oobrey5 I haven't really watch a whole bunch of animes, just the ones they showed on Toonami and Cartoon Network, really. So when Escaflowne came onto Fox when I was 13 or so, I fell in love with it. I loved how their noses were so long, and how the plot line developed, and how we really got entangled in Hitomi's life. The ending was bittersweet, but I can't imagine it being any other way.Other anime fans that I've shown this to don't seem to share my deep appreciation of it, but then again, this anime delves deeper into emotions than other animes, and isn't just surface based--It dives deeper, and doesn't deal so much with action as other animes.*MY* favorite anime.

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.

Timothy McKann When I first watched this series on TV, they only showed 9 episodes. The show is just like Gundam Wing, instead of calling them Mobile suits,they are called:"Guymelef's".The Escaflowne Guymelef almost looks like the Gundam 01 and Wingzero. I really wanted to see the entire series. But I wasn't getting anywhere after buying the first volume on VHS. When I got the first 2 volumes on DVD, they were very interesting, the first volume had a pilot episode that was never aired on TV. The other episodes had never-before scenes. The characters I liked are: Allen, Millerna, and Dryden. The reason why I liked those characters because their voices were done by: Brian Drummond, Venus Terzo, and Michael Dobson. The series got really interesting when I bought the other volumes on DVD. I learned that Van's brother Folken lost one of his arms in the Dragon slaying ceremony to be the new King of Fanelia. Another thing I learned that Dilandau was really Allen's sister who was spirited away by the wind. The music was very beautiful. It was done by Yoko Kanno. The final episode was very interesting,Hitomi said good-bye to Van and the others and returned to the Mystic Moon. So in closing, after the series, see the Movie.

Breravin One of the few series where the animation only gets better as the show goes on. Yoko Kanno's music is absolutely perfect, truly heart wrenching. It really adds the the very professional feel of the entire series. It may be your classic good versus evil plot (in a way) but there are so many other elements that make the whole escaflowne world come to life. A truly well done series. The only animated TV series i know of that feels like i'm watching a movie.