{"id":64,"date":"2007-08-18T15:48:28","date_gmt":"2007-08-18T15:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/?p=64"},"modified":"2007-08-18T15:48:28","modified_gmt":"2007-08-18T15:48:28","slug":"escaflowne-still-great-after-all-those-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"Escaflowne &#8211; still great after all those years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image63\" alt=\"escaf4.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/escaf4.jpg\" \/><em> Hitomi<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Just received 3 retail DVDs of Escaflowne, which I bought to complete my DVD set of the series. I hadn&#8217;t seen these episodes before other than in Japanese, so lost no time in checking DVD#5. First impression is that this is still a great series, and that story, character design, characterisation, and general designs still make the grade by today&#8217;s standards. It was a revelation in places to discover exactly what the characters were talking about!<br \/>\nEscaflowne was among a minority of anime in having an original script, rather than being adapted from a manga or novel. If one can altogether trust the interviews in the &#8220;Escaflowne Cafe&#8221; extras, the production team were aiming to make it a cutting-edge series.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what we would think of other well-known older anime if we looked at them today. I&#8217;m not so sure about the continuing merits of <strong>Fushigi Yuugi<\/strong> or <strong>Kimagure Orange Road<\/strong>, but I still have a high opinion of  <strong>His and Her Circumstances<\/strong>  (<em>Karekano<\/em>).  <strong>KOR<\/strong> has been discontinued by AnimEigo, but other older US-released popular series can now be bought as budget sets that actually cost less to buy than the amount some people paid to collect the early fansub tapes. For instance a US slimpack Escaflowne costs around $50 (\u00c2\u00a325), not much more than the cost of a dodgy Oriental 3-DVD knockoff version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hitomi Just received 3 retail DVDs of Escaflowne, which I bought to complete my DVD set of the series. I hadn&#8217;t seen these episodes before other than in Japanese, so lost no time in checking DVD#5. First impression is that this is still a great series, and that story, character design, characterisation, and general designs &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/?p=64\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Escaflowne &#8211; still great after all those years&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}