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The Best Episodes of The Vision of Escaflowne Season 1

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High school student Hitomi is transported from Earth to the magical world of Gaea, where she meets boy prince Van Fanel, and is caught up in his quest to unite the countries of Gaea against

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Vision of Escaflowne Season 1 Episode 1 - Fateful Confession
    7.5/10(4 votes)

    #1 - Fateful Confession

    S1:E1

    One fateful day, high school sprinter Hitomi Kanzaki experiences a disturbing vision of another world and discovers from her best friend that Amano (the track team star she has a crush on) is about to go abroad. On an impulse, she asks him the next day for her first kiss -- if she can sprint 100 meters in thirteen seconds. But then, a young warrior prince and a dragon appears before Hitomi during the run ....

    Director:Yoshiyuki Takei
    Writer:Shoji Kawamori

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  2. The Vision of Escaflowne Season 1 Episode 2 - The Girl From the Mystic Moon
    8.7/10(3 votes)

    #2 - The Girl From the Mystic Moon

    S1:E2

    In a shaft of light, Hitomi and the prince Van tranports to the world of Gaea, where Earth is known only as the "Mystic Moon" in the nightly expanse. Van returns to the capital of his country Fanelia to be coronated after obtaining the Energist crystal from the dragon. During the coronation rite, the Zaibach empire launches an invasion with Guymelef Alseides mecha, and Van must retrieve at his mentor Balgus's bidding Escaflowne, the legendary god of protection of Fanelia.

    Director:Kazuki Akane
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Vision of Escaflowne Season 1 Episode 3 - The Gallant Swordsman
    9.0/10(3 votes)

    #3 - The Gallant Swordsman

    S1:E3

    Hitomi and Van find themselves separated and lost in the neighboring country of Asturia, where a handsome knight save Hitomi from a thief and apparent lecher. Allen's haunting resemblance to Amano does little to alleviate Hitomi's confusion, specially after Van and Allen challenge each other to a duel not once, but twice...

    Director:Shogo Koumoto
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Vision of Escaflowne Season 1 Episode 4 - The Diabolical Adonis
    9.3/10(3 votes)

    #4 - The Diabolical Adonis

    S1:E4

    Once again, Hitomi sees a disturbing vision, this time of Allen's fort engulfed in flames. Van reunites with his attendant catgirl Merle after she escaped Fanelia's fiery destruction, but both she and Hitomi fall ill. Both eventually recover, but then Hitomi's vision of a Zaibach invasion comes true at the hands of a devilish youthful commander named Dilandau...

    Director:Kazuki Akane
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Vision of Escaflowne Season 1 Episode 5 - The Seal of the Brothers
    9.3/10(3 votes)

    #5 - The Seal of the Brothers

    S1:E5

    After his capture by Dilandau and the Dragon Slayers, Van is imprisoned aboard the Zaibach floating fortress Vione. Here, the Zaibach strategist Folken reveals his identity to Van and attempts to invite him into the folds of the empire. Fortunately, Hitomi uses her dowsing abilities to discover the Vione, and the crew of Allen's ship Crusade mount a rescue operation...

    Directors:Kazuki Akane, Shinichiro Watanabe
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The Vision of Escaflowne Season 1 Episode 6 - City of Intrigue
    9.0/10(3 votes)

    #6 - City of Intrigue

    S1:E6

    After the successful rescue, Hitomi and Van's party seek refuge in Paras, Allen's home and the capital of Asturia. However, the Zaibach forces and their entreaties to King Aston upstage their entrance. (Zaibach and Asturia have a non-aggression pact.) Folken meets with Van to offer a personal entreaty to join the Zaibach cause. Meanwhile, Dilandau attempts to avenge the grevious facial scar Van inflicted...

    Director:Kazuki Akane
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Vision of Escaflowne Season 1 Episode 7 - Unexpected Partings
    9.3/10(3 votes)

    #7 - Unexpected Partings

    S1:E7

    After a gladiatorial fight to ascertain the legendary power of the Ispano-built Guymelef Escaflowne, King Aston invite omi and Van's party into the royal palace. The king is about to marry off his third daughter Millerna to a noble merchant's son, but Hitomi is shocked by the not-so-discrete kiss between Millerna and Allen. Meanwhile, agents hoping to lure Escaflowne out into the open seize the opportunity to capture Hitomi...

    Director:Kazuki Akane
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. The Vision of Escaflowne Season 1 Episode 8 - The Day the Angel Flew
    9.3/10(3 votes)

    #8 - The Day the Angel Flew

    S1:E8

    Hitomi, Van, and his attendant Merle are forced to depart from Paras in the wake of the devastation Dilandau caused. Allen is imprisoned for having abetted them, and Millerna learns that the Zaibach forces intend to invade Freid. As Millerna attempts to free Allen to warn Freid, Hitomi's party tries to disrupt the operations of a Zaibach Energist quarry. The ensuing events forces one of them to reveal a closely guarded secret ....

