Just some HMC reflections
Okay, this post has a teeny weeny spoiler of something happening between Howl's Moving Castle and Castle in the Air, but it's not fundamentally important except for one or two minor characters and I'm not even mentioning them. I swear.
I was trying to think what's the biggest difference between HMC book and anime. Characterization aside, I would've said "the war" some months ago. Anyone who has just read HMC would wonder WTF was with Ghibli pulling out a frigging WAR in the middle of a fantasy novel.
Because in the book they just mention there IS a chance there could be a war (with either High Norland or Strangia; I checked) any time soon, and that's why the king needed prince Justin around. The theory was, Ghibli people were on drugs and they used war to bring a moral, not regarding of canon.
However, after reading Castle in the Air... well, it's not so farfetched. It isn't even such a big canonrape. I mean, it still is, but the war thing DOES come from somewhere... and it's from CitA.
And here's the spoiler. Ingary did had a war with Strangia between the two books, and we can see some of the consequences happening during CitA and affecting some of the characters. But mind you, we never get to see the war in direct. It's just metacanon and character development... sort of.
Not even the whole recluiting wizards and witches came from nowhere. Because actually, Ingary DID recluit wizards to fight, and both Suliman and Howl were ordered to join the war; can't recall if it was just a Royal Wizard thing or there were more wizards giving a hand. I doubt Howl liked it one bit, but he still fought. Nobody stopped the war, though, and they had Ingary conquering Strangia because of magical cheating.
So basically, they just took that war, forwarded it, and played with it.
And I will NOT compare wizards in war with State Alchemists in Ishval, kthx.
I was trying to think what's the biggest difference between HMC book and anime. Characterization aside, I would've said "the war" some months ago. Anyone who has just read HMC would wonder WTF was with Ghibli pulling out a frigging WAR in the middle of a fantasy novel.
Because in the book they just mention there IS a chance there could be a war (with either High Norland or Strangia; I checked) any time soon, and that's why the king needed prince Justin around. The theory was, Ghibli people were on drugs and they used war to bring a moral, not regarding of canon.
However, after reading Castle in the Air... well, it's not so farfetched. It isn't even such a big canonrape. I mean, it still is, but the war thing DOES come from somewhere... and it's from CitA.
And here's the spoiler. Ingary did had a war with Strangia between the two books, and we can see some of the consequences happening during CitA and affecting some of the characters. But mind you, we never get to see the war in direct. It's just metacanon and character development... sort of.
Not even the whole recluiting wizards and witches came from nowhere. Because actually, Ingary DID recluit wizards to fight, and both Suliman and Howl were ordered to join the war; can't recall if it was just a Royal Wizard thing or there were more wizards giving a hand. I doubt Howl liked it one bit, but he still fought. Nobody stopped the war, though, and they had Ingary conquering Strangia because of magical cheating.
So basically, they just took that war, forwarded it, and played with it.
And I will NOT compare wizards in war with State Alchemists in Ishval, kthx.