Product Details

• Format: Animated, Box set, Color, NTSC
• Subtitles: English
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 8
• Studio: Bandai
• VHS Release Date: April 13, 1999
• Run Time: 646 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (75 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00000IBPA
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #123,275 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Anime Released in the USA, Period! An Essential Series!, October 25, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Vision of Escaflowne Box set (Vol 1-8) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This series keeps you on the edge of your seat, not wanting it to end. If you like the first few episodes, just wait, the story actually gets better and better as it goes along (yes, that IS possible)! The character depth and development is amazing, and the love-triangles are perfect for any romance fan. Moving and unpredictable plot, fantastic character designs, top-notch art quality, music by Yoko Kanno, awesome voice acting, and action like you've never seen before in animation. Most likely the very best anime (Japanese animation) series available in the US so far, period! If you only buy one anime title, this is the one to get. While trying to beat her track record of 13 seconds, a light with a boy in it appears before teen schoolgirl Hitomi. He says a dragon is coming, which will eat her and her friends! After an awesome battle Hitomi gets transported with the boy, Van, back to his planet Gaea, where he is king of the country Fanelia. Gaea is full of animal-humans, medieval swords and magic, and amazing mecha! Hitomi meets a cheerful cat-girl, a dashing swordsman, a beautiful princess, and an insanely twisted enemy. Using her tarot cards and instinct, Hitomi helps to protect her friends.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Compelling - Escaflowne Tops All Other Anime, January 8, 2000

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tornwings (Baton Rouge, LA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Vision of Escaflowne Box set (Vol 1-8) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I had originally seen the first 10 or so episodes, and I loved it so much that I invested in the box set. If you haven't bought it, I urge you with a passion to do so. I watched the rest of it all in one day, too compelled to turn off my television! The perfect and fitting voice actors and beautifully drawn blend of mecha, fantasy, and romance is so intruiging to me that I can watch these tapes over and over and over again without feeling the least bit of boredom. In fact, I'm madly in love with this series. [And thats something I dont usually admit when it comes to anime containing mecha]. Whether male or female, young or old, Escaflowne will captivate you. The characters will become family to you, and the story will remain in your heart for a very long time. I know thats how it is with me.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best series ever to come to America, March 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Vision of Escaflowne Box set (Vol 1-8) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The vision of Escaflowne is an exciting, and intriguing series. Whether you're looking for action, mystery, adventure, romance, or just an incredible story, you'll find it here. The series begins by following Hitomi, a young student engaged in a teenage crisis, but quickly evolves when she is transported to another world where wars are forming, dragons take wing at night, and magic has been developed as well as science. One of the great things about this series is that the heros and enemies are not defined for you. You can easily see evil in the traditional good characters, and you can see the righteousness in the traditionally bad. Everyone has a believeable motive for all that they do, and all the characters are round. The individual episodes are almost stand alone stories,but the writers did this without losing the blessed contintinuity that is so vital to a show of this quality. The Animation is better than what you see normally on TV but not quite on par with Disney. The majority is hand drawn in anime style. I will say this though, this is the first time Computer animation has been integrated well enough that I couldn't tell it was there. Along with this incredible story and exquisite animation you will get one of the best soundtracks ever put to the moving screen. The music is perfectly, and I do not use that word lightly,perfectly matched with every sceene. The Vision of Escaflowne has action, adventure, romance, mystery, that all add up to an intriguing plot. To help convey the story, terrific animation, and superb music are included. All in all it is one of the best series ever to come to America.