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The Vision of Escaflowne is a 26-episode Japanese anime TV show made by Sunrise Studios and directed by Kazuki Akane. It first aired in Japan on TV Tokyo on April 2, 1996, and the last episode aired on September 24, 1996. The series was also shown on Sony's anime satellite channel, Animax, both in Japan and on its different networks around the world, such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and South Asia. Bandai Entertainment has the rights to put the series out in Region 1. In the series, Hitomi, a high school girl, is pulled from Earth to the planet Gaea when a boy named Van shows up on the high school track while fighting a dragon. In Gaea, she is in the middle of a war because the Zaibach Empire is trying to take over Gaea. Van fights against the Zaibach Empire with the help of Allen and his magical mech Escaflowne. Hitomi's ability to tell the future grows in Gaea, and she ends up being the key to waking up Escaflowne and stopping Zaibach's plans. During the time that the anime series was being made, two very different manga versions of the story were also made and released. One was called The Vision of Escaflowne and the other was called Hitomi—The Vision of Escaflowne. Also, Escaflowne—Memories, Energist's a second shjo adaptation, came out as a single volume in 1997. Yumiko Tsukamoto, Hajime Yatate, and Shoji Kawamori turned the story into a set of six light novels. The movie version, Escaflowne: The Movie, came out on June 24, 2000, but it doesn't have much in common with the TV show. There have also been four soundtrack CDs and a drama CD made for the show.