Resourceful Kiki calms my soul. Yes, for some reason she does that and in a foreign land that resembles Sweden a whole lot,
the capital Stockholm and the medieval city wall of Visby, Gotland, with maybe some flavour of an austrian or a hungarian town.
Even though Kiki's a witch and the cover promises action, she's mostly doing her young-witch apprenticeship in a calm and
orderly way.This film is absolutely beautiful, it's soothing and about growing up.

Kiki has just become 13 years old and for a witch it's then time to be independent, to find her way in the world and a suitable town
where she can find her magic. Off she goes with her broom and her human-like talking cat Jiji, and the animation when she flies
through the night is .... Magic, just gorgeous animation and another beautiful masterpiece of Miyazaki.

When she's in her chosen city she's hired as a delivery girl ... witch, and the bakery wife Osono offers her a room to stay. Kiki then
delivers bread in Kiki's Flying Delivery Service for the Gutio Kipan Bakery. We get to see her deliver bread to an assortment of
customers and meet some adventure on the way. She sees Jiji, her talking cat, fall in love and turn into a regular cat-cat, maybe they
are both leaving childhood behind them and with that their (children's) magic capacity to communicate ?

There's a street portal in the film that's instantly recognizable for every Stockholm citizen, as I am, being located on Kungsgatan in
the centre of the city, and there are also some scenes from Gamla Stan, the old Town, including signs in swedish. There are also
fir trees and the northern type of crows (grey and black).

So, this resourceful young witch Kiki calms my soul and this is also one of my favourite Miyazaki films. It's not a childrens film as
surely youngsters would get bored by the slow meditative pace to it. Oh, i almost forgot the scene with our City Hall (Stadshuset)
as a famous Stockholm view and the roofs of the buildings, also instantly recognizable for every Stockholmer.

Film presented in widescreen 1.85:1, japanese (or english) audio DTS-HD MA 2.0 with english subtitles. Region A.

Extras: Feature length storyboards, behind the microphone (Kirsten Dunst is the voice for Kiki in the english audio, and that's cool),
creating Kiki's delivery service - Hayao Miyazaki tells us about the mix-up of european cities, The locations of Kiki's Delivery
Service - Yui Natsukawa walks around in Stockholm and Visby (29 minutes), The Town of Koriko (Miyazaki visited Stockholm
during his european trip), producer's perspective - collaboration with Mitazaki, scoring Miyazaki, Kiki and JiJi, flying with Kiki,
Ursula's painting, original theatrical trailers and a text sheet