I never interpreted her losing her witch ability to betrayal. I see it as she lost all confidence in herself. She wasn't sure who she was anymore. Did she want to be a witch anymore? If she wasn't a witch, who was she?

@williama7124

4 жыл бұрын

totally, thats how I read it.

@lullabysorrow5746

3 жыл бұрын

I would of lost my confidence too if i only had 1 outfit to wear. I wish she would of got those red shoes and a nicer dress. But I guess it finally shows that she accepts her roots or herself.

It's my favorite Ghibli film. Kiki mirror's every striving young adult. Learning the struggle of being independent and also discovering the beauty of it by yourself.

According to Miyizaki: Kiki loses her ability to fly because she has matured and no longer needs her mom's broom. Jiji is the immature side of Kiki and losing the ability to speak means she has matured beyond speaking to her cat.

@davidshin7869

2 жыл бұрын

If you have the source for this, please give it here. I’m working on a Kiki fanfiction, and I need all the info I can get. ^^

Thanks for the vid! I rewatched Kiki’s Delivery Service earlier this week. I had watched it as a teen first, then later as an adult. It hit different each time. When Kiki depressingly says “Without my powers, I’m not a witch, then what am I?” I felt that. Teens and young adults struggle very much with identity. And the more we fight to be who we think we are, the more things tend to not work in our favour. Identity is something therefore that cannot be forced but is more intrinsic and complex than that. Because her sole purpose and her identity were challenged, that happens when you have much hope and expectations of the future and keep getting hit with unexpected challenges and things not going your way, Kiki became depressed and her powers severely weakened. I don’t think it was as a result of betrayal. She had understandable insecurities with fitting in and didn’t have any friends in a new environment. But through her growth we see that her love, friendship and having patience with herself allowed her to save Tombo’s life, and continue her friendships and make more meaningful connections with people - which in turn helped to make her better in her career. Also, I don’t think that Tombo was only interested in her because of his obsession with flight. He was interested in her though his friends teased him and took opportunities to include her in his life.

Great video, and thank you so much for the shoutout :-)

It’s scary how this movie represents my life, I’m moving to the town the movie is set in, i move out from my parents house to presue my carrier and I’m going through the struggle of being an adult.

@facade2027

4 жыл бұрын

LizIsMis 1 year after. Hows things going?

@bajekbajeklyn8447

2 жыл бұрын

Hope things are going well.

@lizismis

2 жыл бұрын

@@facade2027 well corona hit and I had to post pone but now I have finally moved there and tomorrow I start my fist day at university.

@lizismis

2 жыл бұрын

@@bajekbajeklyn8447 they are. Just moved there and starting university tomorrow

@facade2027

2 жыл бұрын

@@lizismis nice :D

@5:00 WTF? That is not what happened. She was quite happy in that scene until the car with 3 obnoxious girls showed up and she was lovesick or jealous of of toomo going off with him due to her repeatedly seen inferiority complex regarding her clothing and appearance compared to the prettier city girls

@beccyg4839

5 жыл бұрын

that's what I thought too

@lullabysorrow5746

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I thought she felt alienated, because she mentioned the girls had pretty clothes while she had bland ones, Also because of that one girl who was there who didn't like the grandma's pie. (if that wasn't the same girl, i'm sorry the background characters look pretty similar).

@aloysiusdevadanderabercrombie8

3 жыл бұрын

@@lullabysorrow5746 Yeah, I didn't notice it on my first watch through but on my second one I realized that was the rude girl who she gave the pie to.

It's such a beautiful story. Keep it up, Harry.

You got your dubs mixed up. The 2010 dub has gigi meow at the end, 1998 he talks.

@ghostya5572

4 жыл бұрын

Anigurl28 What does he say in the 1998 version?

@cprk594

4 жыл бұрын

Ghost Ya he says 'meooow' in a sing-song way, but it's definitely the jiji voice as opposed to the more cat-like mewing :)

Kiki's delivery Service is my favorite studio ghibli movie.

