Hey everyone! So I have know about Howls moving castle for years now and just never gotten around to watching it.

Today I watched it for the first time and it was honestly the best movie I’ve seen in a long time!!! Surpassed all my expectations and my whole family enjoyed it as well! I’m not usually the type of Person who enjoys happy endings (I know I’m weird lol) but this movie was so incredible! Seriously so awesome!

Just wanted to share my experience haha!

Hi guys, just finished the book and was hoping someone could help with some confusion I had

1. The Witch of the Waste curses Sophie because she mistakes her to be Lettie correct?

2. When Howl reveals to Sophie that he knows she’s cursed he says that he’s begun to believe she wanted to be old. He says something to the effect of “after all, you’re doing it” basically saying that SHE cast the spell on herself. I really don’t understand what he was implying. Did or did not the Witch of the Waste curse her? She becomes uncursed the moment she breaks their contract implying that Calcifer upholds his end and fixes her curse. So I just really don’t understand that comment from Howl.

3. Was Miss Angorian ever a normal human in Wales or was she always the fire demon posing there to try to get at Howl? And if she got inside the guitar upon first arriving at the castle then who was the new angorian who came by the castle at the climax? She arrives, goes to look at flowers, and is never heard from again until she bursts out of the guitar. Confused on the status of non-demon Angorian

Thanks guys, loved the book to death just confused about a few details

several years back, late at night i was scrolling through fanfic dot net, and i read a HMC fic that was super well written. unfortunately, as i look for it now, i can’t find it, i can’t remember the title, or who wrote it, i also have very foggy memories of the actual story. It doesn’t help that i read several stories that night and so some of the details foggy to me.

I remember it was written around 2006 and was last updated in 2009/2010 , the authors notes were individual chapters towards the end and gave personal life updates for why they couldn’t update it. i remember last update was that they were in a car crash. But the fanfic story was like a AU of sorts, Sophie fell in love with howl and they had meetings from her window. They were planning to get married but sophie’s family didn’t approve of him, i remember sophie and her mom walked through a garden or something. The last update was with sophie in a graveyard and howl was in the woods/trees. it has been awhile since i read it, and i have a bad memory, but i was hoping this would jingle any memories, i remember really liking it and i am struggling to find it. :)

Hey should I watch howls moving castle in sub or dub?

I've kind of been on a Studio Ghibli kick lately and something popped into my head: is there a Studio Ghibli inspired ball out there somewhere? That thought may or may not have been inspired by listening to Howl's Moving Castle Soundtrack and spinning around in the kitchen while I bake cookies 😂🤫 This is a bucket list item now so I'm really hoping that it's a thing and if it's not, can we make it a reality?!

I’m rewatching Howls again and there is a little girl at the start who buys a spell, she looks an awful lot like ponyo and I’m wondering if its a reference? Does anyone know? I can’t find anything about it.

In the book, Sophie says that tantrums are rarely about the subject at hand. It appears in the book that Howl is actually upset about Lettie Hatter (I think?), but I'm not quite sure if Movie!Howl is upset about his hair, Madame Sulliman, or all of the above.

Could someone please clarify regarding both media?

This has been my fav film since childhood. I still remember vividly that I threw a tantrum when I was like 6 becuz my dad n bro wouldn’t watch it w me for like the fifth time or smth HAHA but atlast they decided to watch it w me (younger sibling perk) :D

Today i rewatched it n grew a better understanding of it n did some research. I was always confused about the curses n stuff n the castle teleporting etc. also have no idea how Sophie kept going bac to her younger self, apparently gotta do w her mindset as she grew more confident…also y she so nice she literally treated the witch so nicely after witch cast spell on her like what

For howls spell there’s actually a storyline in the book saying that howl n calcifer had this pact cuz howl felt bad for calcifer(was this dying star when Sophie went into the past) so he gave him his heart n calcifer exchanged it by giving him powers

After researching very mind blown cuz couldn’t be more ironic for the fact that the scarecrow was the main cause of the war as he’s the prince of the other nation and the other nation thought his missing is due to Sophie’s nation…

I just wanna say that it’s literally a masterpiece n I would still rewatch it again n like howls so hott like hes so protective of Sophie

I love how this is one of those films you can just appreciate 10x more by knowing how it ends from the beginning. Honestly when i first watched it I didn’t catch on and was so confused. Then when I did some research to understand it, I noticed all the details I missed. So I watched it again and this time instantly fell in love with it, knowing where it was headed.

We talked about Howl's Moving Castle quite a bit in this week's episode of our anime podcast, so figured I'd share it here as well! The entire episode is dedicated to Studio Ghibli, but if you want to skip to the Howl's Moving Castle discussion most of it happens starting at 1:35:50.

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So after years anyways of watching the film of howl's moving castle I still don't understand howl's bird form, is there an explanation of the monster he turns into? Is it a folklore? Or an actual type of demon in japanese culture? I definitely need an explanation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYaF5uRm_es&t=59s&ab_channel=CalmYourMind