October 19, 2025 – 12:00 PM

USA · 2025 · 13+ · 96 min · English

In-person Q&A with Creator Kiana Khansmith, Voice Actors Anairis Quiñones and Christine Marie Cabanos, and Editor Emily Rifkin

With awe-inspiring powers, courageous storylines, and jaw-dropping transformation sequences, everyone wants to be a magical girl, right? Wrong! Dive into Pretty Pretty Please I Don’t Want to be a Magical Girl Panel, the independent animation project from Kiana Khansmith that is capturing hearts across the internet.

A story about a girl named Aika who, you guessed it, doesn’t want to be a magical girl! She’s fallen out of love with her work over time but gets the job done regardless. Will she be able to reignite her passion with the help of her magical sidekick, Hoshi and her new best friend Zira? Or will those pesky evildoers, Eclipse and Lady DeVoid continue to keep her down? Who knows!!!

Watch the pilot animatic for Pretty Pretty Please I Don’t Want to be a Magical Girl in a special panel and Q&A. Join creator Kiana Khansmith, voice actors Anairis Quiñones and Christine Marie Cabanos, and editor Emily Rifkin to discuss the behind-the-scenes magic of creating a pilot and working on Pretty Pretty Please I Don’t Want to be a Magical Girl.