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Ceres, Celestial Legend (TV)

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© Yuu Watase/Shogakukan • Bandai Visual • Studio Pierrot


[ adapted from Ceres: Celestial Legend (manga) ]
Alternative title:
Ayashi no Ceres (Japanese)
Ceres: La Leyenda Celestial (Spanish)
Ominous Ceres
سيريس ، الأسطورة السماوية (Arabic)
妖しのセレス (Japanese)
Genres: adventure, comedy, horror, psychological, romance, supernatural
Themes: bishounen
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Plot Summary: 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 ammount 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.
User Ratings: 1133 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 99 votes (sub:81, dub:13, ?:2, edit.dub:1, Ara.sub:1, Por.sub:1)
 Excellent: 226 votes (sub:174, dub:44, ?:2, Spa.dub:1, raw:1, Rus.sub:1, Kor.sub:1, Fre.sub:1, Spa.sub:1)
 Very good: 250 votes (sub:203, dub:37, ?:4, raw:2, Spa.dub:1, Por.sub:1, Rus.dub:1, Spa.sub:1)
 Good: 246 votes (sub:195, dub:36, Por.sub:3, Spa.dub:2, Spa.sub:2, Fre.sub:2, raw:2, Rus.sub:1, ?:1, edit.dub:1, Ita.dub:1)
 Decent: 138 votes (sub:115, dub:17, raw:2, ?:1, Rus.sub:1, Spa.sub:1, Spa.dub:1)
 So-so: 74 votes (sub:63, dub:7, ?:2, raw:1, Por.sub:1)
 Not really good: 41 votes (sub:34, dub:6, Rus.edit.dub:1)
 Weak: 32 votes (sub:30, dub:2)
 Bad: 12 votes (sub:11, dub:1)
 Awful: 10 votes (sub:7, dub:3)
 Worst ever: 5 votes (sub:4, ?:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 2729 users, rank: #189
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.271 (Good+.27), std. dev.: 1.9212, rank: #1221
Weighted mean: 7.170 (Good+.17), rank: #1240 (seen all: 7.36 / seen some: 6.38 / won't finish: 4.23)
Bayesian estimate: 7.173 (Good+.17), rank: #1047
Running time: 21 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 24
Episode titles: We have 24
Vintage: 2000-04-20 to 2000-09-28
Opening Theme:
"Scarlet" by Junko Iwao
Ending Theme:
#1: "One ~ Kono Yo ga Hatete mo Hanarenai" by Day-break (eps 1-15)
#2: "Cross My Heart" by Day-break (eps 16-23)
#3: "Scarlet Ver.II" by Junko Iwao (ep 24)
Official website:
妖しのセレス・ぴえろ (Japanese)
Links: We have 2
Trivia: We have 3
In the news 9 times:
2001-08-15   Otakon Report: Part 2
2001-07-07   Viz at AX
2001-07-05   Anime Expo Opening Ceremonies
2001-06-01   Anime Expo: New Guest Of Honor, Yu Watase
2001-04-21   Viz Press Release Manga Shipping in July
2001-02-12   Ayashi No Ceres DVD Release this year?
2000-12-22   Viz April Releases
2000-12-02   More AKA-KON News
2000-09-26   Japanese Anime Dates
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Related reviews:
    Ayashi no Ceres DVD 8 - Denouement
    Ayashi no Ceres DVD 7 - Requiem
    Ayashi no Ceres DVD 6 - Double
    Ayashi no Ceres DVD 5 - The Progenitor
    Ayashi no Ceres DVD 3 - C-Genome
    Ayashi no Ceres DVD 4 - Resolve
    Ayashi no Ceres

