Aya Mikage and her twin brother Aki go to their grandfather's home for their sixteenth birthday unaware that it's actually a test to see if they have enough angel or celestial maiden blood in them. Aya is the reincarnation of a powerful celestial maiden called Ceres. When she transforms into Ceres, Aya obtains supernatural powers and abilities such as flight, teleportation, telepathy, incredibly strong and powerful telekinesis, premonition, projecting highly strong, powerful and destructive deep pink glowing energy blasts from her hands, creating incredibly strong and powerful impenetrable shields and barriers of pure deep pink glowing energy, and superhuman speed. According to the legend, Ceres will kill the Mikage family for revenge upon stealing her celestial robe, thus preventing her returning home to Heaven, so Aya's family attempts to kill her. However, she is saved by Suzumi Aogiri, another angel descendant with supernatural powers, (since not all Mikages have angel blood) and Suzumi's brother-in-law, Yūhi. Aya tries to control Ceres's power over her and Aki is taken over by the vengeful hateful spirit and soul of "Mikagi", the ancestor of the Mikage family who first stole Ceres' celestial robe, forcing her to stay on Earth. Aya also wrestles with her growing love for Toya, a servant of the Mikage who are trying to kill her, but lost his memory of his past. He also starts to love Aya in return. Aya promises Ceres to help her find her celestial robe in exchange for not killing her family (especially Aki) who hunts her down, since Aya still loves them. Toya tries to regain his memory. He learns that he was the organism that Ceres's celestial robe (otherwise known as "the mana") created to help it reunite with Ceres.
This is taking it a couple notches away from Petite Cossette. This one also makes my top ten list of anime/manga. Believe it or not, Ayashi no Ceres was one of the first graphic novels/manga I ever picked up and since then I have in love with all of Yuu Watase’s works.
This is soap opera anime. It’s got all its twists and turns with rivals for Aya’s love (much like Twilight’s counterparts, Jacob and Edward). Yuhi and Toya are the ones fighting for Aya’s love and affection (with Aki’s alternate personality trying to get at the goddess, Ceres). I didn’t like Aya’s character as much as I should have; I was too caught up in Ceres’ story to be caught up with Aya’s melo-dramatic life.
Ceres had fallen in love with a human, who had become completely intoxicated by her love that he was willingly to sacrifice their children to be with her. He hid her robes from her so that she was unable to return to heaven (and without returning to heaven she would eventually die a human death). She cursed that man and vowed to find her robes and curse his family for centuries to come. Hell hath no fury like a woman’s scorn. In the end, Ceres’ came to realize that the man was just extremely in love with her and didn’t want to lose her. She eventually forgave him and they returned to heaven together, finally bringing peace to the Mikage family and normality back in to Aya’s life.
Well, somewhat normal, Aya is knocked up with Toya’s child and Toya isn’t sure how much longer he will live because he no longer possesses the “Celestial Robe”. Aya’s mom is in a mental health institute for the rest of her life. Yuuhi goes on being Yuuhi (never liked his character anyways). A lot of the other good characters were killed off so, this is the end to this soap opera.
Very good watch, the animation is a bit botched since it was made in the early ‘90s. But you are just watching it for the story, right?
Enjoy!
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