As it happens when people grow up, Kiki experiences an existential crisis and considers her life choices in this quiet Kiki’s Delivery Service cosplay.
YouTuber and cosplayer Ginny Di (@/itsginnydi) posted one of her old cosplay roles from “a million years ago” as the protagonist of Kiki’s Delivery Service. The cosplayer looks exactly like a young witch with a black dress and a bright red bow on her bob. Adding to the quiet serious mood, she even goes to a nearby forest with a broom slung over her shoulder, perhaps depicting the moment Kiki experienced exhaustion and lost the ability to fly and communicate with her. Jiji. In her caption, Ginny quoted a line from the movie when she talked about the difficulty of turning passion into a career endeavor.
Di specializes in creating original Dungeons & Dragons characters and shoots humorous short videos to introduce them. She has also cosplayed as Daenerys from Game of Thrones and various characters from Critical Role, a play series featuring voice actors from Dungeons & Dragons. On her YouTube channel, where she has over 500,000 subscribers, she uploads fun videos related to Dungeons & Dragons, with her most popular video reaching over 1.5 million views.
About the 1989 hit movie Kiki’s Delivery Service
First released in 1989 under the direction of acclaimed director Hayao Miyazaki, Kiki’s Delivery Service follows a young apprentice witch named Kiki who, following the custom of witches, leaves home to find a new place to live. Arriving in Koriko with his beloved black cat Jiji, Kiki sets up a broom-handling business, aptly named “The Witch’s Delivery Service”. However, life in the city is very different from what she envisioned, and Kiki’s journey is not as easy as she thought as she navigated her new world.
How Kiki’s delivery service continues to inspire others
Despite being over 30 years old, Kiki’s Delivery Service is still one of Studio Ghibli’s most beloved films ever. In director Makoto Shinkai’s latest film Suzume, the director pays homage to Kiki by inserting a few Easter eggs, such as Kiki’s theme song, “Rouge Message”. Knowing how important Ghibli movies are to many viewers’ childhoods, by bringing elements from films like Kiki to Suzume, Shinkai hopes to bring Suzume’s world “closer to our reality.” , making it more “relatable”.
Kiki’s delivery service is available to stream on the recently renamed Max.
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