Kiki's Delivery Service Live-Action Series Is in the Works

A live-action series adaptation of Eiko Kadono’s Kiki's Delivery Service novel is in the works, as announced earlier today. The adaptation is a part of a partnership between BBC Studios Kids & Family, U.K. production company Wheel in Motion, and Japan’s Kadokawa Corporation.

The project is currently in development. A total of 10 half-hour episodes is planned for now, and they will mostly adapt the first volume of Kadono’s six-book series.

Kiki's Delivery Service is known to anime fans all over the world thanks to the Studio Ghibli 1989 movie adaptation. The movie was directed and written by Hayao Miyazaki and is known for its Disney-produced English dub, released in 1997.

Delacorte Press describes the plot of the book:
Half-witch Kiki never runs from a challenge. So when her thirteenth birthday arrives, she’s eager to follow a witch’s tradition: choose a new town to call home for one year.
Brimming with confidence, Kiki flies to the seaside village of Koriko and expects that her powers will easily bring happiness to the townspeople. But gaining the trust of the locals is trickier than she expected. With her faithful, wise-cracking black cat, Jiji, by her side, Kiki forges new friendships and builds her inner strength, ultimately realizing that magic can be found in even the most ordinary places.

Source: Variety