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Haibane Renmei (TV)

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© Yoshitoshi ABe • Aureole Secret Factory.


Alternative title:
Ailes Grises (French)
Ali Grigie (Italian)
Charcoal Feathers Federation
La Federación de las Plumas de Carbón (Spanish)
La Federazione delle Piume Cineree (Italian)
Stowarzyszenie Szaropiórych (Polish)
Альянс Серокрылых (Russian)
灰羽連盟 (Japanese)
하이바네 연맹 (Korean)
Genres: drama, fantasy, mystery, psychological, supernatural
Age rating: Older Children (May contain mild bad language, bloodless violence)
Plot Summary:
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.
Rakka, a newly born Haibane (Angel) awakens into an unfamiliar world with only a strange dream of falling from the sky as her only memory. Alone and scared of who and what she is, she is cared for by fellow Haibane as they try and search for the meaning of their existence as well as what lies beyond their town's imprisoning walls.
User Ratings: 2949 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 1261 votes (sub:787, dub:265, Spa.sub:37, raw:35, Fre.sub:21, ?:18, Ita.sub:16, Por.sub:12, Rus.sub:11, Dut.sub:10, Ger.sub:9, Pol.sub:8, Ger.dub:6, Kor.sub:6, Spa.dub:5, edit.dub:3, Fre.dub:3, Ita.dub:2, Dan.sub:1, Tag.sub:1, Por.edit.dub:1, Swe.sub:1, Por.dub:1, Rus.dub:1, Ger.edit.dub:1, Swe.dub:0, Pol.dub:0, Fre.edit.dub:0, Kor.dub:0, Ita.edit.dub:0, Ara.sub:0)
 Excellent: 712 votes (sub:549, dub:125, ?:9, raw:8, Spa.sub:6, Ger.dub:3, Ger.sub:3, Fre.sub:2, Por.sub:2, Rus.sub:1, Ita.sub:1, Spa.dub:1, Rus.dub:1, edit.dub:1, Tag.sub:0, Por.dub:0)
 Very good: 455 votes (sub:358, dub:84, Fre.sub:3, ?:2, Rus.dub:2, Spa.sub:2, raw:1, Rus.sub:1, Dut.sub:1, Ita.sub:1)
 Good: 244 votes (sub:189, dub:41, Spa.sub:4, raw:2, Pol.sub:2, ?:1, Fre.sub:1, Ger.dub:1, edit.dub:1, Rus.sub:1, Pol.edit.dub:1)
 Decent: 106 votes (sub:81, dub:18, Spa.sub:2, raw:2, Por.sub:1, Pol.sub:1, ?:1)
 So-so: 82 votes (sub:68, dub:12, ?:1, Por.sub:1)
 Not really good: 22 votes (sub:15, dub:6, ?:1)
 Weak: 43 votes (sub:34, dub:8, Spa.sub:1)
 Bad: 9 votes (sub:5, dub:4)
 Awful: 9 votes (sub:4, dub:4, raw:1)
 Worst ever: 6 votes (sub:4, dub:2, raw:0, Ara.edit.dub:0, Ger.sub:0, Spa.dub:0, Fre.edit.dub:0, Swe.edit.dub:0, Rus.dub:0, Por.sub:0, Dut.edit.dub:0, Kor.dub:0, Ita.sub:0, edit.dub:0, Dan.sub:0, Ger.dub:0, Spa.edit.dub:0, Tag.edit.dub:0, Swe.dub:0, Rus.sub:0, Pol.edit.dub:0, Dut.dub:0, Kor.sub:0, Ara.sub:0, Dan.dub:0, Ger.edit.dub:0, Fre.sub:0, Tag.dub:0, Swe.sub:0, Por.edit.dub:0, Pol.dub:0, Dut.sub:0, Ita.edit.dub:0, Ara.dub:0, Dan.edit.dub:0, Spa.sub:0, Fre.dub:0, Tag.sub:0, Rus.edit.dub:0, Por.dub:0, Pol.sub:0, Kor.edit.dub:0, Ita.dub:0)
Seen in part or in whole by 4364 users, rank: #66
Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.6217 (Excellent-.37), std. dev.: 1.7104, rank: #113
Weighted mean: 8.5122 (Excellent-.48), rank: #110
Bayesian estimate: 8.50899 (Excellent-.49), rank: #48
Running time: half hour
Number of episodes: 13
Episode titles: We have 13
Vintage: 2002-10-09 to 2002-12-18
Releases: We have 15
Opening Theme:
"Free Bird" by Kou Otani
Ending Theme:
"Blue Flow" by Heart of Air
Links: We have 5
Trivia: We have 4
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    Haibane Renmei - New Feather (1 DVD 1) 2003-08-26 (from $6.00)
    Haibane Renmei - v1 + Empty art box (1 DVD 1) 2003-08-26 (from $29.56)
    Haibane Renmei - Wings of Sorrow (1 DVD 2) 2003-10-28 (from $6.00)
    Haibane Renmei - Bird of Freedom (1 DVD 3) 2003-12-16 (from $6.00)
    Haibane Renmei - Day of Flight (1 DVD 4) 2004-02-24 (from $6.00)
    Haibane Renmei - Box Set (DVD 1-4) 2005-10-04
    Haibane Renei: Hanenone (OST) 2003-08-19

