Tear Jerker / Kiki's Delivery Service

• While Kiki is sick, there is one scene where Kiki can be found sleeping and Jiji starts feeling very worried about Kiki.
• The next morning, where Kiki discovers that Jiji can no longer speak to her or understand her due to her losing her powers.
  Kiki: Jiji, what happened to your voice? Say Kiki, Jiji! Jiji! (Jiji just walks off, seemingly ignoring her)
  • We then see Kiki repeatedly running down a hill with her broom, desperately trying to take off but only managing to hover for a few seconds. She finally tumbles into a ditch, snapping the broom in the process, and quietly accepts defeat, trudging silently up the hill.
• Kiki and the old grandmother spend hours making a cake for the lady's granddaughter only for the girl to grouse how much she hates her grandma's cakes and Kiki to get her dress wet and miss the party Tombo had invited her too. Not to mention everything that happened after.
• Relatively minor example; the beginning of the film, where Kiki abruptly decides she has to leave that very night because it's a full moon. Her father is dismayed because they'd made plans to do something together before she left, and she blows him off with a hurried apology. This can come off as harsh to viewers who are unable to spend time with their own fathers anymore.
  Kiki: (exited) Father, I've decided to leave tonight.
  Okino: (startled) What did you say?
  Kiki: I decided, just a little while ago.
  Okino: But look, I borrowed the camping equipment for next week...
  Kiki: (sounding genuinely apologetic) I'm sorry.
• The dedication to Phil Hartman at the end of the credits.
• Joe Hisaishi's soundtrack can be this, particularly "On A Clear Day" and "Mom's Broom".
• Some interpret that the ending implies that Kiki has decided to spend the rest of her life in Koriko.

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