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In this, the second DVD in the set, we join Rakka as she works in the library with Nemu. Raka is looking for meaningful work, something that she can contribute to the general community. For now, she seems happy among the books, and the presence of all the old books renews her interest in the beginning times. How God came to create both the Haibane and the humans.

Back in the Old Home, Kuu helps Rakka find a room of her own - a big step in Raka’s developing independence. But the sudden intervention of Kuu’s “Day of Flight” inserts an element of trauma as winter begins to move in. While all the Haibane feel a sense of loss at Kuu’s passing over the walls, Rakka takes it especially hard, perhaps because Kuu had made a special effort to help her.

This comes to a head as this set comes to a close. Rakka’s inability to handle her grief begins to affect her physically. Rekki, in an effort to get Rakka past the issue trigger a revelation that does little to soothe Rakkas fears. With the coming of the cold the horizon darkens.

One of the two elements that seem to play against each other in this series is the sense of ‘place,’ or of one’s position and interrelationships in a closed community. The other is the individual’s need for curiosity and the freedom to grow independently. This is a core conflict in Japanese society, but is hardly irrelevant for cultures at large. Thsee are the stuff of which both tragedy and great achievement are made. Part of the genius of Yoshitoshi Abe’s screenplay is the skill with which he manages to keep us in suspense over which will predominate in the end.

All of the artists and actors in this series should be congratulated in setting a style and grace that makes a complex tale seem as natural as the simplest of coming of age stories. And doing it with imagery and music that sets a tranquil and often gemlike character on the world of the Haibane. Like their clothes, is has a comfortable, hand-me-down, feel that will be hard to let go of. Which may very well be the point.

“Wings of Sorrow” ends the introductory episodes and kicks off the main arc of the plot. The Haibanes’ idyllic existance is deeply shadowed by its tragic impermanance, as Rakka learns to her sorrow. The very nature of their being is a puzzle, which somehow makes her loss worse. The half-answers she finds deal with the ‘how’ of matters, rather than the ‘why’. The older Haibane seem to resigned themselves both to the inevitability of loss and the impossibility of insight. However, they have experience on their side. The harshness of this new, confusing world deeply injures the sensitive, delicate Rakka, who is still trying to find her feet.

Despite the unhappy parts of these three episodes, “Wings of Sorrow” is just as charming as the previous volume. Haibane Renmei is a wonderful work of art, as well as a moving story. There is no uneveness in the style, nor any false notes along the way.