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You don't have to be an otaku to like anime movies. There are people who love the multidimensionality of Japanese productions, and calling them "fairy tales for children" irritates them. There are also people who do not understand their message, seeing only a strange line, brutality and incomprehensible symbolism. Well, both sides have their beliefs and we are left to accept that. In 2004, Hayao Miyazaki, a Japanese director, cartoonist and comic book creator, created a full-length anime entitled Howl's Moving Castle . Two years later, the film received an Oscar nomination for the best animated film. His inspiration was the characteristic buildings of a French town called Colmar. What captivated a director from a distant country in an Alsatian town so much that he decided to set the plot of his film in the main center of the 68th department?.