#I Don't Want to be a Magical Girl

[hannatsunari]

I don't want to be a magical girl! ⭐

Hello!! I did something

This is my second attempt at a walk cycle and the second time I actaully go through all the process of animation (Clean up, color, "compositing")

I'm so so proud of this!!

Halfway through I realized I should've picked an easier model (because Im a baby yet), so I kinda simplified her design in order to finish it. One day I hope to make something using the right outfit with all the details//

Character and story by @/kianamaiart <3

[luna-purpleart]

Change of pace from my usual art

Aika by @kianamaiart ! This concept is just too good (and also I've been wanting to experiment more with my art)

[itzzacattack]

FERB, I KNOW WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO [not actually, but at some point soon] TODAY!! 💡🤩💡

Aika Turnaround

[pyxilate]

"Who wants to have superpowers?"

*Aika and Benny raise their hands*

"Now, who wants to be a superhero?"

(Now nobody's hands are raised)

Aika is from @kianamaiart 's 'I Don't Want to Be a Magical Girl', and the little shit on the left, Benny, is from my WIP comic story that i rlly havent posted about but am working on called Heroes of Aphrodite.

Ye the aroace flag colors on his shirt are intentional

[kiana-mai-fan-account]

IDWTBAMG ocs!

Pearl and Daisy were some of Aikas old teammates when there were other magical girls. They’re sisters and represent dwarf planets and regular planets.

Pearl-

Pearl is 16 and represents planets as a whole. Her magical weapon is a flute that has 8 notes. When one of these notes are played it creates a different attack based on the planet eg: mars is fire. Pearl never felt she fit her magical abilities as she always preferred books and knowledge than fighting and spheres.

Daisy-

Daisy is 6 and represents dwarf planets. Her weapon is a big bouncy ball she can throw at her targets. As light as it is to her, to anyone one else it has the weight of 1000 suns. Daisy liked being a magical girl and thought it was a fun thing she occasionally did with a fun outfit, she sadly didn’t know how serious the job she was doing actually was and messed around causing danger to her sister and other magical girls.

They now live normal lives and have forgotten about ever being magical girl, although the mention of planets, flutes and balls does give them deja-vu…

@kianamaiart

[heilos]

I am so hype for the I Don't Want To Be A Magical Girl animatic pilot @kianamaiart is in the process of making right now. Something just clicked in my brain where I had to make an elaborate piece of fanart with these amazing character designs the second I saw them, so I took the opportunity to sit down and finally learn Clip Studio Paint properly. Logo was made by kianamaiart and julietran.jpg on instagram. I just cropped out the solid background color for this fan poster to give it some extra flair. Kiana, you're a phenomenal artist and person and I can't wait to see what you've got in store with this project. I hope you like this as much as I enjoyed making it. :)

[claratcssthings]

I recently got into Magilumiere and im honestly SO EXCITED!! i love the manga soooo much but i also like the anime <3

Upcoming Magical Girl Projects

Magical girl fans are finally eating good after years of starvation. So good, in fact, that I decided to make a list of magical girl projects in development. This is a continually updating list whose history can be found here.

You and Idol Precure - The 22nd season of the Precure franchise, You and Idol will replace the currently airing Wonderful Precure on February 2, 2025. While walking her dog, Uta Sakura comes across Purirun, a fairy searching for the legendary Idol Precure to save her homeland from the Chokkiri Gang. Uta then transforms into Cure Idol to take back the "sparkle" of her neighbors after it's stolen by a Chokkiri agent.

Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie - Walpurgisnacht Rising - The fourth PMMM movie, which will pick up where Rebellion's massive cliffhanger left off. While originally slated for late 2024, it has since been delayed to winter 2025.

Cute High Earth Defense Club Eternal Love! - The magical boy series is getting a new movie in winter 2025 as part of the celebrations for its 10th anniversary. The movie will be a time travel story that picks up a decade after the original series.

Maebashi Witches - A TV original production by Sunrise, Maebashi Witches is a coming of age story focused on a quintet of high schoolers who are approached by a strange and mysterious frog named Keroppe, who recruits them to become the titular group. Now working in a magical flower shop, the girls use the "Witchverse" pocket dimension to grant people's wishes with the power of song and dance. Has the same writer as Bocchi the Rock (Erika Yoshida) and is premiering spring 2025.

Princession Orchestra - A TV original coming in spring 2025, Princession Orchestra is based on a concept by Akifumi Kaneko, one of Symphogear's co-creators. The land of Alicepia's peace is destroyed when monsters called Jammerwocks attack, prompting a trio of young girls to step up the plate to protect the realm.

Winx Club - The western magical girl classic is getting a CGI reboot. While comments by Iginio Straffi imply that certain characters who were introduced later in the original series (such as Roxy and Nabu) will appear earlier, no specific plot details have been revealed so far. The series is coming to Netflix late 2025.

New Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt - Panty & Stocking is getting a second season after over a decade that's coming out sometime in 2025. A teaser trailer confirmed the OG voice cast's return and announced the production staff, but plot details are still unclear.

Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc. season two - Magilumiere is getting a second season, which was announced after the broadcast of season one's finale. No other details have been revealed.

Untitled Symphogear movie - A new Symphogear movie was announced in late 2023. However, no further details have been revealed.

Hua Xianzi: Zhi Mofa Xiang Dui Lun - A co-production between Tencent Video and Toei Animation's Shanghai branch, this anime is being billed as a "remake" of Lunlun the Flower Fairy. The heroine is Rumi, an apprentice at a homemade perfume studio who awakens as a Flower Child due to the power of a family heirloom. She's tasked with collecting and purifying the Rainbow Flower's scattered petals, only to clash with another Flower Child along the way and discover the surprising past of her feline mentor/sidekick.

Studio Pierrot's new anime - Studio Pierrot, which has made a variety of magical girl anime from TV originals like Creamy Mami to adaptations such as Tokyo Mew Mew, has announced that they're creating a new TV original magical girl anime. No specific details have been disclosed, but the caption for the teaser image ("I want you to sing once more...") implies that it'll be a magical idol anime.

Lolirock season three - After Lolirock's second season ended with a cliffhanger all the way back in 2017, it seemed like the story would never get a proper conclusion. However, the series's creator and director, Jean-Louis Vandestoc, announced on his Instagram in 2023 that creative meetings for a third season have begun.

Magic Knight Rayearth revival - TMS Entertainment is making a new Magic Knight Rayearth anime in honor of the franchise's 30th anniversary. Unfortunately, it's currently unknown what the format will be.

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha EXCEEDS Gun Blaze Vengeance - A new installment in the seminal Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha franchise, this will be a new TV anime to celebrate the series's 20th anniversary. No other details are confirmed, but it will presumably be connected to the upcoming EXCEEDS manga that will begin in 2025.

Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card season two - The sequel to the magical girl classic is getting a second season that will adapt the rest of the manga.

Magical Girl holoWitches - A multimedia project starring six VTubers as fictionalized versions of themselves who work as both streamers and magical girls who save people when they get trapped in the magical Holocas World. There was a four minute extended trailer in May 2024, but the anime's proper premiere date is unknown.

I Don't Want to Be a Magical Girl - An indie project by Kiana Khansmith, which follows the story of a burnt out magical girl named Aika. While she ran away from her duties in pursuit of a normal life, her position as a Protagonist™ causes her to get dragged into adventures anyway. Khansmith is currently hard at work on the pilot, which has a voice cast consisting of Anairis Quinones, Bennett Abara, Christine Marie Cabanos, Aleks Le, Shara Kirby, Michele Knotz, and Marieve Herington.

New Ojamajo Doremi thing - As part of the celebrations for the franchise's 25th anniversary, Toei Animation released two new music videos for the series' 1st OP and 4th ED with the promise that a new project will be made if the videos reach a combined 5 million views. This goal has since been met. Due to the girls being adults in the videos, the new project will presumably be an adaptation of the Ojamajo Doremi 16-20's sequel series of light novels.

[risingjayart]

Funny line I remembered that felt like it fit @kianamaiart Magical Girl characters

[strawbunnydoesart]

✨💫Quick WIP of @kianamaiart 's lil magical girl character! I literally love her design sm (her monotone and "I'm done with life" expressions are my favorite shdgjshaksjsj) ⭐️

It's a bit messy and I need to work on the contrast more so it's easier to read,, but I think the overall composition and colors are nice :)) I might work on it a bit more but ehhhhh what if I said I don't wanna

[butterisanerd]

@kianamaiart

insert madoka reference. i like magical girls who dont wanna be magical girls. idk, i think shes pretty cool

[technicalknockout]

evil trembles before The Star Guardian: Guardian of The Stars

Aika from I Don't Want To Be A Magical Girl by @kianamaiart! Love this girl sm

[ok-pop-1]

i dont wanna be a magical girl...

fanart for @kianamaiart! background image credit here

[doodleconner]

Super hyped for "I Don't Want To Be a Magical Girl" by @kianamaiart!! This is gonna be such a fun romp, I feel it in my bonesss. Bonus version without dialog bubbles below the cut:

[kianamaiart]

Sacrifice

[notieni]

Progress on @kianamaiart's Aika! She's dressed and even semi-rigged

Only base textures, gonna do the paintjob once i got the magical girl's dress and hair

Bonus Magical girl tranformation face

[3456boidone]

I love magical girls lol. I made these characters in middle school (the cat and the grown woman) @kianamaiart