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I got this Rainbow Mothra with flapping wings, very nice, but when you squeeze the abdomen the wings are meant to rise up. Earlier today I heard a snap from inside the toy and now the wings barely go up, worried it'll be stuck like that forever. The hinges aren't affected, I can still lift them up all the way, but I think the box that has to be pushed to make the mechanism work has fallen out of place inside the body. I'm not sure what to do about it and I don't want to damage her in order to get inside. Does anyone else have this Mothra? Have you had this problem too? Is there a fix for it?

Edit: Look if you're going to be unhelpful maybe don't reply. And no don't try and be cute and just post "helpful reply" if you don't have anything to actually add don't bother typing anything

There's two wind-up toys of Howl's Castle, but the one based on the one from the movie is too expensive for me, so I got the one sold at the Ghibli Park and based on the replica of the castle that lives there. I haven't been to the Ghibli Park (or Japan for that matter), I had this imported. I love it, it's great, though it feels a bit more like Howl's Crawling Castle lol.

If asked what my favourite Ghibli film was I'd give a pretty boring answer of Howl's Moving Castle (also the response if asked for my favourite film in general, I feel like I have very basic bitch taste unfortunately, only category of media I'd give a strange response to is if asked what my favourite video game is, to which I'd respond with Untitled Goose Game), but that and most of my other favourite Ghibli films are all helmed by Miyazaki who yeah is one of the best directors in cinema but what would you pick if asked for the best Ghibli film that he DIDN'T helm? Or that Takahata didn't helm, I imagine I'd see Grave of the Fireflies as the main answer if I didn't specify that too (I'm sure it's good but I'd like to see more variety).

I'd have to say The Cat Returns. Some of this is bias-I really like cats. But I also think it's the funniest film to come from the studio, particularly when it comes to the Cat King (rest in peace Tim Curry) and Muta (whose English VA Peter Boyle died in 2006 good lord I never knew that). The scene where Yuki gets fed as a kitten also makes me cry every time I watch it. It's the meowing that sets me off more than anything. Also side note, I really like that Yuki is a white cat who's known for being beautiful. It's great, Yuki (雪) means snow in Japanese, and snow is pretty, it's the perfect name.

One more thing about this film that I can't believe. Haru's VA in the dub is Anne Hathaway, long before she played CATWOMAN in The Dark Knight Rises. It's weird enough that three eponymous Ghibli movie characters have been voiced by actors who played Batman (Michael Keaton as Porco Rosso, Christian Bale as Howl and Robert Pattinson as The Heron), but the Hathaway fact is really funny for some reason. I guess she does turn into a literal cat-woman in this film...

The English lines work fine (OK Jiji saying "Don't look now but that's an airplane flying below us" is probably one of the only Hartman lines I'm not big on), but the Japanese ones are more...evocative I guess? And funnier in the case of the Jiji one. It's even in line with Jiji being more sarcastic in the dub, which is something I think the Disney dub improved on from the Japanese version (like yeah that's in character for a cat)

I realise calling these fan art is a bit generous since all I did is slap text on them, but I don't know what else I'd call these.

Didn't know he wrote music

The way they descend from the ceiling is just really satisfying and adds to the comedy of Sophie's disgust towards the state of the castle. This movie has completely earned its reputation and critical acclaim, truly is one of the greatest films ever made, even the spiders are excellent.

To my knowledge nowhere got an official release of Howl's Moving Castle on VHS outside of Japan, as the film was released in the format's dying years. First image is one I made today, and the second is one I made when I first started making fake VHS covers (because yes I do this often). I do own a custom VHS copy of HMC, but I didn't make the cover art for it. This is what I consider the greatest film of all time, so naturally I wanted to own a copy on a worse video format. It's just a pity I can't get it on the PSP's UMD format, the ideal viewing experience for any film (you may laugh, but the first time I saw Godzilla 1998 and Batman 1989 was on the copies released for the PSP. Not close to Howl's quality and are enjoyable precisely for how stupid they are, but maybe when I get around to watching Perfect Blue I'll do it on PSP. No Ghibli movies got a UMD release sadly).

Edit: Just noticed I missed a comma so the blurb implies that Ghibli has made multiple films based on Wynne Jones' book. Minor mistake but it's really bugging me for some reason.

Also apparently she's around 19? I could've sworn she was older.

I wish there was a higher quality version of this poster without the text but alas

I think it's funeral related and wanting to give the dead a proper burial, since churches are often involved with funerals. Or the clerics are just cannibals.

He wouldn't have been in the film but if you ever wanted to know what a MonsterVerse Gamera would look like

I originally had this idea for Godzilla (alongside an animated remake of the 1998 Godzilla and Mothra as a 90s animated American musical, akin to the Disney Renaissance and The Prince of Egypt but I digress), but was then told the premise would fit Gamera way better. I tried fleshing it out a little more a few days ago.

If you've ever seen The Iron Giant, you'll know what kind of movie this would be. If not, to put it simply, it's about a kid who discovers a giant robot that fell to Earth and they become friends. So you can see how that premise would fit Gamera (I mean it's kind of like Gamera the Brave). I'm not entirely sure what I'd want the general plot to be at the moment (if I were to write it into a full story), but the most consistent part of all the ideas I have for it is that, like The Iron Giant, Gamera was originally a weapon of mass destruction who goes from being a destroyer to a protector, being either built by aliens or the Atlanteans.

One of the ideas for the Alien route is that Gamera was made by aliens seeking to conquer and occupy Earth by attacking it with bioengineered Kaiju, and Gamera betrays his alien creators through his friendship with the young boy, or would've been part of a larger army of bioengineered turtle Kaiju on either an alien planet or in Atlantis, who turned on their creators and destroyed their civilisation, with Gamera being the last of these in existence. This is partly influenced by The Iron Giant, but also by the Heisei Gamera trilogy and Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, as they have giant creatures (the Giant Warriors in the case of Nausicaä and of course Gyaos in the case of Gamera) being built as weapons that caused the fall of their respective civilisations. I'm kind of a sucker for stories where advancements in weaponry lead to the end of the world. In either case Gyaos would also be bioengineered weapons, being either alien or created by a human military, and they'd be the main threat that Gamera would have to fight.

Sorry if any of this is poorly explained, I'm not great at articulating my thoughts. I'd also just call the movie Gamera, since aside from the 2015 short there's no film that just has that name.