Our birthday girl is Hitomi Kanzaki who celebrates her birthday on the 9th of December. In the anime The Vision of Escaflowne we meet Hitomi Kanzaki, a freshman at her high school, Kama Kita. She is part of the school track team and has a crush on a fellow track team member, Amano Susumu. Hitomi is a very empathic, caring and friendly girl who is a bit of a romantic as well. She falls in love way too quickly and easily and pines away when that love is not returned. However, she can also be impulsive and get angry easily. She will do anything for those she loves. She always carries around her iconic pink pendant, a gift from her grandmother and her tarot cards.
She has always told people’s fortune with her tarot cards, soon after she started to have dreams that became true and she started to call these visions. The visions started to affect her when awake too. She has the ability to see into the future through unexpected visions, she can manipulate the outcome a little using her wishes and emotions, she is able to see the past and future also using her tarot cards, and she can see the unseen, like when people are cloaked or if they take another shape.
Now that you have a bit of background on her let’s look further into what happens to her. Hitomi meets and saves the life of Van, a young prince from Gaea that crossed a portal in order to slay a dragon. Transported to Van’s world, Gaia, she finds her fate is intertwined with his, even if her heart still belongs to Amano and later Allen, a gallant knight who bears a more than passing resemblance to Amano.
Hitomi Kanzaki is a girl of many journeys. In the anime, she is on a journey to discover things about herself that she never knew, while also journeying through the land of Gaea, where she met many people and fantastic fantasy creatures. The anime series is classic and well worth watching.