    Directors:Kazuki Akane, Shinichiro Watanabe
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The Vision of Escaflowne Season 1 Episode 9 - Memories of a Feather
    9.3/10(3 votes)

    #9 - Memories of a Feather

    S1:E9

    A feather from Van invoke visions of the past for Hitomi, who sees the courtship of Van's parents and his early childhood. The Dragon Slayers pursue and confront the Escaflowne, and Allen appears as if by Hitomi's prayers to assist. Unfortunately, Allen sacrifices himself to protect Hitomi from a deflected liquid metal attack. Millerna appears in time to operate with her nascent medical skills on Allen's wounds...

    Director:Kazuki Akane
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The Vision of Escaflowne Season 1 Episode 10 - The Blue Eyed Prince
    9.3/10(3 votes)

    #10 - The Blue Eyed Prince

    S1:E10

    After Millerna successfully nurses Allen's wounds, the party turns towards Freid, the kingdom where her deceased eldest sister Marlene married into the royal family. Here, they meet Marlene's son Prince Chid, a blue-eyed innocent who still remembers stories his mother recounted of the peerless knight Allen...

    Director:Kazuki Akane
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. The Vision of Escaflowne Season 1 Episode 11 - Prophecy of Death
    9.3/10(3 votes)

    #11 - Prophecy of Death

    S1:E11

    Suspicion of treachery falls on Hitomi and the rest of the party, and chameleon-like Zaibach operator Zongi (disguised as a Freid Praktu high priest) is sent to pry open her mind. During the ordeal, Hitomi reveals her origins from the Mystic Moon, but visions of Zongi's own past intervenes -- as well as a prophesy of death that send omi into a deathlike trance...

    Director:Kazuki Akane
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Vision of Escaflowne Season 1 Episode 12 - The Secret Door
    8.7/10(3 votes)

    #12 - The Secret Door

    S1:E12

    Hitomi's party exonerate themselves, and Duke Freid (the ruler of Freid who just returned) grants them an audience at his palace. With their input, Freid prepares for the imminent Zaibach invasion. Meanwhile, Millerna discovers a secret door in her sister Marlene's music box. It reveals a diary -- a diary recounting Millerna and Allen's past...

    Director:Kazuki Akane
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. The Vision of Escaflowne Season 1 Episode 13 - Red Destiny
    9.0/10(3 votes)

    #13 - Red Destiny

    S1:E13

    Zaibach devastates the capital of Freid, and the duke and Prince Chid flee with Hitomi's party to Fortona temple in the country's outskirts. The monks here present the duke with the sword that unseals the legend of the power of Atlantis. Folken directs the Zaibach troops towards the temple, intent on claiming the sword and fulfilling Hitomi's vision of a bloody outcome to the battle.

    Director:Kazuki Akane
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. The Vision of Escaflowne Season 1 Episode 14 - Dangerous Wounds
    9.3/10(3 votes)

    #14 - Dangerous Wounds

    S1:E14

    In the last battle, Van incurs life-threatening injuries which Hitomi discovers to match Escaflowne's battle damage exactly. Fortunately, Dryden (Millerna's betrothed) appears and uses his knowledge of ancient technologies to summon Escaflowne's original builders. The Ispano repair Escaflowne and in the process, heal the pilot whose blood pact intertwines his fate with the Escaflowne's. Thus restored, Van rushes to mete out vengeance upon the Dragon Slayers, despite the consequences.

    Director:Kazuki Akane
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Vision of Escaflowne Season 1 Episode 15 - Lost Paradise
    9.3/10(3 votes)

    #15 - Lost Paradise

    S1:E15

    Van is enveloped into the world of the dead, and Hitomi goes to retrieve him -- but not before envisioning the destruction of Atlantis. The previous battle's trauma disorients Dilandau as well, so Folken sends out Naria and Eriya (the intensely loyal leopard girl twins who directly answer to him) to continue the mission of capturing the Escaflowne.

    Director:Kazuki Akane
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. The Vision of Escaflowne Season 1 Episode 16 - The Guided Ones
    9.0/10(3 votes)

    #16 - The Guided Ones

    S1:E16

    Dryden discovers the location of the Mystic Valley (and purportedly also, the entrance to Atlantis) in Allen's father's diaries. In the process, Allen confronts his bitterment towards his absent father, and Hitomi discovers her grandmother also visited Gaea. The party is pursued by Folken's floating fortress until Hitomi's pendant and prayer opens a portal to Atlantis.

    Director:Kazuki Akane
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. The Vision of Escaflowne Season 1 Episode 17 - The Edge of the World
    9.3/10(3 votes)

    #17 - The Edge of the World

    S1:E17

    At the ruins of the legendary Atlantis, Hitomi, Van, and Allen encounter various figures in their past, including Hitomi's grandmother, Van's mother, Balgus, and Allen's sister and father. Hitomi also watches the history of Atlantis from the creation of the thought-realizing Atlantis Machine through the genesis of Gaea to Atlantis's eventual destruction.

