You can hear the panchgavya in his voice.

What a beautiful analysis of one of my favourite movies of all time! Thank you!

“It is easier to imagine the end of the world that it is to imagine an end to capitalism”. Usually to have been said by mark fisher

The relief from pain isn't happiness. When your sad and something else makes you feel joy. Do to ignorance or coping people can look happy in terrible situations. You shouldn't need bad times to appreciate the good times. The bad times can really taint your good times. Leaving you numb. Having consistent meaningful honest joy. With some or no inconvenience is happiness.

All people do some evil, and many are sometimes very evil, and misplaced love makes them that way. That is the horror of nazi Germany, people like you and me did that out of love. Hate is emotionally manifest aggression - which is a fear response. People hate what they fear and they fear what they dont know and what might destroy. The problem is these loves necessarily conflict because of the human condition and circumstance. People are also rationalization machines that hardly know why they do the things they do. To describe them as good is naive. I'm writing this to you on a device made possible by human abuse and slavery, and this video was made and is hosted on more of the same.

❤ If it can be thought of, it can be. In this sense, technological progress is totally stoppable, if humans stop acting like crazed addicts. _They say that I'm a dreamer. But I'm not the only one._ So Ghibli is a bit like Trek. Don't show the struggle, but show the end result. That breeds gentle rebels. The system compels us to compromise with it, so it is rebelliously valuable to simply 'not go there'. P.S.: The world we live in, though: Confront ordinary, 'non-evil' people with the big questions and they will show you the monster they keep in the closet. 'There's an ongoing genocide supported by your elected government.' - 'I am a humble, simple person. I don't concern myself with politics. (I vote, though. Of coursre. It is my duty.)' - 🤦‍♂ P.P.S.: There is some irony, though, in how you went from preaching feelgood idealism to real-world realism.

I was moved just by the summary of Arietty and its ending. I’ve gotta watch that now! Thank you for talking about this and sharing it. I want to write stories like this now, maybe even find a way to use it in a ttrpg rather than the ubiquitous well-loved tropes of combat-driven heroic conflict. Probably depends on the players most of all, as many ttrpg choices are.

This one emotionally touched me deep and I'm so grateful for having rediscovered these sentiments and opinions and this art of making humankind. This is so deep, but so simple. I'm grateful for having this

Movers had the key (from the start of the movie)

My god, it only took Americans 20+ years to realize the melancholic endings are WHAT make Ghibli movies so good. Meanwhile, I'm quite sure most of us who watched these when they came out when we were kids knew exactly that it was the endings that made Ghibli movies feel so unique and make you think about them for days, years afterward.

26:12, i never realised the girl being from before being in the car before, kiki is my favourite ghibli film and i've watched it countless times and i cant believe i missed that tidbit but it just shows how many more details are just packed into this film.

i truly appreciate this video, ty and subscribe

Kiki is me and my sister's favorite Ghibli character. I think she's adorable and my sister says, "she's like a witch, but _amazing_ ."

Kiki is one of my top 5 favourite Miyazaki films. It's great because of its simplicity, the main characters, the setting and atmosphere. It's just such a laid back and chill film, but that's what makes it so memorable. It's a film and world that you wish you could live in, as you feel transported to another realm and honestly, I wish more modern animated films would take this approach. It's just so underutilised. This is an unpopular opinion, but I actually prefer this over My Neighbour Totoro.

皆様にとって 2025 年が健康、幸福、そして成功に満ちた年でありますように！家族、友人、そして夢との美しい瞬間をいつも輝かせましょう。

This video is beautiful! Thank you for your hard work! In an era where I keep hearing, "Media literacy is dead," this was refreshing & lovely.

I am sobbing And i love it! Thank you so much of reminding me of this wonderful masterpiece and also explaining it to me even more. Thank you :D

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To me, Kiki's loss lf magic always seemed like self-doubt. Sometimes, if I start to doubt my abilities, the tiniest thing happening outside of my control can seem like a proof. And then I subconsciously collect all those proofs until it turns to conscious doubting... So I interpreted it as Kiki doubting herself subconsciously, and then started to believe that she really lost her magic. She had to gain back this trust and belief in herself and in her abilities to regain access to her magic. Edit: i should have finished watching the video before writing the comment 😂😅

In the US Heidi was turned into a live action staring Shirley Temple

I clicked on this out of curiosity.. by the time it got to 'comparison' this video really resonated with me and when the part about art came up I straight up made a lot of realisations. I write. Not as a job, nor have I published anything. But the struggles are the same. I am learning a lot just listening to this video.

