>>3733749>That isn't what I think after watching,This wasn't in response to the content of the post I was replying to, I was trying to elaborate that was only what I thought while watching it like in
>>3730945While watching the show with no other information known aside from a basic description, I expected them to be some sort of negative force involved in the disappearance of characters. With the first few episodes being calm and knowing that some characters would disappear, I felt it was trying to lul the watcher into a false sense of security. After seeing their dress and learning no one being allowed to talk to them, or leave the town I thought they were being taken by the Toga for some sort of use beyond the gates and that who or what is outside the gates would be revealed later on, to the horror of everyone else. I thought the term Day of the Flight would be something like putting an animal to sleep, not literally like killing the Haibane, but a childlike explanation to something far more grim.
The Haibane don't understand what is really going on,like a child can't understand the concept of death at an early age, so I expected Day of the flight to be when the Toga or force outside the gate abducted that Haibane and because they don't know better, the Haibane thought it was them just leaving the city, or moving onto another place.
After watching it, the purgatory interpretation is pretty obvious, and I agree with it, so I suppose all of my posts were kinda pointless because that's just what I was thinking while watching it over a few weeks intermediately with my expectations being mislead by some myanimelist description I saw once ever few months before actually just sitting down and watching it. That happens a lot, I end up having preconceive notions I had for years shattered after actually watching it. Like when I watched Skycrawlers expecting it just to be basically one one combat akin to knights jousting but planes.
