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List Price: $49.95 | | Label: Viz Video
Salesrank: 82851
Released: September 16, 2003 |
| Our Price: $70.00 |
| Used Price: $14.70 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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| Features:
Animated Color DVD NTSC Subtitled | |
Editorial Review:
An ancient legend, a love that transcends time, and vengeance so bittersweet . . . An ancient legend has devastating and unfathomable consequences on 16-year old Aya Mikago. Her world turned upside down, Aya sets out on a journey to discover the truth about herself and the disturbing history of her family line.
Ceres, Celestial Legend - Collectors (Vol. 1) Reviews:
Ayashi no Ceres 
2008-07-21 - I love this series. If you don't mind wanting to literally SCREAM at the characters for their behavior from time to time, especially in the drama and angst department, run, for this is classic shojo anime. The music is all right, could have been better, and the animation was a bit of a let down for me. To be fair...Watase's style in the comics changed quite a bit while drawing Ceres and became much nicer over time. The anime reflects her earlier style, and is reminescent of Fushigi Yuugi. If you're looking for very beautiful art and animation, this might grate on you a bit.
If you're looking for another FY, beware! While this one has just as much drama and angst, it's a different animal. I liked it better than FY. A little more on the mature end. I liked the plot a lot more, too, and it appealed to me much more as an adult than FY did. Characterization is all right. They stayed pretty true to the manga, but didn't flesh out the characters in the anime as much.
I don't know if you're a purist when it comes to dubbing/subtitles. The subs are fine. Aya's voice in the dub killed it for me, so I watched the entire thing subtitled.
As a supplement to the manga, it certainly made me happy, but I agree--the manga does it a lot better and with a lot more care to characters, plot, and so on.
As for themes that might make you decide against this anime:
If the slightest hints of incest gross you out, run. This anime/manga doesn't endorse it, quite the opposite, but the themes are there. There are definitely sexual themes, and a lot of violence. Lots. An epic love...triangle? Rectangle? Octagon? Anyways, yes, there's so much romantic angst that it might put you off. It's dark, but despite the awful things that happen and have happened to Ceres, Aya, and the rest, maintains optimism.
There are Big Questions here--the relationship between men and women, the ethics of eugenics, how do you measure the right to human life, what human rights are and where their boundaries lay, and a definite exploration into the nature of what love is. Honestly! And it's a pretty good exploration into those questions. It's much briefer in its exploration than the manga was. If you pick up this anime and like it, pick up the manga. You'll love it.
The ending--and this is rare, to me, with anime--is very satisfying. If you're tight on a budget, look for decent used copies. The whole collection is well worth having, and you'll likely watch it over and over.
So...I think this series is well worth a rating of 5. The anime has its flaws, though, so I'm knocking it down to a four. But should you give it a try? If you like anime, and you having the slightest liking for shojo, YES!
Anime are not Cartoons 
2008-06-26 - Anime has become a fast growing form of entertainment here in America and should be looked at with a very different mind-set. While some is indeed far to over the top and completely inappropriate to be classified as cartoons, others are simply there to provide a slightly more sophisticated take on the childish entertaiment of cartoons and animated movies.
Ceres falls in between these two absolutes. While it does not contain some of the more explicitly adult material(sexual content, drugs, etc.), Ceres does have a more graphic element in the showing of violence. There is some sexual reference, but it also provides a medium for the correct questions to be asked about that side of interpersonal relations. The balance brought into the story by well formulated questions posed by the characters allows for continued thought not just simple acceptance.
Viewers need to remember that these are not cartoons regardless of the fact they are animated. If a person can step back and appreciate the difference between cartoons and anime, sound judgment can be made about what should be watched for entertaiment quality and content. And what anime should be avoided based solely on the uselessness of the material.
Shojo Action 
2008-03-16 - Though I had rented the first disc of this item, Yu Watase is one of my favorites shojo artists,but Fushigi Yugi is litte better becase that anime has less blood.
Overall this is one of the few shojo anime that action in it.
Ayashi no Ceres/ Ceres, Celestial Legend
2006-08-15 - This is definetly a must see series. It's become one of my favorite animes and I watched it all in one night. Aya and Aki are twins who upon turning 16, find that they carry within them the spirits of their ancestors- Ceres, a tenyo or sky fairy lives within Aya. Aki carries the spirit of her husband, a power hungry idiot who stole something of great value to Ceres- the series starts off with a bang and the animation is very good. It can get a little confusing watching the transformations and remembering who is who but it becomes clearer after the third episode. Totemo kireii
its really good!!!
2006-07-11 - alright well umm i really liked this series so far and the love twist is rather amusing. when u watch it it will probably disgusts u that ayas cousin malested her to get ceres blood. i really like how toyas personality is bla cuz then ur like dying to bye the rest of ceres. but wat annoys me is that aya only falls in love with toya cuz he kisses her and holds her while she cries on his lap in toyas appartment. so hurry up and bye the rest.
