Heavy Hearts and Found Family

"Howl's Moving Castle" analysis & discussion podcast.
Also known as "Hauru no Ugoku Shiro"
Welcome to our 16th podcast on the films by Studio Ghibli. Today we're talking about one that is often less well regarded by critics but we're giving the movie an earnest shot! Of all the Miyazaki films this might be the most divisive, but it is also a fond memory of many childhoods. On the cast today are: Nyard, PlatonSkull, Hipster_Cthulhu, Tassu and Voice-Flower.

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And here's a link to the Mr Btongue Video Hipster recommends: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHrTTgmB_3w

Our sources:
Web:
Ford - "A Body is a Heavy Thing"
https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2017/03/13/a-body-is-a-heavy-thing/

Interview with Dianne Wynne Jones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BbhWrjIImg

Newsweek Interview with Miyazaki
http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/interviews/newsweek.html

Elyse Martin - "Howl-ever It Moves You: Diana Wynne Jones and Hayao Miyazaki Do the Same Work With Different Stories"
https://www.tor.com/2020/05/05/howl-ever-it-moves-you-jones-and-miyazaki-do-the-same-work-with-different-stories/

Akimoto - "Howl’s Moving Castle in the War on Terror"
https://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/ejcjs/vol14/iss2/akimoto.html

Dobay - "Howl’s Moving Castle Explained: Character Analysis and Main Themes"
https://www.followthemoonrabbit.com/howls-moving-castle-people-dont-want-to-be-adults/

Paper:
Gossin - "Animated Nature: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Empathy in Miyazaki Hayao's Ecophilosophy"
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/mech.10.2015.0209

Levi - "Review: Howl's Moving Castle"
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41510916

Miyazaki - "Turning Point"
Print - Viz Media

Napier - "Miyazakiworld"
Print - Yale University Press

Rudd - "Building Castles in the Air [...]"
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24352209