This video was beautiful. Your analysis was very spot-on, and your narration was very nice to listen to. Overall a very peaceful and enjoyable video. I don't know what it was about it exactly that made this so great (maybe the music). Keep up the great work, I love your content :)

interesting analysis for one of my favorite movies. nice job dude.

woah I've been bingeing a bunch of different video analyses on Kiki's Delivery Service and all of them are totally different, especially this one. Incredible!

On the ending, Miyazaki said, "If you gained something, you lose something" or something like that. That's why she can no longer understand jiji in the end because she has become more mature

remember watching this in elementary for the first time as a wee schoolboy, masterpiece

That was great 😊 Thanks for taking some time and doing that kind of review video

Loved the video! It made me think of something I hadn’t thought of, despite having watched the film multiple times. Very nice analysis!

thank you for reviewing this, one of my favorite movies

Does anyone have any idea why Osono's laughter when Kiki told her "You're a very kind person" so sinister? At that point I thought she was set out to be a hidden villain.

@soup8862

4 жыл бұрын

Hạnh-Minh Nguyễn idk but I'm loving these I didn't even know I liked anime but these films are amazing this is one of my favourites with spirited away totoro ,castle in the sky nvm I love all 20 probably only watched 4 though how has only 1 of these won an Oscar they have great messages behind them they give you emotions this is what I want from a film/movie

@rosfiol4758

3 жыл бұрын

I don't think it's meant to be seen as sinister. It sounded to me like a classic hearty laugh you hear from like a kansai region motherly figure

@lullabysorrow5746

3 жыл бұрын

I think it's because how Tombo took it, being confused about if how he looks is really that funny, and the first thought I got in my head was that she was low key bullying him, because she was giving him the cold shoulder throughout the movie, and real life is much more cruel and non accepting. Can't just laugh at someone playfully without another taking it to heart or it having a darker meeting.

God this movie made me want to cry

Loved this movie as a kid, I’ll have to give it another watch. Another smashing job, Harry.

Gigi is the inner voice of Kiki, all things she hide in her heart and hesitation come out of Gigi, all english speakers take this ending like a "depressive" ending but I thing they didn't see all the picture, for example Kiki didn't just lost his flaying abilities also she lost her conection with Gigi, the cat don't hang out with she anymore but when Kiki recover his magic powers the cat returns to interact with her, to me feels like a chear full ending, a girl who finds his place in a world bigger that she, balancing tradition, magic, friends, modernity and puberty.

An analysis of my childhood? You’ve earned yourself a new subscriber

Great video. Keep up the great work

Great analysis keep going!

Burnout is a hell of a drug.

In my country there is a lot of independent bakery stores around, some brand bakeries pop up here and there but they are too pricey so people use independent bakeries to save money.

Adore this movie. Great video!

Yay I've been waiting for this one!

I think Jiji losing his voice has something to do with her saying "He's all yours!" Or "You can have him!" to the Female cat when she decides to walk for the delivery before losing her flying power. She basically freed him of his servitude think of Jiji as more of a Familiar as opposed to an ordinary black housecat.

I remember watching the VHS english-dub version as a kid. At the end of the film, when KiKi's being interviewed after saving Tombo, JiJi does indeed speak. He shouts "Kiki, KiKi!" before jumping onto her shoulder. I always interpreted him meowing at the end as him trying to be funny.

2:59 Coincidentally, I related strongly to both Alice and Kiki when I was younger.

Kiki didn't lose the ability to understand Jiji, I'm pretty sure Myazaki said Jiji just didn't have anything to say and Myazaki didn't want him to joke or say anything sarcastic

Very lovely, thank you ❤️

Great analysis. Thanks.

The mundanity that's celebrated, especially in the end credits is the most beautiful thing committed to animation cells.

I love your analysis.. it definitely put a few questions I was wondering about into some more perspective. great to see how other people interpret the film .. I agree with most of the points you made and I never knew the painters name was Ursula.. I been trying to figure that out all year lol

The idea of Kiki imagining Phil Hartmann's dialogue makes the dub superior on its own

Yaaass this is one of my favorite ghibli movies ^-^

Great video! Just an update though Miyazaki himself has said the primary inspiration for the city was Visby Sweden

Put Umlauts over random vowels to mäke them look Europäisch. (Also I don't know about other countries, but in Germany you get independant and franchise bakeries on every second street)

I love this film. Possibly my favourite Miyazaki film ever. It's such a happy feel good film. Great analysis. I'd like to see an analysis of the tale of the princess kaguya or only yesterday as a tribute to the late Isao Takahata.

