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Kiki’s Delivery Service: Growing Up is Hard
Growing up witchy while figuring out how to pay rent
Let’s face it: growing up kinda sucks.
When you’re a kid, your world is so small and sheltered. You don’t know much about anything but you’ve got a community of family and friends to protect and nurture you. Then you grow up and everything falls apart. The world suddenly becomes more complicated, there’s so many rules to follow, and you’re overwhelmed by all the new information and social norms you’re expected to keep up with. And to make matters worse, it feels like everyone else is getting it a whole lot better than you are. Yeah, growing up is tough but fortunately for us, there is a Studio Ghibli movie for such a mood.
Kiki’s Delivery Service is the 1989 animated film directed by Hayao Miyazaki and based off of the novel of the same name by Eiko Kadono. It was the first Studio Ghibli film that was considered a success (yes, it was more successful than Grave of the Fireflies and My Neighbor Totoro that was released the year prior) which is why it’s heavily celebrated today. Thing is, I’ve only watched this movie…
