Indhold: In search of Miyazakiworld ; Hametsu ; Constructing an animator ; The joy of movement ; Ups and downs : Castle of Cagliostro ; Nausicaä and "the feminine principle" ; Orphans of the sky: Laputa : castle in the Sky ; Umbrellas in the haunted forest : transcending national and personal trauma in My Neighbor Totoro ; The witch and the city : time, space, and gender in Kiki's Delivery Service ; Porco Rosso lands in Casablanca ; From messiah to shaman : the Nausicaä manga seeks light in the darkness ; The faces of others : boundary crossing in Princess Mononoke ; The intimate apocalypse of Spirited Away ; The castle, the curse, and the collectivity : Howl's Moving Castle ;Rich and strange : the apocalypse of the innocents in Ponyo ; "A terrible wind" : the Wind Rises ; Conclusion.