Related releases:
    Ceres, Celestial Legend - Collector's Edition (DVD) 2003-09-16
    Ceres, Celestial Legend - Collector's Edition: Ascension (DVD 2) 2003-11-18
    Ceres, Celestial Legend - Past Unfound (DVD 2) 2001-08-28
    Ceres, Celestial Legend - C-Cenome (DVD 3) 2001-09-25
    Ceres, Celestial Legend - Resolve (DVD 4) 2001-11-20
    Ceres, Celestial Legend - The Progenitor (DVD 5) 2001-12-11 (from $21.56)
    Ceres, Celestial Legend - Double (DVD 6) 2002-01-22 (from $21.56)
    Ceres, Celestial Legend - Requiem (DVD 7) 2002-02-26
    Ceres, Celestial Legend - Denouement (DVD 8) 2002-03-26 (from $16.97)
    Ceres, Celestial Legend - Past Unfound (Dub.VHS 2) 2001-08-28
    Ceres, Celestial Legend - C-Cenome (Dub.VHS 3) 2001-09-25
    Ceres, Celestial Legend - Resolve (Dub.VHS 4) 2001-11-20
    Ceres, Celestial Legend - The Progenitor (Dub.VHS 5) 2001-12-11
    Ceres, Celestial Legend - Double (Dub.VHS 6) 2002-01-22
    Ceres, Celestial Legend - Requiem (Dub.VHS 7) 2002-02-26
    Ceres, Celestial Legend - Denouement (Dub.VHS 8) 2002-03-26

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Hajime Kamegaki

Series Composition: Yukiyoshi Ohashi

Script:
Sukehiro Tomita
Yukiyoshi Ohashi

Episode Director:
Aki Hayashi
Johei Matsuura
Saeko Aoki
Susumu Nishizawa
Takashi Takase

Music: Ryo Sakai

Original Manga: Yuu Watase

Character Design: Hideyuki Motohashi

Art director: Shigenori Takada

Chief Animation Director: Hideyuki Motohashi

Sound director: Hideo Takahashi

Director of Photography: Kazuyoshi Ishizuka

Executive producer:
Akito Yamashita
Shigeru Watanabe
Yuji Nunokawa

Color Coordination: Mika Iwami

Editing: Masahiro Matsumura

Executive animation director: Hideyuki Motohashi

Line Producer: Koichi Mikami

Marketing: Hiroko Kuwazono

Music Director: Tomoko Shibuya

Music producer: Shinichi Nakamura

Opening Animation:
Kinuko Izumi
Yoshinori Tokiya
Yuko Kusumoto

Planning:
Ayao Ueda
Michiyuki Honma
Satoshi Kubo

Series Coordination: Yukiyoshi Ohashi

Shuro/Kei Image Song Performance: Kenji Nojima (Ep 22 insert)

Sound Effects: Hidenori Arai

Theme Song Lyrics: Yuriko Mori (ED)

Theme Song Performance:
Day-break (ED)
Junko Iwao

 

Junko Iwao as Ceres

Katsuyuki Konishi as Tooya

Yumi Kakazu as Aya Mikage

Ayako Kawasumi as Chidori Kurumi

Kentarou Itou as Yuuhi Aogiri

Kujira as Oda Kyuu

Mayumi Asano as Suzumi Aogiri

Shinichiro Miki as Mikagi

Susumu Chiba as Aki Mikage

Tomokazu Seki as Alexander Howell

Tomokazu Sugita as Kagami Mikage

Akiko Kimura as Yuki Urakawa

Akiko Yajima as Miori Sahara

Akimitsu Takase as Tomonori Aogiri

Daisuke Hirakawa as male student

Emi Shinohara as Miori's mother

Emiko Itou as female student (ep 1)

Kae Araki as Shouta

Kazusa Murai as Kumi Akiyama

Kouichi Toochika as Wei Fei Lee

Miwa Yasuda as female student (ep 1)

Shigeru Shibuya as Kazuma Aogiri

Shizuka Sasaki as Shuro Tsukasa

Unshou Ishizuka as Kurozuka

Wataru Takagi as Hayama

Yoko Nagashima as Guradisu

Yuko Nagashima as Gladys Smithson

Japanese companies 

Broadcaster: WOWOW

Editing: Jay Film

Music Production: Pony Canyon

Photography: T Nishimura

Production:
Bandai Visual
Emotion
Shogakukan Productions Co., Ltd.
Studio Pierrot

