NEWS:
5.2.2001
I have taken this list on from Phil Vogel
You can see a copy of the original sitehere
I am currently accepting submissions, if anybody has something they want to add, just email me
SPOILERS!
This is your one and only spoiler warning... Some of the entries in the list refer directly to important plot events from the middle to end of the series, so I hereby disclaim responsibility if you get spoiled. :]
The rate of submissions has picked up in recent months, no doubt due to Esca's arrival to American TV (in an awful dub, though... see the original series, folks!). I've kept on tacking submissions onto this one page, though... If it's taking too long for you to load it, shoot me an email and I'll try to remedy the situation. Thanks!
Without further ado, on with the list!
You Know You've Been Watching Too Much Esca When...
...you often introduce yourself as being from the Phantom Moon...
...you search your Grandmother's house for mysterious pink pendants...
...you can't understand how the Stealth Bomber can fly AND stay invisible...
...you practice your broad jump until you can make 6 meters...just in case...
...you routinely give your height in costa and your weight in piezo...
...you buy a 'Nelson' CD just cause those guys kinda look a little like Allen...
...you often greet friends by shouting "Vaaaan-samaaaa!" and licking their faces...
Contributor: Yours Truly, Phil Vogel
...you constantly wonder if your life is an illusion or reality...
...you wear a pendant and insist that people time you with it while
running the 100 meter dash...
...you take your car to your mechanic to put in a new energist...
...you ask your mechanic where the energist is in your car...
...instead of asking for directions you use a map and a pendant to
locate your destination...
...You wonder if your wings where removed by your parents and you
constantly ask the doctor to X-ray your back to prove that you had them...
Contributor: Ali Takavoly
...you answer the question "What do you plan to do with your
future?" in surveys with: "To be a legendary guymelef pilot" or
"To be one of the great swordspeople of Gaea"...
... you go to libraries and ask for the Diary of Leon Schezar...
... you go to libraries and ask for the Dryden Fassa Room for rare Gaean books...
Contributor: Kourin Olympia
...you join the track team hoping that Van will suddenly appear and bring you back to Gaea with him...
Contributor: Sarah Steele
...you cut your hair, dye it light brown, wear green contacts, join the track team and convince all your friends that your new name is Hitomi...
Contributor: Lesley Chen
...you run around your school track hoping that a gigantic dragon will
appear and try to eat you...
...you try to knock yourself unconsious while running...
...you tell your best friend about your boyfriend, Van...
...when you look up in the night sky you swear you can see Gaea...
Contributor: Starnight
...you start playing tarot cards and wearing pink pendants...
...you start singing "Yakusoku..." and "Mystic Eyes" at the top of your voice
even if you can't understand a word of japanese...
...you look at the mirror after a few hours of sleep and see Dilandau instead
of yourself....
...you start labeling your friends with all the characters--and calling them
that way....
Contributor: Derry
...You frantically search for a pink pendant that swings exactly once
per second...
...You try to use the power of the pendant to win those oh so important games
of hide and seek...
...Other words start to sound like Escaflowne - extra baloni, desk-and-phone(y)
etc....
Contributor: Nick Carver
...you believe that your cat must be related to Merle in SOME way...
Contributor: CocoonGirl
...you start to suspect everyone of being a shape-changing assassin
intent on stealing your soul...
...you begin to wonder if your older brother always wears long-sleeved shirts
to hide his metallic arm...
...you are constantly hunching your shoulders in an attempt to sprout wings...
Contributor: Beldurin
...You have recently installed the Yakusoku wa Iranai midi as your start
up sound -- and you don't have a computer...
...you can give a discussion of the fate equations...
Contributor: Shaun McIssac
...Everywhere you go, you run as if you were doing the 100 meter dash...
...You wish your gloves could glow red in time with music...
...You ask pilots where they keep the energists on planes...
...You try to move your head to imitate Hitomi's when the feather is
superimposed on the intermission screen...
...You come up with a theory on how the Earth and the Moon can look so close to
each other from Gaea...
...Even though you own the soundtrack CDs, you insist on having mp3s of all the
songs so that you can hear all of them at once...
...You try to synchronize with your car in hopes that it will help you to drive
better...
...You are sure of Dilandau's gender...
Contributor: Ityllux
...you think your cat seemingly doesn't like your new girlfriend named
Hitomi...
...you actually *have* a girlfriend named Hitomi...
...you can actually sing Yakusoku Wa Iranai and Mystic Eyes in
*full English* to the music...
...you can actually sing the Escaflowne songs that don't have lyrics at all...
...you've made an Escaflowne web site(^_~)...
...you look for Gaea in the astrological maps...
...you go to the library to look up info on Isaac Newton...
...you go into fifth gear on your car in the freeway, thinking of it as
"Dragon Mode," and say, "Now let's show them what Honda can really do!"
...you misplace a CD and wonder if a column of light took it...
...your car breaks down, and you look for the little button on it that'll
call Triple A...
Contributor: Chris McDougall
...Whenever you see a white feather outside, you constantly look
up to see if Van is coming back for you...
Contributor: DarkAkane6
...your little sister runs screaming from the room as soon as you
start up your computer...
...you sing Yakusoku wa Iranai in japanese during math class (heck, ALL
classes)...
...your friends also know the songs in japanese from listening to you...
...you quote the tv show in japanese, and are only vaguely aware of what you're saying...
...for some strange reason, you feel resentful to your boyfriend's cat...
