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Watch this snack-sized sequel to Kiki’s Deliv­ery Service

22 Jun 2017

Words by Jack Godwin

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Circular black and white eye icon with radiating lines.
A Japan­ese ramen com­pa­ny has reimag­ined Hayao Miyazaki’s sky-high heroine.

Released in 1989, Kiki’s Deliv­ery Ser­vice is one of Stu­dio Ghibli’s best-loved works and one of the all-time great ani­mé fea­tures, a typ­i­cal­ly beguil­ing and per­fect­ly self-con­tained film about a 13-year-old witch named Kiki, who goes about couri­er­ing every­day goods to the res­i­dents of her rur­al town.

But if you’ve ever found your­self won­der­ing where Kiki’s jour­ney took her next, well, you’re in luck. Sort of…

Nissin, Japan’s pre­mier mak­ers of instant ramen, have hired renowned man­ga artist Eisaku Kubo­nouchi to ani­mate their lat­est cam­paign based around Stu­dio Ghibli’s sky-high hero­ine. Pick­ing up four years after the events of Hayao Miyazaki’s charm­ing orig­i­nal, this 30-sec­ond ad reimag­ines Kiki as a 17-year-old high school student.

Open­ing on a shot of Kiki’s cat, Jiji, it then sees our young pro­tag­o­nist whizz past on her broom­stick before con­fess­ing her roman­tic inter­est in her old pal Tombo. Though rel­a­tive­ly faith­ful to Eiko Kadono’s source nov­el upon which Miyaza­ki based his film, we’re not sure quite how it all relates to ramen – but it’s cer­tain­ly giv­en us an appetite for more Stu­dio Ghi­b­li sequels. Just maybe not in the form of a noo­dle commercial.

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