‘Kiki’s Delivery Service’
The 1989 Studio Ghibli animation “Kiki’s Delivery Service” is drastically different in it’s English-language VHS compared to subsequent releases. The VHS version, which features Phil Hartman as the voice of Jiji, takes significant liberties with the script. Jiji has a lot of dialogue not particularly faithful to the original. In future releases, this was reworked to line up better with the movie’s Japanese form. The VHS version of “Kiki’s Delivery Service” did get a halfhearted DVD release, but it wasn’t available in all regions, and was ultimately replaced by the updated version of the film.