...your mother can't figure out your strange obsession with jumping off roofs
in front of friends and thinks you're suicidal...
...you act even remotely like me...
...you take the time to actually read this list...
...you have a tarot deck, but can't even remotely use it...
...you took the entire day to get the Escaflowne theme song onto your piano so
the people who are putting in the secret vault for your diary know what tune to
make the keys play...
...you had to reconnect while typing what this...
...you make yourself a little pink pendant, then give it to your grandmother to
give to you...
...you get absolutely furious when you find out the Sailor Moon tape your best
friend bought was originally Vision of Escaflowne, and the owner taped "Moon
R" the movie over it, leaving only the ending theme, and you can't believe what
sick person would actually do something like that, how could anyone's taste be
that...um, yeah. sorry. Got carried away...
...your new high school teacher know you as, "oh yeah, that weird kid who calls
herself Dilandau half the time..."
...you're ecstatic when you hear the tv show is coming out commercially, then
find out the rumor is false and go off looking for blood...
...You just KNOW your best friend is hiding something from you about track
practice...
...and lastly, you constantly break down in tears because the person at your
local video store said, "For the third time in five minutes, We don't carry
Escaflowne stuff!!"...
Contributor: Elizabeth Smith
...you can't run even 100 yards without fainting, having strange
visions or bumping into weird people...
...you go around asking everyone for a kiss if you can dash for less than 13
secs...
...you actually learn how to read tarot cards...(I do that!!!)
...you try to make your girlfriend cut her hair just like Hitomi...
...you start calling your girlfriend Hitomi...
...you go to the headmaster and make a protest that girls in your school should
wear cute, green and short sailor uniforms...
...you also ask him to apply 'haircut' rules to girls so they all have short
hair (and look just like Hitomi!!)...
...you ask your blonde, blue-eyed pal if he is sure about his father being his
real father...
...you plan to spend your holidays in Gaea and ask your travel agent how much
the trip costs...
Contributor: Touchstone
...you download as many gifs, jpegs, mp3s, and midis until you've put
together the whole series (and it actually looks like you bought it!)...
...you think you can see someone hiding when you close your eyes and
concentrate really hard...
...you think you'll always win at hide and seek due to your new pink pendant...
Contributor: Windy
... You wake up every morning, look in the mirror, and think "Was it
just a dream? A vision?"...
... When shopping for a pager, you look for one with enough range to reach you on other planets...
... You go to the plastic surgeon and ask him to lengthen your nose...
... You begin singing your favorite songs, replacing the lyrics with
"Escaflowne, Escaflowne, Escaflowne..."
... Your best friend flunks a test and all you can think to say is, "See? You're anxieties created an unhappy outcome!"...
... You have no idea why said friend begins to throttle you...
Contributor: Bard
...you start talking about Dilandau to your friends like he's real...
...You totally agree that Cloud pales in comparison to Vargas in all aspects...
...You start signing after your name: "Dragon Slayer elite"...
...You develop an insane obsession for fire...
...You throw yourself off a cliff hoping to be caught by a winged man...
...You pretend that your lost molar is really the Zaiback Fortress Vione...
Contributor: Amanda Ramsey
...You read all those things and you still think you should write another couple...
...You have a reccuring dream that the ground is breaking beneath you...
...You're looking for the something that resembles the crest of Farnelia on every sword, In every anime...
...You get a tattoo of a tear below your right eye...
...You get a nervous breakdown from looking for free Escaflowne mp3 over the net for days...
...You constantly watch your sister in fear that she might get kidnapped...
...You make a little red top that you wear on the weekends...
...You get into a car accident, your car is just scratched on the side, and you're sure you have internal bleeding...
...Every time you hear someone laughing, you get Dilandau flashbacks...
Contributor: TESK
...You're actually trying to build a working Guymelef...
...or starting to travel around the world looking for dragons...
Contributor: [email protected]
...You're constantly making characters and/or guymelefs for the show...
...You got your friends hooked on the show, without them even seeing one episode...
...You're constantly making crossovers, i.e. Pok�mon/Escaflowne,
X-Files/Escaflowne...
Contributor: Melina
...You find striking similarities between Power Rangers and
Escaflowne, and it scares you to death. (Think about it: Second season,
character wears red shirts and rides a huge mecha which changes from dragon to robot. ..In space: Character had his sister taken from him as a child and turned evil...)
Contributor: Fawna
...You're working at your computer terminal at your job, listening
with your headphones to one of your Escaflowne CDs, you sense a presence behind you. You check out the reflection on your monitor screen to make sure it's not Dilandau before turning around.
Whew!! It's just one of your co-workers!!
...You were using Folken as a password at work, you grieved when you received the message that Folken had expired. But then you step forward and pick another Escaflowne character to be your new password, as you have been doing for the past several months.
...You are an even bigger fan of Escaflowne than your teenage son, who looks rather like Amano-Senpai. Although he thinks of himself more as Shigeru Aoba from Evangelion. Okay, there is a resemblance.
Contributor: [email protected]
...you use hitomi22342 and escaflowne7 as your screen names...
...you believe that your mother actually has wings that she has been hiding from you all these years...
...you sing Escaflowne theme songs every night before you go to sleep...
...you start naming your cat Meruru...
...you try to find anything in everyday life that somehow relates to
Escaflowne...
...you believe that you are one of the lost descendents of the Atlanteans...
...analyze the true meaning of this series using Jung and Freudian theories...
...you pretend to be one of the characters and act along with the series...
Contributor: xiaomaomao
...you buy a sword...
