Think of it as the Series 12C version (for those who have read Ms Jones' Chrestomanci books.) The main elements are there, some re-arranged, some changed, yet with a full understanding of the original. The soul of the story is intact, Sophie and Howl and Calcifer are nearly as I imagined them. I began to pace the floor in anticipation of the movie. His movies share a lot with her novels a whimsical sense of humor, impossible to pigeonhole into a category, magic and mischief, and a firm respect for the audience's intelligence. Then I saw Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, The Cat Returns, and Kiki's Delivery Service. I really wondered how it would all come out translated into Japanese. This story (as all of her stories) revels in word play. Ms Jones refuses to allow her imagination be neatly pigeonholed as hard sci-fi or straight fantasy, juvenile or adult.
The book (one of my very favorites, which I re-read at least once a year) takes several fairy-tale conventions and merrily turns them upside down. When I read some four years ago that Diana Wynne Jones had sold the rights for Howl's Moving Castle to a Japanese animator, I wondered.
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