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- Region:Japan
- Type:TV
- English name:Houkago no Pleiades (TV) / Wish Upon the Pleiades
- Official name:放課後のプレアデス
- Chinese name:放学后的昴星团
- Other names:Houkago no Pleiades / 放课后的昴宿星团 / 放课后的Pleiades / Houkago no Pleiades (2015) / Wish Upon the Pleiades (2015)
- Premiered:April 8, 2015
- Status:Finished Airing
- Tags:Fantasy / Campus / Lily / Source original
- Original author:GAINAX
- Director:佐伯昭志
- Scenario:木村はるか / 浦畑達彦 / 佐伯昭志
- Storyboard:大野木彩乃 / 井畑翔太 / 佐伯昭志 / 春藤佳奈 / 中山奈緒美
- Co-director:吉田徹 / 佐伯昭志 / 井畑翔太 / 春藤佳奈 / 玉田博
- Studios:GAINAX
- Producers:放課後のプレアデス製作委員会
- Family:Wish Upon the Pleiades
- Rating:12+
Houkago no Pleiades (TV)
Subaru is a young girl who discovers that her best friend Aoi is part of magical group trying to gather engine fragments so that a little being from Pleiades star system can return to his home.
Subaru considers joining them as she was chosen by the Pleiadian, president of this afterschool club.
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EP1 - Meteor Shower Forecast: Rain with Occasional Shooting Stars
One day, while visiting her school's observatory in preparation for a meteor shower, a girl named Subaru comes across a mysterious greenhouse where she meets a frail boy. After leaving the room, finding it revert to the observatory before her eyes, Subaru encounters a small alien-like creature and follows it to a magically sealed classroom, where she comes across a group of girls in witch outfits, including her childhood friend Aoi. The girls and the creature, revealed to be a Pleiadian and the girls' president, notice potential in Subaru and give her a special broom, which brings her up through the clouds to a star-shaped gem that transforms her into a witch herself. The girls soon come under attack by a fragment of the Pleiadian's spaceship engine, which they attempt to capture but are suddenly thrown off when Subaru and Aoi argue with each other over their pasts. Encouraged by Subaru's positive attitude, the girls make a second attempt to capture the fragment, managing to shrink it down to size, but suddenly come under attack by a mysterious cloaked figure, who steals the fragment for himself. Luckily, Subaru manages to hide the real fragmenet under her hat and gets to see a meteor shower up close.
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EP2 - Episode 2
The following day after collecting their first engine fragment, Subaru goes to school only to find the other four girls are now her classmates. With Nanako interpreting for him, their President, a pleiadian, explains to Subaru that the five of them were gathered from different timelines that usually wouldn't intersect.
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EP3 - Episode 3
Subaru and the others continue to gather engine fragments while publically becoming the Cosplay Club. However, the president calls all five of them ordinary junk in a roundabout way, leading Subaru to feel bad about her imperfect self.
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EP4 - Episode 4
Subaru are the others are able to go to the stratosphere now, but the next fragment appears in the moon's planetary orbit! After a word from Hikaru, Subaru and the others begin training to travel to the moon.
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EP5 - Episode 5
The school's theater festival draws near and Subaru's class begins to decide the casting for their play. Itsuki is chosen to play the lead princess, and everyone agreed with that casting, but... Meanwhile, their meteor shower forecast detects the appearance of another fragment.
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EP6 - Episode 6
The pleadian spaceship that had been invisibly floating in orbit around Earth begins to materialize. It becomes a grave task as they have to gather the fragments and stop the spaceship from materializing.
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EP7 - Episode 7
Subaru became depressed after losing sight of Minato. She tried to raise the flower remained from the greenhouse, so she joined the Gardening Club in caring for the flower beds. Meanwhile, Aoi worried about Subaru after seeing her like that and started growing frustrated with herself for being unable to do anything.
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EP8 - Episode 8
A fragment appears on the outer edge of the solar system, 0.25 light years away from Earth. Not only will it take 3 months at the speed of light to reach it, someone has to go on ahead of the others to pinpoint its location. The one who volunteers for that solitary journey is Nanako.
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EP9 - Episode 9
The Culture Festival draws near. While the cosplay club decides to showcase outfits, Subaru decides to create a simple planetarium for the Astronomy club. Subaru was the only member of the club, but with Minato helping her out, things were proceeding smoothly. Seeing the nice atmosphere between Subaru and Minato, Hikaru and the others secretly plot to enter the two of them into the Culture Festival's Couple Contest.
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EP10 - Episode 10
The boy in black clothing steals all the fragments being stored in the Astronomy club for safekeeping during preparations for the culture festival. Then he goes further, drawing a brand new fragment towards him in the stratosphere
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EP11 - Episode 11
Though Subaru managed to reclaim the fragments, her magic was lost in exchange. Subaru was shocked and bewildered, and while the five of them worried over it, they decided to work hard and enjoy the culture festival for now since there was nothing they could do.
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EP12 - Episode 12
After going through several jumps to chase the final fragment that appeared beyond their galaxy, they reach the edge of the universe where even light distorts, and find a black hole waiting before their eyes. According to the President, the final fragment lies within that black hole, and at the current rate, the fragment will escape their universe before they can collect it! In order to stop its escape, they'll need to draw the fragment back out of the black hole. Will they manage to retrieve the final fragment and safely repair the space ship's engine before it's all over?