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September 2011
The Vision of Escaflowne on Blu-Ray Box!


The Vision of Escaflowne on Blu-Ray Box!

Fifteenth anniversary of the great SF fantasy anime produced by Sunrise, directed by the great Shoji Kawamori ("Macross") is now on Blu-ray box. Characters designed by Yuki Nobuteru, beautiful music composed by Yoko Kanno ("Macross Plus", "Brain Powerd" etc) and Hajime Mizoguchi ("Please Save my Earth", "Jin Roh"). This is also the debut of the futur popular vocal actress and singer Maaya Sakamoto!!!

Plot: Hitomi Kanzaki is a typical high school girl, with typical high school problems. But when a vision of a young man battling a dragon becomes a reality, her life changes forever. Drawn into a strange vortex with the swordsman, Van, Hitomi is thrust into the strange world of Gaea. Entangled in a struggle over life and death, Van must learn to master the suit of armor, Escaflowne...

Blu-Ray edition includes complete 26 episodes , a booklet, a box with new illustration drawn by the Nobuteru Yuki! It comes also round-table talk, digest of the episode 2 & 3, five music videos, original movie for the PSP game "The Vision of Escaflowne", interview with the cast & staff, audio commentary by Tomokazu Seki, Maaya Sakamoto, and first press includes a piece of film!