Animated magical-girl pilot lands free on YouTube
Kiana Khansmith’s independently created series Pretty Pretty Please I Don’t Want to Be a Magical Girl has released a fully animated first episode on YouTube, with Canada’s Mercury Filmworks providing animation for the 11-minute production. The episode, titled I Don’t Want to Be a Magical Girl, became freely available on September 4 and marks a significant production upgrade for a project that…
Pretty Pretty Please I Don’t Want to Be a Magical Girl, an independently created animated series, has released its first fully animated episode on YouTube, marking a significant step forward for the project. The 11-minute episode, titled "I Don’t Want to Be a Magical Girl," follows 15-year-old Aika, a Black and Japanese teenager who becomes disillusioned with her duties as a magical guardian and seeks an ordinary school life.
The episode, created, written, and directed by Kiana Khansmith, features professional animation from Canada's Mercury Filmworks, known for acclaimed productions like Hilda and The Ghost and Molly McGee. The series explores themes of burnout, personal choice, and the tension between obligations and individual desires, while also emphasizing Aika's Black and Japanese identity as an ordinary part of her character.
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