Howl's Moving Castle is a popular fantasy anime film directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Released in 2004, it quickly became a fan favorite thanks to its magical story, endearing characters, and stunning ...

A few years ago, the standard perception of Japanese anime was of strange, noisy cartoons that made no sense. Anime fans would always respond in the same way: they’d point to the delightful and ...

Howl’s Moving Castle might not have won an Academy Award like its sister movie in Studio Ghibli‘s Spirited Away, but it remains a fan favorite anime movie for many who make up the community, and one ...

Studio Ghibli swung open the doors of its amusement park late last year, giving anime fans in Japan the opportunity to see some of the beautiful anime locales brought to the real world for the first ...

Japanese animation has been influencing American pop culture for years now, appearing in everything from “Teen Titans” to Tarantino to Nike ads. How fitting, then, that Japan’s top animator, Academy ...

Ghibli Fest is bringing Howl’s Moving Castle back to theaters, which means it’s time to revisit one of the movie’s great little visual puzzles. The story of the film is relatively straightforward: ...