French distributor Dybex has surprised its customer a bit with the announcement that they’ve picked up the rights to bring out Haibane Renmei on Blu-ray next year. They don’t have any details beyond a planned 2017 release in terms of pricing, extras, or a firm date or expected month for it yet. The property had a fairly recent Japanese Blu-ray edition released back in 2015.
The series was originally released in the US by Geneon/Pioneer and was eventually picked up again after the Universal Geneon merger by FUNimation and was released on DVD in their Anime Classics line in the fall of 2012.
Plot concept: A dream of falling from the sky… and then birth. Rakka is born from a large cocoon into the Old Home, greeted by a group of females with small wings on their backs and shining halos above their heads. Soon Rakka’s own wings grow, a halo is placed on her head and she is told that she must work in the nearby town of Grie. She soon realizes that the town and the entire world they live in are confined behind the Wall, a tall, impenetrable wall that none except the mysterious Toga are allowed to exit.
[Source: Haibane Renmei]