Comments on: Escaflowne disc 1

By: israphael

israphael — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:25:55 +0000

LOL, about the noses. I drew the same comparison with Doonesbury. You could lose an eye with those things. Sad thing is, a few years ago the characters I drew sported such pointy proboscises.

Makes me want to view the series again. Cheers

By: Evil Otto

Evil Otto — Sat, 24 May 2008 00:26:08 +0000

You’re right about the noses in VoE… it’s the only pet peeve I have with the series. Like Nick, it’s what got me into anime seriously (or, at least, semi-seriously).

There’s FAR more depth to the characters in the series than the (cough) “movie,” even allowing for the movie’s shorter run time. Hitomi comes across as a normal teen, mature one minute and immature the next. Van isn’t a psycho, just an angry kid… and who can blame him? Allen and Millerna actually have story arcs and personalities, unlike the treatment they got in the film. Even Merle has a depth to her, though you won’t seem much of it until later.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 22 May 2008 12:47:23 +0000

I forgot to mention this in the post about the movie, but _Vision of Escaflowne_ the series was what got me seriously into watching anime. It is still one of my all time favorites, even if it got supplanted by The Twelve Kingdoms and Haibane Renmei. It has the right blend of styles to hit it off with me, and the cliffhangers are murder (especially when you need to go to work early the next morning. Personal experience speaking there).

I do agree with your assessment Hitomi (from the series) is a much more likeable protagonist than Youko is. It’s only that Youko goes through a much more remarkable transformation and I like Youko at the end of the Twelve Kingdoms more than Hitomi at the end of the Escaflowne series. That’s not to say that Hitomi doesn’t change, though.

As for Isaac Newton being the bad guy, that is only hinted, but it really doesn’t change the whole of the series.