So great to see this, love your content! Thanks for making your awesome videos. 😁👍🌸🌺

7:21-7:26..... When your poop is about to come out after delaying it for so long

Will you be doing more videos like this on Studio Ghibli films and others?

when i first watched it it felt like i was watching three short story’s but like now i don’t even kNow

This movie was my fucking childhood

I'm hearing this video reminds me to English listening test when im on senior high school 😂 totally nostalgia 🤗

I love this film.

I knew I had heard the name Sousuke before. It was from Ponyo, and I’ve been watching an anime called free where there is a character called Sousuke.

I watched this movie on a large TV in class during 1st or 2nd grade. I had no real concept of what the characters were saying, what the plot was, or what was really happening. I liked how it looked though. Im glad I was able to find out its name after all these years.

I always wondered if Gigi could understand Kiki in the end or not!!! Bcuz I’ve heard both versions too. Thank you for including that explanation!

@willingsubject389

5 жыл бұрын

I always thought that Kiki and Gigi were the only ones who could understand each other so when you hear him meow only Kiki can understand.

to tell the truth (don't kill me) i did not like tombo, i know he was trying to be nice, but what tombo was doing was downright stalking

@deathdeath5850

2 жыл бұрын

? Tombo was just trying to be her friend, and he found out where she was staying he never spied on her or anything like that, tf are you on lmao. Im guessing you don’t have many friends?

What about Secret of Kells. Song of the sea. The Breadwinner. Princess Mononoke. The Red turtle. Mary and the Witches flower. And Persepolis. And maybe The Prince of Egypt. Just a few suggestions I’d like to make. They are all amazing films. I’ve not seen the Kells one yet. But after watching the other two I look forward to it.

Love this film

You've never seen a dog shut a door before? My dog does it all the time

Good job

@soup8862

4 жыл бұрын

mohammed kooheji I want more gibli films I'm getting addicted I didn't know I liked anime. But these films are a breath of fresh air they have good messages a great story line they give you emotions the animation is amazing I wish more films where like this

Don´t know where you got mediterranian coast from, the main inspirations was stockholm and visby (both swedish)

I love this movie

Took me until 2020 to watch this because I didn't think a girl witch and her delivery service would be any good. How wrong I was.

@soup8862

4 жыл бұрын

Alan Angel I'm kinda like you I didn't even know I liked anime until I watched spirited away ( which I thought sounded meh as it was anime to which made it worse for me) but now I'm on a spree of watching these films made by this studio if you haven't yet I recommend watching totoro, castle in the sky, spirited away and howls moving castle

@alanredversangel

4 жыл бұрын

@@soup8862 Nausicaa is my favourite. Not sure why.

@soup8862

4 жыл бұрын

Alan Angel woah i haven't watched that ima check it out in the weekend

I first saw the Disney dub of this, which is where they added in Jiji's line. I don't think I would have understood the reason he still couldn't talk. I thought Kiki could understand him because she was a witch, not because she was a child. So I figured if she could fly, she would still be able to talk to Jiji. But I noticed from my first viewing that his mouth wasn't moving, so I guess I was the only one who didn't get the message.

Jeeze 38 seconds in that fall looked like it really hurt

I'm aware that there are 6 books of Kiki's out there. About Jiji not talking to Kiki anymore, is there a reference in the books that explains this? I assume that Kiki can talk to Jiji in the second book, can anybody confirm this? Thanks.

Or maybe they look like ponyo and sosuke because studio ghibli's character designs tend to be... let's say environmentally conscious.

better than henry butter.

It's interesting to hear opinions like yours. I'm a little surprised how convinced you are about Kiki feeling betrayed by the boy for only liking her flying ability and therefore losing her flying ability though. I guess to me it seemed too complex to even try unravel. I think your interpretation is valid though, I just am the kind of person who would have never noticed x)

Bro, where’s that Porco Rosso vid?

