Analysis Of The Film Kiki's Delivery Service

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In the year 1998, A animated studio called Ghibli studios made a film titled “Majo no takkyûbin”, otherwise known as Kiki’s Delivery Service. It a film about a young witch named Kiki following her family’s traditions of leaving her home at the age of thirteen. She and her familiar cat named Jiji go to live on their own. Kiki starts her own independent delivery service, sending packages on her trusty broomstick.She has trouble adjusting to the crowded port city called Koriko but with the friendly faces she encountered, she grows from a immature child to an open-minded young lady. Kiki’s Delivery Service is a heartwarming coming of age story filled with deeper themes despite its childlike charm. With its theme of self-image, relationships, and …show more content…

When Kiki had nowhere to stay, a newly pregnant woman named Osono took the girl in. Osono let her board their extra living space and in exchange help her around the bakery once in a while. Kiki learns from Osono how to run a business and Osono gets an assistant outside of her husband. This both professional yet friendly relationship displays an exchanged relationship (Gilovich,81). Kiki does not feel pressured to help Osono and Osono does put Kiki’s well-being above their agreement. These two become more than business partners and more like a supportive family dynamic. Another exchanged type relationship is between Kiki and one of her customers named Madam. Kiki went above and beyond to help this older woman with baking a pie for her granddaughter and with household chores. Later on in the movie, the older lady bake Kiki a cake to show her appreciation to Kiki and wants to continue being friends. Through Kiki’s positive attitude and her hard work, Kiki keeps on making these stable relationships. Kiki made herself a home and a family along with …show more content…

Kiki deals with the social pressure of comparing oneself to others. Whether it is in talent or just financial status, Kiki has a hard time realizing that her hardship will pay off. Though Kiki’s friendships, she builds her own family like structure. She makes connections that all are more exchange-based with more of a familiarity with each other than an official business. She makes most of her friends through her business yet makes deeper relationships through it. Speaking of relationships, Kiki and Tombo have a meaning friendship once Kiki was around the boy enough. Just by the boy’s resistances and a push from a friend, Kiki realized she could be friends with this slightly troublesome boy. It just took Kiki being around the boy enough to grow to like him. Kiki’s main identity was around her magic and her abilities and less of who she was as a person. The moment when she couldn’t use her magic was the moment she lost who she really was. All of what she knew was connected to the fact she was a witch and felt like she was nothing without it. All of what she knew was connected to her identity as a

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