DVD, Studio Ghibli (Japan)
Anime
July 29, 1989
Fantasy
English Subtitles
103m

No English dubbing on this one, and the menu showed subtitles as undetermined. They were in excellent English. Yes, I do prefer the original language and subtitles. 
   I had seen this one before, and it’s great fun. A young witch leaves her home at age 13 to go somewhere else for a year to study her specialty. Kiki and her cat, Jiji who she can understand, leave her family and friends. She wants to go to a seaside town, to see the ocean. After being blown off course, they arrive at a city on a hillside overlooking the sea. 
   She is having a hard time in the city, having never been in one. She nearly causes accidents, and finally ends up outside a bakery on the hillside. A woman with a baby in a pram leaves the bakery and the owner’s wife come out trying to stop her, she’d left the baby’s pacifier. Kiki takes it, flies to the woman, returns the pacifier, thereby quieting the baby, and starting her new job.
   She goes to work for the bakery, delivering baked goods, and works for anyone else who comes to her with something to be delivered, until she realizes she can no longer understand Jiji, who would rather be with the white cat a couple houses away. And then she can no longer fly her broom, which breaks. She becomes depressed. A friend is hanging onto a rope attached to a blimp that broke away from its moorings. She must fly. She must save her friend. 
   Oh, come on, this is a kid’s show, you know it’s gonna have a happy ever after ending. That’s why I bought the collection. You know if you have young people in your household, it’s safe for them to watch anything from Studio Ghibli, and better if you join them.

Kiki’s Delivery Service trailer

DVD, Studio Ghibli (Japan)
Anime
2 August 1986
Fantasy
English dubbing, excellent
124m

The movie opens in an airship, similar but not quite, like a blimp. There is a young girl, Sheeta, unhappy, and an evil man in the same room. She looks out and sees pirates coming for the air ship. She knocks out the man, reaches in his pocket for a necklace, puts it on, and escapes out the window. 

The pirates want her. The government wants her. Or, rather, they want the necklace she’s wearing as it holds magical powers, of which she is not yet aware. Rescued by a young boy, they take off on the run trying to evade the government men, the pirates, and anyone else who wants her crystal necklace. Laputa is an old country that ‘floats’ above the earth, in the eye of a great storm, unable to be seen from Earth. 

People want to find Laputa, steal its riches, especially the technology so they can rule earth. Some know Sheeta is descended from Laputa’s royalty, they want her and her crystal. And will stop at nothing to have them both.No one does these movies like Studio Ghibli. Inspired by the book, Gulliver’s Travels by Dr. Jonathan Swift.

“The Earth speaks to all of us, and if we listen, we can understand,”—Uncle Pom

Laputa: Castle in the Sky Trailer