Kiki’s Delivery Service: More Relevant than Ever 

I'm such a dumbass sometimes, Jiji's name came up and i was like "thats the name of my cat!". Then i remembered i named her that because of it lmao.

"Her passion loses joy because it becomes her job" you didn't have to go and describe my life like that wtf. Great video

The very thought of Kiki never being able to understand Jiji again has me sobbing.

I love how Kiki’s Delivery Service appeals to people who love big cities *and* people who hate them. A lot like Mononoke, the “conflict” is not black and white and provokes thought more than anything.

Me: "Wow Kiki's Delivery Service is such a relatable movie, I really see myself in how she feels." Noralities: "So Kiki is probably depressed-" Me: "Ah."

I remember some people talking about how different Howl's Moving Castle is, between the book version and the movie version, and somebody summarized it as "The book is how Sophie remembers it, the movie is how Howl remembers it."

"The setting and the time period is vaguely european and vaguely 1950s." The town is almost entirely based on Stockholm, as a person who lives in stockholm, I have been in several places in the movie, and my grandparents live really close to the street where the bakery is. The clocktower is almost identical to stockholm city hall. Funny thing, I watched this movie as a kid and didn't realise it took place where I live, and I recently rewatched it and realised that it always has been, it was really uncanny.

Kiki's disconnect from people, how she feels like something is wrong with her, the duality of not being the happier person, being thrusted into a world that is alien, and gnarly burnout has always felt so parallel to my life being neurodivergent. Love this movie with every cells in me. Amazingly done video

"Depression is a fucking liar" Yes. Perfect. I'm gonna use this.

I hope that 2D animation never disappears. It can give more warmth and humanity than any other form.

I think what caused Kiki’s depression was the alienation from herself as a consequence of living in the city. This alienation is really caused by a lack of control over her work(work in the sense of whatever way she spends her energy and time). Kiki doesn’t always have a choice over when and where she flies her broom, because she has to to be able to afford living in the city. When Kiki has to fly through the rain to be able to make her delivery on time, she is forced to sacrifice her own time she would rather use going to her party, as well as being forced to get wet in the rain. When Kiki takes a break like when she goes to hang out with that lady in the woods(forgot her name) or hang out with the boy or something else, she’s able to recover a bit because she’s doing what she wants to do. This means that she feels less alienated. The issue of her becoming depressed and loosing her ability to fly and speak to Jiji symbolizes the loss of a part of herself. She is able to cope with this but it’s never fully solved because the cause of her problems were just how living in the city is. The problems are systemic but they’re felt on an individual level. I seriously doubt anyone’s gonna read this…

there's actually a word for that feeling of second-hand nostalgia; Anemioa, nostalgia for a time you have never known, and it can be found in The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

As the father of a 3 year old girl, hearing that one day I will pick her up for the last time ... and not even realize that it was the last time, got me tearing up.

I grew up in the countryside, in a village remarkably like Kiki's. Your whole upbringing, you're _constantly_ being told about the 'big city' in a manner I can only describe as like a constant advertising campaign from all sides. All you hear about through the media you consume is how much the glamorous cities have to offer, how you have to go there to fulfil your dreams and find your fortune, how only the concrete jungle and work rush will help you find your TRUE PURPOSE and zest for life. Ironically, it was only once I'd been in the city a while that I realised how good the countryside was and how much I wanted to go back.

When i talk to people about studio ghibli movies it's always about how they romanticize the small things in life but I don't think we talk enough about how they capture feelings like this. I was super young the first time I saw this movie but I don't think I understood it until I moved away from home. This is what I watch when I'm have a bad depressive episode because there's not a magical cure all but Kiki makes me feel like it'll be ok anyway

I feel like Miyazaki definitely put some of his own feelings of burnout into Kiki when he was writing the movie especially considering work culture in Japan

holy moly that whole thing about not being the happy version of her that she was when she lived with her parents, that definitely described me. LOL. Like I've been having a lot of burnout with a lot of stuff that usually makes me happy.

"Kiki is never able to talk to Jiji again." Man_screaming.gif

Thank you so much for affirming that there’s no “cure-all” for depression. there’s no use beating myself up for not being happy all the time because that just doesn’t exist

Jiji being connected to Kiki's immaturity is...a very conservative view on mental growth as well. Jiji is pretty much a representation of the inner child, so why would she not be able to talk to him again? "Immaturity" doesn't just leave once you're an adult, neither does imagination. Idk, I just don't like what it represents that she can't speak to him anymore. I definitely like that she isn't the same at the end in the original dub because of her mental growth journey, I just think that growth could've been signalized differently than losing the connection to her child-self.

