Re: Escaflowne movie questions

"Mark Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> I'm writing a fanfic based on the movie. I recently rechecked the
> Hitomi/Yukari scenes near the beginning while working on the final
> draft of my fanfic, and I've got some questions.
>
> Hitomi's watch indicates that it's Saturday the 18th.
>
> Given that Hitomi's wearing a summer uniform, the rooftop scene would
> have to take place no earlier than June 1 and no later than September
> 30.
>
> Looking through my Date Manager program, I came up with September of
> 1999 and August of 2001.
>
> I decided to use the 2001 dates in my fic, because it was shortly
> before the movie premiered in the U.S.
>
> Of course, September of 1999 is probably what the Japanese had in
> mind, considering that the movie was released in Japan in 2000.
>
> Anyone know for sure?

I doubt they cared at all :) It's just a film, considering most of it takes
place in Gaia where it certainly isn't September 1999 I doubt they really
thought about it.


> The following scenes are confusing. We see Hitomi and Yukari riding a
> bus, crossing a street, walking along a sidewalk, riding a bus, and
> walking along near a stadium or track or something (the grabbing and
> giggling part). Between those scenes, we see Hitomi standing in some
> doorway by herself at sundown. Where is she?

She's at the track stadium, where the Folken seduction scene takes place.

> What happens when? Is it even all on the same day?

I don't know.  I think it's plausibly all on the same day, although it's
possible that the sunset stadium stuff takes place on a different day from
the rest.

> Finally, where are Hitomi and Yukari sitting before Yukari leaves? I
> had assumed that it was the school, but didn't they leave school? Is
> it Hitomi's apartment building or something?

The track stadium at Hitomi's school.

> What's that stadium or track or whatever that Folken is sitting in?

Again, it's the track stadium at Hitomi's school.  We have a "perversion" of
the TV series here, in that the "genki" Hitomi of the TV series was a
high-flying athlete on the track team, whereas in the film she's suffering
so badly from depression that she quit the team.  In both TV series and
movie, the athletics track is from where Hitomi travels to Gaia.

Andrew H