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Originally Posted by kid cue

i haven't read Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but i'm fairly certain Haibane Renmei isn't explicitly based on it--i love the series though, so i think i'll pick up the book soon

In an interview in the magazine [COLOR=#0000ff]Animerica[/COLOR], ABe stated that the series was inspired by [COLOR=#0000ff]Haruki Murakami[/COLOR]'s novel [COLOR=#800080]Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World[/COLOR], half of which takes place in a walled city with no apparent outside. Some fans believe the series contains influence from another Murakami novel, [COLOR=#0000ff]The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle[/COLOR], in which the main character spends a large amount of time at the bottom of a well.

take from wikipedia. so yeah, its not based off it but it definetly has a lot of things inspired by it and watching it you'll see a lot of things that were in the book.