Review of Haibane Renmei

This is my first of a list of really short reviews that i will make just to feel more important in this community and in order for my future me to be able to look back at the current me and realize what a giant idiot I was (or am) judging by what is written here. I feel like I watched this show at the wrong time and I wasn't able to get too much out of it. The idea is nice and not that pretentious but the show somehow makes me just fall half asleep. It is Ueda Yasuyuki and Yoshitoshi Abe's most chillshow but also the most boring. It doesn't put me into clinical depression like Technolyze and also isn't as intuitive as Serial Experiments Lain. Maybe it has more meaning if you look into it and rewatch the show once (thing that i will try like 2 years from now) but the subtleties aren't as engaging as they are in Lain. Overall it is a hit or miss show that you will have to be invested in from episode 2/3, if you didn't find anything interesting about it by then it doesn't get any better. I was really fascinated and kept watching because the amount of nothing important that was happening struck me. It's character building for most episodes but with them just living in this sort of rural town and having an apparently quiet life. Till the middle of the show it feels as if nothing is happening thou. Somehow the representation of a boring normal life comes off as realistic and that is what intrigued me at first besides finding out what the Haibane are. I can't dismiss that this show has great qualities but it also can put you to sleep at times. 7/10