We pick up with Sophie as she’s forced to appeal to the king to allow Howl not to join the war. Pretending to be his mother, she comes face to face with Howl’s teacher and antagonist Madame Sulliman, as the Witch of the Waste is proven to be far from the most dangerous enemy Howl …

We return to the world of Studio Ghibli with 2004’s award winning Howl’s Moving Castle. Sophie is an introverted hat maker whose life is turned into disarray after a chance encounter with the famed wizard Howl. A curse transforms her into a 90-year-old woman and sends her to the Moving Castle to look for a …