The Vision of Escaflowne

Hitomi Kanzaki is a typical 15-year-old girl with a fascination for tarot cards and fortune telling. One night, a boy named Van Fanel drops from the sky, pursued by a savage dragon. Hitomi’s quick premonition helps Van slay the beast, but a blinding light engulfs them both, whisking Hitomi away to the strange world of Gaea-where the Earth looms overhead like a distant moon. In Gaea, Hitomi learns Van is the prince of Fanelia, a kingdom soon besieged by the ruthless Zaibach Empire. Van pilots his family’s ancient guymelef, Escaflowne, a towering mechanized armor, but fails to repel the invaders, and Fanelia is left in ruins. Forced into hiding, Hitomi and Van cross paths with Allen Schezar, a dashing knight from Asturia. Hitomi is stunned to see he bears an uncanny resemblance to the boy she secretly admires back home. With newfound allies, they join the struggle against Zaibach’s dark ambitions-as the empire seeks to awaken an ancient and terrible power.