The Vision of Escaflowne

The Vision of Escaflowne (shortened to "Escaflowne" for it's original English broadcast) is a 26-episode Japanese anime television series created by Shōji Kawamori and Sunrise Studios and directed by Kazuki Akane. It originally premiered in Japan on April 2, 1996, on TV Tokyo, and the final episode aired on September 24, 1996. In August 2000, Fox Kids Network began broadcasting the series in the United States with an English dub produced by Saban Entertainment under license by Bandai Entertainment (using a voice cast from the Vancouver-based Ocean Studios) in a heavily edited form that skipped the first episode, this version would also premiere on YTV in Canada starting in September 2000. While the Fox Kids broadcast was cancelled after only 10 episodes due to low ratings, YTV would go on to broadcast the full series (including the initially skipped proper first episode). However, due to heavy edits the original ninth, eighteenth and twentieth episodes had been cut down and combined into other episodes, bringing the overall episode count down to 23.
== Show Description ==
* The series follows a teenage high school girl named Hitomi, who finds herself pulled from Earth to the planet Gaea when a boy named Van appears on the high school track while battling a dragon. In Gaea, she is caught in the middle of a war as the Zaibach Empire attempts to take over Gaea. Van (King of Fanelia), with aid from Allen (an Asturian Knight), commands his mystical mech Escaflowne in the struggle to stop the Zaibach Empire. Hitomi's fortune telling powers blossom in Gaea as she becomes the key to awakening Escaflowne and to stopping Zaibach's plans.
== Episode List ==
* The following is a list of The Vision of Escaflowne premieres on YTV from its premiere.
Premiere Date 	Ep No.	Name
September 4, 2000 	1 	The Girl From the Mystic Moon
September 18, 2000	2 	The Gallant Swordsman
September 25, 2000	3 	The Diabolical Adonis
October 2, 2000 	4 	Seal of the Brothers
October 9, 2000 	5 	City of Intrigue
October 16, 2000 	6 	Unexpected Partings
October 23, 2000 	7 	The Day the Angel Flew
October 30, 2000 	8 	The Blue-Eyed Prince
November 6, 2000 	9 	Prophecy of Death
November 13, 2000 	10 	The Secret Door
November 20, 2000 	11 	Red Destiny
November 27, 2000 	12 	Dangerous Wounds
December 4, 2000 	13 	Lost Paradise
December 11, 2000 	14 	The Guided Ones
January 1, 2001 	15 	The Edge of the World
January 8, 2001 	16 	Operation Golden Rule of Love
January 15, 2001 	17 	Reaction of Fortune
January 22, 2001 	18 	The Black Winged Angel
January 29, 2001 	19 	Storm Premonition
February 5, 2001 	20 	Fateful Decision
February 12, 2001 	21 	Zone of Absolute Fortune
February 19, 2001 	22 	Eternal Love
February 26, 2001 	23 	Fateful Confession
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