Contributor: Mecha
...You listen to Escaflowne Music 24/7.. like me ^_^
...You draw tons of Escaflowne-related pics...
...You tape many MANY Escaflowne printouts in your locker...
...You would get your friends to become obsessed as you are, even though some don't like anime...
...by letting them borrow your tapes...
...You try to sing "Yakusoku wa Iranai", "Kaze ga Fuka Hi", or "Aoi Hitomi" even though you have no idea what the words are and you hum parts that you don't know...
...You try to make sheet music for Escaflowne orchestral songs...
...You try to play some Escaflowne music on your Viola, Piano, etc...
...Your computer is nearly or 100% Escaflowne themed...
...You have bought or try to buy all the Escaflowne merchandise...
...you go to eBay.com over a dozen times a day looking for newly-added Escaflowne merchandise...
...You get your friends annoyed by talking about Escaflowne and how cute Allen/Van/Folken/Dilandau/Dryden/Mr.Moleman (!) is or are...
...Escaflowne influenced you to take Japanese classes...
...You scream at people because you have a crush on one or more characters in
Escaflowne and they think you're odd...
...You know you're very smart if you actually understood the whole story in one watching...
...You surf most of the day for Escaflowne sites...
...If you have your OWN Escaflowne website...
...I've been typing all these You Know You've Been Watching Too Much Esca Whens...
Contributor: [email protected]
...you and your best friend "INSIST" that Dilandau is in "NO RELATION" to that "BITCH!" Celena...
..."ALL" your class folders have every kind of Dilandau Screenshot, Image, Fanart, Sticker, and photo that has been released on the net... ::eyes Sophia Kelly AKA MsAlseides:: �.�
...you contact every Anime store within a 62 Mile radius JUST to see if they carry the Wallscroll model number "Z32"...
When the store clerk has no idea what your talking about, you say "Its the one of Hitomi and Van-sama with his wings expanded...duh!". @_@;;;
::tries to conceal the fact that I've done that:: o.o;;;
...you and your friend start to have a fight over who is more serious: Zelgadis (from Slayers) or Folken (from Escaflowne)...
...you spent $35 bucks for the FanSub version of the series only to turn around and buy whole official "Anime Village" Escaflowne series for a $150. @_@;;
...you get expelled from school for Quote "Student was disrupting classroom atmoshere because he/she was digging holes in the ground and acting like a MoleMan" Unquote...
Contributor: ~Raidr
...Not only do all my *er* your class folders have every pic possible of Dilandau, but on the other side of your folder, you've got a shrine dedicated in loving memory of the Dragon Slayers...
...You put an ad in the personnals "Seeking Single White Male. Must be 15, have silver hair, violet eyes, and an insane obsession with fire..."
...You enroll in the Armed Forces under one condition: That you be assigned to the special elite attack squad, The Dragon Slayers...
...Every one you work with knows all the character profiles of Escaflowne, and they don't even watch anime...
...You lash out at anyone that reminds you how Dilandau is related to that chick Selena...
Contributor: The Lady Alseides
...You begin to fall for Van Fanel and wonder what the heck Hitomi saw
in Allen Schezar anyway...
...You begin to look for the lost city of Atlantis yourself...
...You begin to wonder whether or not cat people and wolf men really
do exist...
...You begin to hope that a big blue beam of light will dump Van Fanel
in front of you, or haul you off to Gaea...
Contributor: Feisty_Sun
...You and your best friend insult each other by calling each other
"Meruru"...
...In addition, whenever something is painfully obvious in real life, you both react with an imitation of Hitomi's patented: "Tenshi anata wa..?" and then laugh hysterically at the other's joke. I mean, c'mon, who didn't figure out that Van was the one with wings in the first Episode? Damn, Hitomi...
Contributor: Gish
...your cat jumps onto your lap and yells into your ear "We must save Van-sama!!!"
...You draw little wings on your back hoping they will become real and take you to Atlantis...
...They turn into real wings...
...You start to think you can change sexes just like Dilandau...
...You actually start changing sexes at will...
...You play with matches, and now no one will invite you over to their house for fear that you'll burn it down...
...You start running to school, and a beam of light pulls you into it, sending you somewhere you've never been before...
Contributor: Sailor Sunstar
...You start looking at your boyfriend and wondering how he would
look with wings and dark hair and start wondering how advanced neural
pathway surgery is, just in case they can attach wings...
...Your boyfriend considers very seriously setting up an Escaflowne
support group at the next A-kon for others like him that have lost their
girlfriends to Escaflowne...
...Your friends insist that you show up to an AA meeting and introduce
yourself as "Hi, my name is (insert name), and I'm an
Escaflowneholic...
...You think of dressing as Hitomi for Halloween and consider getting a
costume and a harness for your boyfriend so that he can go as Van...
...You catch yourself almost whispering the name of one of the characters
in your boy/girlfriends ear when you're together...
...You consider contacting Angel Sword (any connection???) to special
order a katana with the Fanelian crest...
...you read that they're doing a movie to be released next year and
you wonder how you're going to get to Japan...
...you install a new battery and insist on putting a few drops of your
blood on it, so it will work...
...you want to go to Japan, find Kanzaki Hitomi and slap her for leaving
Van...
Contributor: [email protected]
...Every time you say, think, see or hear the word 'Escaflowne' you
uncontrollably get a huge, giddy grin on your face...
...You read this entire list laughing hysterically as you shamelessly
agree to just about every item...
