The Vision of Escaflowne
The 26 episodes of The Vision of Escaflowne are made by Sunrise Studios and directed by Kazuki Akane. It started in Japan on April 2, 1996, on TV Tokyo, and the last episode aired on September 24, 1996. Animax, Sony's anime satellite channel, also showed the series in Japan and on its different networks around the world, including Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and South Asia. Bandai Entertainment owns the rights to release the series in Region 1. The series is about a high school girl named Hitomi who is pulled from Earth to the planet Gaea when a boy named Van shows up on the high school track while fighting a dragon. In Gaea, she is caught in the middle of a war as the Zaibach Empire tries to take over the country. Van fights against the Zaibach Empire with the help of Allen and his magical robot, Escaflowne. Hitomi's ability to predict the future grows in Gaea, and she becomes the key to waking up Escaflowne and stopping Zaibach's plans. During the time that the anime series was being made, two very different manga versions of the story were made and released. One was called The Vision of Escaflowne and the other was called Hitomi—The Vision of Escaflowne. Escaflowne—Memories, Energist's a second shjo adaptation, came out as a single volume in 1997. Yumiko Tsukamoto, Hajime Yatate, and Shoji Kawamori turned the story into a series of six light novels. The movie version, Escaflowne: The Movie, came out on June24,2000, but it doesn't look much like the TV show. A drama CD and four CD soundtracks have also been made for the show.
Released: 1996-04-02