Ayashi No Ceres

Ahh~ One of my favourites. One of the reasons because it's drawing is fantastic and similar to Fushigi Yuugi. Maybe that's cause they were drawn by the same people - Yuu Watase :) Second would be because the song is nice :P Oh, and the guy's CHO KAWAII!!! :P

The main characters in this anime are twins brother and sister; Mikage Aki and Mikage Aya. Since they were young, they've always been together, doing everything together and yeah, you get the point. But everything turned when they turned 16 and went to visit their grandfather for a supposed "celebration."

Puff-t, some kind of celebration that turned out to be. Not only did Aki end up having wounds all over his body and badly injured to the state where he could've been dead, but their father died trying to protect his daughter, Aya, who was told to be some Tennyo *heavenly being* who was gonna kill Aki, who was supposed to be some dude who stole the Tennyo's "heavenly robe."

Okay, okay, I can tell you're kinda confused. Lemme clear things up. In short, Aki and Aya went to their grandfather's house *with all their relatives gathered there* so that they could protect the Mikage ancestor living inside Aki and kill the Tennyo who resides in Aya's body. The story of the conflict was that there was once a few Tennyos were bathing somewhere and they left their "heavenly robes" at someplace.

Then this Mikage dude saw them *ugh, perv :P* and stole one of their robes. The Tennyo whose robe was stolen couldn't return to Heaven because of that. When the Mikage dude was questioned, he simply pretended he didn't take it and instead, since the Tennyo couldn't return anymore, made her his wife. 

Yeah, so the Tennyo's still looking for her stupid robe after she found out that the Mikage dude had it. She killed the Mikage ancestor with the wounds that were inflicted on Aki. Uh-huh, so now the Tennyo, whose name is Ceres, wants to kill Aki because she believes the Mikage dude is in him.

Which is true, because somewhere in the middle of the show, Aki becomes this whole new person and starts targeting Ceres who is inside Aya's body.

Aya managed to escape, of course, after she blew up her grandpa's mansion. *Woohoo! :P* There were people going after her, so in her desperate attempt at escape, she was rescued by Touya, who worked for Aya's bastard of a cousin, Kagami *oh trust me, you'll hate him.*

But unlike a normal human being, Touya had no idea where he was from, who he was and how he came to be. However, you'll find out somewhere later in the anime. I can't really tell you, or you wouldn't need to watch the anime yourself -_- I'm supposed to be promoting this, not cause them to go out of business -_-

:P

Oh, and as long as this whole fiasco goes on, Aya gets help with accommodation and all that from the Aogiri family, which consists of Aogiri Suzumi, whose place is actually a dance school she used to run with her late husband, and her brother-in-law, Aogiri Yuuhi, who is her late husband's younger brother. 

Actually, Suzumi possesses some genetic powers from Ceres as she is one of the mediums apart from Aya. She cannot transform into Ceres, but she has some abilities such as clairvoyance and telekinesis. There are a few people in the anime who have the C-Gene, as they call it, and one of them is Chidori, a young girl in the anime who falls for Yuuhi.

Oh, and Yuuhi *at one point* falls for Aya, which irritated me because he kept coming between Aya and Touya :P* before he falls for Chidori. But something really saddening happening and as usual, I'm not telling :)

Yeah, so some lovey-dovey stuff happen between Aya and Touya, as I'm sure you must've guessed, right? I mean, come on, look at the pictures, they should tell you that much :P

Ceres is actually not so bad either, actually. You'll just hate her when she tries to kill Aki and Touya and everyone else -_- There are some really emotional parts in the story like when a few good people die *I'm not telling you who :)* and when there are some really happy-until-you-cry parts -_-

That's about all. The story takes a little twist towards the end, but yeah. I'll tell you this much, the ending is satisfying :) At least, it was for me :P If you don't want to waste your money buying the anime, then read the manga. I'm debating on reading that too because I want to see if it's different from the anime :)

Okie. Now for the voice actors and actresses:

Mikage Aya *Kakazu Yumi*
- Ririn (Bleach)
- Fujisaki Akari (Hikaru no Go)
- Ayame (Inuyasha)
- Aizawa Mint (Tokyo Mew Mew)

Ceres *Iwao Junko*
- Daidouji Tomoyo (Cardcaptor Sakura)
- Nanami Lucia (Mermaid Melody)
- Ophelia (Romeo x Juiet)

Touya *Konishi Katsuyuki*
- Spinel Sun (Cardcaptor Sakura)
- Hisagi Shuhei (Bleach)
- Oniyama Monjiro (Law of Ueki)
- Haji (Blood+)
- Tsuruga Ren (Skip Beat)

Mikagi Aki *Chiba Susumu*
- Castor (07-Ghost)
- Preta Ghoul (Black Cat)
- Nagoya Chiaki/Kaitou Sinbad (Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne)
- Kuze Ryohei (Dance in the Vampire Bund)

Alrighty then. I shall go byebye :P CIAO!!

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