My Top 1 Animé Movie of All Time.
Dragon Balls Z, Street Fighter, Heidi, Voltes V and Slumdunk are few of hundreds anime series that I have watched during my childhood years. I was always in a hurry to go home, so I can watch Voltes V and Gundam series. Of course, it is already dubbed in Tagalog (batang 90’s, relate?). The battle of good and bad. The love and struggle of the characters, and of course, the amazing fights using superpowers! Kame-hame wave!!!!! (Done with hand gestures).
As I grew older my fondness hasn’t changed when it comes with animé series and movies. I remember sitting on a couch watching a movie in Disney Channel at 9pm! Well that time, it wasn’t just me sitting there and watching. My nephew already slept that time,but my older sibling was still up, and we found ourselves watching an interesting movie. In Disney Channel. 9:00pm. Well, that movie is one of my favorite! It was the Howl’s Moving Castle.
HOWL’s MOVING CASTLE.
A film by Studio Ghibli. An animated adaptation of the book titled Howl’s MovingCastle by the British author, Diana Wynne Jones. Directed by Japanese film director Hayao Miyazaki in 2004. Set in the eve of World War I in a far away land in Europe, a clanking castle with a chicken foot was in constant move. Day and night it was traveling through places and places. It has a chimney that is also constantly giving out smokes while it moves. A good-looking wizard is the owner, Howl. The female main character is Sophie, she woke up one day as an old lady because of a spell cast on her by a witch. She ran away and found Howl’s castle in the countryside. She lived there as a house help, and whenever she sleeps, she turns back to her real age.
Another interesting character in the film is Calcifer. Calcifer is a fire demon. He didn’t want to die, so he made a deal with Howl. Howl’s heart in exchange for Calcifer’s considerable power. Calcifer became the heart of the castle, the fire made everything work. They are connected in some way, if one will die, the other will also die.
Markl is a boy and Howl’s apprentice. Howl found him sleeping at his doorsteps, he told him to get inside and from that moment Markl started to work for Howl. He manages all of Howl’s business whenever he’s not around. He also cleans and take care of the castle. At first, he thought Sophie is another witch trying to barge in to Howl’s life, but on, him and Sophie became good friends.
Turnip Head is a cursed prince. He is a two pole scarecrow who helps Sophie . He follows the moving castle and wanders most of the time. At the end, the spell was broken with Sophie’s true love kiss. Hence, the spell will only get broken if he receives a kiss from a girl that he loves. Oh! Silent love. That must be very difficult for him as he can’t speak in a form of a scarecrow. He thanked Sophie and promised to end the war. The story depicts a time during the war. Howl transforms into a montrous bird like creature during battles.
The Witch of the Waste and Madame Suliman are the antagonist. The Witch of the Waste is Howl’s ex-girlfriend who wants his heart, and somehow managed to enter the magical castle and figured out that Calcifer is Howl’s heart. Madam Suliman on the other hand is the King’s Sorceress, and was Howl’s teacher. She had seen Howl’s gift and wanted him to he her replacement as the Royal Sorcerer to the King. Howl declined, and that made her angry. She wanted to get Howl’s power and uses the war as an excuse to track down wizards and witches.
The Witch of the Waste tried to take Calcifer, and that made her set in fire. Sophie took Calcifer away and everyone out of the Castle. The castle collapsed. Calcifer was slowly dying, and so is Howl. Sophie has the ability to bring things in life. She uses that to free both Calcifer and Howl from their bonded contract. Well, the story did have a happy ending. Sophie and Howl ended up together. Calcifer is enjoying his freedom but still visits the castle from time to time. Markl is still staying with Howl and Sophie and the best thing, the war ended. And oh! They got a new moving castle, up in the air!
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The movie has a lot of interesting characters which is very typical of a regular Disney movie. I'm guessing this isn't a Japanese anime like dragon ball Z