Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
WoodenBullet343
This may be the clearest example of a great concept being ruined by horrible execution. The skeleton of a great story is there. However, the body of this show largely consists of chewed gum and duct tape. How is anyone supposed to move with muscles and ligaments like that? Personally, I was never moved by any of these characters or plot beats. When the ending came, all I could feel was frustration that an idea for a meaningful story was clearly there, yet it was never fleshed out.
The story begins with a very intriguing premise, all things considered. A familial curse seems to affect two twins, Aya and Aki Mikage, in very different ways. According to their massive extended family, Aya is confirmed to have a curse that will bring doom upon the Mikage, while apparently Aki is in need of prot…
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For the spooky season of Halloween, I've been watching some old Shoujo horror series, and this came highly recommended. The show was enjoyable! It was a hot mess, but it was fun. And honestly, you need good ole entertaining and trashy series to help you get through the day. The series had it all! The funny thing is, it's as if someone purposely added rage bait in a series. There's incest, adults creeping on minors, Loli bait, a gay joke, attempted SA, etc. My brother even jokingly said that this isn't an anime that could be made today. Tbh, I disagree. Plenty of newer anime series have these things. Though I did have to laugh that this felt like rage bait.
Though it's fun! It's a series I recommend for the spooky season. Just quality trash, in the best way possible. It has interesting ch…
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Interesting, convoluted and addicting story plot that takes quite a number of unexpected turns. Starting as a romantic drama/reverse harem, it turns into more a philosophy side later, delivering nice and clean conclusion. Most characters are well written with their motivation and goals being understandable. Good fitting OP & ED, graphics are ok for 2000. Early episodes have a certain amount of humor, but anime gets serious in the end.
On the downside, plot narration feels quite rushed, with certain sections within one episode having little connection between each other, as if creators just decided to heavily compress or skip parts of manga chapters. This makes reception harder than it should be. Overall though, different episodes do maintain a strong and coherent storyline, the issue is r…
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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 commentaries about life, death, love, not turning away from drastic displays of cruelty, this anime is deep, moving, empathetic and sensitive to all aspects of female soul.
For a more profound e…
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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 a sucker for a good love story and the renaissance premise that there is no greater love than this, than to lay down your life for a friend. Cute.
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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 find out that they have to celebrate with their entire family and Aya quickly finds herself marked as a danger to the family and with the personality of her own celestial ancestor, Ceres, inside her body.
Let me start by sayi…
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Honestly, I might be a little biased against this show - that tends to happen when I love a creator's work so much and so I look too forward to the next one. Watase Yuu's "Fushigi Yuugi" was my all-time favorite for a long period of time, so I went into Ayashi no Ceres with high hopes. I think you can definitely see the difference; there's less humor in Ayashi no Ceres, and FY was definitely more of a bishie reverse-harem kind of deal, while ANC seemed to focus more on plot (even though I did not like the plot). The ending made me go "...wait what?". It seemed really weird to find Touya's real identity. Do I recommend watching it? Yes. Did I personally enjoy it? No.
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"16 year old girl gets pregnant with a guy who's made up of the ocean and derived from herself; or in short, she fucked herself."
"Her entire family wants to rape her the whole season."
"The entire family line is literally built upon incest."
^^Just a few one-liners to introduce you to the show. ^^
----[ Initial Review at ep. 17; read below for final review ]---- Damn, I can't believe this. I was actually enjoying the anime in the beginning, but I'm at episode 17 and it's going SO downhill.
The first couple episodes were pretty good. We got trauma, drama, directed almost like a thriller that actually had me on my toes, and some kind of character development from our main characters (oh except Toya, that guy literally never gets any until AFTER episode 16/17 LOL).
This anime gets…
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Overall an average anime.
I read the manga first and because of this I had higher expectations for the animated product. In the end I was a bit disappointed. I do like the voice acting, and the overall feel of it. The anime captures the melancholy vibe, but every once in awhile brightening it up with some humor.
The love story between the lead characters is very underwhelming. Their relationship and backstory is more fleshed out in the manga, so I had the context in which to enjoy the relationship, but for those that haven't read the manga it'll be really difficult to grasp why Touya and Aya fall in love so quickly.
This is a show that I think could benefit from a reboot, because the graphics are really dated, and the heart pumping action that came across in the manga was poorly show…
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she has a very long history where a goddess remembers herself because she has to find her own dress in order to return to the divine world, which was stolen by a human being who became her husband and takes a body from every Mikage woman to look for her dress and take revenge on the family.
The plot is captivating: Aya and Aki are twins, and carefree teenagers like many others.
On their sixteenth birthday they are put to the test. Aya discovers she has incredible powers and is sentenced to death by her own family because it is considered a threat. He will soon find out that he is a descendant of the Goddess Ceres and his brother was his former beloved ancestor of the Mikage family. The one who had stolen his mantle, the hagoromo, preventing it from returning to the sky. Now the Goddess Cer…
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AYASHI NO CERES REVIEW
01-02-2019
OVERALL: 7.6
PLOT: 7
Love is not always how happy you are with the person you care for. It is also understanding them, it is also maintaining what is between the two of you. It is kinda funny to think of the main plot of this story. It is like a lovers quarrel due to the misunderstanding between two person in love. What makes it interesting is the way that little thing turns out into a big one that cause disruption, not only just the two of them, but also the blood running next to them. It is also fascinating to know something about a myth or historical love story flashing in my eyes. This anime has its twist that you'll never expect it to be. The only thing I kinda doubted is how the bond between the other two main characters bloom. Love should be sho…
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A Christian's Anime Review
Ayashi no Ceres
Discernment Topics
Violence: \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
People are frequently blasted apart with energy. We see them cut clean in two, lose appendages, and spray blood from wounds.
