Visions of Escaflowne the manga (guys 8 volume version), the girls version of the manga, or the series?
Me, I prefer the manga cause it gets more in depth with Van and Hitomi- that and Hitomi don't have lezbean hair in the manga; she's hawt. I really like the direction of the story in the manga and how well it's told- no down time at all in it. That and they didn't screw with Dilandau too much in the manga. In other words, he wasn't two people trapped in the same body (gay!).