...Even after realize your sick obsession you still sigh and wonder when
the king of Fanelia will come and rescue you ;)...
Contributor: Rei-chan
...your roommate walks in at 4 am and is startled by your incoherent
babbling about having to find Van-sama...
...you actually try to convince your roommate that she has seen all of
Escaflowne, while you are asleep!...
...you make a webpage immediately after seeing the first volume...
...you decide to convince your mom to buy you a domain: www.gaea.nu...
...she actually says yes because she thinks the show is good!...
...you write one of these lists when you are *supposed* to be going to
calculus...
Contributor: [email protected]
...You know that Hitomi was using a version of the Merlin Tarot, and have
been scouring the bookstores and onlines stores for something that would
be close ever since...
...You've written a poem to an ex-boyfriend that was supposed to be sung
to the tune of "Aoi Hitomi" *at this point I blush fiercely =b*...
...You're convincing a pal to put the videos up on tv screens at this rave
he's organizing...
...Every RPG character you've created since watching the series resembles
one of the characters from Escaflowne, or else a mixture of characters
from Escaflowne...
...You have to have the soundtrack playing before you can go to sleep at
night...
...Then you dream of new episodes for the series, with you added into the
script somehow, stealing Allen for yourself, then having an affair with
Van...(did I say too much?)...
...You think about dyeing your hair orange and wearing fur coats a lot,
just to be cute...
...You wake up in the morning and reach for the remote to start your
Escaflowne video again...
...You friend wants to steal your box set...
...You have more than one friend that wants to steal your box set...
...You can't watch your box set anymore now that your ex-roommate took
away his larger screen tv and you're left with your tiny television
instead...
...The rewind button on your VCR doesn't work anymore...
...You want to add more and more ideas to this list so you'll feel
accepted by all the other Escaflowne addicts ;>...
Contributor: Wyld
...Cuando sue�as con Escaflowne y que Van te rescata volando...
...When you dream about Escaflowne and that Van will rescue you
flying...
Contributor: [email protected]
...your mythology professor says Atlantis sunk beneath the waves you
wonder why people didn't just fly away...
...you wonder where the blue beams of light are when you go to track
meets...
Contributor: Edward Mah
...you call your boyfriend Van instead of his real name...
Contributor: Vanessa Reber
...you can sing the instrumental songs...
...you buy all the Escaflowne CD's, even the ones you don't like, just to
have them...
...your trying to dig underground tunnels, and start calling yourself
"molewoman"...
...you watch the tapes sooooo much that you have been able to succesfully
learn Japanese from them (most of it anyway)...
...you decide to have a giant party because you found out what your
birthstone is, and it kinda looks like Hitomi's pendant
...you go to all of Japans big TV companies and start a protest to get
Escaflowne back on the air...
Contributor: Madsy Jo
...Well, let's just say I've been watching to much Escaflowne because
my new name IS Meruru!
...and Hitomi better stay away from MY man... VAN!!!!
Contributor: Meruru
...your friends moan in protest at the mention of whipping out the
Escaflowne soundtrack CDs because, according to them, you've played them
enough (when in reality there's no such thing ^_^)...
Contributor: Shugotenshi
...you know the characters better than your own family...
Contributor: Dryden-san
...tu crois que tu peux aller faire tes courses en Guimelef...
...You believe you could do your shopping in a Guymelef...
...tu crois que Gaia n'est pas si loin...
...You believe that Gaia isn't so far away...
...tu commence � appr�cier Dilandau...
...You begin to appreciate Dilandau...
...tu as des ailes dans le dos...
...You have a pair of wings on your back...
Contributor: Onizuka
Thanks to Sara for the translation! :]
...you want to dye your hair blond and wear immensely puffy
sleeves...
Contributor: Catharine Turner
...You see a sign for Allen Pool Maintanence and picture Allen in
swim trunks, cleaning a swimming pool!!
...You see a sign for Allen's Auto Repair and picture Allen in overalls
looking under the hood!
...You see a parking space marked "Van Parking" and picture Van landing
Escaflowne into that space!
Contributor: Jeanne
...you get AEDS (Anime End Dissatisfaction Syndrome) immediately after
watching the last tape...
...so you start desperately seeking Escaflowne Fanfiction...
...and get completely depressed when you discover 1) There isn't almost
any Escaflowne Fanfiction and 2) There are even less fanfics that actually
are about the ORIGINAL Escaflowne cast...
...so you decide to write Escaflowne's new end yourself...
...AND a manga adaptation...
...AND an animated-gif adaptation of your drawings...
...AND then sell them as "The REAL End of Escaflowne"...
...you can't choose either a favourite character or a worse one, you like
them all too much!
...you become even more depressed than with the fanfiction when you find
out the new Escaflowne movie is going to be a weird retelling of the story
instead of a continuation...
...but you're going to go watch it anyway; even if the designs are
sickening, it's still Esca...
Contributor: Akemi
...you spend your time posting on a "You Know You've Been Watching
Too Much Escaflowne When" board...
Contributor: Ben Hanson
...You have your best friend confused about how to say Merle's
name...Meruru, Merle, Merlu...
...You discover that ceramics class isn't the best place to attempt to
make a pendant...
..You spend three months trying to memorize Esca songs so you can sing
them at a Karaoke party...
...You spend the bulk of your Esca watching time, yelling
"KISS! KISS!"...
..You laughingly recount the days when you had to have a friend tell you
how to pronounce Esca...
