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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pazu" data-source="post: 611088" data-attributes="member: 679">Best place for info is <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net." target="_blank">www.nausicaa.net.</a>  Or you could sign on to the Studio Ghibli mailing list (I think the info is at the nausicaa.net site).  I think the Diana Wynne Jones website (<a href="http://www.dianawynnejones.com," target="_blank">www.dianawynnejones.com,</a> I think) also has some information.Haoru no Ugoku Shiro has been in the pipeline for a couple of years, actually; there was a brief snag when the original director(?), Mamoru Hosoda, couldn't come up with a treatment that the Studio Ghibli folks liked.  I believe that subsequently, Miyazaki announced that he himself would be taking the reigns. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  (No disrespect intended to Hosoda-san, whose work I also enjoy.)It seems like a perfect match to me.  The protagonist in Howl's Moving Castle is a classic Ghibli girl. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  I just hope they can make Howl over-the-top enough.Have you read the sequel, Castle in the Air?-- Pazu (a classic Ghibli guy) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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