Glad I could share! Other than my younger sibling, I don't know that I know anyone else who gets why I love those songs so much!
Kiki's Delivery Service was definitely one of the first anime I found. It was actually a few years later that I think I got into Sailor Moon (oh, same on the original Genuinely Not Good dub and terrible dub names that are still the Truest Sailor Moon experience to me!) After that I also found Pokemon, and then Gundam Wing and YuYuHakusho and other Toonami shows, and my mom bought me Magic Knight Rayearth, etc. But Kiki was ahead of the curve in terms of anime for me, and the specific type of nostalgia that it invoked (even when I WAS a kid) has rarely been matched in a non-ghibli film, imo!
Which is a long way to say... Yes! I want *my* original experience of the movie back, because that was the version I fell in love with and had a really strong impact on me as a kid! Even if I can appreciate the desire to offer a more "accurate" version now, I also feel a sense of loss at the thing that meant so much to me.
And I almost said something about it being like the difference between book and movie Matilda! I hate the idea that losing your cool powers (whether that's talking to your familiar or moving things with your mind) is a sign of maturity!
(I remember a wave of thinkpieces from maybe... 5-10 years ago, about how it was a terrible sign of immaturity that "millennials" found the "return home/return to normal" aspect of portal/other children's fantasy to be unsatisfying. That of course the whole point of the return from Narnia or Matilda losing her powers is that we all have to grow up, and not wanting to give up the fantasy aspects is obviously a sad commentary on our arrested development or whatever. But WHO WANTS TO GIVE UP THE FANTASY STUFF? WHY WOULD YOU?)
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Kiki's Delivery Service was definitely one of the first anime I found. It was actually a few years later that I think I got into Sailor Moon (oh, same on the original Genuinely Not Good dub and terrible dub names that are still the Truest Sailor Moon experience to me!) After that I also found Pokemon, and then Gundam Wing and YuYuHakusho and other Toonami shows, and my mom bought me Magic Knight Rayearth, etc. But Kiki was ahead of the curve in terms of anime for me, and the specific type of nostalgia that it invoked (even when I WAS a kid) has rarely been matched in a non-ghibli film, imo!
Which is a long way to say... Yes! I want *my* original experience of the movie back, because that was the version I fell in love with and had a really strong impact on me as a kid! Even if I can appreciate the desire to offer a more "accurate" version now, I also feel a sense of loss at the thing that meant so much to me.
And I almost said something about it being like the difference between book and movie Matilda! I hate the idea that losing your cool powers (whether that's talking to your familiar or moving things with your mind) is a sign of maturity!
(I remember a wave of thinkpieces from maybe... 5-10 years ago, about how it was a terrible sign of immaturity that "millennials" found the "return home/return to normal" aspect of portal/other children's fantasy to be unsatisfying. That of course the whole point of the return from Narnia or Matilda losing her powers is that we all have to grow up, and not wanting to give up the fantasy aspects is obviously a sad commentary on our arrested development or whatever. But WHO WANTS TO GIVE UP THE FANTASY STUFF? WHY WOULD YOU?)