Rewatching Kiki’s Delivery Service has brought me immeasurable comfort over the past couple months as I sink into the familiar, cozy world of Kiki and her adventures in her seaside city. Specifically, research indicates that watching familiar TV shows has been shown to restore our feelings of self-control after a period of exertion, and also that we tend to prefer familiar shows when we feel depleted.” Feeling depleted really hits home for me after both the long winter we’ve just gotten through and the pandemic years we’ve been facing.
She writes, “There is also some evidence that when we are stressed and overloaded, watching TV can be restorative. In a Psychology Today article, Jennifer Fayard (2021) discusses why people gravitate towards rewatching something familiar. While this may be related to my brother sharing his HBO account with me, I think it also has to do with how comforting I find the movie.
This past winter though, I found myself rewatching Kiki’s more than I ever have before, with From Up On Poppy Hill and Whisper of the Heart as close seconds. Kiki’s Delivery Service has always held a soft spot in my heart. As she meets new friends and catches tentative feelings for a boy obsessed with airplanes, she begins to learn more about who she is as a person. After coming across a charming seaside village, Kiki puts down roots above a bakeshop and starts a flying delivery service. In the film, we meet 13-year-old witch Kiki, who sets off with her talking cat to live in a new town for a year.
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki, this Studio Ghibli film is based on the book Kiki’s Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono.
I’ve been watching Kiki’s Delivery Service since the days of Blockbuster Video, when my brothers and I used to go pick it out on VHS as our Friday night movie.
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