Magnolia City

Magnolia City is a 2022 Canadian drama/slice-of-life animated series created by Pala Mepaj. It premiered on YTV on July 13, 2022, and is currently on hiatus. The series focuses on the lives of a group of teenagers in the fictional Magnolia City, Canada, and generally tackles serious issues (such as cultural differences, self-esteem, racism, eating disorders, bullying, etc.), despite it being animated, though sometimes the series will be more lighthearted and typical for a kids' cartoon.

Cast and characters
Saffy Csonkas, a Hungarian-Canadian girl who wants to have an independent life not dictated by her parents, but her parents don't necessarily agree with it.

Sabrina Kamehameha, Saffy's best friend, a half Malaysian, half Hawaiian girl who, while helpful and nice (and known for being the one people go to for help or to cheer them up), often ends up trying too hard to help or please people when they can handle situations by themselves, which is her main problem that she needs to work on.

Scott Chen, a Taiwanese-Canadian boy who relates to Saffy due to feeling like he doesn't belong. His main problem is dealing with discrimination from others because of his ancestry, but tries to keep calm about it (while not shrugging it off as okay, of course)

William Forsythe Oliver "Bill" Clark, a newbie not only to Magnolia City, but Canada, as he originally came from England. His stories often focus on him trying to adapt to Canadian life and be known as more than just "that British dude". He also doesn't like being called William, his real name.

Bennett Murdowski, a Kenyan-Polish-Canadian boy, and Scott's best friend. His favourite hobby is art. Sadly, he suffers from artists' block, and more importantly, depression, which made him turn to alcohol, and thus he has an addiction that he needs to monitor.

Cassandra Desjardins, a French-Canadian girl originally from Quebec, who is blind and often gets mocked for it by bullies who call her "Zero-eyes" because of her eyes looking completely white as a result of her blindness.

Betty Young, a nerdy girl, who speaks with a lisp, and feels like the combination of those two things make her "stupid", with her problem being low self-esteem because she's afraid of what others will say (or do to her), especially since she has been physically hurt because of it, leaving her traumatized.

Lance Hernandez, Saffy's crush.

Linette Callaway, the mean girl. Even though she is on the surface mean and confident, as well as attractive, she actually feels quite insecure abour her general appearance, particularly her weight, often going hungry to attain the perfect body she has now.

Pippa Max, Linette's best friend. She has gone through a lot of abuse (both verbal and physical) from her nasty parents, and due to her want to be loved and treated like a person, was desperate to make friends with anyone, even someone who is a bad influence on her.

Vanessa Burke, an African-Canadian girl who isn't mean at all, but tags along as she was Pippa's old friends, but she secretly hates Linette.

Marjorie Farrugia, a girl who works at the local convenience store.

Ida Spellalot, an Indian-Canadian girl who suffers from a drug addiction.

Laszlo and Laura Csonkas, Saffy and Katinka's parents.

Katinka Csonkas, Saffy's older sister, who Saffy is always being compared to.

Inspiration
It has been stated by Mepaj that the "real issues" schtick was inspired by shows like Degrassi, and the Netflix version of The Baby-Sitters Club.