Escaflowne (anime)

I just finished Escaflowne today (after maybe two years) so I thought I would give it a review. It's sort of like Evangelion; its a shojo mecha series that's definately better than average of both of those generes. It's the story of Hitomi, a girl from Earth, who gets teleported to a planet where Earth, or as they call it "The Mystic Moon" is in space, called Gaea. There she is aquainted with Van, a king with the mysterious mecha (or Melef as theyre called) Escaflowne, and eventualy plenty more characters with some relevence to the plot. Rivaling our heroes, is the evilish Zaibach empire, lead by a old guy obsessed with fate. It actualy has quite a bit of somewhat important characters. I don't think the character's are anything special, but the amount of them (theres more than are pictured) give it a cool atmosphere. Also, I think the setting is pretty cool; you get a good feel for a country with it's nations and such. It still cannot escape the fate of shojoness tho; predictability, love triangles and strong themes on love's power. Still worth seeing tho, because of it's elements that, in my opinion, put it a few steps above other shojo or mecha serieses.


Rating: 8.4/10