About The Vision of Escaflowne
The Vision of Escaflowne opens on Earth, where Hitomi Kanzaki is an ordinary high-school girl with a passion for running and an unusual gift for fortune-telling with tarot cards. During a track meet, a mysterious young swordsman named Van Fanel appears in a pillar of light, and Hitomi is swept off her own world entirely, carried to the distant planet Gaea, a place where Earth and its moon hang in the sky like twin jewels.
On Gaea, Hitomi finds herself caught in a sprawling conflict. Van is the young king of the fallen kingdom of Fanelia, and his birthright includes Escaflowne, an ancient guymelef, a towering suit of armor that can transform and that responds to the blood of his royal line. As the expansionist Zaibach Empire pursues a hidden design to reshape the destiny of the entire world, Hitomi, Van, and the chivalrous knight Allen Schezar are drawn together, and Hitomi's growing visions of the future become a power that both sides come to covet.
Across its single 26-episode run, the series weaves together shojo romance, large-scale mecha battles, and a thread of tarot mysticism and fate. Created with mechanical designer and director Shoji Kawamori at the helm and scored by Yoko Kanno and Hajime Mizoguchi, Escaflowne earned a lasting reputation for blending genres that rarely shared the same stage, and its emotional core rests on Hitomi's coming-of-age and the question of whether the future can truly be changed.