Jones’s Howl’s Moving Caste was published in 1986 and is a charming fantasy novel filled with humor, a complex magical system, and rich world-building. Miyazaki kept the core premise of the ...

The Howl’s Moving Castle book gives descriptions of people, things, and places but you have more freedom to imagine the look of things. For example, Calcifer in the movie is not how I imagined ...

Before the initial release of “Howl’s Moving Castle” 20 years ago, Akihiko Yamashita spent nearly two years working as the supervising animator on the Studio Ghibli film. “I really have no ...