is a Japanese anime television series animated by OLM, Inc. and directed by Naohito Takahashi. The series features character designs by Yuriko Chiba and music by Toshihiko Takamizawa (of the rock band The Alfee). The series has a monthly one hour time slot per episode (46 minutes of actual episode) rather than the standard weekly half hour time slot. Each episode consists of about 35–40 minutes of the titular Tsubasa's and Hikaru's school lives, and is typically concluded by about 5–10 minutes of fighting alien monsters called Maguar. The main theme of this series revolves around Tsubasa growing up and learning how to cope with life events, such as the loss of her mother and her familiar environment, than the fighting present in each episode. The plot is driven by Tsubasa learning from Hikaru and her experiences with her new sister at school, as it is by the presence of the Maguar. There tends to be less cross-interference of mundane and fantastic life than is typical of magical girl anime. Plot Tsubasa Shiina is a timid grade schooler who is forced to move to Hokkaidō from Tokyo with her father, as he pursues his dream of being a baker in the aftermath of her mother's death. At her new school, she is so shy and unsociable that her classmates ignore her at best, and abuse her inability to defend herself at worst. Shortly after the two begin to settle in, an alien spaceship comes crashing down to earth one night in the forest behind her house. Stumbling across the ship with her dog, Tsubasa discovers the alien pilot, unconscious and wounded, and a monster trying to kill him. The alien wakes and tries to fight off the monster, while Tsubasa, in her fright, tries to hide from the monster inside of the ship. The monster quickly takes care of the alien, seemingly killing him and in the process releasing him from some sort of transformation, and then tries to reach into the ship to get at Tsubasa. In its effort to reach her, the monster accidentally cracks a mysterious container, causing its mostly-liquid contents to leak out onto the floor next to Tsubasa. Making contact with Tsubasa, it converges onto her as a strange substance that transforms her into what appears to be a female, teenage equivalent of the form the alien transformed into while fighting the monster. With the