Film Books 2

Here's the sequel post to Film Books 1 ^^

• In ep16 the white Japanese sweet (looks to be a mochi cake with red bean paste and nuts in the middle) is made by Hitomi's mom. No wonder why Hitomi is bad at cooking, haha. In my house we like to say that these talents skip generations.
• The Schezar family is a major house of knights in Asturia. Because Leon chose not to be a knight, his family was alienated from the main branch. He left his home because he was unhappy, the pressures of being born into a knight's house. He went to Asgard to find Gaea's legends because of his interests in archeology.
• The names Naria and Eriya that Folken gave to Narunaru and Beruberu are the names of Fanelia's twin goddesses of harvest.
• Hitomi's pendant is one of the pendents that all Atlanteans carried, as seen in ep17. The energist is synthetic, made from their concentrated thoughts/spirit.
• At the beginning of the Esca project, the story, concept, and title were different, and was for 39 eps. Then the revisions added Folken, Dragon Slayers, as well as other characters, and was condensed to 26 eps.
• Leon and Dornkirk were both going to the Mystic Valley, but only Leon entered, because Dornkirk had impure intentions.
• The energist from Varie (at the end of ep17) was a test for her son, to know about the enemy. So after Van was teleported in front of Dornkirk, the energist fulfilled its purpose and disappeared. As for the why the chest energist on Escaflowne turned green--that was sealed off by Varie because she didn't want him to rely on guymelef during this dangerous situation. Tough love, I suppose.
  
• When they've escaped from Zaibach on Escaflowne, Allen averted his eyes after letting Hitomi go because he was embarrassed. This was his first time flying on Esca.
• The images at the beginning of ep19 was a filmclip made by Dornkirk for the military council, titled "Zaibach if Escaflowne is left wild".
• Ep22's flashback when Folken read a story to Van--that was a real scroll artifact from 10000 years ago about the first king of Fanelia. So I was partially right ;P
• In ep23, Van, Hitomi, and Merle helped out at the shelter outside of Palas city. Van came along (with Merle attached) because Hitomi is unfamiliar with Gaea's geography and relies on him for directions. (Although, Van hasn't visited Palas before, either. So maybe Hitomi is just bad in directions? That'd explain ep19 when Van rushes out into the rain because he thought Hitomi would be lost.)