Love Letter of Magical Girl Animation

summation

• Pretty, I don't want to be a magical girl, so it's unique to the main character and the magical girl genre who despises her magic duty.

• The character likes the fresh take of the familiar prototype and epidemiology.

• This series is a gorgeous reversal of the magical girl trophy, and the genre is expected to be mixed, and the parody, parody and sincerity are mixed.

In this age, the ubiquity of animation and cartoons is not controversial. Since more and more producers in the late 90's and early 2000s create themselves in the same areas as they once worshiped like children, such as animations or cartoons, we have begun to see a very interesting work that gives clear inspiration in the most symbolic entertainment media.

Pretty pretty, please don't want to be a magical girl Kiana Khansmith is one of the applauds of the absolute roaring of amermatic in the pilot episode in Youtube on March 8th. The reason why you should be excited about this love letter for a magical girl animation such as the legend of Naoko Takeuchi is as follows. Sailor.

I want this concept to be a light comedy, but because it is my port, the North Star of this premise is the loss of passion for what you love, the pressure/expectation you adhere to the “prudent” and the subsequent burnt. How hard do you fight for old passion? Is it okay to give up when many people believe in you?

It sounds dark, but I promise to be an optimist and always reflected in my work.

-Tumblr Kiana Khansmith

Context

Simple history of the magical girl genre

The general trend of a magical girl story advocated by legendary animation and cartoons Sailor,,, Cardcaptor Sakura,,, MEW MEW POWER,,, Wins Club,,, witch And many others follow the young girl who is going through the hero's journey, suffering from the needs and difficulties of adolescence, and magical power is given to them to protect the world from any kind of evil. Animation and cartoon magical girl trophy has a long history, and some of the first titles in the early 1960s are No HIMITSU Akka-Chan (1962), Little Witch Sally (1966), but at that time this term “Majokko“(” Small Witch “).

“Magical Girl” known in the 1980s Cream -like Mami, Magic Angel and Princess Minky MomoHowever, Sailor Moon has not been the fiscal of the genre through the integration of the transformation and other elements inspired. Tokusatsu Modern magical girl was born.

Since then, Subggenre has continued to be popular and has been celebrated as a fortress of the final ubiquity of animation and animation culture. Puella Magi Madoka MagicaTOEI Animation'S Pretty treatment The film is a franchise that continues to be popular to become the 7th highest profitable animated film franchise in history.

Magic girls have appeared in various contexts in popular culture, with other attempts to create interesting discussions about the main aspects of the genre and actually forming a “magical girl animation.” Kill La Kill It is also considered. Pretty pretty, please don't want to be a magical girl With a unique twist, it will be another interesting exploration of the genre.

AIKA's prospects for her job are similar to my experience as an artist in the animation industry. I grew up my beloved art, made art, and always wanted to be an expert at some point. When I was hired in Disney, I had an amazing time and I liked it! However, there was a point where the industry began to be desolate. This work started to feel like working, and I lost my eyesight on why I first liked my job.

I have been helped by my friends who inspired Zira's personality! If you are around the passionate people, the passion will help you to take it out of you. I hope AIKA can come back in the same way as I did!

-Kiana khansmith, Crunchyroll Interview March 10, 2025

What's pretty pretty, don't you want to be a magical girl?

Who wants to be a hero anyway?

Annie Award Nominated Storyboard Artist KIANA KHANSMITH, Pretty pretty, please don't want to be a magical girl It is a development concept that explores the life of Aika, a teenage girl with a major secret. She is actually a magical girl. Twist is the title you think. AIKA doesn't want to be a magical girl, absolutely, positively, rich, and unhappy. Instead, AIKA is eager for the true summit and even starts to go to local high school MCSCHOOL Memorial School and begins a new normal life.

There she meets the normal “loser girl” Zira. But unfortunately, for Aika, her secret does not stop her right behind. The series has a short pilot animation, but it's enough to draw excitement to viewers beyond parody of the magical girl genre. It exists in the Nexus between abalone and parody and expresses faithful respect. It follows the footsteps of various titles by presenting AIKA as an ordinary female student (while she is not so), the first lovely thing about her is her gratitude for the ordinary. In the same way, she will fear her magical girl.

Characters are very desirable

I accept the familiar character prototype freshly

While AIKA conversations with Zira in a school restaurant, the two are connected, but AIKA is the book of her character and the original shell of her personality until AIKA shows true interest in Zira, and we can see that she is one of us. To tell the character IDWTBAMG It will like it. Each of us clearly reflects the character tropes we have seen several times in the magical girl animation, but each is still original and refreshing. Like AIKA, where the Japanese food, which is a dark agent, burst into a restaurant and threatens her, her hatred of her job reaches a fever.

She wears a completely separate expression in what she is trying to do, rather than responding to an innocent life or a normal anger of what a normal magical girl does. Hoshi, AIKA's mascot character, is an appropriate winged star angel inspired by the various repetitions we saw. Pokemon The producer, Kiana Khansmith, is a fairy type Pokemon and BEYBLADEIt is clear It's pretty pretty. Please don't want to be a magical girl.

The epidemiology of AIKA and HOSHI is a humorous callback for many mascot professional relationships we have seen before, but AIKA has a completely new kind of sign by Hoshi in the school bathroom because it dislikes her job. Aika's response to seeing a mascot at school was one of the complete and complete despair and drove the point of the title home. In addition, the improvement of the character's favor was the quality of the voice acting with the talented star including the following.

• Anairis Quiñones As Aika

• Bennett Abara Zira

• Aleks Le As ceremony

• Shara Kirby Lady

• Michele Knotz as teacher

• Marieve Herington As Sydney kidney girl

Gorgeous

Perhaps it is the most powerful weapon of IDWTBAMG

Maker Pretty pretty, please don't want to be a magical girl The potential of special and treasure is how it approaches the work that makes it very clear through the story. We overthrow everything that we think of the magical girl genre for granted, but turn your head at much deeper. For example, AIKA's entire character was not only created initially the desire for the summit, but she also led to the concept of a high school student, a reversal of an ordinary magical girl protagonist. Those who try to avoid ordinary things through magic.

When Hoshi escaped from isolation to steal AIKA from school, she hit the bottom with despair, and when Eclipse arrived, she did not treat us in a gorgeous variation. Aika, the bread and butter of this particular animation subgen, did not impress her magical girl Legalia (that's the surprise), and struck out all the standard interactions of Hoshi.

Kiana is so narrative. I am honored to have a chance to be in this pilot. They gathered a team of tremendous talented people.

-Aleks Le, Japanese voice

Lowering the eyelids of AIKA during the transformation breaks the dissatisfaction or separation from her job. This contrasts the overall appearance, feeling and opportunity of magical girl variation. Since the lead pipe can “end up”, the violent and crude way of dealing with her enemy is a great description of AIKA's liver, and in itself inspired by the “dream” that became an animator in Khansmith's own experience, and soon feared her love. IDWTBAMG It is interesting because it feels fresh and fresh. Like the excitement and reflection of the parody combined with the serious admiration of the admiration.

The best visual expression of the core theme IDWTBAMG The “conversion” sequence we processed after the Eclipse defeated all the elements of the charm and all the elements obtained from the transformation sequence are applied to the return to AIKA's normal form, and some of her characters want to defend the most. It is fun and can be a magical magical girl animation while repeating the core concept. The transformed deformation sequence is one of the most moments of the entire pilot and I hope viewers can actually see it.

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