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Haibane Renmei

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TV (13 eps) | 2002 | Radix

A young woman quietly falls to the earth, escorted by a solitary crow. This sort of dream, as many other before have dreamed, comes just before the rebirth as a haibane, a charcoal winged angel. On the outskirts of the walled-in city lies Old Home, a haven for haibane to study, live, and learn, while waiting for their chance to ascend to the heavens, and escape the confines of their new world. Haibane Renmei follows the story of Rekka, a newly born haibane who wants nothing more than to remember her past, and to discover the secrets of her kind.

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Mushishi

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Serial Experiments Lain

Alternate titles: Lain

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Alternate titles: Juuni Kokki, 12 Kingdoms

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Alternate titles: Okami to Koshinryo, Wolf and Spice

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Alternate titles: Ima, Soko ni Iru Boku

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Kiki's Delivery Service

Alternate titles: Majo no Takkyubin

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Fruits Basket

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Petite Princess Yucie

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Kokoro Toshokan

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A Little Snow Fairy Sugar

Alternate titles: Chitchana Yukitsukai Sugar, Tiny Snow Fairy Sugar

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Kimi ga Nozomu Eien

Alternate titles: Rumbling Hearts

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Maria-sama ga Miteru

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Alternate titles: Kono Minikuku mo Utsukushii Sekai

One day a light descends from the sky and splits into the ideal girls of Takeru and Ryou. That is where this gentle and vaguely romantic story about our ugly and beautiful world begins. Soon enough the story plummets into the secrets of global extinction and the meaning of life. Everything in this world that is beautiful has something ugly in it, and that ugliness is part of the secret of its beauty. Even for romance this is true...

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