The Escaflowne Manga Gallery
Ten volumes, two publishers' imprints, and two completely different Hitomis.
Escaflowne reached print before it reached television. The gallery below documents every collected volume of both manga series from the publisher record: Katsu Aki's eight-volume shōnen version from Shōnen Ace, and Yuzuru Yashiro's two-volume shōjo version from Asuka Fantasy DX, both from Kadokawa Shoten.
A note on images, in the Library's usual honesty: verified cover images for these out-of-print Kadokawa volumes could not be sourced from any archive we are willing to stand behind (the publisher's bibliographic database confirms every volume below but carries no cover art), so the gallery documents each cover by its full bibliographic record rather than picturing it with a borrowed scan.
THE SHŌNEN MANGA · KATSU AKI
Shōnen Ace · 8 volumes · 34 chaptersVol. 1 · Mar 28, 1995
ISBN 978-4-04-713104-0 · Opens with "Vision 1: Of Dreams and Legends." Katsu Aki, drawing the pre-production Escaflowne: heavier and harder than the series that eventually aired.
Vol. 2 · Nov 28, 1995
ISBN 978-4-04-713123-1 · Visions 5–9, through "Zaibach Infiltration."
Vol. 3 · Apr 1, 1996
ISBN 978-4-04-713137-8 · Visions 10–14. On shelves the same week the anime premiered, and already telling a different story.
Vol. 4 · Jul 29, 1996
ISBN 978-4-04-713147-7 · Visions 15–18.
Vol. 5 · Nov 27, 1996
ISBN 978-4-04-713169-9 · Visions 19–22, including "Suicide Bombing," a title the anime would never have carried.
Vol. 6 · Apr 25, 1997
ISBN 978-4-04-713181-1 · Visions 23–26.
Vol. 7 · Sep 1, 1997
ISBN 978-4-04-713195-8 · Visions 27–31.
Vol. 8 · Jan 28, 1998
ISBN 978-4-04-713208-5 · Visions 32–34, ending with "Final Vision: Dreams of a World." Tokyopop's English edition of this volume closed the run on September 14, 2004.
THE SHŌJO MANGA AND THE ANTHOLOGY
Asuka Fantasy DX · 2 volumes + 1Hitomi, Vol. 1 · Sep 27, 1996
ISBN 978-4-04-852739-2 · Yuzuru Yashiro's shōjo retelling, collected under its new title after serialization as Messiah Knight. Six chapters, prologue to "Storm Raider."
Hitomi, Vol. 2 · Apr 7, 1997
ISBN 978-4-04-852799-6 · The remaining chapters, closing with "Eternal Feelings" and an epilogue. The whole of the shōjo Escaflowne fits in two volumes.
Energist's Memories · Jan 8, 1997
The third manga: a single anthology volume of 15 mini-stories by seven artists, Tammy Ohta, Yayoi Takeda, Kahiro Okuya, Daimoon Tennyo, Kazumi Takahashi, Masaki Sano, and Kyo Watanabe, under Kadokawa's Asuka Comics DX imprint.