Ceres: Celestial Legend
妖しのセレス
“Aya, a celestial maiden's descendant, battles her destructive alter-ego Ceres while evading her murderous family.”
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Aya, a celestial maiden's descendant, battles her destructive alter-ego Ceres while evading her murderous family.
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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Community consensus
Derived from 36 sampled reviews
7.4/10
Score distribution
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SplitPolarized
σ 2.24 · split reception
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6.2 ptsRecommenders 8.4 · others 2.3
Score over time
1.42Verbosity
Snap verdicts · shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8/10 “I liked the anime mainly because Tooya’s unwavering, life-risking protection of Aya really resonated with me. Still, the story never wowed me and the art felt merely okay. Overall it’s a fairly...”
- 10/10 “I'm watching this anime and I said ''It a great show,that's you must watch if you like romance and drama"Actually I cand say that Aya reminds me of a teenger who break up to thiny destiny because...”
- 10/10 “Excellent storyline and character development elevate this modern reimagining of a Japanese legend, pairing teen angst and romance with visceral blood-soaked revenge. Beautiful animation and a...”
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A self-contained story.
No sequels, spin-offs or alternate tellings — Ceres: Celestial Legend begins and ends here.
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Reel · 01 Cat. №BS-0084
- Format
- 24 × 21′
- eps × min
- Total runtime
- 8h 24m
- all episodes
- Aired
- Apr 2000 – Sep 2000
- Spring 2000
- Source
- Tv
- media type
- Rated
- R
- 17+ (violence & profanity)
- Ref.
- BS-0084
- catalog