Take that idea far enough and you get something like Haibane Renmei, where there is no official interpretation—everybody has to generate their own idea of what the show’s premise is. This was frustrating the first time I watched it, since I didn’t know that there wasn’t going to be an explanation for everything. The second time, though, I absolutely loved it.
Reminiscent of Umberto Eco describing the novel as “a machine for generating interpretations”.
Take that idea far enough and you get something like Haibane Renmei, where there is no official interpretation—everybody has to generate their own idea of what the show’s premise is. This was frustrating the first time I watched it, since I didn’t know that there wasn’t going to be an explanation for everything. The second time, though, I absolutely loved it.