I really loved the first 2/3 of the movie but the ending just didn’t satisfy me I really disliked the last third of the movie though as It left me wanting more We didn’t see what really became of her and Jijis relationship and we also didn’t see whether anything romantic was going on between her and Tombo

I agree that Kiki's inability to talk to Jiji again is a sign of growing up but I don't really think the conversations were made up. In one scene Jiji warned Kiki about a wind blow and it actually occured. Either Kiki can somehow sense the future or she could understand Jiji.

Make friends with people that wants the best for you. #JBP

Guys don't forget to get on Harry's Discord discord.gg/r38DCaF

Happy to see how many loved this movie. I thought it was nice but overall it bored me a little bit. This analysis helped me to better understand what they tried to show through the movie but still … not my favorite.

I don't know why but I found myself unable to connect with the characters within this film unlike in the other Studio Ghibli films and bescause of that it made the film for me a somewhat average thing but I believe there is a difference between what I think of it and the reality of the film there was notable effort being put not only in the nature but also the world surrounding it and for that I think it deserves the praise it gets

Tombo's like: "Kiki, do you love me? Are you riding? Say you'll never ever leave from beside me 'Cause I want ya, and I need ya And I'm down for you always"

@cottoncandy2023

4 жыл бұрын

LOOOOL

Thanks for the vid , this is the least good ghibli movie ive watched until now(i know that there are ghibli movies that are worse however i havent saw those yet) , however ,that doesnt mean that there havent been puted much effort and thought to it in order to show some deep meanings and life lessons throught the movie

I'm so confused. So the 1998 dubbed version changed the original Japanese music in the opening/ending to American songs and had Jiji voiced by Phill Hartman improvise and say a line at the end instead of meowing. Then there was a 2003 edit which retains the American songs but Jiji meows at the end instead of talking [whats weird about this though, is the way he meows at the end is in Hartman's voice - whereas when Kiki first realises she can't understand jiji, his meow sounds like an actual cat, this confused me cause I thought it meant at the end, Kiki could understand Jiji again but Jiji was making a joke about her previously not understanding him, by 'meowing' in a mocking kind of way] Then there is 2010 dub in which the original Japanese songs from the 1989 release and with Jiji meowing at the end (instead of talking.) However, there are a lot of other changes to the score and the sound quality is not as good. AND there is another English Dub version with different actors. ahhh, I get so anal about these things, I know there are bigger things to stress about but man this is really winding me up, I just watched the film on Netflix UK was already freaking out about the subtle language difference between the Japanese audio compared to the English compared to the English subtitles. I don't know whats going on but it seems there needs to be another release with the option of both original music and American music with the 2003 audio dub but with the original Jiij meowing at the end (or at least make it clear that he's meowing and not just "saying" a "meow") Without the 2010 poor score changes or loss of quality. But what about the other Dub with different actors! what's that like?! MY BRAIN HURTS. The only solution is to move to Japan, learn the language and cultural nuances then acquire the original true version of the film and watch it there to fully understand the film as it was meant to be viewed.

@jadelittlewood2311

4 жыл бұрын

William A I definitely think she could understand him at the end. Previously when she couldn’t understand him, neither could the viewer. However at the end as Jiji approaches Kiki you hear him say “Kiki can you hear me?” Or something like that and then when he sits on her shoulder the meow is almost a fake one, like you said, mocking that she couldn’t understand him previously. It didn’t sound like the meows jiji did before when she couldn’t understand him. So yeah, I defo think she could understand him at the end!

@Ayeato

3 жыл бұрын

The 1998 version has him doing a fake meow implying Kiki can talk to Gigi again. And in the 2010 version Gigi does a normal cat meow implying that Kiki doesn’t understand him.

You got the dubs mixed up. After all that shit talking on the 2010 version, it’s the one you prefer

You missed the mark on this one. The film is not about overcoming adversity, although that is what liberals who have no desire to upset the exploitative capitalist system or labor relations want us to take away from it. No, the movie is about alienating labor and the need for more leisure.