Appearance and identity in Howl's Moving Castle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL41fu_Y44Q - 11:53

    You can usually tell a lot about a person by their appearance.  How someone appears to you based

on what they actually look like and what you think about them based on that also says a lot about their

identity.  There are also other factors, like what the person is actually like, which is important to know

since that's how you can really get to know them instead of just know about them, but appearance and

identity are important.  It's also important to know that appearance and identity can change over time. 

In anime, this usually applies to identity more than appearance, but there are some examples, like

Howl's Moving Castle, where appearance and identity are linked or equally important, which the video

in this reflection also explains.

     In Howl's Moving Castle, the appearance of some of the characters changes over time due to their

identity (or the identity of some of these characters changes their appearance over time - or something

like that).  What a person does, why they do it, what they are like, etc. influences how they think they

see themselves, how they think other people see them, and how they are actually seen, both by others

and themselves.  This is not just true for these characters, but is true for us too. 

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