Kiki la petite sorcière
The film's production budget was (). It was the most expensive anime film up until then, surpassing the previous record of the Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli production "" (1986) which had cost , before "Akira" was itself surpassed a year later by the Miyazaki and Ghibli production "Kiki's Delivery Service" (1989) which cost .