There have been some strange production team-ups in entertainment history, and Wish Upon the Pleiades is one of the latest: a magical girl show co-produced by famed anime studio Gainax and Subaru. That's “subaru” as in the car company, and no, the show is not about magical girls who are great on snow and ice. It's an oddly harmonious marriage, and the resulting show, while it does have some decidedly weird car-related quirks, is a magical girl story that hearkens back to when the genre was strictly for little girls, with a bittersweet charm that makes it work.
