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Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) – Review
By the end of the 80s, Studio Ghibli was cooking, creatively speaking, but was still finding it tough to get the appropriate amount of traction at the box office. While disscussing something as crass as money when dealing with the type of creative alchemy that have given audiences back to back movies that casually enriched the soul, the simple fact of the matter is, Ghibli was still in its relative infancy and anime had yet to make that relentless, worldwide breakout that still wouldn’t occur for a few couple of years yet. However, with Kiki’s Delivery Service, the studio would finally enjoy financial success to go with the fact that in under a decade, they’d been doling out straight-up masterpieces while other animation houses (cough * Disney * cough) had noticably struggled during the decade.
Let’s not forget that Ghibli released both My Neighbour Totoro and Grave Of The Fireflies in the same year, a feat that showed the emotional dexterity of filmmakers who delivered polar opposite assaults on our emotional well-being. But what did it take to help the house of Totoro get flush? Nothing much, just a thirteen year-old witch and a flying broom.In a world where witches live alongside humans in harmony despite being relatively rare, we meet Kiki, a thirteen year-old girl who decides its time for her to attempt the tradition all witches her age must do – leave home and live an independent life for a year. While that seems a little much to ask any child, Kiki not only is kind and resourceful, but she has the ability to soar through the sky on her broom and has Jiji, her feline familiar, to keep her company. However, after leaving home she soon encounters a number of minor obstacles such as another, pretentious witch and a rain storm that causes her to first drift off course and then take refuge in a box car until the rain chooses to relent.
However, upon waking up, Kiki finds that she and Jiji have arrived in the city of Koriko and decides to stay and try to make a life for herself – but while she’s enamored of the view of the ocean that she has, her small town upbringing leaves her unprepared for how tough life and lonely can be in a bustling city. Still, the plucky child manages to find a place to live with a kindly woman and her husband who own a bakery and so figures out how to channel her paranormal talents into a form of self employment.
Using her talents of flying on her broomstick, Kiki starts up her own small scale delivery service as she can simply zip across the sky with a parcel and drop it off at it’s destination in no time at all. However, despite the kindness of a lot of her early customers and the constant attention of a local boy named Tombo, Kiki soon finds that forging a life in a big city can be fairly trying and as isolation and depression sets in, she finds that some of her witchy gifts are starting to leave her as the day to day pressures take their toll.The irony of Ghibli’s first financially successful film being about a thirteen year-old going out and starting her own business isn’t lost on me, but there was always a danger that anything that attempted to follow Isao Takahata’s emotion-flaying Grave Of The Fireflies was going to come across as unbelievably twee – after all, the lethally sad wartime drama had been repeatedly hailed as one of the greatest animated movies ever made and proved to be an unforgettable experience. However, the magic of Hayao Miyazaki is that he’s able to benevolently weaponise things that are ridiculously nice in ways that make even the most basic plots warm your heart. For example, on the surface, My Neighbour Totoro wasn’t really about anything really and just followed the lives of two young girls who were excited about moving house and casually had low-energy adventures with a burly, sleepy forest spirit. And yet, despite having no antagonist, no jokes and no action sequences to speak of, Miyazaki turned such unassuming touch points into genuine chicken soup for the soul.
Well, with Kiki’s Delivery Service pulls off the same trick by adapting Eiko Kadono’s novel into yet another beguiling fantasy that, technically speaking, doesn’t fall back on the majority of animated tropes popular at the time. Once again, Miyazaki shrewdly tells another tale that not only proves that he accurately can put himself (and the viewer) in the shoes of a prepubescent girl encountering the world for the first time, but he impressively doesn’t make it creepy either. On top of this, the movie scatters numerous instances about the film that sees a lot of good advice and protection offered to Kiki by an arry of vastly different, but all equally strong women. From Osono the baker generously giving our heroine a place to stay, to the kindly old women who call Kiki to deliver pies baked with pure love to ungrateful grandchildren on their birthdays, to her encounter with jean-short wearing artist, Ursula who lives in the nearby forest, the young witch is given countless life advice by strong mature women to counteract the rather cold and vapid reaction she gets from girls her own age.Once again, detailing how rich and glorious the animation is is now starting to feel somewhat redundant, but I’ll still say that no one in animation can animate grass blowing on a strong breeze quite like the hard working scribblers who work under the Ghibli umbrella – and if that looks good, imagine how good the flying stuff looks. Yep, Miyazaki’s documented weakness for all things that fly gets yet another outing, although its amusing that for all the high flying heroines that’s populated his films, Kiki has moments where her broom flying is actually quite ungainly due to external forces or the fact that has to improvise at one moment with a brush.
