Interesting to see the process of creating the film!

A beautiful examination of one of my favourite Miyazaki films.

I love this book because I love Studio Ghibli films and I love Howl's Moving Castle, so it's natural that I like anything related to that. I think Hayao Miyazaki's work is fantastic, and the artwork is really beautiful, which is why I gave it four stars. Fair warning then, my review is biased. The reason why there is a star missing, is because the artwork is beautiful but it's mostly stills from the film. 60% to 70% of the book is mostly things you've seen in the film. While the film is beautiful, and the images are still fantastic, I would love to see more artwork behind the scenes, and I would love to see more of their process. I liked the script at the back of the book, which was interesting. It gives more depth and a lot more information about the film, which I think is great. If the editors or whoever put this book together would add more stuff about pre-production, rather than use screen grabs and add information to back up the images, it would be more interesting and in my eyes deserve 10 billion stars rather than four.

god this book (and movie) was beautiful

A very great art book that provides a lot of concept art and finished background paintings! A stunning book!

Can't wait to go through their other art books. Becuase this one is an amazing representaiton of their process.
I loved that they add bits of comments here and there giving it personality.

Totally worth the price! So many informations! Now I need to watch this movie again with new knowledge I've just gained. And I can't wait for another book from this series I've already bought - one about Spirited Away :)

only a genius can come up with this. the amount of time it takes… the attention to detail. my favorite film of all time

A collector's item, full of illustrations of the movie and its conception and comments from the artists and director. I am so happy they are making more of these. Howl's Moving Castle is and always will be a masterpiece, and my comfort movie. And to anyone remotely interested in filmmaking this is a must have. Beautiful to the core.

My only complaint: there wasn't a blown-up picture of the last shot before the credits! Darn it. >__>

So lovely to see the behind the scenes!

‘Sophie stayed calm in extreme circumstances that would have overwhelmed most people. I found this inspiring.’
I feel so fortunate to get a look into the makings of one of my favourite films. It’s so interesting seeing Miyazaki’s original concept sketches to seeing the full-colour frames they become. A gorgeous book about a gorgeous film.