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The Vision of EscaflowneThe vision of escaflowne is what gundam wing mixed with some sort of medieval times, and a little uber mole man and spiffy lesbian tiger ladies would look life if you mixed them all together. The series I watched had Fateful Meeting, Wavering Emotions, and Where love can be found. In the first tape the lead women Hitomi is on Earth getting ready to beat a necklace in a 100 meter race so she can give some guy her first kiss (yeah sounds weird to me too) when all of a sudden a portal from another planet opens up sending a evil minded looking dragon and Van, the hero who is a nifty little sword master, to Earth. Van kills the dragon and take an energist from the dragon's leaky meat of a corpse. (an energist is a crystal that powers there oddly gundam looking armour suits that are called guymelef) So Van gets gets teleported back to his home planet on a beam of light and Hitomi stood a little to close and they are both sent to Gaea, Van's home planet. They come to Van's city, Van's the king, and he activates the Escaflowne, a really cool looking guymelef, just in time to fight the diabolic Dornkirk's forces. Van, Hitomi, and a child tiger girl named Merle (not a spiffy lesbian tiger lady, and shame on you she's just a cub, the spiffy ones don't come until video 2) are forced to flee from the city because there were just to many enemy guymelefs. They flee to the kingdom of Asturia. Where another sword master turned guymelef pilot, Allen, offers them protection. Asturia is destroyed by the diabolic and methodical Dornkirk(at that time I was beginning to see a pattern) and Hitomi is captured by the enemy forces. The new party, including Allen and his flying ship full of pirates, go to one of the diabolic, methodical, and at the over all mean spirited Dornkirks floating fortresses. They rescue Hitomi and find a few things out about themselves. And that's about the end of video one.Over all I give the series a 9 out of 10 on the uber mole man scale. The whole story was written very well and had great animation. Each of the cities that the group went to had it's own culture and look. The fight scenes looked beautiful. Guymelefs don't have guns or missiles or anything like that, most are armed with 'uge swords, which is why it pays to be a sword master. And it also makes for duels that look epic. The version that i watched was in sub titles so i don't know what the voices would sound like on the dubbed version. The only thing that brought it down for me was the love triangles and politics (of a sort) in movie. (sob) It made me all confused, it's probably because i'm stupid ::sniff:: But all in all the movie was great and there wasn't that much stupid loving politics. But it could have used more spiffy lesbian tiger ladies, yeah... By Max | |||
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