✅ So beautiful it makes me cry.
✅ Fuck the Hero’s Journey.
✅ Turns out, even nonsensical storefront letters aren’t genuine to AI!
Together with the artist’s-block angle, the crisis makes more sense if the initial failure is a result of Jiji’s coming of age, upon which Kiki—already fragile—panics. (This would also rhyme well with Miyazaki’s remark on that matter.)
魔女の宅急便 aka Kiki’s Delivery Service by Miyazaki Hayao, 1989.
Watched at the UFA theater on May 21, 2026, in its original language with subtitles.