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director:
Hiroshi Negishi (ED)
Tomokazu Tokoro

Series Composition: Yoshitoshi ABe

Script: Yoshitoshi ABe

Storyboard:
Akitoshi Shimazu (Ep. 3,6,11,13)
Go Sakamoto (Ep. 6)
Hiroshi Negishi (ED)
Itsuki Imazaki (Ep. 7)
Jun Takada (Ep. 4,9,12)
Koji Yoshikawa (Ep. 5,10)
Takahiro Omori (Ep. 2,8)
Tomokazu Tokoro
Yusuke Yamamoto (Ep. 12)

Episode Director:
Hiroshi Kimura (Ep. 3)
Itsuki Imazaki (Ep. 2,7)
Jun Takada (Ep. 4,9)
Kenichiro Watanabe (Ep. 6,13)
Koji Yoshikawa (Ep. 5,10)
Masatsugu Arakawa (Ep. 11)
Takahiro Omori (Ep. 8)
Tomokazu Tokoro (Ep. 1)
Wataru Sakaibashi (Ep. 12)

Music:
Donna Burke (Vocals - "Wondering")
Fumihiko Kazama (Accordian)
Hideki Wachi (Mandolin)
Ko Asahi (Quena)
Kô Ôtani
Masahiro Itami (Guitar)
Masatsugu Shinozaki (Strings)
Midori Takada (Percussion)
Tomoyuki Asakawa (Harp)
Yuzuru Sakimoto (Harmonica)

Original creator: Yoshitoshi ABe

Character Design: Akira Takata

Art director: Shinji Katahira

Animation director:
Akio Ujie (Ep. 4,9)
Akira Takata
Chuuichi Iguchi (Ep. 11)
Hideo Shimosaka (Ep. 6)
Masaki Kudo (Ep. 2,7)
Mayumi Hidaka (Ep. 3)
Shinichi Yoshino (Ep. 6,12)
Takako Shimizu (Ep. 5,10)
Takuji Mogi (Ep. 7)
Toshinari Yamashita (Ep. 12)
Toshiyuki Abe (Ep. 12)
Yoshiaki Saito (Ep. 12)
Yuichi Tanaka (Ep. 8)

Sound director: Satoshi Motoyama

Executive producer:
Akihiro Kawamura
Yosuke Kobayashi

Producer:
Go Haruna
Hideki 'Henry' Goto
Yasuyuki Ueda
Yoshinobu Iwaya

Assistant director: Takahiro Omori

Assistant Mixer: Yoku Shioya

Assistant producer: Mie Ide

Background:
Akemi Sawai
Ayari Wake
Azusa Honda
Chigusa Yokoyama
Eiji Wakamatsu
Eri Nakamura
Hiromi Kamiyama
Joung Sun Kim
Kentaro Takahashi
Kozue Morishima
Michie Watanabe
Miyoko Kobayashi
Nariyuki Ogi
Norifumi Nakamura
Rie Sugiyama
Taeko Emori
Takaaki Osanai
Takumi Honma
Tatsuya Sakai
Yoko Sassa
Yoshihide Takenobu
Yoshihiro Hiramure
Yuka Tsuzuku
Yukari Yasuda
Yumiko Tokutake
Yuri Satou
Yutaka Mukumoto

Color design: Naomi Endou

Color Key:
Hajime Satou
Hitomi Iioka
Maki Tanaka
Masato Sasaki
Shuichi Satou
Yukari Fujiki

