魔女宅急便特別篇2黑貓吉吉的故事

魔女の宅急便 [Majo no Takkyūbin] #SP2

by Eiko Kadono, 角野榮子

まだ寒さの厳しいある冬の日、人間の男の人オキノさんと、魔女のコキリさんのあいだにかわいらしい女の子が生まれました。名前はキキ。将来、魔女として活躍するキキが、相棒兼ライバル(?)の黒猫ジジと一緒に成長していくようすが描かれます。オキノさんとコキリさんの愛情をいっぱいに受け、魔女の娘として育ったキキは、どのように、魔女になることを意識しはじめるのでしょう。 いっぽう、「旅猫」の母親から生まれたジジは、「魔女猫」になれるのか、はたまた「家猫」として過ごすことになるのか。「ぼくははんぱな猫のままでいろってこと?」――ジジも、キキの気持ちの迷いにヤキモキさせられます。 そして、キキの前にとつぜんあらわれた不思議な女の子、ミッチョンとは――。 『キキに出会った人びと』に続く、〈魔女の宅急便〉スピンオフ・シリーズの2作目。

Genres: Fantasy

119 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 20, 2017

About the author

Eiko Kadono (角野栄子) is a Japanese author of children's literature, picture books, non-fiction and essays in Shōwa and Heisei period Japan. Kadono was born in Tokyo, and attended the Nihon Fukushi University in Aichi prefecture, followed by a degree in English literature from Waseda University. After graduation in 1960 at the age of 25, she emigrated to Brazil, where she spent two years. She wrote a nonfiction story called Brazil and My Friend Luizinho based on her experience at that time, about a Brazilian boy who loves dancing samba. This was her maiden work, but it was not published until 1970. Most of her works are books for children. Her first successful children's book published Ôdorabô Bula Bula shi [The Robber Bla-Bla] was published in 1981. In 1985, she published the children's novel Majo no Takkyūbin, which was later adapted into the Hayao Miyazaki animated film with the same title. Both the novel and the film are known by the English title Kiki's Delivery Service. The book was awarded the Noma Children’s Literature Award, and she followed on this success with four sequels in the same series. She is the 2018 recipient of the Hans Christian Andersen Award.

Reviews

[Eressea · Rating 3 out of 5]

閱讀器再消滅一本書，接下來全力拼小書癡啦

魔女宅急便系列總算看完了
最後一本番外寫於2017年，還真晚
比起上一本龍套們的外傳
這本魔女貓視角的琪琪童年史比較好看
但總之就是少年文學
大叔來看就...調劑用(?

[Jared Pangier · Rating 4 out of 5]

This spinoff of Kiki’s Delivery Service brings readers back to the time when Kiki and Jiji were young. It traces their development together as they both compete with each other to be the stronger, faster, more magical one. Wrapped up in that is Kiki’s own search for her future identity. Will she make the choice to join her mother and grandmother and great grandmother in becoming one of the select witches? Even though readers of this series know the answer, what they don’t know are all the struggles that come with Kiki in choosing that path as she must abandon her more “ordinary” life.

Part two in my Kiki adventure to better my Japanese, which began with 魔城の宅急便．

[Vladislav · Rating 4 out of 5]

Добрая и трогательная, но короткая книга. Складывается впечатление, что будут ещё истории про новых персонажей из этой книги, пусть их и не было в оригинальной серии, которая происходит позже по хронологии.