Fights ensue with melee weapons and firearms as well. This results in impaling, gunshot wounds, lacerations, and other forms of trauma. Blood splatters and sprays from injuries.
People are also beat to death with fists. One scene shows a man being punched all the way through his chest.
One scene has a man being tortured to death by getting shot repeatedly. Blood splatters and covers the ground. Destruction of buildings and cityscape result from the use of supernatural powers.
Language:\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\…
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The story revolves around a teenage girl named Aya and her twin brother Aki, members of the wealthy and powerful Mikage family. On their 16th birthday they are called to the family home to be given a special gift. Instead they find themselves the victims of an ancient family ritual. Aya is proven to be the reincarnation of a celestial maiden called Ceres, the tennyo. And Aki gains the ability to manifest as "Shiso Mikagi", the ancestor of the Mikage family who stole Ceres' celestial robe, without it she cannot return to heaven.
My thoughts:
This anime has everything. Action, love, romance, paranormal... I really enjoyed it. Aya is a strong character that will do anything to right the past wrongs her family has done. Aki at first is gentle and caring, but once host to Shiso, his attitude a…
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The manga was 84 chapters, so for the anime to have only 24, it felt really cramped up, especially towards the ending. I felt like it needed more episodes to expound on the plot. Hence my rating. Other than that, I love everything about Ceres!
This anime was a classic! It's not your normal reverse harem shoujo type themes! It has a darker tone, definitely not for kids below 15. The plot was original and impressive.
The characters were all great. I liked that Yuu Watase always make it a point to create her side characters really likable. All the more so, for the main ones.
ART was astonishing, a little old-ish but (personally) it's how I like my anime anyway so it doesn't bother me at all. Music was a phenomenal as expected for a shoujo theme - Scarlet was so emotional, really fits the…
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Don't go into this show thinking it'll be your typical magical/fantasy Shoujo. Ayashi no Ceres is a dark and often-times terrifying anime with a lot packed into 24 episodes. From start to finish, it's an intense ride.
1. The Story
The titular character, Ceres, is from the legend of a celestial being who descends onto Earth and has her celestial robe stolen by a human man when she's taking a bath. The man forces her to become his wife, hiding the robe from her, until many years later she retrieves it and is able to return to the heavens. Her story is based off a fairy tale, and personally I found this the most original thing about Ayashi no Ceres - the marriage of the fantastical with hard reality and science. If you ever wondered what modern man would do with an angel if they ever found…
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So I began to watch this thinking it was the ordinary, normal reverse harem anime, with a girl that had the generic standard type of personality and guys surrounding and falling in love with her, because of different things. And boy was I wrong. I can't even begin to point out how wrong I was. I just saw the picture and thought "Hey, stereotypical reverse harem. I'm bored, let's watch", and that, my friends, is how I slowly entered the hell that is Ayashi no Ceres.
Story 9/10
The story is about the twins Aya and Aki, though Aya takes the main lead pretty fast.
What I thought would be the fluffy lovestory with many males around one female quickly became this train to my feels utter destruction. Every stop had tragic events right around the corner, and while we did get to see some romance…
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I enjoyed a lot Ayashi no Ceres, yet somehow still have mixed feelings about it. I want to say this is a masterpiece, because it has brilliant moments where you will laugh or cry, but there are also moments where I wanted to hit my head in the wall because of the frustration. (Spoilers at the end)
This anime is fast to watch, with only 24 episodes. The plot is inconsistent at some points but at the end everything ties up beautifully and gives an overall sense to the serie, which is always appreciated.
I find the plot to be quite simplistic at the beginning, then becoming more confusing and complicated. Lots of questions are left without an answer and I honestly couldn't find any explanation of some of the mayor events in the plot, where everything is safed at the end of the day thanks to…
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Plot: From the famous author Watase Yuu. Based on the Japanese legend of the “Tennyo no Hagoromo.” A young man spied a celestial maiden bathing. He saw the "celestial robe" and took it with him. Unable to go back to heaven, the celestial maiden was forced to marry the young man.
Story:
Based on the manga with the same title. The series is a a mix of drama, fantasy, adventure and romance. Much darker than the author's previous work. A love story that will appeal to everyone.
Art:
Studio Pierrot did a really great job with the animation. The satisfying character designs are so pleasing to the eye.
Sound
The Japanese voice acting for the characters was exceptionally amazing. They depicted their sentiments persuasively and conveyed their lines with the control and originality. Also, the…
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Based in the manga by Yuu Watase, a mangaka that can make really beautiful drawings, but fails in the attemp to develop an story that could enjoy somebody else than a teenager girl.
The story looks really interesting: Aya Mikage discovers she's the reincarnation of Ceres, the maiden from a fairy tale her grandfather used to tell her when she was a child, but her family, descendants of Ceres, want to kill her because they fear Ceres take control over Aya and kill them. Also, her family is experimenting with the population in Japan to discover who has the genes of the Ceres' powers, called C-Genomers. Also, when Ceres takes over, Aya has incredible powers. Everyone could do a great series with lots of action, drama and romane, but unfortunetly, the romance and drama feels abused, while the…
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Why can't we have more Shoujos like this!This show is full of win!
Let me get this out of the way.The main reason why i can't give this a 10/10 is because I wish the main character,Aya could do more or be more PROactive.
However,her role is well defined and established in this story,never did i feel that she had no reason to do what she did.Which is not something i could say for most anime these days.
And at least she has some real character and personality.Not being made artificially strong just for the sake of the tired 'strong girl"trope,implying girls need bs plot armor to be strong.
The 2 dudes she loved are allright,and do have a meaningful love triangle.
a heroic yuuji and our emo boy Toya.
Fortunately both of them are more complex than they seem.And you kinds get why she choos…
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