Princess Mononoke’s mother wolf Moro and Howl’s Moving Castle’s Witch of the Waste are both voiced by a famous singer and drag queen Akihiro Miwa.
Akihiro Miwa (born in 1935) is one of the most prominent queer icon in Japanese history, who survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki (his hometown) during WW2.
This clip is from a document How Princess Mononoke Was Born (1998)
Here’s a video clip of the finishes scene in the movie between Moro and Ashitaka.
Akihiro Miwa’s Moro’s scene on the final film from the How Princess Mononoke Was Born (1998) document clip I shared yesterday. I saw in tags many of you had not heard this.
Akihiro Miwa (1935) is a famous singer and a drag queen, who also voiced Witch of The Waste. He also survived Nagasaki’s atomic bombing, being 10 years old when the bomb dropped.