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The train scene in Spirited Away is one of my favorite moments in any film, but I gotta go with Howl's Moving Castle. It does things to my heart, and it's easily the one I've watched the most.

G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me

In honor of Hayao Miyazaki's birthday, what's your favorite Studio Ghibli film? Doesn't have to be the one you think is "the best," just the one that nestled in your heart. Mine is Howl's Moving Castle.

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@vyriadurav.northsky.social

6 Jan

it's really good. Have you read the books? I liked contrasting them with the movie as both do some really fun stuff

Sen, but Spooky

@dresdencodak.com

I haven't, but my gf has and said the same thing!

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SDSkuld

@sdskuld.bsky.social

6 Jan

Your girlfriend is a smart lady as evidenced by her dating you but also this book thing.

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@vyriadurav.northsky.social

6 Jan

Definitely worth checking out! Diana Wynne Jones is one of those authors I have a lot of fond memories of reading when I was younger. Book Sophie is a lot of fun and differs a fair bit from movie Sophie and Howl is even more of a disaster (affectionate)

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@vyriadurav.northsky.social

6 Jan

a lot of her work also, even when it wasn't perfect, had a core of kindness to it that I recall. One of her series I liked and should reread was the Dark Lord of Derkholm about a wizard and his family getting strongarmed by a tourism agency into acting as a Sauron figure to wow tourists

Ornery on Main

@dishonorstudent.bsky.social

6 Jan

Sen, I second everything this person is saying. I hold DWJ right up there with Terry Pratchett. She has a style that is both whimsical and serious in equal measure. She doesn't pack the same narrative gut-punch as Terry, but she leaves you feeling warm and satisfied at the end of every book.