Completely unrelated but i love how studio Ghibli draws nature

I think Don Bluth's movies are sort of a compromise between how Disney portrays the world and how Studio Ghibli portrays it.

heidi was an anime?

It's a crime that the original book for this story only exists in Japanese.

Very interesting analysis, and something I can think about as I write a feature film screenplay. Like you said, almost everyone in my story is a nice person trying to be nice to others. The violence is distant and impersonal, missiles and bombs from unknown people, "the enemy." But no one on the screen is a villain. The "enemy" to be defeated is a huge country, with a distant capital.

loved the video :D it would be so amazing if you could make a vid about Whisper Of The Heart!! its my favorite animated movie (and ghibli movie) :)

Gonna come back and watch this after i watch this movie ❤

I think we need to stop analysing Disney movies

This is an unfair comparison, Ghibli and Disney simply draw from different sources of inspiration. Both are valid expressions and one is not lesser than the other for showing a different aspect of the human experience. Disney films are mostly Western fairytale adaptations and those stories use symbolic representations of good/evil as a metaphor for what we may encounter in the real world; it's not meant to be taken literally. Happy endings in fairytales don't try to advertise happy endings for us, they simply communicate the peaceful resolution of the underlying psychological conflict in the story. Making the sultan more kind, considerate and supportive would totally defeat his role as the representation of the old order which Jasmine wants to escape. It's just a different story which wouldn't benefit from Miyazaki's more natural, morally ambiguous Eastern style.

Conveniently ignores Inside Out, Tangled, Encanto… why does Ghibli need to be compared to Disney…? If you’re gonna play this game, there’s DEFINITELY places where Disney eclipses Ghibli lol. Saying disney worlds are evil because there’s usually a villain is, I’m sorry, silly. This trend of just blindly saying Disney sucks is lazy. AS IF HOWLS MOVING CASTLE DOESNT TAKE PLACE IN A MASSIVE WAR OR SOMETHING. For every cherry picked example you give, you can find flaws in Ghibli movies. At the very least, a better title for this video would be “Kiki’s delivery’s service succeeds where most Disney movies fail”. A more fair comparison would be Kiki vs The incredibles, Encanto, Tangled, Brave… all movies where the characters parents are both alive (since that’s apparently so important) Particularly in Tangled, where the world only SEEMS evil and dangerous because the main villain has manipulated the hero to believe it is. Once she ventures into the world, she sees how people are generally good. Or Inside Out- Riley has great parents who are supportive of her, and there’s no villain. I’m sorry but it’s such a pet peeve of mine when people just go into “Disney bad” mode, but then ignore every time Disney got it right. Literally all I’m getting from this is “conflict bad”…? Lol Be fair and make a video about Earwig and The Witch.

This is why I love tress of the emerald sea. It for a lot of the same reasons

We rise by lifting others.

Studio Ghibli should be a must in animation/filmography/arts/literature as a staple of hiw to make great movies for all ages Disney has nothing on Ghibli or even Makoto Shinkai, Satoshi Kon, Shinichiro Watanabe...

kikis delivery service is one of those absolute master pieces of human civilisation that almost makes it worth suffering thru it all

Great film. Got my niece it for Christmas

Dame reason why Europeans love Japanese culture so much. It's cool as hell.

This is such a great breakdown and analysis of the different approaches to "family-friendly" storytelling! Having grown up in a somewhat different culture, I have neither been able to stomach American kids' movies, nor been able to properly explain to people why this is. I think your video captures parts of what I dislike about these tropes. I think one of the underlying issues is that Disney's stories (and by extension, western kids' animated stories in general) draw so much from old-school, primarily European fairy tales that were explicitly designed as tools to scare kids into staying safe in a much more dangerous and less kind world. (not all fairy tales are like this, but Disney tends to lean this way. And Disney doesn't always directly draw from those fairy tales, but from the general tradition that evolved from them, e.g. Andersen's The Little Mermaid). Of course, these stories are now adapted to "soften" the edges, but not in a way that actually addresses the way that the modern world is different from the world where kids needed stories about how you'll die if you trust strangers or stray too far. This tangentially reminds me of dog behaviorism and raising puppies (I've been listening and reading a lot of stuff from Puppy Culture/Madcap Radio mostly for fun). In the modern world, a puppy who is raised to believe that the world is largely good and interesting and fun to be curious about generally does a lot better than a puppy who has even one bad encounter before reaching maturity. Dogs and puppies (and animals in general) have evolved a lot of "defensive" instincts that can keep them safe in a dangerous and hostile world, but actually result in a highly suboptimal life if they win out in the modern world.

