History Anime / HoukagoNoPleiades

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The President is only known as "The President." He never gives his name. [[spoiler: Even when the President first meet Minato, he asks Minato to give him a name, rather then reveal his.]]

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Towards the end of the series [[spoiler: Minato]] get impaled on an engine shard.

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The President
%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * EvilRedhead: Minato

* SchoolPlay: The girls participate in one in the Episode 5.

''Houkago No Pleiades'' (literally ''After School Pleiades'', but known in English as ''Wish Upon the Pleiades'') is a 2011 MagicalGirl original net animation. Born from a collaboration between Creator/StudioGainax and Subaru -- yes, the car manufacturer [[note]]Subaru is the Japanese name for the star cluster known in the West as the Pleiades, which is featured in their corporate logo.[[/note]] -- each episode is around 6 minutes long.

** Episode 10 mainly focuses on Minato and [[spoiler:his StartOfDarkness]].

* FasterThanLightTravel: Having all twelve fragments allows the girls to utilize dark energy to do this in Episode 12

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * BadassLongcoat: [[spoiler:Minato's SuperpoweredEvilSide. Eventually Subaru when she gets Minato's school jacket.]]
%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * BigBad: [[spoiler:Minato]]
%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * {{Bishounen}}: Minato.

** [[spoiler:Subaru gets a similar one in Episode 11, but it's [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in that she doesn't actually turn evil.]]

%%* InformedAbility: Aoi says that Subaru is an idiot and isn't capable of taking up the MagicalGirl job. This idiocity never shows up in Subaru. In fact, it seems that she gets the most thoughtful dialogue in the 4 short episodes.

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * MentorMascot: The President.
%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * PeekABangs: Nanako.
%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * ProductPlacement

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * SimpleStaff: [[spoiler:Minato is the only one who has one.]]
%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * SuperpoweredEvilSide: [[spoiler:Minato]]

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * WeaponizedCar: Or rather, the car has become the weapon.

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * MagicalGirl

* GirlishPigtails: Hikaru.

* MementoMacGuffin: [[spoiler:Minato's Jacket to Subaru.]]

* WhereItAllBegan: [[spoiler:The magically sealed artificial garden.]]

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Aoi. And Nanako has lavender hair.

!!Tropes:

* AdaptationExpansion: The 2015 anime series greatly expands on the original net animation shorts, fleshing out both the story and characters.
* AnimeThemeSong: Episode 4. [[spoiler:After the final battle with Minato.]]
** The 2015 anime features a proper opening and ending in ''Stella-rium'' and ''Koko kara, Kanata kara'' [[note]]From Here, From Far Away[[/note]] respectively.
%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * BadassLongcoat: [[spoiler:Minato's SuperpoweredEvilSide. Eventually Subaru when she gets Minato's school jacket.]]
%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * BigBad: [[spoiler:Minato]]
%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * {{Bishounen}}: Minato.
* CosmicRetcon: 2nd episode of '2015. Aoi and Subaru collide on their school day start routine. The uniform is the same, the route to school's the same, they reach for the same shoebox and try to sit at the same personal desk in class. Onlookers have signs of unconscious readjustment such as quickly backing out of doubts about who wasn't supposed to be here. Rest of the heroines, arriving as another addition to Subaru's class, confirms that they would find themselves brought together in this fashion each time with each new Pleiades member.
* CooldownHug: In the 2011 net animation,[[spoiler: Subaru gives one to Minato in hopes of freeing him from the evil that possesses him, but unfortunately, it doesn't work, and the evil keeps a hold of him.]]