But for all the dazzling wonder and memorable characters (Jiji the sassy cat is effortlessly the movie’s MVP), once again it’s those deftly buried life lessons that hit the hardest and while Kiki finds that the confidence sapping effects of modern life is draining her powers as depression set in, it’s remarkable that Miyazaki’s simple message of being true to yourself is delivered so organically when other animation houses would probably base an entire six minute musical number about it. Most remarkable of all is the fact that I would argue that Kiki’s Delivery Service actually does low-key fantasy and growing pains even better than My Neighbour Totoro did and while that final rescue sequence seems a little tacked on compared to how organic Ghibli usually is, it makes the likes of Sabrina The Teenage Witch look like purest trash in comparison.Zipping out from under the emotional heft of Grave Of The Fireflies with yet another delightful flight of fancy, Kiki’s Delivery Service not only cemented Ghibli’s standing at the box office, but delivered yet another overwhelmingly warm cinematic endevor to boot. While the titular witch may not have too many spells of her own, her movie spins more than enough magic to compensate.
#1980s #1989 #Fantasy #Animation #Anime #Japan #FilmReview #StudioGhibli #HayaoMiyazaki #KikiSDeliveryService #MinamiTakayama #ReiSakuma #KappeiYamaguchi #KeikoToda
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Inside James Wood’s Low-Key Presence and High-Impact ‘Sky’s The Limit’ Bat https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/686256/ #Baseball #JamesWood #MajorLeagueBaseball #MLB #nationals #washington #WashingtonNationals #WashingtonNationals
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Inside James Wood’s Low-Key Presence and High-Impact ‘Sky’s The Limit’ Bat https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/686256/ #Baseball #JamesWood #MajorLeagueBaseball #MLB #nationals #washington #WashingtonNationals #WashingtonNationals
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I'm low key considering buying a #TV to watch my favorite shows and play some switch games With my daughter.
I never owned a TV and just want to stream and game
I'm also considering building a Linux TV thing (with #kodi?).
Is there a specific tech that's worth buying? Are there brands to avoid?
Are there dumb TV at all?
Please enlighten me
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Manchmal hat eine Frau einfach den Wunsch sich fallen lassen zu können. Geborgenheit fühlen, so sein dürfen wie sie ist... Genießen können aufhören zu denken und all die Zweifel einfach zu vergessen.
#seilchen #seilbaendigerin #shibariart #shooting #erotik #akt #lowkey #freestyle #rigger #ropeart #ropeart #bondage #bondageart #ropemarks #bondagerope #kinbaku #lovebondage #BondageMitHerz💙 #artnotporn #ropebottom #ropespace #femalerigger #senenawa
Shootings mit Herz
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Manchmal hat eine Frau einfach den Wunsch sich fallen lassen zu können. Geborgenheit fühlen, so sein dürfen wie sie ist... Genießen können aufhören zu denken und all die Zweifel einfach zu vergessen.
#seilchen #seilbaendigerin #shibariart #shooting #erotik #akt #lowkey #freestyle #rigger #ropeart #ropeart #bondage #bondageart #ropemarks #bondagerope #kinbaku #lovebondage #BondageMitHerz💙 #artnotporn #ropebottom #ropespace #femalerigger #senenawa
Shootings mit Herz
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Manchmal hat eine Frau einfach den Wunsch sich fallen lassen zu können. Geborgenheit fühlen, so sein dürfen wie sie ist... Genießen können aufhören zu denken und all die Zweifel einfach zu vergessen.
#seilchen #seilbaendigerin #shibariart #shooting #erotik #akt #lowkey #freestyle #rigger #ropeart #ropeart #bondage #bondageart #ropemarks #bondagerope #kinbaku #lovebondage #BondageMitHerz💙 #artnotporn #ropebottom #ropespace #femalerigger #senenawa
Shootings mit Herz
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CW: Bondage suspension
In sich ruhend,
einfach edel.
Sicher gehalten in Seil.
Schwebend...
sinnlich... frei...Pic: @bondagephotoart
#seilchen #seilbaendigerin #shibariart #shooting #erotik #akt #lowkey #freestyle #rigger #rope #ropeart #bondage #bondageart #Frau #ropemarks #seil #bondagerope #kinbaku #lovebondage #bodypart #japaneseropebondage #hemprope #hemprope #knots #emotionalbondage #ropebottom #ropespace #femalerigger #womenbondage #picoftheday #artnotporn
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CW: Bondage suspension
In sich ruhend,
einfach edel.
Sicher gehalten in Seil.
Schwebend...
sinnlich... frei...Pic: @bondagephotoart
#seilchen #seilbaendigerin #shibariart #shooting #erotik #akt #lowkey #freestyle #rigger #rope #ropeart #bondage #bondageart #Frau #ropemarks #seil #bondagerope #kinbaku #lovebondage #bodypart #japaneseropebondage #hemprope #hemprope #knots #emotionalbondage #ropebottom #ropespace #femalerigger #womenbondage #picoftheday #artnotporn
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CW: Bondage suspension
In sich ruhend,
einfach edel.
