Subaru

Subaru (すばる Subaru) is a character in Wish Upon the Pleiades.

Appearance


Subaru has apricot skin, brown eyes and pink shoulder length hair. She has a star-shaped pin on the left side of her head and part of her side bangs point up as if she has horns. According to Subaru herself, she has been working hard to hide it, but she is unable to.

She is usually seen wearing her school uniform, and upon the moment Minato disappears, leaving only his cardigan in ONA route, she starts to wear it. She can also be seen wearing it at the end of the TV series after the long four billion year skip, but she doesn't wear it while she is going to school.

Her magical girl costume is similar to the others. Her costume keeps to her pink colour scheme, and has a round cap. In the TV series, when she finally learns the truth, she and Minato transform―or rather "switch places"―and her outfit's base colour becomes black, while still retaining her pink colours. Her outfit in this mode is slightly modified, and while her white version is reminiscent of typical magical girl costumes, her black version gives the appearance of a dark, antagonistic witch.

Personality
Subaru―as shown in her monologues and narrations―can be described as a lonely yet normal girl who loves astronomy. She is a slow and clumsy girl, and she tends to be indecisive, with Subaru herself claiming that Aoi deciding things on her own.

The ONA version has her being impolite, and has untold feelings for Minato. While in the TV version, she is simply a clueless girl. However, despite not knowing what's going on, she has a positive-outlook and want to help others as much as she can. In the first episodes, due to being slow and clumsy, she sometimes panics or is unable to calm down due to the situations, causing problems for both the team and the mysterious horned-and-caped boy.

While the story progresses, she shows her motivating side, as she helped to lift the problems Hikaru and Itsuki had in their hearts since seven years prior, while slowly and unnoticeably being attracted to Minato, resulting in heartbreak when Minato disappears from the mysterious garden. The heartbreak was gone once she met Minato again, taking care of flowerbeds on the school, but once again had her heart broken upon learning that Minato is the mysterious horned-and-caped boy. Although she was finally was able to convince Minato above the Earth's atmosphere, her heartbreak gets worse as Minato's body gets penetrated by the twelfth and disappeared. There, she subconsciously decided to become something and loses her magic.

However, as previously mentioned, Subaru is a positive girl. And so, she tries once again to open the door by using the school observatory's door, but after trying a few times, she almost loses hope, before a sound calls out to her, and she once again opened the door to the true Minato. Shortly after, as the team needs a sixth member, Subaru with no hesitation calls out for Minato, promising to make him happy, demonstrating it by giving him a kiss. When the team looks at her with red faces, Subaru goes red too and tries to make up for the supposed misunderstanding. During the attempt to retrieve the last fragment, she tries her best and doesn't give up.

Along with the team of five, as the president gives them the present to become anything, Subaru decides to become herself, while keeping the promise that she will make Minato happy. Minato himself describes her as a cruel-with-no-end girl for telling him to stay alive.

Trivia

 * Subaru is also the name of the car production company which works along with animation Gainax on creating Wish Upon the Pleiades ONAs.
 * Her drive shaft is based on Subaru Legacy.
 * She is the only member of Observatory Club.

Relationships

 * Aoi
 * Minato
 * Itsuki
 * Hikaru
 * Nanako