2016 marks the 30th anniversary of Studio Ghibli's first anime movie, Castle in the Sky. Nippon Television Network got the year started with a Friday Roadshow broadcast of the Hayao Miyazaki feature, along with the associated Balse Festival, then followed it this week with 1989's Kiki's Delivery Service. Fans enthusiastically responded on social media with trivia, tribute art and even cooking!

Social media was particularly impressed by swimsuit sketches by Miyazaki

Also getting tons of retweets is an explanation that, according to Miyazaki, Jiji stops talking at the end, not because Kiki's magic has weakened, but because she'd grown up and no longer needs to give him a voice.

And along those lines is the explanation by producer Toshio Suzuki that Kiki's large red ribbon was a symbol of puberty.

Eiko Kadono's original novel Majo no Takkyūbin used the term "takkyūbin" (home-fast-mail), which was trademark of Yamato Transport. Though initially ambivalent, they embraced the movie thanks in part to the prominence of Jiji, who resembles their black mother cat and kitten logo.

The movie's theater brochure

One-Punch Man artist Yusuke Murata's reaction

From manga author Arina Tanemura

More trivia from a live-Tweet can be found on @kinro_ntv



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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.