Pegasus (real name Toshiki Hoshikawa) is a self-proclaimed prophet and leader of the Pegasus Ensemble, which aims to save the world from destruction through music.
Personality[]
Pegasus was likely always the type to lead others. In his school years, he led a group of students to create a tetrahedron out of desks. As an adult, he was the head of the Twelve Musical Scales cult and ran for political office. He claims to see visions of the future, though he cannot control what he sees. These visions come in the form of music. He uses the phrase "good vibrations" as a greeting and slogan.
Pegasus is the son of the creator of the Cosmo Health Center cult. He and his father's new age beliefs embarrass his brother, who views the two as con artists.
He is a self-claimed prophet, although his predictions always came true. He says that everything that has happened and will happen in the universe had been engraved as musical scales onto the surface of a giant cylinder called "Akashic records," a music box of infinite proportions which is the shape of our universe. But this box is singing an unstable tune and on July 7, the violent dissonance will cause the destruction of this world, the so-called "Promised Despair." He is assembling a group of twelve people who would help him to sing a tune of a song "Tsubasa wo Kudasai" in order to harmonize that instability and save the world.
Pegasus and his cult really did have magical powers in the end and they actually saved the world by destroying the black mark. In this interview, Asano said that “If it weren’t for Pegasus and company, a meteor or something would’ve crashed into Earth and driven mankind to extinction, just like Punpun and Aiko wanted. The Pegasus crew saved the Earth at the cost of their lives, but nobody knows it.” You can interpret Punpun and Aiko as being the black mark, as their lives were destroyed as pegasus did the ritual that saved the world (Aiko who wanted to live a normal life with Punpun committed suicide while Punpun who wanted to be killed by Aiko and forgotten had to keep living and have his life made into a manga by Sachi Nanjou, meaning he will never be forgotten). Pegasus was opposite to Punpun in every other way too, (while he believed in all of humanity to a fault, Punpun only believed in Aiko).