Contributor: Mina
...You start locking all your CDs in closed boxes, lest they start flying
up to Gaea for no reason...
...You start a heated debate as to whether the Escaflowne could take Terra
from Final Fantasy 6 in a Magi-Tek Armor...
...you try to change the gravitational constant of the earth, so that your
pendant will have a one second period...
...you start getting the same wounds on your body that your Guymelef
receives--which is pretty amazing seeing as you don't have a
Guymelef...
...You annoy the heck out of your astronomy professor with your repeated
questions about how the Earth could be so easily visible from Gaea and yet
not vice versa...
...when your choice is either to start writing that five-page paper due
tomorrow or watch another episode, there's no contest--and no paper...
...You start hanging out with your grandma more, just to see if she went
anywhere particularly interesting as a young girl...
...You found an organization dedicated to lobbying the Japanese government
to pass a law that says all shows must last at least three seasons...and,
if possible, you try to get it passed retroactive to 1996...
...You regularly try to bypass traffic by attempting to transform your car
into a flying dragon...
...you start to question as to whether there is truly a possiblity of ever
watching too much Escaflowne...
...you dye a horizontal white stripe into your hair...
...the term "Escaflowne" rolls easily and majestically off your tongue,
and the abbreviation "Esca" comes out even more often...
...you see the movie "Gladiator" and you ask out loud, "Sure, but how many
Guymelefs could Maximus have taken at one time?"...
...you instantly accuse anybody who beats you at anything of having
fortune-enhanced blood, and warn them that the time will come when they'll
get theirs...
...even your other friends who watch anime think you're weird and
obsessed...
...you seriously consider adding more than the 15 items you've already
come up with to this list...
Contributor: The Chubby Bullfrog
...You cut your hair (wich was formerly down to your butt) really short,
so you look like a dragonslayer!
...Your cosplay group is named after something/one from Esca...
...You insist on being called by you Dragonslayer name...
...You have converted more than 10 people to the ways of Esca...
...Including your English teacher...
...and your sister (who hates anime)...
...you know all of the inaudible words to "Cat's Delicacy"...
...you've done everything that was just said ((I did!Yatta!))...
Contributor: Anna
...when you try to get your boyfriend to dye his hair green (like folken-sama) and get a little tear tatooed under his eye...
Contributor: Kethry
...you fantasize of an orgy with Van, Folken, and Allen, and you can just
imagine what kind of kinky things you could do with those wings...
...you haven't dated for a year because you're "saving yourself" for
Van...whenever he comes along...
...every time you see an Asian guy with the name "Van", you automatically
think that it could, maybe, possibly, hopefully be him...
...you went to Anime Expo 2000 and flipped out when you saw "Van",
"Allen", "Hitomi", "Merle", and "Dryden" cosplayers...
...you vowed to make that "Van" cosplayer YOURS...
...you see the new Escaflowne movie and belittle it by comparing it to the
series...
...you whisper to yourself "Van", "Folken", and "Allen", in the hopes that
maybe they'll materialize at the mere mention of their names...
...you know, just KNOW that you'll meet someone that looks EXACTLY like
Van at about the same time that you cut your hair off and dyed it
brown...
...you convince yourself that you can pull of Hitomi's haircut... and
butcher your hair in the process...
...you get a schoolgirl outfit made just like Hitomi's (but a little
sexier) and WILL WEAR IT for the next Van that happens to come
along...
...you're jealous of your friend because she saw someone at the
Renaissance Faire that looked EXACTLY like Folken, minus the teardrop
tattoo...
...you actually ponder the idea of getting huge white or black wings
tattooed on your back... and you WILL once you get enough courage to stand
the pain and that annoying buzzing needle...
...you think Hitomi is SUCH an indecisive tease. She offers her first kiss
to Captain Amano, actually kisses Allen, and is such a prude with Van, who
is supposed to be, like, her soulmate...
Contributor: Mel
...you believe your sister disappears and blame Zaibach...
...when you don't have a sister...
...you rethink your views about your sister disappearing and believe it's
an awesome thing and think you can get a position on the Dragon
Slayers!
...you get a position on the Dragon Slayers...
...you take your Alseides to Fox and burn it because of bad Dilandau-sama
dubbing...
...you try to kill the Dragon in your party and take the Energist out of
its heart (in AD&D)...
...you manage to do so with the help of a Mage/Priest in a school
uniform...
...you kill the Mage/Priest because they start spouting off things about
death, destruction, etc...
...the catgirl of the party glomps you...
...you have a mech...
...you corrupt Van (Heavens help us this really happened in an anime
chatroom) and get him to join the Dragon Slayers...
Contributor: Atsuko Albatou
...you are looking for a "wings barbershop"...
...you try to get a crocodile heart... cause it seems a dragon
heart...
...your car is called "escaflowne" by you...
...and everyone know it so...
...and your neighborhood knows you like "escaflowne kid", "guy who
believes to have a dragon", "short hair girl with a pendant" or
"van-sama"...
...when you write "escaflowne" in katakana in your notebooks...
...when you change your beatiful fox terrier dog called "Spike" for an
ugly and little cat called "Merle"...
...when your e-mail login contains words like "escaflowne", "hitomi",
"van"...
Contributor: Leonardo Santana
...every time you see a barbecue, you start yelling
"Moero! Moero!!!"...
...you dye your hair silver like Dilandau's...
...and get a tattoo like Folken's...
...you get enough Esca pictures off the Net to fill two entire disks and
then print them ALL out to wallpaper your house...
