2026 Stock. Kiki's Delivery Service (1989), drawn from Eiko Kadono's children's novel, follows a thirteen-year-old witch who leaves home on the night of a full moon, settles in a European-looking seaside town with her cat Jiji, and turns the one thing she can do, fly, into a delivery business. It was the first Studio Ghibli film given an official release in the United States, carrying Hayao Miyazaki's unforced storytelling to an audience that had seen little like it.

The score is by Joe Hisaishi, by then Miyazaki's regular composer, and it is among his warmest. The main theme arrives on a quaint flute and gathers a procession of instruments behind it; A Town with an Ocean View sets a scurrying oboe against strings that swoop in like Kiki's own excitement, while a lazy tuba ambles through the portrait of a dozing dog. When the novelty of the new town wears off and homesickness sets in, Hisaishi turns to solo piano, Heartbroken Kiki carrying a real ache before the main theme returns, softened, to lift the mood. Light, melodic and gently European in colour, it is storytelling music in the best sense, following the girl rather than upstaging her.

Bookending the film are two songs by Yumi Arai, the singer later known as Yumi Matsutoya and a foundational figure of Japanese pop: Rouge no Dengon, a bright doo-wop and disco-tinged number from 1975, and the folkier Wrapped in Kindness from 1974, both drawn from her own back catalogue. This collection gathers all twenty-one cues as heard in the original Japanese version, restoring music that some dubbed releases had swapped out to lesser effect.

Issued by Studio Ghibli Records with new mastering and newly designed jacket artwork, obi strip and insert, the soundtrack's first appearance on vinyl.