Editing The Vision of Escaflowne (section)

==Reception==
Though well received, ''The Vision of Escaflowne'' was not as popular in Japan as producers hoped. Outside Japan, however, it was a worldwide hit.<ref name="Animerica Sept 2000"/> In the United States, it outsold ''Gundam'' on video tape;<ref name="Animerica Sept 2000" /> and the first volume of the English DVD release of ''The Vision of Escaflowne'' was the fourth best-selling anime DVD for the month of September 2000.<ref name="Animerica2">{{cite journal|title=Anime Radar: News|journal=[[Animerica]]|date=November 2000|volume=8|issue=10|page=32|publisher=[[Viz Media]]|location=San Francisco, California|issn=1067-0831|oclc=27130932}}</ref> The series aired in South Korea where it enjoyed consistently high ratings.<ref name="Animerica Sept 2000"/> Producers noted that it was the worldwide success that led to the eventual creation of the anime film, ''[[Escaflowne (film)|Escaflowne]]''.<ref name="Animerica Sept 2000"/>

Egan Loo, writing for ''[[Animerica]]'', considered it an "epic fantasy" with some of the "most dramatic music in any soundtrack, anime, or live-action", and a "breathless pacing" that result in its being an "acclaimed masterpiece."<ref name="Animerica Sept 2000"/> [[The Anime Encyclopedia|The Anime Encyclopaedia]] calls it the "genuine family entertainment, both in and out of the anime world, and arguably the best TV anime of the 1990s".<ref name="AnimeEncyc"/> It is called a "fantastically beautiful series, with striking production design" and an "incredibly well executed fusion of familiar anime genres and devices" by [[Anime Classics Zettai!]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Camp, Brian.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/124985401|title=Anime classics zettai! : 100 must-see Japanese animation masterpieces|date=2007|publisher=Stone Bridge Press|others=Davis, Julie.|isbn=978-1-933330-22-8|location=Berkeley, Calif.|oclc=124985401}}</ref>