Composite Director: Yutaka Nagaushi

Design Work: Hiromichi Kimu

Design Work Assistant: Takahiro Omori

Editing: Masahiro Goto

In-Between Animation:
Ai Saito
Ami Zenke
Ayaka Maruyama
Ayako Okamoto
Chika Kojima
Chiyoko Sakamoto
Emi Tsumiyama
Etsuko Chiba
Hirofumi Ohyama
Hirokazu Kojima
Hiroshi Kuri
Ikuo Yamakado
Kazuhiko Yano
Kazuma Ueno
Kazuyuki Minoda
Keisuke Goto
Kenjiro Maki
Kouhei Hatano
Kumie Senba
Kyoko Fujino
Maiko Matsumura
Mamoru Takahashi
Masaki Okano
Masako Adachi
Masashi Nishikawa
Midori Okumura
Midori Saito
Miyuki Nagaushi
Naoko Soeda
Naoko Soita
Naoko Suzumura
Naoko Tanaka
Naomi Okita
Rie Saitou
Ryo Takahashi
Satoshi Ohashi
Tadashi Matsuno
Tadashi Shimizu
Takashi Kawashima
Takashi Matsuzawa
Takashi Mutou
Takeshi Ohkoshi
Takuya Shimizu
Tomoyuki Kojima
Toshiaki Sato
Yoko Furuta
Yuka Hasegawa
Yumiko Hattori
Yumiko Taguchi

In-Between Check:
Daigo Maki
Emi Nakano
Itaru Yahata
Jun Shirai
Keiko Oyama
Kyoko Fujino
Maiko Matsumura
Tadashi Matsuno

Key Animation:
Akira Kikuchi
Akira Takata
Akito Dobashi
Azusa Oikawa
Chiaki Kokubo
Chiyoko Sakamoto
Chizuru Miyawaki
Chuuichi Iguchi
Daisuke Kusakari
Daisuke Niitsuma
Daisuke Yaoita
Eiji Fukuyama
Eiji Kamimura
Emi Nakano
Emiko Kataoka
Fujio Suzuki (OP)
Genichiro Kondo
Hajime Yabana
Hayato Tejima
Hideo Kawaguchi
Hideyasu Okamoto
Hikari Daigo
Hiromichi Mizukawa
Hiroshi Arisawa
Hiroshi Houri
Hiroshi Konno
Hiroshi Matsushita
Hiroyuki Terao
Hiroyuki Uchida
Hisao Muramatsu
Hisashi Ishii
Hitoshi Oda
Itaru Yahata
Itsuki Imazaki
Jun Nakai
Jun Shirai
Junichi Kigawa
Junnosuke Kawaguchi
Kazuaki Imoto
Kazuhiro Ota
Kazuo Matsui
Kazuo Takematsu
Kazuyuki Toshida
Ken Mochizuki
Kenji Hattori
Kenji Mizuhata
Kiichi Suzuno
Kohei Yanagida
Koji Maruoka
Koji Yamakawa
Mahiro Kase
Manabu Nakatake
Masakazu Ishikawa
Masakazu Yamazaki
Masaru Suda
Masashi Nishikawa
Masatsugu Arakawa
Mikio Tsuchiya
Minoru Morita
Minoru Okabe
Momoko Makiuchi
Naotaka Hayashi
Naruse Takahashi (ED)
Norihiro Watanabe
Norikatsu Nakano (OP)
Noriko Onoda
Onkou Watabe
Ryo Takahashi
Ryuta Nakahara
Sachiko Tamamura
Satomi Matsuo
Satori Daimonji
Satoru Fujimoto
Seiji Okada
Shigemi Aoyagi
Shigeyuki Miya (OP)
Shin Matsuo
Shinji Abe
Shou Sugai
Shu Watabe
Shuri Sawaki
Takaaki Sawada
Takahiro Kishida
Takahiro Omori
Takahiro Tomobayashi
Takako Shimizu
Takao Sano
Takayuki Gorai
Takeshi Sasahara
Takuji Mogi
Tatsunori Ozawa
Teruo Takahashi
Tetsuya Ishikawa
Tokuyuki Matsutake
Tomihiko Ohkubo
Tomokazu Tokoro
Tomoko Shimizu
Tomoko Tanaka
Tomomi Ikeda
Toshie Kawamura
Toshihiko Fukano (OP)
Toshinari Yamashita
Toshiyuki Abe
Tsutomu Nishiyama (OP)
Wakako Yoshida
Yamato Kojima
Yasuhiro Yamada
Yoko Iizuka
Yoko Sakurai
Yoshiaki Saito
Yoshie Yagasaki
Yoshikazu Sato
Yoshiko Sasaki
Yoshimi Imagawa
Yuka Hasegawa
Yukari Watanabe
Yuko Furuta
Yumiko Ishii
Yuzo Tobe

