I'm sad to learn that they removed the songs from the DVD release. (I bought the DVD, but haven't actually watched it yet, so hadn't noticed the change for myself.) Apparently they altered some of the music, and removed some of Jiji's dialogue, too.
The changes were all to make it more similar/accurate to the Japanese version; the extra music and dialogue had been added when they thought it would make it more appealing to an American audience. So on the one hand, I don't fault them for deciding to make it a little truer to the original, when what they removed were the actual "changes"...
On the other hand, Kiki's Delivery Service is SUCH a nostalgic love for me. The dub came out when I was 10, and I caught part of it on I think Toon Disney. I did finally get a VHS copy of it, and I watched it to *death*. I did the same thing you did - rewound it over and over to listen to the songs, lol. So those songs were part of what I loved! (And as a kid I cared about the implication at the end that her ability to talk to Jiji had come back, even if losing that ability was supposed to be part of her growing up, lol.) I'm sad that the version I fell in love with as a kid is no longer even available. :( I'm not sad that the original songs were returned, but... I wish that it was something where they could have included both versions, so you could select which you wanted to watch.
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I'm sad to learn that they removed the songs from the DVD release. (I bought the DVD, but haven't actually watched it yet, so hadn't noticed the change for myself.) Apparently they altered some of the music, and removed some of Jiji's dialogue, too.
The changes were all to make it more similar/accurate to the Japanese version; the extra music and dialogue had been added when they thought it would make it more appealing to an American audience. So on the one hand, I don't fault them for deciding to make it a little truer to the original, when what they removed were the actual "changes"...
On the other hand, Kiki's Delivery Service is SUCH a nostalgic love for me. The dub came out when I was 10, and I caught part of it on I think Toon Disney. I did finally get a VHS copy of it, and I watched it to *death*. I did the same thing you did - rewound it over and over to listen to the songs, lol.
So those songs were part of what I loved! (And as a kid I cared about the implication at the end that her ability to talk to Jiji had come back, even if losing that ability was supposed to be part of her growing up, lol.)
I'm sad that the version I fell in love with as a kid is no longer even available. :( I'm not sad that the original songs were returned, but... I wish that it was something where they could have included both versions, so you could select which you wanted to watch.