Post 25 and were closing in on the home stretch, we look at Wish Upon the Pleiades.

Wish Upon the Pleiades started as a web animation by Subaru Automobile Company, yes by Subaru, a car more famous for street racing and rallying has made a Magical Girl anime. Upon a successful run online a 12 episode series was produced which is what were reviewing today.
Subaru (Real original naming) is an average girl who upon stumbling on a Magical Observatory ends up obtaining magical powers which then leads her to the Cosplay Club who are all revealed to be Magical Girls who chase after stars to help a squishy alien repair his ship, but a dark magical boy is also after the pieces so it's a race against time to obtain all the ship pieces from the various reaches of space to repair the ship before their enemy steals them.
This space themed anime is very heavy on dialogue and has a habit of really pushing it's boundaries to try and make us understand the mysteries of the universe and how far it really goes, it's trying hard to be thought provoking but it's hard to really take seriously when you remember it's a magical girl show then it hit me like a well aimed bottle in a nightclub brawl, they're trying to be like Madoka Magica, obviously less dark than that show but Madoka Magica none the less with the main character being the obvious comparison to Madoka herself trying to work out what's right before attempting to bend the universe in her favor, it's rather jarring that they would go for this when the design of the show promised something more whimsical.
A few other things I can't get over are the broomsticks sounding like Subaru cars and Aoi's rather confusing attitude towards everything, I think she has ambigious disorder, there's something wrong but no one can work out what it is which brings me to another issue, the characters, none of them really jump out at me as being well made and none of them are really given much to work with in the backstory department which is important in establishing a magical girl team, in fact Nanako spends more time speaking for the Pleiadian than actually being herself, but I think overall the most jarring thing about this whole project is the fact that Subaru cars made this!!!
That's not to say a Japanese company can't make their animated mascots cute girls and it makes sense for a car company named after a star cluster to do a space themed anime but why not a space action series rather than a Magical Girl show, it's just very distracting and the fact that the series plays more serious cards than light hearted and funny, it's very difficult to concentrate on, especially on a subject as neverending as the universe.
No dub but it wouldn't work as one anyway.
Final Verdict: It's nice looking but it feels far too heavy on dialogue and plot to be a magical girl show and can easily put off audiences expecting something else entirely.