Sicher gehalten in Seil.
Schwebend...
sinnlich... frei...Pic: @bondagephotoart
#seilchen #seilbaendigerin #shibariart #shooting #erotik #akt #lowkey #freestyle #rigger #rope #ropeart #bondage #bondageart #Frau #ropemarks #seil #bondagerope #kinbaku #lovebondage #bodypart #japaneseropebondage #hemprope #hemprope #knots #emotionalbondage #ropebottom #ropespace #femalerigger #womenbondage #picoftheday #artnotporn
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keadamander (@[email protected])
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> Goose in Noir Original lighting from the sun. The only changes I had to make were a vignette and cropping out some dark greenery from the goose’s right side. #photography #canon #goose #waterfowl #bird #birdphotography #birdsofinstagram #birdstagram #avian #ornithology #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography #lowkey #chiaroscuro #rimlight #backlighting #fineartphotography #moodygrams #silhouette #portrait
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I low-key got back into One Piece so I bought the first volume of the episode A spinoff. Boichi’s art in it is stunning!
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Low-key hoping #Nintendo make the Switch 2 backwards compatible so that I can finally play those games I wanted to play but ultimately skipped because I didn't fancy playing them on my 900 year old OG Switch.
Looking directly at you #Bayonetta3 and #MetroidDread
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I have an unfounded theory that in #Peru we are low key training people to do complex estimations and take multidimensional decision, otherwise why have 35 different parties, and have to cast 5 distinct votes in today's #election: president, national senate, regional senate, deputies (congress representative for the #USA folks), and Andean Parliament. And then we got preferential votes.
The voting ballot was huge (see the models here https://eg2026.onpe.gob.pe/cedula/descarga-tu-cedula/ with made up parties).
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The author of this piece visits a lesser-known Caribbean locale for a destination wedding with low-key island ambiance, great snorkeling, and a very exclusive resort. Read on!
https://frayedpassport.com/clouds-with-a-blue-lining-destination-wedding-on-turks-and-caicos/
#turksandcaicos #wedding #destinationwedding #weddingtravel #caribbean #caribbeantravel #luxurytravel #island #islandresort #islandwedding #islandtravel #vacation #beautiful #couplestravel #vacation #beautifulplaces #beautifuldestinations #funny #funnystory
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The author visits a lesser-known Caribbean locale for a destination wedding with low-key island ambiance, great snorkeling, and a very exclusive resort.
https://frayedpassport.com/clouds-with-a-blue-lining-destination-wedding-on-turks-and-caicos/
#turksandcaicos #islandlife #destinationwedding #travel #vacation #couplestravel #travelogue #travelstory #travelandlife #travellife
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The author visits a lesser-known Caribbean locale for a destination wedding with low-key island ambience, great snorkeling, and a very exclusive resort:
https://frayedpassport.com/clouds-with-a-blue-lining-destination-wedding-on-turks-and-caicos/
#turkscaicos #turksandcaicos #destinationwedding #travel #travelstory #couplestravel #romance #luxurytravel #familytravel
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I had to make a clip about it. Low-key if this helps my productivity just because of the bonus cuci mata then this game is worth it: https://youtu.be/IMYfgdL7oMk #LaDS #LoveAndDeepspace
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https://www.kpopnsfw.com/257824/g-dragon-reposting-a-winter-fan-account-w-the-collab-to-his-ig-story-%f0%9f%99%8f%f0%9f%8f%bc-how-many-weeks-do-we-think-this-will-be-at-num-one-in-melon-%f0%9f%98%86-i-was-unsure-if-gd-was-going-to/ G-Dragon reposting a Winter fan account w the collab to his IG story 🙏🏼 how many weeks do we think this will be at num one in Melon? 😆 I was unsure if GD was going to promote it (he has been lowkey about collabs before) but seems he really is, this is going to be a digital monster song #account #aespa #Collab #collabs #digital #fan #gdragon #lowkey #Melon #Monster #num #promote #reposting #song #Story #unsure #weeks #winter
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Television rec of the week
(or maybe of longer than the week, depending on long it takes me to find another show to recommend):'Small Prophets' by Mackenzie Crook.
Currently available on BBC iPlayer.
Quiet, low-key sharply observed humans, not making other people's lives, or their own, easier.
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Today's shuffley #MondayRandom10 goodness. I'm in admin to-do list mode today, and screeching along to these songs at the top of my lungs definitely helped.