For a long time I accepted the American version of Kiki's delivery service where Kiki can talk to Jiji still. Realizing that's not the case and that instead she never talked to Jiji again, their friendship forever changed, is somehow devastating to me on a "Grave of the fireflies" level. Thanks though for making this and reminding me that I need to hug my kids more.

I love Kiki's delivery service so much 🥺💜

Forget making friends if Kiki doesn't pay her Taxes then the IRS will get her and not even magic can stop them

Noralities; talking bout cottagecore as if only really old people actually experienced it Me, a 20 year old guy who grew up in rural finland and spent childhood summers in small cottage in the middle of nowhere without running water, helping to bake rye bread in wood used ovens and watching them being hung on the ceiling to cool off/dry: *getting nostalgic because it brings to mind my childhood* Hehe, Me old grandpa.

The part about Kiki not wanting the cottagecore lifestyle reminded me of something about myself. When I was little, I really wanted to live in New York City. I wanted the hustle and bustle, I wanted the noise. But as I grew up, I became more and more sensitive with crowds and noises. It started with parties. I realized I didn’t like them. Then crowded stores. Now I can’t handle having more than a few people around me for a long period of time. I have to constantly have music to distract me from silence while also blocking out the noise. Around the time it started getting bad, I got back into gardening with my dad. We started with tomatoes, but every year we added more to where we have a very large garden every summer. I took an interest in flowers and identifying wild plants. I realized being outside is the best place when I’m overwhelmed. I can take off my headphones and relax. Because of that I stumbled across cottagecore and fell in love with the style. Now I actively hope to live in a cottage someday. I can’t remember my main point now. Thank you for reading though!

I got a little teary here. I’ve always loved Kiki and this movie has been a comfort movie to me for a LONG time and I’ve watched it many times during the last 2 years. But I couldn’t really describe why. Then when you got to burnout, as an ER nurse, I felt like I got hit in the chest. Thank you for putting into words what I felt, and what this movie meant to me, I’m no good at describing it. Recovery not meaning you are fixed is such a good message. This was amazing I love your content

This neurodivergent, burnt-out, depressed lad just teared up in this video and I thank you. Beautiful video essay.

As a dad to a little girl, I really felt that "last time" poem.

i started working as an artist about a year ago. it's not that i dont like this anymore, but i'm just absolutely bored of my work. the art that i make is not the art that i like, anymore i want to do something completely new but i'm not sure where to start. i don't feel inspired by anything.

Learning that Kiki never speaks to Jjiji again made me tear up.

This was my favourite movie and my mom’s. I remember watching it on our tiny cozy living room in winter after school while we had cake and hot milk. We always cried with a scene where a granny full of excitement cooks a pie for her granddaughter’s party and Kiki delivers it to her door. Then the girl ungratefully takes it while saying “another grandma’s nasty pie” or something along the lines, while her friends laugh. 😭 It still makes me cry!

As someone who has been sufferring from depression for almost a year now, this video was one of the more helpful things that helped me hold on for longer. Thank you.

As a 17 year old who’s working on my portfolio and applying to art school this year, this movie hits so hard for me. Especially Kiki’s creative burnout and difficulty navigating the adult world without support. “Everytime she seems to get a handle on one thing, something else goes wrong” has been my experience trying to figure out how the hell college and its applications work when neither of my parents have gone. It wasn’t until this week that I found out I have to pay back FAFSA if I don’t get grants because everyone made it sound like a scholarship. Don’t even get me started on the hell that is researching international school and the laws involving that - I’m on the verge of tears thinking about it. Pain. I rewatched this movie recently and there’s one line that's really stuck with me - “I really only have one skill, flying, so I figure I might as well try a delivery service!” Because like - same!! I don’t really have many skills or passions outside of my art, so I’d figure turning it into a career wouldn’t be so bad, especially since I've always wanted to work in animation. But now more than ever I’m absolutely terrified that I might be making the wrong choice, that things may not work out - what if none of the schools accept me? What if I do get accepted but it turns out to be not what I want? What happens if something I love becomes a chore to me? Do I even have what it takes to make it in this field? What if no one wants to hire me and I have no money and I have to sell all of my possessions and then I end up starving to death in a cardboard box on the side of the road?? I can’t know any of this without actually attempting to go to school!! What happens after? I don’t know! And I HATE not knowing!! Also, I think her inability to relate to and envy of other kids her age is relatable too - though mine is more like jealousy for people with more stable careers plans. My friends all seem to have everything figured out - one of my friends is going to be an electrician, the other one is going to do coding, another is going into the military to be an engineer. Like, electricians are necessary. Tech is booming and there’s no way someone won’t need a coder. The military will always need engineers. There’s not the same demand for animators I think and it makes me kind of scared - there is a possibility I won’t find work. And thats super depressing. Idk, I didn’t mean to write a wholeass essay in the comments. It’s just I have a lotta feelings about this movie and I love it a lot and also the world is big and scary and finding my place in it is even scarier. That is all.

