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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The news was broken via NHK who confirmed Shuntaro Tanikawa passed away at 10:05pm JST on November 13th. The poet died in a hospital in Tokyo from old age. According to a tweet from his son Kensaku, ...

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: ...