she sees is the Golden Path of the [[Literature/GodEmperorOfDune God-Emperor]]. Rakka is also an Atreides.

[[WMG: The show is in continuity with the {{Dune}} series.]]The city of Glie is all that remains of a once civilized world. The series takes place centuries after the eradication of all life on Arrakis, and possibly on Arrakis itself.

* Reki's problems are created by her being from the lineage of the [[Literature/{{Dune}} Atreides]] family. The railroad she sees is the Golden Path of the God-Emperor. Rakka is also an Atreides.

[[WMG:The Haibane never died in the first place.]] They're people who, for one reason or another, retreated from society in the world and disappeared as a result. Main/{{Hikikomori}}, like the eventual fate of ''Main/SerialExperimentsLain'' and ''Anime/WelcomeToTheNHK'', which Yoshitoshi [=ABe=] provided the scenario and design for in the former case and the original cover artwork int he latter. Their cocoon dreams are metaphors for the behavior the Haibane was in before disappearing -- Rakka rejected the help of someone trying to bring her back into society hurting the person in the process, Reki had many people who would have helped her get back into society that she never paid attention to and was unwilling to ask for help, Nemu slept her life away. Their time in Old Home is designed to force them into society: they must work with people, don't remember the part of the past that caused them to leave society in the first place. Sin-bound Renmei are just those who don't go into society fully with the other Renmei or townsfolk.

[[WMG:Rakka was [[SerialExperimentsLain Lain]]]]

[[WMG:Or, Rakka was [[SerialExperimentsLain Chisa]] and Reki was [[SerialExperimentsLain that train girl (HOLES!)]]]]

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[[WMG:The Haibane never died in the first place.]] They're people who, for one reason or another, retreated from society in the world and disappeared as a result. Main/{{Hikikomori}}, like the eventual fate of ''Main/SerialExperimentsLain'' and ''Main/WelcomeToTheNHK'', which Yoshitoshi [=ABe=] provided the scenario and design for in the former case and the original cover artwork int he latter. Their cocoon dreams are metaphors for the behavior the Haibane was in before disappearing -- Rakka rejected the help of someone trying to bring her back into society hurting the person in the process, Reki had many people who would have helped her get back into society that she never paid attention to and was unwilling to ask for help, Nemu slept her life away. Their time in Old Home is designed to force them into society: they must work with people, don't remember the part of the past that caused them to leave society in the first place. Sin-bound Renmei are just those who don't go into society fully with the other Renmei or townsfolk.

* {{Jossed}}. ABe has stated that only the sin-bound Haibane have committed suicide.
** No. ABe has [[ShrugOfGod refused to answer many questions about the series]] because he wants viewers to come to their own conclusions. This is exactly the kind of thing he wouldn't say about it.