Mixing: Tohru Kumakura

Music producer:
Hijiri Yoshida
Kenichiro Tsutsumi
Yuuji Saitou

Paint:
Akemi Horie
Ayumi Nakahara
Chie Nakamura
Chieko Odaka
Daisuke Uchiumi
Fumiko Shibata
Hiroko Ootsuka
Hiroko Takizawa
Kiyoko Momose
Kozue Ryoke
Mariko Shibata
Masahiro Matsuura
Masami Hamada
Masato Sasaki
Michiko Nakamura
Mika Harada
Rieko Numata
Sakiko Kaiuchi
Satsuki Gunji
Sayuri Arakaki
Shihoko Maki
Shino Sato
Taiki Ura
Takehiro Sodeyama
Tomomi Kato
Yasuko Watanabe
Youichi Kono
Yuki Ogasawara

Paint Check:
Kozue Ryoke
Mikiko Tsuji

Photography:
Atsushi Nakayama (OP)
Ayumu Hatori
Hiroshi Toyama
Keiko Horio
Kenshiro Aizawa
Koutaro Yokoyama
Makoto Nakai
Masaru Hirose
Masashi Takekawa
Takayuki Ohira
Takenari Kubo
Yoshimi Saito
Yukari Fujiki

Production:
Akihiro Yuasa
Daisuke Nakano
Shinichiro Inoue
Shunji Inoue

Production Administration: Etsuyo Fukuta

Production Assistant:
Emi Takamura
Hiroki Yoshida
Masahiro Takata
Miyuki Yoshimura
Sakura Ikeda
Shinji Nagamura
Shunsuke Ikeda (ED)
Takahiro Uruma
Takashi Toda
Tsutomu Kondo

Production Desk: Takashi Toda

Production manager: Motoki Ueda

Publicity:
Takako Masaoka
Takashi Iida

Sound Effects: Masahiro Shoji

Subtitling: Saori Tauchi

Theme Song Arrangement:
Kô Ôtani (OP)
Masumi Itou (ED)

Theme Song Composition:
Kô Ôtani (OP)
Masumi Itou (ED)

Theme Song Lyrics: Aki Hata (ED)

Theme Song Performance: Masumi Itou (Heart of Air - ED)

VTR Work:
Koji Nakamura
Shotaro Anraku

 

Junko Noda as Reki

Ryou Hirohashi as Rakka

Akiko Yajima as Kuu

Eri Miyajima as Kana

Fumiko Orikasa as Hikari

Kazusa Murai as Nemu

Tamio Ohki as Washi

Ai Tokunaga as Hana 

Akiko Takeguchi as Housemother 

Aya Hisakawa as Kuramori 

Chihiro Suzuki as Hyoko 

Hajime Iijima as Gentleman 

Kazuya Kobayashi as Haibane of Abandoned Factory 

Ken Takeuchi as Visitor 

Kouichi Kuriyama as
Bakery Employee 
Old Clothes Dealer 

Kumiko Higa as Dai 

Manabi Mizuno as Midori 

Masumi Asano as Shuuta 

Miyu Matsuki as
Child 
Haibane of Abandoned Factory 

Satoshi Katougi as Cafe Master 

Tamio Ohki as Communicator 

Tomoe Hanba as Sumika 

Tsugumi Higasayama as
Child 
Haibane of Abandoned Factory 

Yasuhiro Fujiwara as Baker 

Yukimasa Obi as Haibane of Abandoned Factory 

Yutaka Aoyama as
Clockhouse owner 
Watchmaker 

Japanese companies 

Animation: Radix

Backgrounds:
Green
Studio Tulip

Broadcaster:
Animax-asia
Fuji TV

Distributor: PIONEER LDC

In-Between Animation:
ACTAS, Inc.
Ani Village
Animal-ya
Anime Roman
Anime World Osaka
Ashi Productions
Bee Train
Chaos Project
Dogakobo
Echo
F A I
Front Line
Hanil Animation
Hayashi KK
Hee Won Corp.
IMOVE
JCF
JEC E
Kino Production
M I
Magic Bus
MMTC
Pak Production
Phoenix Animation
Plum
Radix
Seigasha
Studio Ado
Studio Jungle Gym
Studio Wanpack
Tanto

Key Animation:
Ani Village
Hee Won Corp.
Pak Production
Studio Mark
Tanto

Music Production:
Imagine
Lantis

Paint:
Ani Village
Animal-ya
Chaos Project
F A I
Hanil Animation
Hayashi KK
Hee Won Corp.
JC Staff
Pak Production
Phoenix Animation
Production I.G
Radix
SHAFT
Studio Ado
Sunshine Digital
Tanto
Tatsunoko Color Center
Tatsunoko Production

