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I’ve started this thread back in March with animes like Shaman King on part one and RahXephon in part two. I did state that there might be a third post about the anime I like.

The Vision of Escaflowne is all about a young woman/girl that is swapped to an other world by a beam of light. The new world she discovers is medieval like. A strange world where royalty, chevalry and dragons live. However theres a clear supernatural element to the story line. Hitomi seems to have the power to see the future through visions and Taro cards. She meets with Prince Van who’s people is being annihilated by a terrible foe. Like all great anime you need “mechas”, huge body armor like fighting machines were the hero or the bad guys get to control to take a fight to the extreme. Escaflowne is the name of the legendary “Guymelefs” that to be Van Fanel controls. Over the course of the 26 episodes powers of both lead characters are revealed to fight the evil Zaibach Empire who wished to control the world as well as it’s destiny.

If we consider the previous animes I’ve reviewed you need to consider that this one is the oldest, in the sense the drawing quality is not as sharp as what you can see in Shaman King or RahXephon. There is an other anime I started watching but never got further than a three or four episode is called Saikano. Pretty crazy story and if I get the chance to watch it all I’ll give my 2¢ on it. I’ll be on to watch more cartoons like Reboot or Digimon!

Previous posts:

• Anime Love (Part 1)
• Anime Love (Part 2)