“Subaru joins magical girls searching spaceship fragments to help Pleiadian return home, meeting Minato and transforming with star-themed powers.”
Wish Upon the Pleiades
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Synopsis
Subaru joins magical girls searching spaceship fragments to help Pleiadian return home, meeting Minato and transforming with star-themed powers.
Subaru is a young girl who likes to see the stars. One day, she opens the door to her school's observation room, only to find a large indoor garden instead! She meets a boy named Minato who says some strange things, telling her to leave soon after their meeting. As if the day wasn't weird enough, Subaru accidentally finds a strange blobby creature who runs off with her compass, leading her to stumble into a club room with girls wearing witch costumes! Subaru recognizes her friend Aoi in the group, and despite Aoi's protests, Subaru decides to join the club. Shortly after, she gets a strange automobile-like staff and a magical transformation from the club's "president," the blobby creature from earlier, known as a Pleiadian. Aoi and the other members—Itsuki, Hikaru, and Nanako—have been looking for engine fragments of the spaceship that the Pleiadian used to travel in, so that it can go back to its home. But it seems that these girls are not the only ones searching for the fragments...
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 5 sampled reviews
What 5 viewers settled on.
Polarized
σ 2.15 · split reception
5.0 pts
Recommenders 8.0 · others 3.0
↓ 1.40
Running avg · Feb 2011 → May 2013
- 8 “Gainax’s sharp art and catchy soundtrack make these four six-minute shorts a breezy pleasure, while the quirky cast keeps things fresh even if the plot is just a simple scavenger hunt. Despite its...”
- 2 “The only redeeming quality is the ending theme. Everything else fails spectacularly: shallow characters, generic plot, horrid pacing, and art style that makes you wish you were never born with its...”
- 3 “I usually enjoy magical-girl shows and was initially hooked by the first episode’s cute costumes, but stretching what should have been a single episode into four exposed a threadbare, fanfic-level...”
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- Format 4 × 5′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 20m all episodes
- Aired Feb 2011 – ongoing
- Source Ona media type
- Rated G All Ages
- Ref. BS-5952 catalog
Produced by
- Dentsu Producer
- Dentsu Razorfish Producer
- Dentsu Tec Producer
- SUBARU Producer