In this blog post, we’ll analyze how ‘Castle in the Sky’ combines its fantasy adventure world, characters, and plot to spark the audience’s imagination. Definition of the Fantasy Adventure Genre The fantasy genre is not fundamentally evaluated based on realism or strict logic. Fantasy is free from reality and persuades the audience through the story’s “plausibility.” Here...
The Boy and the Heron: Why Must We Choose Reality?
This blog post deeply explores the choices we must make between ideals and reality, and how the process of healing and growth alters the course of our lives, through Mahito’s journey in the film The Boy and the Heron. Long ago, ‘The Boy and the Heron’ was supposed to be director Hayao Miyazaki’s final work. Though he later reversed his retirement decision, making it not his...