...you try to use a pendant to create a column of light...
...it actually works...
...you dress as an Escaflowne character for Halloween...
...you dress as an Esca character and it ISN'T Halloween...
...you can't understand why the car dealer doesn't sell Alseides
units...
...you justify buying the whole series with "Well, it's cheaper than
Escaflowne's repairs"...
...you are hopelessly in love with Van and nearly took your friend's head
off when she said "He's only an anime character." NO! HE'S REAL!... uh,
this is hypothetical...
...you have posted pictures of Van all over your room just so you can wake
up to his face...
...the margins of every piece of notebook paper you have ever touched are
filled with drawings of pendants, feathers, tarot cards, and lots and lots
of pics of Van (sigh)...
...you dream about Esca whether you're asleep or awake...
...you call yourself Hitomi and cut your hair to look like hers (still
looking for the school uniform, though)...
...you actually DO read tarot and have started trying to figure out all
the meanings of the tarot cards at the beginning of the episodes, despite
the fact that it's a really screwy deck...
...you take a metalworking class just so you can make a pendant like
Hitomi's...
...you printed out the "Too Much Escaflowne When..." list and have it up
on your wall so you can mark things off as you do them, and you are proud
of this...
...you practice swordfighting just so, if you ever manage to get to Gaea,
you'll be able to take care of yourself...
...you watch the series until you can repeat every word in Japanese even
if you can't speak Japanese...
...you learn Japanese just from watching Escaflowne...
...you have gotten all your friends hooked on Escaflowne...
...even the ones who hate anime...
...you have drawn out all the relationships between all of the characters
and are constantly revising the map, which is now almost illegible (good
thing I've memorized it)...
...your friends, even the one with multiple personalities, think you're
crazy...
Contributor: Kira Slanzar de Fanel
...you hear a loud crash and think that Alseides units are in the
area...
...you used your college saving to buy the Kotobukiya resin models...
...you actually own the transforming Escaflowne model and wonder how you
can make it to match the real Escaflowne's dimensions...
...you ARE Van. No questions asked.
...you ARE Allen, even though you're a 16 year old girl with black
hair.
...you think that crazy mole man is good-looking for his... um,
status...
...you think Allen could have beaten Darth Vader...
...you think Escaflowne could have beaten the Death Star...
...you make your own music group and call it "The Dragonslayers"...
Contributor: (no name given)
...you start thinking you "sense the characters" and when you tell a
friend they stay away from you for about a week...
Contributor: Britt
...your science fair project is a fate redirector...
...you harrass your grandmother for a pendant...
...the last person who told you that Dilandau was a girl, has yet to have
been found...
...you are convinced that Folken from the movie was going for a David
Bowie look...
...you ignored your friends for days while you finished your Esca-thon
every day after school...
...you freaked when the realplayer stopped right when Allen approached
Hitomi on the bridge...
...you were screeching NOOOOOO...whilest Allen and Hitomi were on the
bridge...
...during almost every episode you're screaming. KISS KISS and your dad
walks in giving you the eye...
...your cousin asks you what you're watching and you go into a long
lecture about how great it is and how she should watch it until she walks
away...
...you bore your friends to death on the topic of Dilandau's gender...
...you have the urge to dye your hair pink and to grow a tail...
...you think that killing dragons "is mean"...
...you constantly ask for friends opinions on the playboy with the
illegitimate child...
...you fail a history project when you do a report on the downfall of
Atlantis...
...you screamed when you first heard Dilandau's dubbed voice...
...you cover your ears and hum Yakusoku wa Iranai whenever you hear the
geeno beat Escaflowne music that the dubbing added...
...You threaten people with your red Guymelef...
...You try to count all the times Hitomi says Van's name in every
episode...
...you miss Dilandau in all the episodes where he's MIA...
..you find yourself singing Yakusoku wa Iranai at the bus stop before
realizing an elementary school kid is looking at you oddly...
Contributor: Neko-saiyajin
...You tape the all the dubbed episodes of Escaflowne the day they're
shown then watch them again and again while plotting how to get the money
buy the subtitled episodes...
Contributor: [email protected]
...you act out scenes from Escaflowne, no matter where you are...
...you name all your friends and yourself after Esca characters...
...your friends avoid you for a week, because of this...
...you refer to your most hated teacher as Emperor Dornkirk...
...when you think your boyfriend's cat is giving you a strange look...
...you believe you ARE Hitomi, Van, Allen, Folken, Dilandau, etc. and
insist your friends call you by that name (I now go by Hitomi)...
...you begin to think you can see Gaea from your room...
...you go to every jewelry store and look for a pink pendant...
...and when you don't find one you attempt to make one yourself...
...you flip out anytime someone tells you Dilandau is really a girl
(arrrrrrggggg)...
...you print out tons of pictures of the characters and wallpaper your
room...
...you see a shooting star and wonder if it's Van coming back for
you...
...you set your alarm to wake up just in time to see the theme song from
Esca...
...you have so many pitures of Van, you begin a photo album...
...at times you become insanely jealous of Hitomi...
...at school you are known as the Escaflowne freak, and you are proud of
this...
...EVERYTHING reminds you of Escaflowne...
...people are afraid to have you sleep over because you shout out Van,
Allen, Folken, Dilandau's name in your sleep...
...you try to get you name changed (legally) to Hitomi, etc...
Contributor: Hitomi
...You wait for Van to come and rescue you... and surprisingly enough he
does...
