One thing that stood out to me about Kiki’s Delivery Service was the way in which the world around Kiki was fundamentally good. Whenever things went wrong, there was always a kind person (or animal) willing to help. As a result, situations that normally cause tension or turn out badly in a typical movie, such as a large dog finding a small cat, turn out to be positive. It was interesting to see a fictional world that was essentially a fantasy land, with nothing ever going wrong for more than a few minutes — for me, it seems like it’s been a long time since I watched a movie with that kind of setting.