    Director:Kazuki Akane
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. The Vision of Escaflowne Season 1 Episode 18 - The Gravity of Destiny
    9.3/10(3 votes)

    #18 - The Gravity of Destiny

    S1:E18

    After Van receives a new Energist from his mother, Hitomi, Allen, and Van tranports to Dornkirk's fortress when Dornkirk attempts to activate his Destiny-Altering Device. Dornkirk explains to the disbelieving trio his apparently well-intentioned motives for all of Zaibach's actions.

    Director:Kazuki Akane
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The Vision of Escaflowne Season 1 Episode 19 - Operation Golden Rule of Love
    8.7/10(3 votes)

    #19 - Operation Golden Rule of Love

    S1:E19

    Three weeks have passed since Hitomi, Van, and Allen's ordeal in Dornkirk's fortress, and all of Asturia prepares for Millerna and Dryden's wedding and worries over King Aston's ailing state. Van give Hitomi an almost-but-not-quite love confession that disillusion Hitomi, making her vulnerable to Folken's test of the Destiny-Altering Device.

    Director:Kazuki Akane
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. The Vision of Escaflowne Season 1 Episode 20 - False Vows
    9.0/10(3 votes)

    #20 - False Vows

    S1:E20

    With her upcoming marriage to Dryden on her mind, Millerna ask omi for a tarot reading on its outcome. Hitomi reads a prediction of misfortune and disaster, but decides to tell Millerna a prediction of happy fortune instead. She hopes her thoughts and faith alone would be enough to change fate and reverse the prediction. Her hope is shattered by the entrance of fortune-enhanced soldiers Naria and Eriya at the wedding.

    Director:Kazuki Akane
    Writer:Akihiko Inari

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  21. The Vision of Escaflowne Season 1 Episode 21 - Reaction of Fortune
    9.3/10(3 votes)

    #21 - Reaction of Fortune

    S1:E21

    Hitomi surrenders herself before the twin Zaibach leopard girls, but the reemergence of the sun causes a debilitating reaction in the fortune-enhanced soldiers. Naria crashlands back on Asturia, and returns to the royal castle on foot to capture Hitomi again. However, the side-effects of the fortune-enhancement process continues to stymie she and Eriya and eventually leads to Folken rethink his cause.

    Director:Shogo Koumoto
    Writer:Hiroaki Kitajima

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  22. The Vision of Escaflowne Season 1 Episode 22 - The Black Winged Angel
    9.0/10(3 votes)

    #22 - The Black Winged Angel

    S1:E22

    Asturia's royal council discusses whether to submit to Zaibach or rally against the empire. Folken summons Van (and Hitomi) back to the ruins of Fanelia which he indirectly helped destroy. Here, the brothers and Hitomi face two dragons, and Folken reveals the truth about his disappearance during the pre-coronation dragon-slaying ritual ten years ago.

    Director:Kazuki Akane
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. The Vision of Escaflowne Season 1 Episode 23 - Storm Premonition
    8.7/10(3 votes)

    #23 - Storm Premonition

    S1:E23

    Asturia and its neighboring countries agree to unite their forces against Zaibach and prepare for war. Folken joins the allied effort against Zaibach and lends his expertise and knowledge, despite Van's doubt and lingering resentment. Also, Dilandau at last returns to strike preemptively on the assembled forces at Rampant Port and fight Van again.

    Director:Kazuki Akane
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. The Vision of Escaflowne Season 1 Episode 24 - Fateful Decision
    8.7/10(3 votes)

    #24 - Fateful Decision

    S1:E24

    When Hitomi asked to get away from this world of fighting, she found herself transported back to Earth. It is once again the day before Hitomi would make her fateful confession to Amano and thus encounter Van. Reliving the events would reunite her with Van, but at the risk of hurting her best friend Yukari and returning back to the war.

    Director:Kazuki Akane
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. The Vision of Escaflowne Season 1 Episode 25 - Zone of Absolute Fortune
    9.0/10(3 votes)

    #25 - Zone of Absolute Fortune

    S1:E25

    The pivotal battle between Zaibach and the allied forces continues. Even after the Basram army employs the "doomsday weapon" in the form of a devastating Energist bomb, the fighting goes unabated. Folken decides the only way to end the war is confront Dornkirk personally and end his vision of the Sphere of Absolute Fortune.

    Director:Tsuyoshi Yoshimoto
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Fateful Confession" is the best rated episode of "The Vision of Escaflowne" season 1. It scored 7.5/10 based on 4 votes. Directed by Yoshiyuki Takei and written by Shoji Kawamori, it aired on 4/2/1996. This episode is rated 1.2 points higher than the second-best, "The Girl From the Mystic Moon".