Escaflowne - The Movie (Ultimate Edition 3-Disc Set)
The "Extras" disc includes brief interviews with director Kazuki Akane,  composer Yoko Kanno, voice actress/singer Maaya Sakamoto, English voice  actress Kelly Sheridan (Hitomi), and three of the film's producers. Most of  the subjects limit their remarks to "we tried to do our best, we hope you  like the film." But one really spontaneous moment occurs when Kanno turns to  Akane and tells the interviewer, "He's an inarticulate person; he puts into  the project whatever he does not say face-to-face in real life." The footage  of the first U.S. screening at the 2000 Anime Expo in Anaheim, California, and of a  Korean/Japanese preview in Fukoka is awkwardly shot. On the CD of Kanno's  eclectic score, theCarmina Burana-esque theme song from the TV series  occurs near the end as "Dance of Curse II." This nicely packaged set is for  hard-coreEscaflownefans, rather than general viewers.--Charles Solomon