Haibane Renmei is a 2002 Japanese anime television series based on an unfinished dōjinshi manga series by Yoshitoshi Abe, The Haibanes of Old Home . The 13-episode series was directed by Tomokazu Tokoro, animated by Radix, and produced by Yasuyuki Ueda. It first aired on Fuji TV between October and December 2002, and was later broadcast on Animax Asia in English and French under the title Ailes Grises.
The senior residents of Old Home in the anime. Clockwise from top left: Hikari, Nemu, Kū, Kana, Reki (middle).
Concept art depicting Rakka, as drawn by Yoshitoshi Abe
Doujinshi (同人誌), also romanized as dōjinshi, is the Japanese term for self-published print works, such as magazines, manga, and novels. Part of a wider category of doujin (self-published) works, doujinshi are often derivative of existing works and created by amateurs, though some professional artists participate in order to publish material outside the regular industry.
Page from the doujinshi manga about Wikipe-tan, Commons-tan and Wikiquote-tan