Ayashi no Ceres


Ceres, Celestial Legend

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Alternative Titles

Japanese: 妖しのセレス
English: Ceres, Celestial Legend
German: Ceres, Celestial Legend
Spanish: Ceres: La Leyenda Celestial
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Information

Type: TV
Episodes: 24
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Apr 20, 2000 to Sep 28, 2000
Premiered: Spring 2000
Broadcast: Thursdays at 18:30 (JST)
Producers: Bandai Visual
Studios: Pierrot
Source: Manga
Genres: AdventureAdventure, DramaDrama, HorrorHorror, RomanceRomance, SupernaturalSupernatural
Themes: PsychologicalPsychological, ReincarnationReincarnation
Demographic: ShoujoShoujo
Duration: 21 min. per ep.
Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

Statistics

Score: 7.181 (scored by 2778427,784 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #34222
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #2773
Members: 62,538
Favorites: 490

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Synopsis

Ceres was a tennyo (Celestial maiden) who came down from the heavens to bathe in a stream. She hung her hagoromo (robe) on a tree nearby, which was her key to returning to the heavens. But the robe was stolen and the man who had stolen it forced her to become his wife, thus producing a family full of human and tennyo blood mixed.

Now, in modern day time, Aya Mikage is a descendent of Ceres, and has quite an amount of tennyo blood. On her 16th birthday, she and her twin brother, Aki, are thrown a party. At the "party," Aya's grandpa plans to kill her, for she has tennyo powers unlike the rest of the family, and can actually become Ceres herself and destroy the Mikage family. Aya, however, can switch back, so this transformation happens quite frequently.

With protector Yuuhi by her side, it is up to Aya to control Ceres and keep her from coming back, but her relationship with an ex-worker for her evil grandpa may be a distraction.

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Staff

Kamegaki, Hajime
Director
Takahashi, Hideo
Sound Director
Kosaka, Harume
Episode Director, Storyboard
Nishizawa, Susumu
Episode Director, Storyboard, Key Animation, Layout


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"Scarlet" by Junko Iwao
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Ending Theme

1: "One ~ Kono Yo ga Hatete mo Hanarenai" by Day-break (eps 1-15)
2: "Cross My Heart" by Day-break (eps 16-23)
3: "Scarlet Ver.II" by Junko Iwao (eps 24)




Reviews

Oct 19, 2022
One of the best shoujo anime (and maybe even anime in general) I've ever seen, where do I even start?

Story-wise, this is a retelling of an old legend called sealskin, soulskin analyzed by Clarissa Pinkola Estes in her book Running with the Wolves. To sum it up, it's a story about women and how they lost their freedom and soul to patriarchate and all kinds of other oppressive, outside forces.

This is what Ayashi no Ceres is. It's a powerful archetypal story about women, and the wild woman inside us. It's a story about the emotions, feelings, personal truth and accepting ourselves. Filled with ...
Jan 29, 2022
Mixed Feelings
This is a solid six. At first, I was going to rate it a 5 because the art was good but the storyline was definitely a 3. Plus, the audio definitely was not the greatest. The first few episodes was definitely naff. I continued watching because I am a curious person and wanted to see what would happen in the end.

The more I watched, the more I got invested into the drama. There was one shocking death where a girl jumps off a building. And by the last two episodes I was so invested in the soap opera story line, I cried. I am ...
Oct 27, 2021
Ayashi no Ceres is a 2000 anime from Studio Pierrot. You know, the studio behind Hikaru no Go, Yu Yu Hakusho & Bleach. Fortunately, only one of those is a mediocre rip off of Yu-Gi-Oh. So, there's some hope for this. For the end of horror anime month, let's take a look at Ayashi no Ceres.

Story:

Everything seems to be going right for Mikage Aya. She has a good relationship with her twin, Aki. They're about to celebrate their sixteenth birthday. And she just floated to safety after falling from a high place and was caught by a handsome passer-by to boot. Then they ...

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