The episode posts do appear on the front page, but it’s probably not that obvious. They’re to the side, under “Recent Episode Commentaries and Analysis”. I’ve love to reformat the main page to make things more organized and give episode commentaries a little more space while not giving them too much, but I’m no good at layout design, or really anything visually artistic.

The main reason for the current layout is that episode commentaries won’t quickly bury posts such as the Mao-chan manga post I’ll be posting this week. Between continued Janggeum’s Dream posts (coincidentally my top hits generator, I suppose ’cause no one else blogging has heard of/seen this series), my Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok posts (episode seven commentary up next, which looks rather empty compared with the upcoming Haibane-Renmei post), and the next Aria the Animation, I find my non-episode commentary posts end up buried at a decent pace if they’re mixed together.

Outfits reappear constantly. Haibane generally do not possess a whole lot of clothing.

I, too, was wondering my Haibane are not allowed to have money. Obviously it’s tool by which CFF (The Renmei) controls them, and also it may in fact be profitable for CFF. The cover story is that the money flow is from CFF to haibane: CFF supposedly use the profit from their trade monopoly to subsidize the haibane in their care. But it’s not like I saw their accounting books. If the original story were true, it would make sense just disburse money to haibane, instead of creating what amounts to the food stamp program. The latter makes sense in human world since there’s a significant potential for abuse (e.g. using all the money for meth instead of food), but I’m not so sure the whole story checks out in case of haibane.

As for aging, since you seem to be unusually interested and since it’s not going to be a big spoiler at this point: you’re going to see flashbacks of younger Nemu, Reki, and Hyoko. So they definitely grow and change.

Regarding Kuu, without giving it away, I’d like you to watch out for her relationship with Rakka. When I watched HR, it always surprised me how understated everything was between the two, until BAM! it becomes a VERY IMPORTANT STORYLINE. I want to know, what in the world am I missing here?

P.S. Is there a specific reason why HR episode posts do not appear at the front page?