SamiCybertron Lets see where to begin...I first saw this show on fox kids when I was channel surfing and I saw this show called "Escaflowne" on fox kids, I watched it and was pretty amazed at what I saw. Apparently I soon realised the UK got a terribly edited screwed up version of Escaflowne which pretty much almost made me loose interest in the show entirely.Never the less I still watched it and enjoyed it despite the horrible censorship the show had at the time.The story is basically about a girl called Hitomi Kanzaki that some how meets a strange boy called Van Fanel (Who is sent to earth during some freak accident) Van, along with a random blood thirsty dragon who is chasing him get caught up with Hitomi and her 2 friends Amano and Yukari. Eventually the dragon is killed and Van goes back to his home, the planet Gaea, and along with Hitomi by accident.When Hitomi arrives, she soon notices 2 moons in the sky, the Moon and the Earth (On Gaea, the Earth is called the Mystic Moon) She is on the planet Gaea.Later on, a group of mysterious attackers destroy Van's country of Fanelia and kill Van's old sword master Balgus in the process.....I don't want to spoil the rest of the story ^_^ hehehe.The story itself is absolutely amazing and incredibly deep, the music score is composed by the John Williams of Japan, Yoko Kanno (Macross Plus, Ghost in the Shell: STC, Oban Star-Racers Etc) each of her songs fit the anime very well and beats what Fox did when the got Escaflowne and edited it with there own rubbish with only a few of Yoko's pieces.The voice actors, oh yes ^^. The VA do an incredibly brilliant job of delivering the drama and suspense in the characters in both English & Japanese.While I'm on the subject about the English voice actors, Anyone who thinks that the dub of Escaflowne sucks is an idiot, because the dub was done by Ocean Group (Beast Wars, Gundam Wing, Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy, Inuyasha) and they do a superb of delivering the voices to the characters. Richard Newman, Terry Klassen, Venus Terzo, Brian Drummond, Kelly Sheridan, Scott Mcneil & Kirby Murrow, Great VA this anime has to offer! This is most definitely one of the top 100 anime's you should see before you die! Buy it on DVD now and watch it now! Strongly, Strongly Recommended!

barciad Escaflowne is not an original series by any stretch of the imagination. Just a straight-up, solid slab of old fashioned heroic, epic fantasy really. Yet for it to keep you gripped so intensely almost from the word go must suggest it must do something right. Now this would be the execution I would be talking about. To cut a long story short, Escaflowne is a thing of beauty. Beautiful in its design, beautiful in its style, its looks, its sounds and most importantly beautiful in its actions. What we have it a wonderful mesh of high-grade production, some fantastic set-pieces, a magnificent soundtrack, and all that tacked onto a story that actually means something. If you like your fantasy epic and old-school, then really there is not a piece of work on the small screen that I could recommend highly enough.

AndyWarth "The Vision of Escaflowne" is by far, one of the best anime series I've ever seen, and in my heart I still feel the many, many emotions it awoke on me.Kanzaki Hitomi is a cheerful and athletic girl who is about to confess his love for his "sempai" - word used in japan to describe someone superior - Amano, Captain of the race team. But that day she receives visions about a young man who's preparing to fight a dragon in order to become king.It is easy to see where this goes: the usual story about a girl sent to another world. However Escaflowne is far better than what someone would expect. And this superiority lay upon it's characters.Van Fanel, the young prince, is a guy with a troubled fate, who in order to become king must kill an earth dragon, a hunt rite that his elder brother failed to accomplish.Allen Schezzar is a Caeli Knight of Asturia, a powerful country, who values chivalry and honor, even when he's labeled as a traitor for his own country...Folken, a mysterious and cold strategist of Zaibach a nation determined to conquer other countries, has a dark and mysterious past, but his actions are guided but what he believes is best for others Dilandau Albatou, is a twisted general of Zaibach, consumed by madness and blood lust...I could go on, the series is full of great characters, even if they just walk by.And the feeling I got while watching it, was that of an infinite sadness, maybe because of the story, too real and sincere about human nature, or maybe because of Yoko Kanno's magical and haunting soundtrack. But I know it was mainly because I knew there were only 26 episodes, and the series was bound to end too soon.A must see, it was Beautiful, tears rolled down my face...

Gwuinivyre1486 I saw Escaflowne originally on Fox Kids. I was a little confused, but then I went online and read how the story was, and I stopped watching it. I then was contacted by a friend who told me she bought the dvd edition three disc set with all 26 episodes on it off of Ebay. I went over to her house the very next day and watched it. I was shocked with how much they took out from the fox kids version. I instantly fell in love with the story. And especially Folken and Allen, but my first crush was on the adorable Gaddess. Anyways (getting off track ^_^)When we got through watching the whole thing I couldnt believe it. I then went out and spent the money on the 3 disc set and I was so excited. I almost toppled the UPS man when he brought it to the door I was so excited. I have to say to everyone that Escaflowne is the best damn anime there is. Well, besides DB/Z/GT. But I loved it. The animation was beautiful. The storyline exellent. the characters were enjoyable. And the music was totally breath taking. Such songs such as "Shadow of a Doubt" (more associated with Folken.) and "Chain" (the altering fate machine theme) have to be the most wonderfully done peices of music I have heard in a long time.In all I give this a 10/10 in ratings. I would go higher then a 10, but I want to make it reasonable. Hell. A 100/10.