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EP. REVIEW: The Vision of Escaflowne

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Loved this show, it's a shame the ending got rushed

You can blame that on executive mandate. Escaflowne was meant to be 39 episodes, but got cut down to 26, and Kazuki Akane, the director, wound up needing to cut a lot of things as a result.

O damn, it has been one of my favourite shows for many years and I had no idea things were cut (it did seem oddly rushed towards the end, thou). Any way of knowing what exactly was cut? Was it adapted from a manga/light novel? From the info ANN provides, the manga(s) are all alternate retelling :s

I remember Jacob Chapman mentioning in the thread for the Escaflowne dub kickstarter that he actually asked Kazuki Akane if the whole thing about show getting suddenly cut from 39 to 26 episodes was true.

And Akane said it apparently wasn't? Or at the very least, if it did happen, it happened WAY early into the show's planning stages, back when they were still figuring out what the show was about. Back when the working title was still "Sky High Knights" or something.

I wonder if I can find that thread anywhere. But according to him at least the whole thing suddenly being shortened and plot stuff needed to be cut wasn't true.

Funimations Escaflowne dub, that was funded by Kickstarter, is actually kinda pointless. Its not as correct to the translated subtitles as the Bandai English dub. This and the fact that the directors cut episodes are only necessary for the first few episodes.