I understand why thematically it makes sense for Jiji to not talk at the end, but given that it was Phil Hartman’s last performance, I really wish the OG dub had been made available as like a bonus feature or alternate audio option on the DVD. Plus the Sydney Forest songs slap

I feel like the tradition/modern contrast is a theme in a lot of Japanese media mostly due to how Japan is a high-tech country with a lot of very old traditions

I loved Kiki as a kid, but I didn't fully relate to it until after college. I lived with my parents throughout college while attending a small local university to save money. When I moved into my first apartment downtown after graduation, I felt a huge wave of excitement followed by a depressive episode. Watching Kiki as an adult reminded me that the path to adulthood is difficult and winding, but it's still worth while. Now I have a Kiki poster in my kitchen to remind me of that ❤️

The Ursula thing has never bothered me due to the fact that she is an artist as most artist all have one thing in common we get distracted. At the beginning when she met Kiki she states that she’s in the middle of something. So when she gets a break she tells Kiki what to do and then probably went back to doing that so that she wouldnt lose that flow she was it and then she finished sewing Jiji after she finished. My personal take

In college I had to write an essay about a filmmaker of my choice and I went with Miyazaki. When I wrote about Kiki's Delivery Service, I actually did discuss how I believed it was a metaphor for depression and growing up. How sometimes the magic fading is temporary, and sometimes it's not and that's just a part of becoming an adult and going through life. Glad I'm not the only one reading into it like that!

I'm 28 and just watched this for the first time. I definitely cried (kim k style) because i related to Kiki in so many ways . Being on your own is so lonely and scary at times . The film reminded me of how brave i had to be when my mom kicked me out .

Especially living in this age of millennial angst, kiki feels so relatable for kids, teens, and adults.

The depression/burnout angle of analysis is super real and relevant, but even without it I think Kiki not being able to understand Jiji at the end of the film is a really perfect bittersweet thematic capstone: sometimes growing up is difficult and sad and we lose things we loved and took for granted in childhood, even as growing up is also exciting, fulfilling, and brings us new power/agency and new joys. Kiki is still, in many ways, innocent and immature at the end of the film, but she's lost an important aspect/symbol of her childhood (understanding Jiji) and gained an important aspect/symbol of her adulthood (control and understanding of her magic.) Which I think is *basically* what Miyazaki was saying, but I don't care too much about authorial intent here

I got myself into a year-long daily drawing challenge. One day, I could not draw at all. I sobbed at my drawing board. After a horrible couple of hours, I turned in some scribble, for it was all I could do. I remember thinking of the artist in Kiki's Delivery Service, the one who draws the birds on her roof. She promised Kiki she would fly again one day. I held onto this. I felt like she was talking to me, promising me that the thing I loved to do more than anything, that was somehow gone, would come back. It did.

I think I relate to Kiki even more. I've visited my parent's cottage countless time. The cottage only has generators and batteries for electricity (both won't last the entire day, so we save them for night time use), no cell signal without hooking your phone to an antenna, and you need to pump water manually. I love the aesthetic of the cottage, and I don't mind living with no electricity, but I just got bored visiting the cottage nearly every weekend during summer, and I've stopped going to the cottage as often. The modern life just feels better for me.

