the vision of   
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Kanzaki Hitomi, the heroine of the story, has one special ability - and that is to be able to take glimpses of the future. This, so-called the "vision" that she possessed, is what leads her into the alien planet called Gaea.

On a certain school day, the track team captain agrees to give Hitomi a kiss should she run 100 metres in 13 seconds. She, thus, starts running. As she approaches the finishing line, she sees the "vision" again, this time, a young man in battle with a dragon. The vision soon materialises and the dimensional gap, or a sort of a wormhole that supposedly connects two different dimensions through hyperspace, opens up for a brief period. This young man, called Van Fanel, slays the dragon, and whilst returning to his own world, takes Hitomi by accident. Hitomi finds herself in a totally different world, where earth and the moon appear together in the night sky. It is known later that Van Fanel was destined to be the king of Fanelia, but all of a sudden, the foreign force called the "Zaibach", attacks.

In this story, Hitomi's vision and the pendant given to her by her grandmother play the key role, and also, this is what the entire plot centres around. Will they be able to defend Fanelia from the Zaibach aggression? Or will Hitomi even survive to return to her home?

from anime genesis