Kiki's Delivery Service | Book to Movie Review
hi i’m kailey and this is my
review of kiki’s delivery service
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i do kiki’s delivery service is one of my very
favorite studio ghibli movies and i was really
nervous to pick up the book when you fall in love
with the character and a story and just the magic
and the charm the way that i did with the studio
ghibli movie you worry that it’s maybe it’ll be
messed up you just don’t want any other kind of
i don’t know any other anything messing up like
your idea and your imagination of this character
however i was so pleasantly surprised by the book
i was completely delighted with the book so in
case you didn’t already know kiki’s story kiki is
a young witch and she goes to live in a new
all by herself she is only 13 but she has to work
as a witch as part of her coming-of-age kind of
ritual she starts a delivery service flying all
around her new town delivering parcels and helping
her neighbors and you know having adventures now
i have watched the studio ghibli movie many times
just over and over and over i even have purchased
the sheet music for the music soundtrack of
kiki so that i can play the music on the piano
now other than the basic premise the book and the
movie are quite different but they have the same
enchantment the same charm the same kind of
mood and flavor kiki is such a complete darling
she is spunky and kind and generous she’s
just so sweet and i love that sassy black cat
gigi is so adorable and gigi and kiki have
some really just funny adventures together
i love the way that those two really stick
together they rely on each other no matter
how crazy things get kiki meets so many delightful
people as she flies around delivering the mail she
meets young people she meets an old lady who
is incessantly knitting she makes a laundress
a tugboat captain and an artist who paints her
picture and of course her first friend and her
best friend is osono the baker lady the pregnant
baker lady and it’s just so interesting to see
how these people react to kiki and her magic and
her ability to fly and of course kiki wins their
hearts with her sweetness the only characters that
are really the same from the movie to the book
are kiki herself ( and Jiji) and her parents and
osono and of course the boy tombo who belongs to
an aerial flying club so other than those kind
of main people the other people that kiki meets
in the book are not in the movie and there
are people that she meets in the movie and
there are story lines in the movie that are not
in the book however i really i didn’t mind that
i wasn’t necessarily looking for an exact copy
of what i had seen in the movie to be in the
book what i was hoping for was that the characters
and the mood and the flavor and the charm would be
the same and they were this kind of felt like
once you get past the first couple of chapters
which is kiki at home and then kiki is leaving her
home to go to her new town pretty much everything
after that is different from the movie but it
almost kind of felt just like the continuing
adventures of kiki you know just like the further
adventures just new people that she meets new
funny situations that she’s in and so i really
loved that whether you read the book first or
the movie first i don’t think it really matters
because both of them are the same and they’re
different in in other ways i don’t i just i don’t
know how to describe it other than kiki the book
made me feel the same as you know my feelings
my emotions about it and my connection to it
was the same as my connection to the movie
but with all of the delight of discovering
new adventures and new people and new things
surrounding kiki the writing style is utterly
charming and this edition has some really cute
illustrations that just capture that magic so
perfectly this book is a complete delight and
now i feel i i just finished it and i feel like
i just want to reread it again right away and
watch the movie again right away and sit down at
the piano and play the movie soundtrack all the
songs from kiki as well i don’t know what it is
but there’s just something that speaks to my soul
in kiki’s story and i can never never get enough
of it i’m sure there’s probably some kind of
psychological component that speaks to our souls
and and that that just feels so relatable about
kiki but i can’t quite put my finger on what it is
please leave me a comment down below and let
me know have you watched the movie have you
read the book do you adore kiki as much as
i do and can you pinpoint for me what is it
that indescribable thing that makes us love kiki
and her story so much thanks for watching please
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