Contributor: Zip dude
...you dress up as Hitomi for halloween and get furiously mad when the
arrogant know nothing candy givers ask who you're supposed to be dressed
as...
...you get a shabby looking cat, name it Merle just so you can beat it
(MWAHAHAHAHAHA!)...
...you start to ponder why Dilandau doesnt have a... *ahem* feminine chest
area... or why Serena was even changed to a man... and then take it back
quickly seeing as how that pyromaniac hoot luvin' Dilandau is your fave
chara...
...you put all the characteristics (Folken's tear drop, Van's mum's 2 cool
dot things on forehead, trying somehow to mix all their hair types into
one making a gross pukey green colour)...
...your eyes start to burn from reading the whole list but you want to
read more...
...you are afraid to draw Dilandau because you might not draw him
perfectly!!!!...waah that'd be bad...I wouldn't be able to live with
myself...
Contributor: Dilandou_luvah serena_will_die
...you fall in love with Dilandau at first sight and start writing a
romance fic...
...you throw a hissy fit and cry for a half hour, and throw away your fic
about you and Dilandau when you find out that Dilandau is Serena... ummm
it happened to me...
...You keep screaming for Hitomi and Van to get it together... you know
they're meant for each other, don't you?...
...You contantly get a dreamy look on your face when you think of Van,
Folken, or Dilandau...
...You curse Zaibach under your breath and vow to keep Dilandau a boy just
cause he's sooo kawaii...
...You go to every possible Dilandau site on the web including the
Ani-Pike...
...Escaflowne has become your brand new obsession...
...You wish you didn't live in California but on Gaea...
...Your pen name just so happens to be Nariko Fanel...
...You call yourself the daughter of Folken...
...You write a fic where Van marries Hitomi, Folken has a daughter (you),
Zaibach studies Escaflowne and makes their own only suited for a girl,
etc...
...zzzzzzzzyou fall asleep at the keyboard writing this...
...Your sister, who's away at college, asks you to e-mail her the plot
line for each week...
...You wish more often that you lived in Japan or at least your mom likes
Anime...
...You look at the holographic earth on your mousepad and call it your
"mystic moon" mousepad...
[Don't you mean "maboroshi no
tsuki" ? ^_^ -Phil]
...You find yourself calling your car formerly known as Tigger
"Escaflowne"...
...You are constantly saying the word Escaflowne...
...You write one of these at 12:00 in the morning and still have alot more
you could say if only you weren't so dang tir*yawn*ed...
Contributor: [email protected]
...u abuse everyone who makes fun of Dilandau and about what his
gender is (those idiots!)...
...u claim u r going out with most of the Dragonslayers and Dilandau...but
then ur friends don't talk to u for a while...
...u rewrite Escaflowne so Merle and Hitomi get married and u have Van,
Dilandau and the Dragonslayers to urself...
...if u see a guy cry u run up to him to check if his tears leave a
mark...
...you simultaneously scream out "Chester! Dilandau! Gatti! Help
me!"... Dilandau might not respond but the other two will rite? rite?
...u start singing in the middle of gym class
"Escaflowne! Escaflowne!" and magically posess the power to fantasize
without closing ur eyes watching them go into the changing room and
then....i'll shut up now
...during the Digimon movie u scream out "Dilandau is even hotter than
Matt!"...
...when someone asks u out u say no! I already have a boyfriend (mind u a
HOT escaflowne guy here)_____________
...u stare at pics of Dilandau kissing them at recess while ur friends
shake their heads and tell people u have um, problems...
...u make everyone watch Escaflowne by calling at 6:00 in the morning even
though it's not on yet...
...when Dilandau or a Dragonslayer is just perfect on the screen u pause
the tape and start kissing the screen, mmmmmmm...
...u tell off anyone who mentions hitomi is cool - I want Van too!
...u write threating letters and e-mails to Fox Kids telling them to use
the real voices instead of saving their money to not transport the Esca
chracters from Gaea...
...u have a website about each of those hotties...
...guys in ur class constantly tell u to get a grip... especially the ones
who don't like anime and um... never mind...
...u hate gundam wing because none of the esca characters were transported
there =(
...u constanly ask hot guys to dye their hair silver, get a tattoo of a
tear or to buy a Dragonslayer costume, they will agree *mwahahahah* ahem,
anyways...
...u tell ur teacher that Escaflowne is an essential in gym because sword
fighting is useful...
...u talk to ur neighbour's cat and ask him/her if he/she knows
Merle...
Contributor: [email protected]
...you have every possible picture of Van on the web...
...and draw more...
...you write a fanfiction for the continuation *BIG BLUSH* like me...
...you actually get transported to Gaea and fall in love with Van...
...you dye your boyfriend's hair black and surgicly implant wings that
really WORK!
...you get angry at your parents for making you miss the first minute of
an episode... No Comment...
...you read the 'You Know You've Been Watching Too Much Esca When' list
and think it is really funny...
...you tell your parents that you have wings and your name is Van...
...They actually believe you...
Contributor: Van I Love
...you SWEAR you saw Van, Allen, Dilandau, Folken etc. while you were
shopping and vowed never to leave the store until they returned for you,
no matter how long it would take...
Contributor: [email protected]
...when you start dreaming about Van kissing you...
...you try to kill your brother for making fun of Van and Hitomi...
...you yell at everyone to shut up when Escaflowne comes on...
...you start calling your cat Merle and your cat is male...
...you smack a kid in the face for saying Allen is a girl...
...when you try right a story of what happens to them after the show ends
in math class...
