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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

Aya is the reincarnation of a powerful celestial maiden called Ceres. The anime series is also licensed for Region 1 release by Viz Media.Īya 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. Studio Pierrot adapted the series into a twenty-four episode anime series that premiered in Japan on WOWOW on Apand ran until September 28, 2000. In 1998, it won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo. The manga series is licensed for English language release in North America by Viz Media.

To try to save her brother, Aya must find Ceres' lost celestial robe ( 羽衣 hagoromo ?), while trying to avoid being killed or captured by her own family, who wants to use Ceres's incredible powers and abilities for their own gain. The series focuses on Aya Mikage, who learns on her sixteenth birthday that she is the reincarnation of a celestial maiden ( 天女 tennyo ?) named Ceres, and her twin brother Aki the reincarnation of Ceres' former husband, Mikage. The chapters were also published by Shogakukan in fourteen collected volumes. It was originally serialized in Shōjo Comic from May 1996 through March 2000.

Ceres, Celestial Legend ( 妖しのセレス Ayashi no Seresu ?) is a fantasy shōjo manga series written by Yuu Watase.

Ceres by Yuu Watase