10 Best Anime Castles, Ranked - CBR - Comic Book Resources

Castles are classical settings successful anime. Often, the structures are inspired by humanities architectural movements, similar the baroque benignant known for its decorative, ornate details and the creation nouveau benignant with its elegant, swooping lines. Some bid diagnostic gothic castles truthful filled with spirits and mysteries that the castles astir person minds and personalities of their own.

In movies similar Studio Ghibli'sHowl's Moving Castle and Castle successful the Sky, the large domains are threaded done with magic that enables them to question large distances oregon interval successful the air. Some of anime's astir iconic castles are augmented by science; they whitethorn beryllium tally by sentient machine systems oregon harbor hidden laboratories afloat of experimental research.

10/10 Doldrey Castle Was Considered An Unassailable Fortress

Berserk

Doldrey Castle is an tremendous chromatic fortress successful Berserk, situated amid a barren landscape. Once regarded arsenic unassailable, it is simply a main defence constituent connected the Midland border. The castle is simply a medieval masterpiece made of gangly chromatic walls and galore turrets with openings for antiaircraft artillery fire, arsenic 1 would spot successful European fortresses.

The garrison boasts tens of thousands of warriors, including the Purple Rino Knights, acceptable to support their border. Doldrey's seizure is the people of galore invading forces that admit it arsenic a almighty landmark successful immoderate war. The fortress is unsocial for its strategical importance, well-garrisoned walls, and its medieval structure.

9/10 Aincrad Castle Is The Setting For The First Virtual Reality Game

Sword Art Online

Sword Art Online's Aincrad castle serves arsenic the archetypal mounting for the anime's cardinal virtual role-playing game. The monolith of twisted metallic and stacked chromatic is location to a immense colonisation and floats among the clouds, existing arsenic its ain benignant of ecosystem.

The castle comprises a 100 floors that location earthen landscapes similar forests, rivers, mountainsides, and galore villages, ample and small. The levels are each linked by Labyrinths, towers connecting the floors and starring to bosses that players indispensable decision to ascend to the adjacent floor.

8/10 Laputa Represents The Height Of Technology As A Floating Kingdom

Castle In The Sky

Laputa is simply a kingdom successful the Studio Ghibli movie Castle successful the Sky, which ceded from Earth, tiring of its wars. The kingdom is simply a floating landmass made of castle tiers.

The main operation has a classical fairy communicative castle look, owing overmuch to mid-16th-century European influences. The fantastical variation of floating exertion enables the kingdom to hover successful the entity similar thing betwixt a dirigible and a tiny planet. By the clip Castle successful the Sky takes place, Laputa is successful ruins, floating aimlessly successful the entity aft its civilization crumbled and fled.

7/10 The Cat King's Palace Looks Like Heaven On Earth

The Cat Returns

The Cat Returns is simply a portal phantasy anime astir a miss named Haru who tin speech to cats. When Haru saves Prince Lune, the heir to the Cat Kingdom, it earns her an invitation to the Cat Kingdom to wed the prince.

Haru is whisked distant against her volition to the Cat Kingdom and speaks with the King successful his beauteous palace surrounded by greenish rolling hills. The palace is made of pick and brushed reddish stone, with a cardinal spire that seems to pierce the sky. The kingdom and its palace centerpiece are awash successful yellowish airy arsenic if they were located successful the Elysian Plains.

6/10 The Dark Kingdom's Castle Houses An Evil Entity

Sailor Moon

The Negaverse castle successful Sailor Moon is simply a benignant of foil to the Moon Palace, which draws dense inspiration from the Taj Mahal. The shadowy grey turrets look to person nary windows starring retired to its gloomy world.

The castle is Queen Beryl's location base, wherever she communes with her leader, Queen Metalia, an amorphous shot of evil vigor and malicious intent the likes of which H.P. Lovecraft fans tin admire. The wrong of the castle is made of crisp chromatic and stalactite-like furnishings, with arches that unfastened wide similar fanged mouths.

5/10 Count Lee's Castle Is Run By A Sophisticated Computer System

Vampire Hunter D

In the 1985 Vampire Hunter D movie, the vampire antagonist Count Magnus Lee resides successful a towering creation nouveau-style castle. Sharp, needle-like towers scope into the nighttime sky, supported by foundations formed retired of chromatic carved into sinuous looping and curling patterns.

The castle is meant to beryllium much stylistic than realistic. It's besides tally by artificial intelligence, which gives the castle a feeling of looming surveillance. Count Magnus Lee steals a pistillate from the village, Doris, and brings her backmost to his castle to marque her his "bride." Doris' member and D infiltrate the castle to prevention Doris, lone to beryllium confronted by its manifold traps and pitfalls.

4/10 Naruto Must Solve The Mystery Of A Haunted Castle

Naruto

Episode #194 of Naruto is astir a haunted castle. One nighttime during Naruto's hunt for Kayo of the Land of Honey, helium enters a tall, sweeping castle cloaked successful mist. Once Naruto, Hinata, and Kiba enter, they're confronted with the supernatural. The location itself is sentient — bookshelves move, and doors unfastened and unopen of their ain accord.

Like successful a Scooby-Doo episode, the eyes successful portraits look to travel observers arsenic they pass. One of the champion moments successful the English dub is different wide motion to Scooby-Doo erstwhile Naruto screams, "Zoinks!" aft helium comes crossed a dormant warrior successful the bowels of the castle. Naruto and his pack observe that the location is much than haunted — it's cursed to consume whoever comes inside.

3/10 Mewtwo's Castle On New Island Contains A Secret Laboratory

Mewtwo Strikes Back

In some the 1998 Pokémon: The First Movie — Mewtwo Strikes Back and the 2019 Netflix redo, Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back — Evolution, Mewtwo lives successful a castle connected New Island. In some versions, Mewtwo's castle is plainly inspired by the creation nouveau movement.

It features integrated curving lines, spindly towers, curlicue arches, and staircases designed similar unfurling ribbons. The castle looks arsenic if it could beryllium a Sea King's palace rising from the waters surrounding the island. Inside the castle is simply a concealed laboratory that tin clone Pokémon.

2/10 Howl's Castle Is Powered By A Fire Demon

Howl's Moving Castle

The main mounting successful Howl's Moving Castle doesn't person the look of immoderate accepted castle. It makes up for its deficiency of elegant architecture with elemental demon magic and homey charm — particularly aft Sophie gives it a bully scrub-down. Howl's castle is simply a bulbous, many-layered operation that ambles connected impossibly tiny legs. The edifice has poky eyes and a wide, gaping maw, giving an astir toad-like grimace.

The location is powered by the bargain Howl made with Calcifer, a falling star. Howl's reasoning isn't ever clear-cut. He moves his location from spot to spot to debar confrontation of immoderate kind, but it could besides beryllium inferred by the extremity of the movie that helium enchanted his location to question truthful that helium could find Sophie.

1/10 Dracula's Castle Can Teleport

Castlevania

Located successful Wallachia, Transylvania, a castle seems to erupt from the crushed arsenic stalagmites jut upward from a cave floor. The castle is the past spot of Castlevania's archetypal antagonist, Dracula. There, helium keeps a immense room of technological knowledge, which helium shares with his quality wife, Lisa Tepes.

Dracula calls his castle a "traveling machine," arsenic it tin teleport. At the absorption of his energy, the walls shudder, monolithic gears successful the ceiling turn, and the castle glimmers retired of sight. When it arrives astatine a caller location, it decimates works and carnal beingness successful the country wherever it lands.

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