My favourite anime series. I adore Escaflowne <3 It's the anime series I've experienced in the most formats across most of my adult life. First in unsubbed VHS tapes and laser discs, then VHS, DVD, and Blu-ray. These Beez releases have particularly special meaning to me. - ThreadSky

sharkabytes.bsky.social • 95 days ago

My favourite anime series. I adore Escaflowne <3 It's the anime series I've experienced in the most formats across most of my adult life. First in unsubbed VHS tapes and laser discs, then VHS, DVD, and Blu-ray.

These Beez releases have particularly special meaning to me.

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astrokreep.bsky.social•95 days ago

That theme song stuck in my head after all these decades....

sharkabytes.bsky.social•95 days ago

Yah, same!

chris-lee.bsky.social•95 days ago

I feel guilty saying this, but I recently picked up the blue ray, but haven't had time to watch any episodes. Everyone speaks highly of it, which is why I picked it up.

sharkabytes.bsky.social•95 days ago

Aha, I've got backlogs of anime DVDs I picked up while they were cheap I haven't watched yet, it happens. Hope you enjoy it when you get a chance to tho; it is a wonderful series.

paulwall.bsky.social•95 days ago

I’ve been meaning to watch this since my only exposure was the odd US version. Thanks for sharing!

sharkabytes.bsky.social•95 days ago

It'll be a very different beast compared to the Fox version, aha.

johnbunday.bsky.social•95 days ago

I binged this on ITV’s app last year after you covered it on Between the Scanlines! Good timing as well as it got removed I think at new year 😅

sharkabytes.bsky.social•95 days ago

Oh sweet! Feels weird to see ITV and anime in the same sentence. xD My mental image is still Coronation Street and daytime TV.

johnbunday.bsky.social•94 days ago

I remember it getting announced and thought it was a weird mix. They had all of the old classic stuff!

agentprince.bsky.social•95 days ago

It just looks sooooo good too. And a magnificent soundtrack

sharkabytes.bsky.social•95 days ago

It does! And yeah, it really is. Yoko Kanno at some of her finest.

bahamutisa.bsky.social•95 days ago

The isekai genre has been chasing the high of this era for decades; what an incredible time to be an anime fan

sharkabytes.bsky.social•95 days ago

It really was! Escaflowne was one of the shows that my anime club looked forward to receiving tapes from our contact in Japan. That and EVA.

gimmecat666.bsky.social•95 days ago

This anime is just pure perfection. Even my mom got in on it when it came out in the US on Fox Kids. The music for this is beyond amazing

chaffxgrenade.bsky.social•95 days ago

Still haven't watched this one. I have THE most vague memory of watching the first episode on TV as a kid one Saturday morning... and then never following it up (Digimon was my priority at the time 😁).

Also nice to see that 90s anime account finally unfollowed several hundred thousand people lol

sharkabytes.bsky.social•95 days ago

Ah, chances are it'll have been the Fox Kids version which was heavily edited to make it more of an action show and Van the main character.

leemulford.bsky.social•95 days ago

I like it too.

lightxkira.bsky.social•95 days ago

Escaflowne was awesome I loved how they upped the animation quality in the movie and got really dark

sharkabytes.bsky.social•95 days ago

I really disliked the movie back in the day because of how different it was compared to the series. But I watched it again a few months back and I really enjoyed it and how Panzer Dragoon-ish the world felt.

lightxkira.bsky.social•95 days ago

I get that. It was the reason I liked the movie so much because it was so different it felt like something new. That and they stopped showing the episodes on the tv 😅

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