Sound Effects: Fizz Sound Creation

Sound Production: Jinnan Studio

English cast 
English staff 

ADR Script: Trish Ledoux

Executive producer: Seiji Horibuchi

Producer:
Andy Nakatani
Koichi Sekizaki
Toshifumi Yoshida

Assistant Engineer: Cam Desmond

Editing: Cisco McLaren

Re-Recording Mixing:
Jan Deny
Mark M. Pinder

Recording engineer: Brad Beldon

Voice Direction: Teri Snelgrove

Mariette Sluyter as Aya Mikage

Onalea Gilbertson as Ceres

Victor Atelevich as Toya

Dave Kelly as Kagami Mikage

Jonathan Love as
Alexander O. Howell
Mikagi

Maizun Jayoussi as Suzumi Aogiri

Matthew Erickson as Yuhi Aogiri

Meredith Taylor-Parry as Miori Sahara

Tommy Campbell as Aki Mikage

Carol-Anne Day as Chidori Kuruma

David Pettitt as
Grandfather
Kagami's Subordinate

Doug McKeag as
Kagami's Subordinate
Mrs. Q

Elizabeth Stepkowski as
Doctor
Kagami's Fiancee
Ms. Akiyama
Shuro Tsukasa

Ethan Cole as
Kagami's Subordinate
Wei Fei Li

Jonathan Love as Tomonori Aogiri

Maureen Jones as
Fortune Teller
Gladys Smithson
Mrs. Sahara

Michelle Armeneau as Mrs. Mikage

Steve Olson as
Dr. Kurotsuka
Kagami's Subordinate
Mr. Mikage
Old Man

English companies 

Adaptation:
The Ocean Group
Viz Media

Broadcaster: AXN-Asia (SE Asia)

Casting: Chinook Animation Productions

Licensed by: Viz Media

Recording Studio: Blue Water Studios

Subtitle Script: JN Productions

Subtitles: Captions, Inc.

French staff 
French cast 

Executive producer: Carlo Levy

 (none)
French companies 

Distributor: Dybex (France)

Spanish staff 
Spanish cast 
(none)
 

Marta Estrada as Aya Mikage (Spain dub)

Oscar Redondo as Tooya (Spain dub)

Angel de Gracia as Aki Mikage (Spain dub)

Ana María Camps as
Amiga de Aya y Aki (ep.1) (Spain dub)
Madre de Aya y Aki (Spain dub)

Francesc Rocamora as Abuelo de Aya y Aki (Spain dub)

Julia Chalmeta as Amiga de Aya y Aki (ep.1) (Spain dub)

Ramón Rocabayera as Padre de Aya y Aki (Spain dub)

Daniel Albiac (Spain dub)

Tasio Alonso (Spain dub)

Spanish companies 

Broadcaster: Buzz Channel (Spain)

Italian staff 
Italian cast 

Dubbing Director: Umberto Bortolani

Translation: Motoko Iwasaki

Dialogues:
Gianluca Aicardi
Roberta Poggio

Dubbing Assistant: Paolo Cottignola

 

Pinella Dragani as Ceres

Valeria Vidali as Aya Mikage

Alessandro Quarta as Toya

Leonardo Graziano as Aki Mikage

Davide Garbolino as Alexander O.Howell

Felice Invernici as Mr. Mikage

Franco Mannella as Kagami Mikage

Gio'-Gio' Rapattoni as Suzumi Aogiri

Jolanda Granato as Shouta Kurama

Loretta Di Pisa as Yuki Urakawa

Michele Gammino as Nonno Mikage

Monica Pariante as Kyu

Paolo De Santis as Tomonori Aogiri

Patrizio Prata as Yuhi Aogiri

Raffaello Lombardi as Wei Fei Li

Renata Bertolas as Chidori Kuruma

Riccardo Rovatti as Sig. Aogiri

Simona Biasetti as Gladys Smithson

Italian companies 

Broadcaster: Cultoon (from May 2009)

Distributor: Dynit

Dubbing: Florian Cinetivu' (Bologna)


German staff 
(none)
German companies 

Distributor: ACOG

German cast 
(none)
 
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