Photography:
No Side
Radix
Sunshine Digital

Presented By: Rondo Robe

Production:
Aureole Secret Factory
Expression Tools, Inc.
Fuji TV
Kadokawa Shoten
Kino Production
Lantis
No Side
Radix
Sotsu Agency
Sunshine Corporation
Tatsunoko Production

Recording Studio: OP Requiem Studio

Sound Effects: Fizz Sound Creation

Sound Production: Omnibus Promotion

VTR Work: Qtec

English staff 
English cast 

Translation: Rika Kolka

Executive producer: Nobu Yamamoto

Producer:
Hiroe Tsukamoto
Reiko Matsuo

Adaptation:
Jonathan Klein
Taliesin Jaffe

Assistant director: Yohei Shikano

Audio Layback Engineer: Gregg Hall

DVD Subtitles:
Brett Jacobsen
Saori Tauchi

Online Editor:
Chris LadeGaard
Mike Berenson

Production Assistant: Sawako Furuya

Recording engineer: Marco Bustos

Sound Mixing: Sean Vahle

Voice Direction: Jonathan Klein

 

Carrie Savage as Rakka

Erika Weinstein as Reki

Hunter MacKenzie Austin as Hikari

J-Ray Hochfield as Kuu

Kirsty Pape as Nemu

Zarah Little as Kana

Emily Johnson as Child

Frederick Knight as Watchmaker

Howard Clarendon as Cafe Master

J.D. Stone as Dai

Jeffrey Simjohn as Bakkery Employee

Jennifer Sekiguchi as Midori

Josh Phillips as
Hyohko
Visitor

Karen McCarthy as Shota

Lauren Bendik as Child

Michael McConnohie as
Baker
Communicator
Gentleman

Noah Matisoff as Child

Noelle DePaula as Housemother

Rachel Hirschfeld as Hana

Samuel Matisoff as Child

Sean Vahle as Haibane of Abandoned Factory

Sharon McWilliams as Sumika

Sienna Canyon as
Haibane of Abandoned Factory
Visitor

T. Axlerod as Haibane of Abandoned Factory

Taliesin Jaffe as Old-Clothes Dealer

Tricia Dickson as Haibane of Abandoned Factory

Wendee Lee as Kuramori

William Frederick as Watchmaker

English companies 

Audio Layback: Soundscape, Inc.

Distributor:
Madman Entertainment Pty. Ltd. (Australia)
MVM (UK)

Dubbing: New Generation Pictures

DVD Authoring:
DIVITEK
SpeeDVD

DVD Menus:
DIVITEK
Nightjar, LLC

Licensed by:
Dark Horse Comics
Geneon Entertainment (USA) Inc.

Recording Facility: The Post Office, LLC

Soundtrack: Geneon Entertainment (USA) Inc.

Subtitles: New Generation Pictures

Translation: New Generation Pictures


French cast 
French staff 

ADR Director: Danièle Hazan

Executive producer: Carlo Levy

Patricia Legrand as Rakka

Susan Sindberg as Raki

Christelle Reboul as Kuu

Helene Bizot as Nemu

Nathalie Bienaime as Hikari

Susan Sindberg as Kanna

Frédéric Cerdal as commentateur

Nathalie Bleynie as
Kuramori
Sumika

French companies 

Dubbing: Studio Chinkel

DVD Distribution: Dybex


Italian staff 
(none)
Italian companies 

Distributor: Shin Vision

Italian cast 
(none)
German staff 
German cast 
(none)
 

Alexandra Mink as Reki

Shandra Schadt as Rakka

Alisa Palmer as Nemu

Andrea Imme as Kuu

Angela Wiederhut as Kana

Christoph Jablonka as Washi

Sonja Reichelt as Hikari

Dirk Meyer as Hyoko

Gerd Meyer as Verkäufer

Marion Hartmann as Heimmutter

Melanie Mannstein as Kuramori

Thomas Rauscher as Uhrmacher

Ute Bronder as Sumika

German companies 

Distributor: SP Vision

Dubbing: Synchron 80

Dutch staff 
Dutch cast 

Producteur Executif: Carlo Levy

 (none)
Dutch companies 

Distributor: Dybex

Russian staff 
(none)
Russian companies 

Distributor: Reanimedia

Russian cast 
(none)
Polish staff 
Polish companies 
(none)
 

Distributor: Vision Film Distribution Sp. z o.o.

Polish cast 
(none)
 
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