It surely took us quite long to post this review, although we had watched this the previous December, just before Christmas. The title of the post is a pun, of course: the phrase is used in a religious context and Haibane is in a great extend religious (strangely, without the appearance of any cult or worshipping acts); at the same time Haibane means 'ash-grey'. BUT if read literally, it expresses also the taste the anime left us with...
