The protagonist is the main character of Magical Starsign. 13-years-old, they are a student at Will-o'-Wisp Academy on the planetKovomaka. After their teacher Miss Madeleine is ordered to travel to Puffoon and confront Kale, whose astro pirates are causing mayhem across the Baklava solar system, the protagonist and their classmates anxiously await her return. Three months go by without communication from Madeleine, so the students resolve to find her themselves by commandeering rockets hidden inside the school, only to get scattered across outer space. Stranded in a foreign world, the protagonist must reunify their classmates, unravel a conspiracy between the astro pirates and Space Police, and bring Madeleine back to Kovomaka.
The hero is known as Galette, while the heroine is known as Financier,[2][a] and their gender and starsign attribute are chosen at the start of the game. These choices determine certain aspects of the game, namely who confesses their love to the protagonist at the Starfall Festival, the starsigns of certain characters, and the items that can be obtained through Tag Mode. The male protagonist's design is also used for Mash Blanc, the main character of Uchū no Kishi, which takes place in a separate continuity from Magical Starsign.
The protagonist is described as being rather quiet, but quick to take action and resolve any conflict.[1] Galette is characterized as a fearless lad with an adventurous spirit, whereas Financier is a mysterious girl with mastery over magic. Depending on the starsign the player chooses, the protagonist’s warmth or charisma serves as the glue that binds their classmates together.
The hero, or Galette, is a fit teenager with orange-brown hair and blue eyes. He wears a big white cap embroidered with his signature symbol, sporting a red upper-chest piece with decorated shoulder pads, as well as red forearm-length gloves. Along his lower chest is a diamond-patterned drape over his baggy, lowered-to-foot pants which are ornamented with red knots. His pants are further tucked into his shoes at the bottom.
The heroine, or Financier, is a fair girl with blonde hair and purple eyes. She wears a white cap with long points, donning a red bow over her chest, a white layered cloak with blue trim and red laces, a blue and purple diamond-patterned skirt, white knee-high boots with more blue shaft and purple soles, and similarly colored cuffs on her wrists.
Gameplay
The protagonist is the party leader in Magical Starsign whom the player assumes control of for the entire game, starting at level 1.
When creating a new save file, the protagonist's starsign can either be light or dark. The light sign, intended for beginners,[3] gains its aura when Nova emerges in the day, specializing in moderate damage, HP recovery, supportive effects, and blinding enemies to reduce their accuracy. The dark sign, intended for experts,[4] gains its aura when Shadra emerges at night, offering heavier damage, HP absorption, randomized stat changes, and cursing enemies to prevent HP recovery. Progression-wise, the protagonist's stat growth is the most balanced of every party member. The only difference between them is that the light sign learns its second spell at level 8, while the dark sign learns it at level 9.
行動力で仲間を引っ張る無口リーダー コヴォマカの魔法学校に通う、仲良し6人組のリーダー格。普段は無口であまり感情を表に出さないが、いざと言うときの実行力、決断力は仲間たちも認めている。そのため何かがあったときに頼られることも多い。Translation:A silent leader whose motivation brings their companions together The leader of a group of six close friends who attend the Magic School on Kovomaka. They're quiet and don't express much emotion, but their companions recognize their ability to take action and make decisions in times of need. Therefore, people often rely on them whenever something happens.
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One day at the academy, the protagonist's group overheard a conversation between Miss Madeleine and Principal Biscotti. Biscotti stated that Kale, a graduate of Will-o'-Wisp and her former pupil, was causing trouble on the wind planet Puffoon with his band of astro pirates. The students intervened when Biscotti ordered Madeleine to travel to Puffoon, but the teacher promised she would be fine. After class, she invited her students to the meditation room, where she gave them a crash course on combat and how to utilize their starsigns. Madeleine left for Puffoon later that day, but to the students' concern, she was not heard from for three months.
After Lassi suddenly went missing, Chai and Pico alerted their friends, exclaiming that she talked about joining Madeleine in outer space. They deduced Lassi was looking for a rocket, commencing a search around the academy. Accompanied by Mokka and Sorbet, the protagonist discovered a storage room with a climbing wall that led to a hidden room. This room contained the door to the heavens, who invited the protagonist to prove their skills by unleashing wild magic. In doing so, the door opened up, allowing the group to ascend to a hangar containing six rockets. Aboard one of the rockets, Lassi activated the launch sequence and blasted out of the school. The protagonist promptly boarded another ship and took off, chasing Lassi until she collided with an asteroid belt and plummeted to Erd.
