dangermousie | The visions of Escaflowne: Giant Robots and Bigger Eyes

katranna came over tonight and after dinner we ended up watching the beginning episodes of 'Escaflowne' which she brought with her. We watched 3 eps, as my tolerance for animation isn't super high and 1+ is about my daily tolerance. But I liked it: the animation is pretty, the heroic fantasy type story fun, and the heroine surprisingly non-annoying, non-busty and non-suicidal. So tomorrow we are watching more.

Plot: Hitomi, a high-school girl who has visions, ends up witnessing a strange, medieval-type guy kill a dragon. So she accidentally follows Prince Van (no, he isn't a prince of a car-park) back to the world of Gaea. She has an important role to play in some really nasty wars there.

So far I liiiiiike Van, who is all "come into my scrawny yet muscular arms, or at least I'd surely invite you if I wasn't busy being angstily hot-headed (or is it hot-headedly angsty?)."

I also like and am greatly amused by Allen who is all "come into my poofy smarmy arms of blond hotness and unsurpassed fighting skill. But be warned, I've used that line on about 300 women before, with 95% rate of success. So I'd suggest an STD check-up"

Dilandau leaves me cold because his line would probably be: "forget about coming into my homicidal evil arms. No way are you as pretty as I think myself to be, and I got my dragonslayer boys to do my whims anyway."

As to Folken? Sadly, I don't like him too much yet. The whole "I might angst but not enough to forget to elaborately style my hair" thing isn't super appealing.

I also really like Hitomi who is bright and strong and damn useful in a fight. I also like her cheeriness, though when she calls Van mopey after they end up in Allen's castle, I ROFLed because her speech goes something like this: Van, what on Gaea is the matter with you? I mean, you can't be King anymore and your kingdom just got completely annihilated and and everyone you know is most likely dead, thousands of innocent people, and your father figure died to protect you, and now you are stuck in a castle of a man who won't let you out or let you have Escaflowne back, the one weapon you want to return and fight the invaders with. Jeeez, what have you got to be upset about. Stop moping, grumpus!