Day 11 - Favorite Mecha Anime

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Vision of Escaflowne

Even though the topic for this post is mecha, I'm just gonna go ahead and say that Escaflowne is the best isekai anime ever made. Escaflowne is 1994 anime from studio Sunrise(Gundam), created by Shoji Kawamori(Macross) and directed by Kazuki Akane(Akito the Exiled). So with that staff working on it mecha are great. Ecaflowne's mecha are called Guymelefs; giant suits of armor powered by gems from dragons. The series title mecha Escaflowne is veritable and can transform into a dragon. It's really cool.

But I'm not an anime YouTuber so I won't pretend most mecha anime are about the mecha instead of the characters. The protagonist Hitomi is really charming for an audience surrogate in the tv series, and in the film her character arc is really compelling. Van is every bit as cool at machine he pilots and the romance between him and Hitomi is engaging in both iterations of the story.

The art and animation is almost perfect it has this great 90's aesthetic going. The character designs are attractive and the action scenes are dope. It's also got a beautiful soundtrack by Yoko Kanno and a fantastic dub from Funimation directed by Sonny Strait who also voices Allen. Speaking of Allen, the only problems I have with the Escaflowne tv series all trace back to him. It's not that he's a bad character he's actually pretty well written but the story has two underwhelming plot points involving him. For that reason I don't mind his downplayed role in the movie.

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