Yeah, Escaflowne is the story of a spunky but self-doubting high school track runner who finds herself displaced in a fantasy-like world, separated from her friends and family, caught between the affections of two older guys, and all the while hunted by a megalomaniacal emperor and his armies of oppression. And what FOX tried to do was rearrange footage in every episode so that one of the supporting characters, a brooding badass prince who is quick to violence and commands a caped dragon-mecha, was made the star of the show instead. You know, for the boys! As you'd predict, the results were pretty disgusting.