I loved this film so much, other Ghibli films are like this aswell and I wish I saw them when I was smaller instead of some Disney movies. Ponyo, kiki and spirited away are some of my favourite 💞💞🫶🫶

while i think the implication of disney being bad because it pushes people to be weary of the outside world to be flawed i do definitely agree we need a greater balance between negative and positive views of the world in media cause a hopeful community of kikis is unfortuantely just as relatable as a conservative community which goes against new lifestyles, even a few years ago a japanease university was found lowering female medical student scores to limit the amount which enter the field and we can't forget the adversity that minorities experience. that all said do definitely agree that kids stories oversimplify villains and if we look at partisan politics its clear people see a clearly better side than the other so it can be argued those lessons being ingrained as the only lesson on why society is bad has manifested itself in unfortunate ways, that more stories should be about finding and cultivating a positive community instead of forcibly changing the one you were born into because that's a fools erand. that all said there is a bit of a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose of good and bad fables, and that is they aren't trying to be representative of the world, like aladin has magical genies so it makes sense the story would be about how that magic is used, it's not actually a story about government corruption it's a story about a self concious man not thinking he's good enough for a woman of a higher class. and while this isn't always the case like with pokahuntus there;s a reason that movie is universally panned compared to say the lion king which yes has mufasa creating a food shortage, its main story is about simba learning from the past and taking on his responsibilities. tbh my main criticisms would be with modern disney movies with their twist villains, like zootopia where they set up the sheep is using a drug to stoke racial tensions but once she's arrested the movie just ends with the only change being a fox becoming a cop when the movie literally shown a new species becoming a cop does nothing to the society at large, these are the types of overly simplistic solutions which should be criticised honestly, the worlds which tie into the stories moral and movies like hunchback does have him finding a support structure in the end. (on the topic of zootopia though i'd look into scrapped storyboards, the shock collar idea honestly works way better and they just pussied out of using it, such a glaring case of one choice collapsing the core message) that said do thouroughly enjoy the video, while i disagree with one inherently being a better way to tell a story because frankly stories quality should be judged by their execution not their concept and the goals of the story should be kept in mind for that, ghibli movies do definitely stand out for succeeding with a completely different formula.

Nice analysis! Come to think of it, The Queen's Gambit (HBO) (spoilers) has this exact quality. Beth Harmon is her own biggest adversary in a world filled with kind supportive people (apart for perhaps her father). I would have been easy for the writers have Beth overcome toxic characters, yet refreshingly, they chose the battle to be within. It goes against main western story telling tropes and totally messed with my prepossessions 🙂

This is one of those masterpieces that wether you read the book or watch the movie adaptation it will be amazing either way.

I think the magic in the movie comes from goodness. To truly do the good. She loses her power as she becomes disenfranchised and loses her positive and good demeanor. She truly regains her powers as she lets go of her resentments and tries to truly become a good person again.

Thank you for this video, truly. I never really thought about these movies from this point of view, and never really saw anything special in Kiki’s delivery service. So, thank you for showing and explaining the beauty of the movie, can’t wait to rewatch it!

also Thank you for Reviewing Kiki's Delivery Service I really did like the Movie and it makes me wanna travel too... but I know I'll have to Deal with Culture Shock....

Everyone should read Alexis de Tocqueville's democracy in America.

thank you so much for making this

No wonder I love watching this movie, it’s such a nice break from the typical movies that start with death. This movie feels like what a slice of life show should be. Simple problems, simple solutions. (Ignoring the blimp incident at the end😂)

18:18 oh yes and Marvel seems to be doing this as well always doing the Good Vs. Evil Troupe for Every Movie they make too yes I have mention Marvel because Disney bought them FOR ALOT OF MONEY!

As someone who has struggled with depression for as long as they can remember, this movie is like a breath of fresh air. It brings me so much optimism and helps me pick myself up when I need. I love this movie and I wish those vibes for my life.