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Kiki's Delivery Service Releases in Japanese Theaters

Kiki's Delivery Service Releases in Japanese Theaters

Starts 07/29/1989 CONFIRMED 92% CONFIDENCETheatrical release date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList^[1] listing.

Start: Jul 29, 198992% CONFIDENCEfrom myanimelist.net

Kiki's Delivery Service Releases in Japanese Theaters

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MyAnimeList8.24/10
IMDb7.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes98%
Metacritic85/100

Kiki's Delivery Service follows a young witch, Kiki, as she leaves home at thirteen to complete her training year in a new city, opening a flying delivery service with her talking cat Jiji.

Studio Ghibli's Kiki's Delivery Service is a movie released 29 July 1989, based on a novel^[1]
Thirteen-year-old witch-in-training Kiki leaves home with her cat Jiji to spend a year in the coastal town of Koriko, where baker Osono lends her lodging in exchange for deliveries, leading her to start a broomstick courier service^[1]
It won the 1989 Animage Anime Grand Prix^[1]
Rated 8.24 on MyAnimeList (437,116 scorers)^[1]

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Kiki's Delivery Service Releases in Japanese Theaters
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Theatrical release date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList listing.

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