Escaflowne

Kumatora · Post by **Kumatora** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 9:00 pm

I've been looking into the series and I hear a lot of praise for it. Does the Anime Legends set carry a textless opening/ending?

I've been interested in this since I fell in love with Dance of Curse.

Willen · Post by **Willen** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 6:50 am

I'm fairly sure that there isn't a clean OP per se, BUT on DVD 1 there is a selection for Music Videos in the Main Menu that contain the nearly clean opening, "約束はいらない (Yakusoku wa Iranai - No Need for Promises)" as the first segment. It's only marred by the song title in the lower right corner in the very beginning.

There is a clean ED on the last DVD (#8). Normally, it's accessible as a Easter Egg:

While on the extras menu, highlight 'Playstation Game Footage.' Press left and the highlight should dissappear. Then press right and the top left portion of a star should appear on the right side of the screen. Then press right again and more of the star will appear. If you press down and then left, the whole star should be on the screen. Push up to highlight the star and then select it to see a creditless ending.

A quicker way is to go to Title 17 directly for both OP and ED sequences. This knowledge is also useful for ripping it.

DocturKnowles · Post by **DocturKnowles** » Tue May 01, 2007 7:56 am

I have the Anime Legends version, so I took a look last night:

There is a clean ending following the easter egg directions above, but I couldn't find a clean opening anywhere.

Heero_Yuy84 · Post by **Heero_Yuy84** » Wed May 09, 2007 10:50 am

Dear Bandai - Would it kill you to show some consistency in clean ops/eds. You put them on some series, and others you either say 'Fuck you' or 'Work for it!'
...it's not exactly a good business model.

Kumatora · Post by **Kumatora** » Wed May 09, 2007 5:14 pm

Heero_Yuy84 wrote:Dear Bandai - Would it kill you to show some consistency in clean ops/eds. You put them on some series, and others you either say 'Fuck you' or 'Work for it!'
...it's not exactly a good business model.

Tell that to ADV as well. It'd be nice if I could use the openings and endings but I can't.

Willen · Post by **Willen** » Thu May 10, 2007 8:33 am

Well, sometimes clean opening or closing sequences aren't available anymore (this applies more to older shows).

Also, ADV has a tendency to strip out nearly if not all the extras (clean OP and ED, etc.) found on the regular DVD releases when they repackage a series in a Thinpak release. It kinda takes away some of the advantages of getting the thinner, cheaper Thinpak sets.

Heero_Yuy84 · Post by **Heero_Yuy84** » Fri May 11, 2007 2:24 am

In some cases I can accept that...

...then there's others where I can see that's total bullshit (i.e. they will actually translate the credits onto clean ops and just not feel the need to include the clean ops anyways.)

Or, one of my personal favorites, the R1 release of G Gundam, where they didn't even bother to go that far and just left the Japanese text on the credits...
...even though textless versions DO exist (as the internet can safely confirm.)

In the case of the Thinpaks...I never could figure ADV's rationale there. The series is gonna sell either way...why hurt one of their own products to sell the other version?
Hell, in that case, why even bother with the thinpak boxset?

tyciol · Post by **tyciol** » Tue May 22, 2007 8:04 am

Legend of Escaflowne's definately a great series, it's also one of those special animes which actually had some pleasant sounding dub-voices IMO. The movie's very cool too, it's totally different but a great twisted abbreviation of the concepts in the show.

DocturKnowles · Post by **DocturKnowles** » Fri May 25, 2007 2:36 pm

I invented a game for Escaflowne. I have yet to carry it out...

1. You have to watch it in Japanese
2. For health reasons, you may only want to watch 1 DVD a night
3. Every time Merle says, "Van-sama" in her whiny annoying voice, take a shot of whatever liquor you have handy...

Thomas JPtakk · Post by **Thomas JPtakk** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 3:38 am

DocturKnowles wrote:I invented a game for Escaflowne. I have yet to carry it out...

1. You have to watch it in Japanese
2. For health reasons, you may only want to watch 1 DVD a night
3. Every time Merle says, "Van-sama" in her whiny annoying voice, take a shot of whatever liquor you have handy...

I've actually done that before. Two nights, 13 episodes a night. MY buddies and I were dying of laughter by the 13 episode both times... it also made me cry the second night (but I wont say what scene as to avoid spoilers).