After Magical Starsign
Around ten years later, the protagonist teamed up with the dwarves on Erd to turn Kahve Ruins into a giant radio telescope. The device picked up a faint signal in space, which motivated the protagonist to board Mokka, whom Lassi rebuilt into an incomplete new-model spaceship. Before taking off, Chai stowed away between Rocket Mokka's main engine and fuel tank, secretly joining his friends on a new journey beyond the Baklava solar system.[5][b]
When casting a damage-dealing spell in the Japanese version, the hero shouts "Take this!" (食らえ,kurae), and the heroine shouts "Go!" (行くよ,iku yo). Both of these voice lines were replaced with their support spell/healing item voice lines in localized versions.
The female protagonist went through at least two redesigns before receiving her current one. The first design was supposedly rejected because her face looked too kind,[7] while the second was rejected for appearing too much like an adult. Other differences include the symbol on her hat and patterned cloth on her boots.[8] Similarly, the male protagonist had a design that was scrapped for having mature proportions.[9]
Nomenclature
Hero
The hero's name comes from galette, a round and crusty French cake. In the English localization's code, his name was mistranslated as "Garret", which was carried over to all European versions of the game.
The heroine's name comes from financier (pronounced fee-nan-syeh), a small French almond cake. In European versions of the game, this was misinterpreted as financier, a person who manages finances.
↑Because the game has a character limit of eight, the protagonist cannot be named "Protagonist" or "Financier" in the United States and European versions.
↑In the English localization, this scene is changed to Lassi "[leaving] Baklava forever" aboard Rocket Mokka "in search of new worlds," when no such details exist in the original Japanese version. This change also contradicts the protagonist's epilogue segment, in which they can be seen flying the Rocket Mokka.
↑"勇気と探究心を示す星 ＨＰ吸収魔法を使える 上級者むけ" Translation: "A star that signifies courage and inquiry. Can cast HP absorption magic. Intended for experts." Magical Vacation: Itsutsu no Hoshi ga Narabu Toki. Japanese.
↑"[主人公]は ドワーフたちと力をあわせて 宇宙遺跡ユイットルを 巨大な電波望遠鏡に 改造しました。 そこで見つけた か細い信号に心を動かされ 一人で 未完成の新型宇宙船に乗りこみ タロタロ太陽系の外へと飛び立っていきました。" Translation: "[Protagonist] and the dwarves teamed up to rebuild Space Ruins Huître into a gigantic radio telescope. Motivated by a faint signal they found there, they boarded an incomplete new-model spaceship alone, flying off into the outer reaches of the Tarotaro solar system." Magical Vacation: Itsutsu no Hoshi ga Narabu Toki. Japanese.
↑"そして峰不二子と言えば今は柳生博さんの奥さんとなった二階堂有希子だけ。ここだけの話、マジバケ5つ星の女主人公はこの初代峰不二子をリスペクトしてるのであった。髪型とか、目とか。(^ ^) #ルパン三世 #峰不二子" @ShintaKameoka on X, October 23, 2017. Retrieved May 22, 2025.
↑"昨日はマジバケ5つ星が発売されてちょうど9周年だったとか、覚えてくれた皆さんありがとーございました！こちら顔つきが優し過ぎてボツになった5☆女主人公です。おはようございます。" @ShintaKameoka on X, June 22, 2015. Retrieved May 22, 2025.
↑"マジバケ5☆女主人公第二稿。かなり近っいたけど、これもやや大人っぽ過ぎてボツ。" @ShintaKameoka on X, June 22, 2015. Retrieved May 22, 2025.
↑"見られちまったからにゃあ、しゃああんめぇ。こいつがマジバケ5☆のボツ男主人公だこんちくしょーめ。こいつも顔つき、頭身共にやや大人っぽ過ぎたんで没にしたんや。違いがわかるまい？" @ShintaKameoka on X, June 23, 2015. Retrieved May 22, 2025.