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * EmotionlessGirl: Nanako
%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The President
%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * EvilRedhead: Minato
* DatePeepers: In Episode 9 the other girls, [[ShipTease suspecting that Minato is Subaru's boyfriend]], surreptitiously follow the two around while taking pictures to submit to a "Cutest Couple" competition.
* ADayInTheLimelight: The anime gives each of the girls an episode that focuses on their backstory and motivations; Hikaru gets Episode 4 [[note]]Dream of Sol[[/note]], Itsuki gets Episode 5 [[note]] A Hat, Ice and a Princess[[/note]], Aoi gets Episode 7 [[note]]Two Treasures, or The Smell of Strawberries[[/note]] and Nanako gets Episode 8. [[note]]Nanako 13[[/note]]
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: [[spoiler:Minato and Subaru met as children in a hospital ward, but Minato eventually left and Subaru began to think that she had just dreamed it up.]]
* GainaxEnding: The 2011 ONA: [[spoiler:Subaru enters the artificial garden a second time. She sees that it's night time in there, and there's one flower remaining.]] Though it's not quite as confusing as Gainax's most infamous Gainax endings.
* GenkiGirl: Subaru seems to be one, but then stops after episode 2.
%%* InformedAbility: Aoi says that Subaru is an idiot and isn't capable of taking up the MagicalGirl job. This idiocity never shows up in Subaru. In fact, it seems that she gets the most thoughtful dialogue in the 4 short episodes.
* ImCryingButIDontKnowWhy: Subaru in Episode 9 when [[spoiler:Minato sends her back to the planetarium after they learn they were childhood friends and revealing that they would both forget everything they had learned on their "trip"]].
* InterchangeableAntimatterKeys: Subaru uses one key (Which looks suspiciously like a car key.) to open the doors in school.
* KissingDiscretionShot: In Episode 9, [[spoiler:after Subaru learns that Minato was the magician from her past]], they embrace each other and bring their faces extremely close, only to be blocked out by the light of Betelguese going supernova.

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * MagicalGirl
* MementoMacGuffin: [[spoiler:Minato's Jacket to Subaru.]]
%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * MentorMascot: The President.
%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * PeekABangs: Nanako.
%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * ProductPlacement
* RedEyesTakeWarning: [[spoiler: Minato]] normally has blue eyes, which turn red in his superpowered form.
* SchoolClubFront: The girls set up a "cosplay club" in the 2015 anime so that they can have a room in the school for themselves to use as a base of operations for gathering fragments.
* SchoolPlay: The girls participate in one in the fifth episode of the 2015 anime.
%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * SimpleStaff: [[spoiler:Minato is the only one who has one.]]
%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * SuperpoweredEvilSide: [[spoiler:Minato]]
* TimeDilation: Featured in Episode 8, in which Nanako must retrieve an Engine Fragment on the very edge of the Solar System. To get there, she has to travel at 99.999% of the speed of light, and although it only feels like half a day to Nanako, three months pass by on Earth while she's gone. However, the other girls manage to bring Nanako back to the day she left, [[HeartwarmingMoments letting them all celebrate her birthday.]]
* TransformationSequence: There's only one, and Subaru was first transforming.

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * WeaponizedCar: Or rather, the car has become the weapon.
* WhereItAllBegan: [[spoiler:The magically sealed artificial garden.]]

'''Houkago No Pleiades''' (literally ''After School Pleiades'', but known in English as ''Wish Upon the Pleiades'') is a 2011 MagicalGirl original net animation. Born from a collaboration between Creator/StudioGainax and Subaru -- yes, the car manufacturer [[note]]Subaru is the Japanese name for the star cluster known in the West as the Pleiades, which is featured in their corporate logo.[[/note]] -- each episode is around 6 minutes long.

!! Tropes in HoukagoNoPleiades, as they follow.

* ADayInTheLimelight: The anime gives each of the girls an episode that focuses on their backstory and motivations; Hikaru gets Episode 4 [[note]]Dream of Sol[[/note]], Itsuki gets Episode 5 [[note]] A Hat, Ice and a Princess[[/note]], Aoi gets Episode 7 [[note]]Two Treasures, or The Smell of Strawberries[[/note]] and Nanako gets Episode 8. [[note]]Nanako 13[[/note]]

* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:Subaru enters the artificial garden a second time. She sees that it's night time in there, and there's one flower remaining.]] Though it's not quite as confusing as Gainax's most infamous Gainax endings.

* ForgottenFirstMeeting: [[spoiler:Minato and Subaru]]

* ForgottenFirstMeeting: [[spoiler:Minato and Subaru met as children in a hospital while Subaru's mom was hospitalized. They became friends but Minato left the hospital and Subaru eventually forgot about him.]]

* ForgottenFirstMeeting: [[spoiler:Minato and Subaru met as children in a hospital while Subaru's mom was hospitalized. They became friends but Minato left the hospital and Subaru eventually forgot about him.]]