"I don't know who needs to hear this today, but you are going to be fine", that made me tear up. I didn't realize it was me who needed to hear that. I've been so stressed, with a creative block, under so much pressure due to things going wrong for such a long time, that this analysis you made speaks to me on a deep level. And I think that's part of the value of this film, sometimes you won't get fixed, you just need to learn to cope with your situation and start your journey to recovery. The magic will come back, you might lose some things but gain others, things will change and you'll grow. And it was very important for me to feel reflected on this today. Thank you so much for making this video ❤️

I literally had an exchange with my friend the other day where she said it upset her Jiji never spoke to her again, and I corrected her saying that he did... now I realize we probably saw two different versions, I had no idea!

I love KiKi's Delivery Service as an adult more so than as a child. Honestly, I don't think anyone knows exactly when they turn into an adult, but this film is like a measuring stick. I remember watching this after Uni and feeling that this film has changed, when in fact it is me that has changed. As a thirty-something-year-old guy now, the meaning of this film has changed once again.

The poem at 24:15 really got to me, we have to live our lives knowing that everything will one day come to an end. A life that means there's only one way to go and that's forward, in a sense the past can never be obtained again. It's a scary thought, because who knows what uncertainty will happen in the future, but it's certain that you can never go back in time. I guess time itself is a reminder to keep living while we still can, and it's also an alarm clock to when it can stop ticking all together as well...

Literally just hearing you read the descriptions of depression around 20min in made me break down crying. God I did not realize I was so emotionally fragile these days.

Miyazaki is definitely the BURNOUT KING and the perfect person to make this kind of film...how many times has he tried to retire now, again?? hahaha. I also think the reason why Kiki doesn't regain her ability to talk to Jiji is because she no longer needs a 'familiar' to help her - she has new friends in the city, and so does Jiji.

Kiki’s delivery service literally makes me tear up in parts that shouldn’t be so emotional like her hugging her dad or being treated so kindly by osono and the elderly lady who she helped. It reminded me of all the people I love and is so darn relatable for a young adult leaving home to spread their wings. I related so much to her struggles in a new town since I moved to college. She struggled with not knowing anyone, having trouble connecting to people her age, losing and looking for inspiration, and more. It is such a lovely movie that really touches my heart. It has impacted me differently each time I watch it because of what’s happening in my life in those moments

I watched this the other month while on 🍄 and the beauty of this film was so magical. I never realized how depression fit into this film, being that I never really suffered or understood depression. This movie is why I’m going into mental health care. ❤️

Your analysis videos are like a hot cup of coffee for my ears - warm, rich, comforting, and they always leave me contemplative and feeling satisfied. I really appreciate them! Thank you for what you do.

"I don't know who needs to hear this today, but you are going to be fine." Apparently I was one, because now I'm crying.

As a kid, I wasn't interested much in Kiki's because I thought it was too mundane (aside from the dirigible ending), but watching it again as an adult I related so much to it and instantly saw the theme of depression and being burned out from monetizing your hobby. Gave me a new appreciation for it.

I’m seeing this video two years after it being posted, after seeing again the film. I can’t even explain how much I needed to watch this and ear what you said, as a person who suffer from clinical depression and is going through a bad period of it again. Thank you so much.

This video was so good. I literally started tearing up because the way you described depression has been exactly what I have been going through but I just couldn’t put my finger on what was making me feel this way. I thought that the fact that everyday has been either a struggle to push past feeling anxious or a fight to feel something at all was just something I felt normally. I never took the time to really ask myself, “Hey am I okay?” Which based off my reaction to your explanation i can confirm I am not. So thanks for bringing light to not only an issue that many people face but shedding some light on how Kiki’s delivery service is a touching yet very real story. I saw it for the first time as a 25 year old this year and had it become one of my favorite Studio Ghibli film. After The Cat Returns of course.

This movie was so influential to me and my brother. We refer to getting "Kiki'd" when we struggle with depression/creative block and need a break.

When the Ghibli film came out I'd coincidentally just read Howl's Moving Castle after a literature class in college had gotten me on a Diane Wynne Jones kick. It was really cool to see how drastically different the visions turned out, and I'll be really excited to hear your thoughts on the two of them. In other news, I love seeing how your avatar gains in liveliness as you continue to draw up more and more specific emotions video by video. I particularly love your "unrepentant weeb nyan" expression. Aside from how they improve the videos, there's a kind of academic appreciation for getting to see that process in real time.

21:00 Thank you. Even though I myself have been gradually having a slightly easier time reminding myself I’ll be fine whenever I’m feeling depressed, it really helped to hear it from someone else as well. Again, thank you. I genuinely breathed a sigh of relief. This was a great video, by the way! I’m now interested in checking out Kiki’s Delivery Service for myself.

