Hayao Miyazaki's "Howl's Moving Castle"

I guess I'll preface by saying that I've only seen a few of Miyazaki's movies: Mononoke Hime, Kiki's Delivery Service, and now Howl's Moving Castle. (Also, I know that Miyazaki didn't direct Grave of the Fireflies, but did he have some part in it?) GotF was just disturbingly amazing; saw it subbed at an anime club meeting. MH sucked; saw it in the theater, dubbed. KDS was really good; saw it subbed, also at a club meeting.

Howl's Moving Castle. I saw it tonight (its premiere date), dubbed, at the Loews theater at Lincoln Square. It was... amazing. Really, truly. I liked it from the beginning. It has a lot of elements that are characteristic of Miyazaki's direction, easy for one who has not seen all that many of his films to spot. I really enjoyed the complexity and depth of the story. I even thought that Howl was bishounen and too kirei and awesome for words. I want him. He's mine. =D I don't really want to give away the story, and seeing as how it's already 4:30am, I'm too tired to really go into detail, so no story description. If you want one, you can go here.

HOWEVER. . . [if you don't want to read possible SPOILERS, please make sure your background is #6d6d6d or read this post in my journal instead.]

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Howl is awesome. I want him for my very own. (Or at least, an icon of him.)