Kiki's Delivery Service: The Young Witch's Journey

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Spoilers Ahead!

Hello everyone, I hope you all are doing well. Today I want to share about one of Studio Ghibli's movies which is Kiki's Delivery Service. This anime was released in 1989 and it is a old one, but trust me, when you watch it you won't feel like it's that old. I always had this on my watch list for a while, and I never got the time to watch it peacefully but finally, I've got enough time to watch it. It's 1 hour and 42 minutes long, and you will not realise how quickly the time passes because the movie is truly captivating. I have learned many things from this movie, and I really admire the hard work of the production team for creating such mesmerizing animations as they are the perfectionist also the dialogues are amazing, and the voice artists play an important role.

The story is about a teenager witch her name is Kiki and she's 13 years old. She has a cat called Jiji who is always there by her side, Kiki is now prepared to take on the world, to begin her new life she started to live in European seaside village. There she faces many difficulties but still manges to survive through everything.

When you watch the trailer, you will find good vibes in it. When I first watched the trailer, it felt like it was full of positivity. The music in the trailer gives off old-time vibes.

At the beginning of the story, we see how Kiki belongs to a family of witches, and she is very confident and ambitious about her abilities. She wants to live in a different place on her own, believing that she has become a grown witch. Kiki's parents are very supportive of her, and her mother gives her own broom to Kiki as a gift when she is leaving home.

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Kiki leaves her parents with her cat, Jiji and everyone comes to see her off. When Kiki reaches the European seaside village, she is amazed by it, as she has never seen anything like it before; everything is new to her. She is very excited to meet new people, but once she starts to have a conversation with someone in public, she realizes that the people from this place do not like witches and tend to avoid them. This situation makes Kiki very sad.

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However, she meets Tombo, who seems to approach her to be friends, but Kiki is not that interested in him and wants to avoid him.

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After a while, she cannot find a place to live, and then a woman named Osono gives her shelter, but she has to deliver her things to the customer. Kiki is happy that she has found a place to live and also a job to work on. Most of the time we see that Kiki is always talking with her cat, they both could understand each other as Kiki had powers to understand her cats language. There was a great bond seen between them.

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While delivering one day, the product she was delivering was a cat doll, but she lost it in the jungle, where she met Ursula, who helped Kiki complete her delivery.

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On the other hand, we see Tombo is very interested in Kiki, and he is always curious about her. He has a dream to fly like Kiki, so he starts to craft a plane. In the end, Kiki and Tombo become friends, but somehow Kiki gets upset because of Tombo's other friends, and she loses her powers to fly due to some circumstances. She cannot even understand the words of her cat anymore. This situation leads Kiki into depression.

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Then again, Ursula comes to help, and she makes Kiki realize that not always being perfect is not required; it's a normal process everyone goes through, and there's nothing to worry about. Kiki starts to feel better when Ursula helps her through her depression. To be honest this scene made me realize not to overthink a lot when I can't do something right but I always end up thinking negatively. Ursula's words has helped me a lot to heal.

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Kiki gets her powers back when she sees her friend Tombo in trouble. She tries her best to save him, and in the end, we see all the people of the European seaside village cheering for Kiki. This scene was amazing to watch, it felt like Kiki has finally made her dream come true, I felt the happiness in my heart for her.

I would rate this anime movie 10 out of 10, I can never rate any Studio Ghibli movie low. Let me know in the comment section if you have watched this movie or not and if you did how much would you rate it?

Thanks for reading 🌷