Kiki's Delivery Service (Tome Book Club)

Now we're going to talk about Kiki's Delivery Service.

This is a book that was written in, I think, the 1980s.

It is very famously known in the US, anyway, for being a Studio Ghibli anime that came out in 1989, if I remember correctly.

And has relatively recently gotten an American translation, or an English translation, I should say.

Or not all American, I suppose.

Yeah, it was translated in 2020.

2020.

And there's another book in the series being translated and coming out in a month or so.

So we might... have plans to go and revisit that one when that comes out in a few months

the book was released this book was first released in japan in japan in 1985.

okay so the so the english version came out in 89 is that what i saw no

no the the version came out in 2020 okay 1985

was

1985 was when the book came out.

1989 was when the anime came out.

So I had that part right.

I believe early 2000s, from what I recall.

Is it early 2000s that Disney translated the movie?

I don't know.

I know when I pulled up the movie, it just listed the date as 1989.

Yeah, 1989 was the original date.

97 was when walt disney did the uh produced the english dub so okay yeah i remember watching the anime before walt disney dub uh in anime club when i was in university uh exchanging VHS tapes and getting it there with subtitles done by fans.

And then when Walt Disney got the rights for Studio Ghibli, there was a good distribution for it.

And they did the movie.

They did a good