What does "Majo no Takkyuubin" mean?

It is the "Little Witch Express Service". "Takkyuubin" is actually a term coined by Yamato Transport Company when it started a door-to-door express delivery service. Yamato Transport Company uses a black cat mother holding a little black cat in her mouth as its trademark, and also coined the phrase "Black Cat Yamato Express". Despite an initial heated debate within the company, the company eventually sponsored the film. The original author Eiko Kadono used the word Takkyuubin without the permission of Yamato Transportation Company, which made them very unhappy. However, the audience liked the film, which helped improve Yamato Transport's image, so in the end it was a happy ending

Eiko Kadono was said to be dissatisfied with Miyazaki's adaptation. The book is episodic in nature, and all kinds of people and episodes that Qiqi met during the transportation process are written in it. There are no bad or dramatic stories happening to Qiqi. In the book, she neither loses her magic nor encounters any accidents. Hayao Miyazaki made these changes because he needed a story that could support the entire film. He wanted to tell a story about his growing up experience. He wrote: "Because the movie wants to convey a more realistic feeling, Qiqi here has to endure greater frustration and loneliness than in the original book. Only by overcoming these frustrations and loneliness can she truly It is said that Eiko Kadono's strong dissatisfaction with these adaptations almost caused the film to be shelved during the script stage. Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki (producer of Studio Ghibli) personally visited her home and invited her. We went to the studio to discuss it and finally persuaded her to give in.

The film is based on the children's book "Kiki's Delivery Service" (author: Eiko Kadono, illustrator: Akiko Hayashi). This book also has a sequel "Kiki's Delivery Service". Delivery Service 2: Kiki and Her New Magic" (author Eiko Kadono, illustrated by Kiko Nodaka). This book was written after the movie. The "new magic" in the title refers to the second half of the story, where Kiki. She went home to visit relatives (she had completed her "internship period") and learned her mother's pharmaceutical method. After that, she returned to Corico

When Hayao Miyazaki wrote the script, he basically only borrowed Kiki's Delivery Service. The world view and main characters in the novel, and the main plot except the beginning, are completely rewritten. For example, in the original work, Qiqi did not encounter a storm and hide in the train, but flew directly to Colico; Shu Nuo, the proprietress of the bakery, gave birth to a child a few days after Qiqi arrived, and Qiqi even knitted him an apron; Dragonfly studied the witch's broom in the flying team, and stole Qiqi's broom. Qi’s broom; in the original work, the old lady who lived alone asked Qi Qi to give her an apron for her son, who was a captain, but in the movie, she gave the old lady’s granddaughter a pumpkin pie; and the old lady’s granddaughter, in the original work She asked Qiqi to give a boy a pen and a poem, and she and Qiqi became good friends from the beginning.