1. DxS - Rockstar (DK Solo)
2. Chen - Arcadia
3. CNBlue - Lowkey
4. Suho - Birthday
5. Lucy - Hippo
6. Agust D - SDL
7. Stray Kids - God's Menu
8. Jin - Rope It
9. Day6 - Inside Out
10. Moon Sujin - Tight RopeI swear I didn't manipulate the results! (IYKYK) 😂
Updated Playlist here - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMh-vAIxyG1_pkvNa126YvbPArAmytzo3
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Happy New Years!
Hopefully yours is more low key than Alex Murphy from RoboCop.
#Movies #Film #Cinema #Robocop #PaulVerhoeven #PeterWeller #RonnyCox #Squibs #HUD #NYE #HappyNewYear
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In or near #Atlanta next weekend? (Maybe for #TakeBackTech?)
Come to @sandbox for a low-key Co-op Cloud meet-up, 6-10 pm Eastern, Saturday 18th April.
And a little bonus: the next "Self-hosted infrastructure speedrun", with Ammar and 3wordchant going (co-operatively) head-to-head to fire up some radical self-hosted technology.
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lowkey looking for someone to game with tonight 🎮 drop your fav game and maybe we can play something! i'm on pc, into rpgs and fps mostly 🫶
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Business Latest | Apple's Next CEO Needs to Launch a Killer AI Product by Steven Levy
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Apple’s incoming CEO, John Ternus, faces his first major test: delivering a breakthrough AI product that will make the technology as seamless and indispensable as Apple’s past innovations such as the Mac, iPhone and AirTag. Tim Cook, who will step down in September, left Apple’s AI efforts unfinished—Apple Intelligence debuted in 2024 to little fanfare—so the new leader must capitalize on the company’s custom silicon expertise, including increasingly powerful neural‑engine chips and a forthcoming partnership with Broadcom, to create a consumer‑friendly AI experience. Ternus, a low‑key yet methodical executive with decades at Apple and a background in hardware engineering, is expected to combine the company’s design ethos with a strategic push against rivals like Nvidia, potentially launching a new device or dramatically enhancing existing ones to embed personal AI agents while preserving privacy. The success of this initiative will determine whether Apple can dominate the AI era as it once did with personal computers, mobile phones, and music distribution.
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/apples-next-ceo-needs-to-launch-a-killer-ai-product/
#Apple #JohnTernus #JohnySrouji #Nvidia #TimCook #SteveJobs #JensenHuang
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Business Latest | Apple's Next CEO Needs to Launch a Killer AI Product by Steven Levy
AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information.
Apple’s incoming CEO, John Ternus, faces his first major test: delivering a breakthrough AI product that will make the technology as seamless and indispensable as Apple’s past innovations such as the Mac, iPhone and AirTag. Tim Cook, who will step down in September, left Apple’s AI efforts unfinished—Apple Intelligence debuted in 2024 to little fanfare—so the new leader must capitalize on the company’s custom silicon expertise, including increasingly powerful neural‑engine chips and a forthcoming partnership with Broadcom, to create a consumer‑friendly AI experience. Ternus, a low‑key yet methodical executive with decades at Apple and a background in hardware engineering, is expected to combine the company’s design ethos with a strategic push against rivals like Nvidia, potentially launching a new device or dramatically enhancing existing ones to embed personal AI agents while preserving privacy. The success of this initiative will determine whether Apple can dominate the AI era as it once did with personal computers, mobile phones, and music distribution.
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/apples-next-ceo-needs-to-launch-a-killer-ai-product/
#Apple #JohnTernus #JohnySrouji #Nvidia #TimCook #SteveJobs #JensenHuang
AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information.
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Business Latest | Apple's Next CEO Needs to Launch a Killer AI Product by Steven Levy
AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information.
Apple’s incoming CEO, John Ternus, faces his first major test: delivering a breakthrough AI product that will make the technology as seamless and indispensable as Apple’s past innovations such as the Mac, iPhone and AirTag. Tim Cook, who will step down in September, left Apple’s AI efforts unfinished—Apple Intelligence debuted in 2024 to little fanfare—so the new leader must capitalize on the company’s custom silicon expertise, including increasingly powerful neural‑engine chips and a forthcoming partnership with Broadcom, to create a consumer‑friendly AI experience. Ternus, a low‑key yet methodical executive with decades at Apple and a background in hardware engineering, is expected to combine the company’s design ethos with a strategic push against rivals like Nvidia, potentially launching a new device or dramatically enhancing existing ones to embed personal AI agents while preserving privacy. The success of this initiative will determine whether Apple can dominate the AI era as it once did with personal computers, mobile phones, and music distribution.
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/apples-next-ceo-needs-to-launch-a-killer-ai-product/
#Apple #JohnTernus #JohnySrouji #Nvidia #TimCook #SteveJobs #JensenHuang
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