Thank you for sharing that poem at the end. I read it to my mother and we both cried while fondly reminiscing over many memories. It was a crying session I didn't know I needed.

I always thought Kiki's ability to talk with Jiji, could eventually came back as her ability to fly. Maybe not soon, but one day. Kiki wasn't really good at flying, but it was her best witch's ability. Sometimes we have to learn something again, to be better at this. Ps. The Sims killed me 😂

I can completely sympathize with Kiki! As someone who turned her love of flying into a career, it has indeed sucked some of the joy out out of it. I worked so hard and for so many years to fly professionally but now I’m just exhausted. It’s devastating when you lose passion for something that used to define you and feel so liberating.

I'm literally crying into my bowl of cereal while watching this. Your breakdown of my favorite childhood movie truly resonates where I am in life, at nearly thirty years old. Thank you for sharing your voice and views.

subscribed like five/ten minutes in. the art, the editing, the script SO well done ahhh

What I find interesting about the whole small town vs. big city thing is that by today’s standards, the city in Kiki’s Delivery Service is idealistic compared to modern urban areas. The density, architecture, and lively nature of her new place is picturesque and exciting, at least to me. It’s like you said, second hand nostalgia for something I’ve never even experienced.

'vaguely European' hits different when you live 50 m from one of the buildings the clocktower is based on. I think at least part of why I like the film so much is because the mundane everyday magic is set very accurately in my immediate surroundings (:

Holy cats! I think this is the first time I ever commented on a youtube video. But yeah, wow, I really resonated intensely with this essay/video you made. First, thank you for the amazing hard work you do. I am 41 and have enjoyed Studio Ghibli/Miyazaki/anime since my early teens in the early/mid 90''s. I have been homestead/farming since 2009 and finally dove into trying to make a living/profit from my farm business 2 years ago. Hey, I have goats that happen to be a critically endangered breed, I practice good land management, raise critters to the best of my ability, am surrounded by woods, have a small orchard, run a small home garden, offer amazing farm products, make most food from scratch, grow and raise my own food etc. I had NO idea cottage core was a "thing". But I can say this, living this lifestyle is backbreaking and mentally exhausting. Due to outside/other humans being inserting their issues into my life, I recognized about 4 years ago what depression for me was. While I'm fine, and I see a light at the end of the tunnel. The last 3+ years have been incredibly hard. I started resenting the lifestyle I LOVE. I started resenting the goats I care for, I started hating cooking and all that it entails to grow and preserve my own food. I came to terms with why I was feeling that and am managing things better. I watched this with my partner and he kept (nicely) poking me when he felt a subject being discussed was relate-able, I got poked A LOT!! I know we all have our own trials and tribulations. But this video is a little piece of making me get a better grasp of things in my own life. So thank you so much! I am also very much enjoying all of your other content!!! This video, as well as my own thoughts will be shared on my personal and farm business page. People all around are struggling, and I think so many people can relate to this. Plus, I need to re-watch Kiki really soon, I love these films so much I need to be careful and not over watch them! PS-Way back in the late 90's I bought a VHS copy of My Neighbor Totoro and can say that heavily influenced the direction I wanted to go in with my future and community building efforts in my rural hometown! Thanks again so much!

Beyond just being entertaining and beautiful, your video actually helped me understand my best friend’s depressive episode! She’s currently in the middle of one right now, and I haven’t really even understood that it was depression. I’m sending this video to her, so hopefully I can at least understand her better as she works through this. It’s affecting a lot of her life right now, including her boyfriend, because he loves her and wants to marry her, but the depression is causing her to lose all joy in him and even desire, and she doesn’t know how to get it back. It might take a while to recover. Maybe THAT is what will not recover. I don’t know. I hope not. But my point is, thank you for making this video. It has hugely helped me to understand her.

Just a side note, cottagecore was already a thing for Marie Antoinette. She had an entire village built in which she could live her best cottagecore life 😂 For anyone who is interested into learning about that Abby Cox has a video on it on her channel :3

The clock tower part from the story of the book sounds very powerful. The fact that Kiki as an outsider plays such a huge role in saving and preserving an old native tradition, I feel there is an important message there. Both about embracing and caring for the places you travel, and about the value or wisdom you might learn from someone outside your village. It's like a great mix of the old and the new that Ghibli always stood for in their films.