...you think the new kid in your homeroom looks a lot like Van...
Contributor: Vicki
...You make up you own character for the show that you daydream constantly
about because your character is so beautiful that Van, Allen and Dilandau
ALL like her...hee hee hee...
Contributor: [email protected]
...You buy a pager just to annoy your friends, or get them killed...
Contributor: Mathes
...you go around telling everyone your Queen of Fanelia...
...you tell the kid that likes you that you will go out with him if he
grows his hair long then die it blond...
...you ask (beg) your best friend to change her name to Yukari...
...you try to build your own EscaFlowne...
...you call 911 after trying to sew wings on your back (that really
hurts)...
...your friends think your weird for liking a cartoon (Van and
Allen)...
...you get colored contacts (green), cut your hair short, then die you
hair (light brown) just so you can look like Hitomi...
...you meet a 15 year old boy with the last name Fanel and ask him if he
has a twin brother name Van...
...you add more to this list after it already takes you 5 hours just to
read all of it...
...you kiss a boy in front of his girlfriend (watch out for the on coming
slap) just because he looks like Van...
...you try to kill a kid just because he looks like Dilandau...
...your friends stop talking to you because you (mistakenly) accuse them
of being a Zaibach spy...
Contributor: Vicki
...you tie your pink pendant tightly around your neck and hope you
pass out, then don't tell Van about the dragon's tail and hope Dilandau
recruits you as a dragon slayer so you can burn down all of Gaea except
for your flying fortress...
...you don't have a pendent of any kind....
Contributor: Azery
...you have a dream and see what Van looks like when he turns 17...
(never eat apples before you go to sleep)
Contributor: [email protected]
...you start drawing the characters in every boring class you have...
Contributor: Lisa
...you say "they killed Van!" instead of "they killed Kenny!"...
...you think Hitomi is Sailor Jupiter's little sister...
...you think Soul Caliber for Dreamcast is the official Escaflowne video
game...
...you might be a redneck...
...you think all redheads are Hitomi...
...you think of chess pieces as Escaflowne characters (i.e. Hitomi would
be the queen)...
...you have visions of cheerleaders as Hitomi...
Contributor: [email protected]
...you run down the street hoping that ONE of the street lamps is really a
beam that can send you to Gaea...
...you swear your cat flirts with your boyfriend...
...you swear that your cat Merle has stolen your pager...
...when you don't have a cat OR a pager...
...you tell your friends that when you grow up you'll live in Gaea...with
Van...
...you start calling your boyfriend Amano (I accidently did that
once!)
...you laugh until your crying at this list...until you realize you DO
half these things...
Contributor: Selphie Tilmitt
...your ICQ nick rotates between two or three Esca characters, depending
on your mood (Serena Schezar/Alseides/Viole/Darth Meruru)...
...your online diary-thingy is Esca-themed, and you write about something
Esca-related in at least every other post...
...you've figured out the stats for all the Esca characters and guymelefs
for the Big Eyes, Small Mouth rpg...
...you regularly play Esca characters in online rpgs...
...your D&D character is a Cleric of Escaflowne, chanting and all, and
your prop for his "holy symbol" is the Escaflowne keychain...
...you start dreaming up creative uses for crima claws (especially when
your boss is getting on your nerves)...
...you snarl at anyone who pronounces Dilandau-sama's name the way they
did in the dub... D'landow...
...you threaten to strangle anyone who DARES say "Esca-Flonase"...
...you like Fresca 'cause it sounds like Esca (the refreshingly crisp
citrus guymelef!)...
...you have an Esca-related domain name...
...you've caught all the Esca boys on pocket-bishonen.com, and all the
Esca girls on pocketbishoujo.com...
...you sang one of the Esca songs for your church talent show - in
costume. (I did this - "Neko no Kimochi" as Merle... darn shame
Dilandau-sama and the Dragonslayers don't have any official image songs
*snaps fingers*)
...you try to get your local classical station to play music from the Esca
soundtracks...
...you've got that "Please forgive us!!" Dragonslayer bow (and the line in
Japanese) down pat...
...you get the dvds (even though you already have the videos) and go make
use of a friend's dvd-rom to try to get screenshots of that one
Dragonslayer who gets like two seconds of screen time - the one who's
probably Viole...
...you own multiple Alseides models, one red and the rest blue...
...you own an Esca artbook... or two, or three...
...one of those you got specifically 'cause it had instructions on how to
put on the Dragonslayer armor (and the cutest picture of Dilandau-sama
holding an Alseides model)!
...the guy at the local anime place knows EXACTLY whom to show his new
Esca merchandise... *sweatdrop*
...you finally come to terms with Dilandau-sama's duality - you even find
it fascinating...
...you have an Esca-related "vanity" license plate...
...you've lost count of how many times you've watched the series, yet you
still cry at all the sad parts (poor, poor Dragonslayers!! *sniff*)...
...you lament the fact that Dilandau-sama gets so little screen time in
the movie (but what screen time he does get - woohoo! fanservice!)...
...you wake up from particularly vivid dreams saying, "Are wa yume? Sore
to mo maboroshi?"
Contributor: Elya-chan
...you where searching for Mystic Eyes, and you have just saw 4 Episodes
dubbed on TV (Chile), but read all the You Know... list and it's 4 AM,
then you try to get Escaflowne songs onto your cellphone...
Contributor: Predator
...You get every episode onto your computer so that you can take
snapshots to add to your... collection...
...You scream and yell an