Globalization

• A significant amount of background chatter as well as one-liners were added (even more so than in Disney's dub of Kiki's Delivery Service), filling in moments of silence and increasing the frenetic effect of certain scenes.
• Composer Joe Hisaishi was commissioned to rework and extend his original 60-minute electronic-orchestral score into a 90-minute symphonic orchestral score, to make the film more palatable to American audiences. The sound mix received a vast overhaul as well.
• Pazu and Sheeta, voiced by James Van Der Beek and Anna Paquin, respectively, are made to sound several years older, placing them in their mid-teens rather than their pre-teens.
• Several modifications were made to the Dola gang's dialogue regarding Sheeta, including a declaration of love by one of the pirates. In the original Japanese version, the dialogue presented Sheeta as a potential mother figure to the pirates, rather than a potential romantic interest.

More Kiki

-The English dubbed version adds a lot of extraneous dialogue (particularly when the characters are off-camera) over several silent passages. In several cases, Jiji is given extra lines that transform his character into a wisecracking conscience, but in most instances the extra dialogue is redundant or unnecessarily expository ("Look, she's got a cat"), while in others it's used to promote 'Disney values' (Ursula says "It's OK, I know that guy" when they hitch a ride; Jiji tells Kiki not to disobey a policeman's instructions).

-In the English translation by Disney, there is a line added at the end of the film that suggests that Jiji might be able to speak to Kiki again after losing that ability in the film.

-The dialogue during a scene in which Kiki is given coffee changes the beverage to hot chocolate in the Disney release. (An earlier dub from Streamline also includes this change.)

-IMDB