Just watched Kiki's Delivery Service and I must say, this video was eye opening (to say the least) about the issues she faced and the similarity to what I deal with everyday, constantly feeling empty and the desire to be left alone more often than wanting to be around people I care about, etc. Thank you making this video as it made me realize that like Kiki, I have to start my own journey to recovery.

Thank you for making this video. I saw it back when it was new, but recently it popped up in my partners recommended videos. After watching it he told me that he has a better understanding of my mental health struggles.

As someone who watched this film as a teenager for the first time during the TMC “Month of Miyazaki” about the time Howl’s Moving Castle came out, it’s interesting to see Kiki’s own struggle as not so different from the one I was in, in a case of chronic depression and miserable. And here I am now, managing my care, in a very different time and place in my life and doing okay. Also shout out to baker husband, as a fellow professional buff boy baker he is goals.

Oh it’s so funny listening to your astounded analysis of kikis rejection of the idyllic country life. I love this film so much because of that very rejection- I can relate. I grew up on a small rural tropical island where nothing ever changes and everyone knows everyone. To most outsiders it’s a RL paradise, but as a kid I dreamt of leaving and seeing the world with all its big cities, meeting new people and eating all the foods!

Subscribed because how well you explained depression, the visuals was the chefs kiss. Thank you.

1st of all, I love your avatar/persona, like so much, it's so aesthetic, BG and everything is too. 2nd of all, I've never seen Kiki's Delivery Service, always been told how great it was (and I believe it, ADHD has just made watching any movie a task I gotta prepare to commit myself to), but even without ever seeing it or having that emotional connection, I cried listening to you talk about it lmao. Either I'm exhausted (which as an independent artist with lifelong depression, is completely possible), or you absolutely nailed the personal emotional delivery, which is honestly telling of your ability as an entertainer/presenter. It's probably both, I am exhausted, but you're also fantastic, relatable, and genuine, even in your comedy. And thank you 1 year ago Nora, I did need to hear that. ✨

Honestly there’s not much I wouldn’t give to experience this movie for the first time, again. Now that I’m 25 and struggling, it speaks to my soul in ways that I didn’t think it would. Kiki does such a good job representing everyday artists, it really does just hit different.

As someone who grew up in the countryside and had a childhood like Kiki's, from experience, most kids want to leave and experience the excitment and indepence of city life. I did exactly that too, but now I'm getting older, I miss the quiet of the countryside and long for it again. Kiki's want to leave her idealic home is not surprising at all to me.

Just finished it today once again. It really is one of the most relatable and comforting films I’ve ever watched. It really does feel like a big warm hug 🥹❤️

This movie entered my thoughts randomly recently. Idk why. Also, thank you for explaining how depression and burnout effect people. I hated my former manager so much for his lack of understanding about mental health. I put in my 2 weeks at one point, he asked me why. I explained that this job negatively effects my mental health. You know what he had the audacity to say? He said and I quote: "You know they have meds to fix that right? I take this medication and it works for me!" I wanted to beat him up so bad. That level of ignorance just infuriates me. Trust me, I've tried many meds. They don't help me, in fact they usually end up making me emotionally numb or emotionally unstable to the point where I have mood swings. Depression is awful.

"That... wasn't in the book..." *cries in Howl's Moving Castle*

Literally subbed before watching. Anybody who talks about Kiki's Delivery Service for 26 minutes deserves a sub

Never thought I would cry during a synopsis of this movie... I have dealt with depression a lot lately... I have never been medicated but some days I am better... and some days are worse. Thank you for how much love you put into this work.

thank you so much! i feel so seen with how you describe Depression! especially the line about the joy for life beeing on an unreachable shelf. just the words i needed as i've been struggling to descripe how i feel lately. lovely video! i love Studio Ghibli

Noralities: Put a pin in that for later. Me: *PTSD flashbacks to Dan Olsen's video on Fifty Shades Darker So . . . many . . . pins . . .

the city always read to me as being heavily inspired by older scandinavian architecture, it's even got several swedish store titles, but i'm a swede so i'd be biased there i guess apparently a lot or even most of the names on the map kiki has is in hawaiian so obviously it isn't a single specific country

This video made me realize that I am currently going thru depression. I couldn’t remember what it was like the last time I was depressed for a long period of time, so thank you for helping me.

