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!
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!