"Vision of Escaflowne" combines the elements from the style Fushigi Yuugi and Evangelion. The story is about a girl named Hitomi Kanzaki got absorbed into the world of Gaea. There she met the Prince of Fernalia-Van, and a knight-Allen Schezar. Together they tried to find a way to help Van to claim his rightful throne and fight off the evil. Though the serie is a shojo anime(anime for girls), the serie has a lot of actions and giant robots and many excellent computer generated images as well.
Character Guides (main characters appeared in the 8 episodes that I watched so far)
Hitomi
Van Fanel
Allen Schezar
GALLANT Allen Schezar is the Heavenly Knight of Asturia. Like Hotohori in Fushigi Yuugi, Allen also has long hair[blonde color though] and excellent swordmanship. He is also the pilot of his giant robot- Guymelef Scherazade, and Commander of the Crusade ship and crew. Appearantly Allen has a sad past, his father abandon his family and died later. Allen's mother died of grief after his little sister disappeared.
Princess Millerna
Merle Folken
Dilandu
Escaflowne
Credits: All the above images come from The Quest-Escaflowne Gallery
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General Information of the Serie
Hitomi is a high school student and an excellent track athelete in her school track team. Unlike Miaka in "Fushigi Yuugi", Hitomi is more natural and real. She has the ability to foresee the future using Tarot cards and a magical pendant that her grandmother gave her. Appearantly Hitomi likes three guys from the serie. At the beginning she likes this senior guy in her school, then she likes Allen after she got transported to Gaea. Finally it aappears that she also likes Van when Van [literally] appears as an angel.
The young king-to-be of Fanelia, knows how to swordfighting but still tries to excell it by taking lessons from a master and later from Allen. He is the pilot of his giant robot-Escaflowne. Later appears as an angel.
The third princess of Asturia, she is willful and often disobeys her father. She likes Allen and confess her love for him later, but Allen never replied, though it seems Allen does have feeling for her.
Merle is the girl who belongs to a special tribe habitates in Van's country, I guess that explains her cat like appearance. She has a crush on Van, and often gets jealous of Hitomi because Hitomi always gets Van's attention.
Folken is Van's older brother; therefore, he is suppose to be the heir to the throne. But somehow, he turn against his own country by working for the enemy, the Zaibach Empire and burned Fanelia. He is the boss to Dilandu and commands Dilandu to complete many nefarious mission.
An insane villain who is also kind of gay.
The giant robot belongs to Van. Escaflowne can also transform into a flying dragon. It's the robot that the evil Dilandu likes to go after.
TV Serie Episodes Summary
