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Originally Posted by Joojoobees
The characters always made sense. I could really believe they would act the way they did, given the world they lived in
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Yes, all the characters act in a very believable way. I don't know if this is thanks to Abe or to the people who helped make it an anime series, but believable characters who act in accordance with their own nature -- and who can be seen to
have some individual self-consistent nature - are always important, even in a fantastic setting -- in fact especially in a fantastic setting, or we would have no firm basis which allowed us to suspend disbelief in the fantastic elements. In that department, the only risk Haibane Renmei ran was that it would make the Haibane's life
too normal: although Abe's original conception (at least in his artbook) was to depict the everyday life of angels, if it becomes too everyday then people may lose interest.