Kiki's delivery service has always been one of my favorite films and hearing you talk about it was so eye-opening about some things. I struggle with mental health and seeing it portrayed and analysed like this always helps to remember I'm not alone. Thank you for talking about it and making this wonderful video

As a father of a Young girl and just a lover of stories, I find Kiki’s delivery Service to be my favorite Ghibli film for its more accessible/relatable themes and more grounded use of fantasy elements. Absolutely love. Thank you!

I think the fact that cottagecore is "nostalgia" for a time/place people never experienced themselves means it isn't "nostalgia" at all - it's a yearning for something different and new. So it's the same thing as Kiki's desire for something different and new to her - the city. Our stories go both ways, and always have. I relate more with the desire for the big city just because of my life's background. Someone who grew up in a big city might relate more with the opposite direction. It all depends on which grass is greener.

This is really well put together. Well done. Lots of info that I not only didn't notice, but never even considered most of it relating to myself and a lot of us.

this gonna be one great video to watch, cant wait to watch it in my free time

Kiki is still my favorite Ghibli movie, and I also grew up with the VHS dub. The part that hits me the hardest I’d when she flops onto the bed and talks about something being wrong with her, and you can actually SEE the moment her magic goes away. Jiji’s eyes going from big and cartoony to narrow and more natural cat like. The moment Jiji stops being able to understand her

Damn I was not expecting to be hit this hard when I clicked on a Kiki’s delivery service video. I’m the person who needed to hear that my mind will not always be fighting me. I’ve been struggling with how to classify how I am feeling lately. Throughout my life I’ve taken the faux therapist role for people. First with my mom with job burnout, then with friends who (a worrying amount of them, not exactly sure why so many of my friends go through awful experiences) experienced major depressive episodes and a couple attempted suicide. I recently came out to myself which seems to have triggered something inside me. I lost interest in my friends which I attributed to just being a different person. I lost sight of long term goals which I attributed to having “a lot going on right now”. I started feeling numb and disconnected from physical reality which I attributed to focusing more on internal state than external. I started spiraling in my head (something I’ve always heard about but never actually experienced) which I attributed to needing time to work through who I am now. Problem is, I’ve been like this for months now and it just seems to be getting worse, not better. I really enjoy cleaning still, though. I was listening to this video as I did the dishes from last night and tidied the kitchen. But I feel even the motivation for that slowly slipping and I just don’t know what to do. I got up the courage to even just tell my mom that “I’m going through a rough patch” and even that was hard. I just really don’t see the end. Nothing really happened afterwards anyways so who really cares. Hearing someone describe my experience and then say it will end some time… I tried to put this into words for a bit but I can’t. It didn’t put hope into me that it will end, but I reminded me that it should end. That I shouldn’t just live like this and take it forever. I don’t watch this channel, RU-vid just randomly recommended it and now I’m pouring my feelings into a RU-vid comment of all things. I just feel like I’m lost in a empty dark room and every once in a while a little light drifts past and I look at it, study it, and find a bit of hope in it, then it drifts on and I’m back, sitting there feeling nothing. Thanks for listening.

"I don't know who needs to hear this today, but you are going to be fine." Me. I fucking needed to hear that today. Thank you.

the depression segment was a slap in the face, ive been struggling recently and im finally going to the doctors for help this week

Burnout: Include those of us who are "essential workers" who slaved during the heights of the pandemic to keep the people supplied with food, water, and other necessities of life that made going outside to get them necessary. It's a high-risk, high-exposure type of job line to meet your physically necessary needs, if not your medical.

Kiki's delivery Service to me seems not only a well put together work about depression and burnout, but also serves as a comforting alievent for when one is experiencing burnout or depression. As ur mentioned, the aesthetic has a very welcoming feeling that can draw in and feel the audience with a scence of comfort. The film plays double duty and I think highlights the beauty that anime and animation can have.

I see there are other comments about these points so I won't say too much but just two little things: ADHD is increasingly being thought of as a form of neurodivergence rather than a disorder or illness, and the relationship between serotonin and depression is far from fully understood but it definitely hasn't been proven to be causal, or even a major factor. The reasons for a person becoming depressed are generally a lot more complicated and likely include a combination of environmental, psychological and biological factors. Sorry for the nitpicks, just two common misconceptions we could do with doing away with! Great video!

Kiki and Jiji didn't grow apart, they grew up. It's what the whole movie is about. Keep moving forward but stay in tune with nature, those you love, and yourself.