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Ceres: Celestial Legend, Vol. 5: Mikage Paperback – October 1, 2003

by Yuu Watase (Author, Illustrator)
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Hell hath no fury like a heavenly maiden.

Horror, Comedy, and Romance Made in Heaven

Yuu Watase, the immensely popular writer/artist of the shôjo (girl's) fantasy smash Fushigi Yûgi: The Mysterious Play, has turned her creativity and wry sense of humor to the horror genre with her anime/manga hit Ceres: Celestial Legend. Aya thought she was a normal teenager until she discovered that she can transform into a vastly powerful “heavenly maiden” named Ceres...But Ceres is furious and out for revenge!

Grandfather Mikage is the head of the extended Mikage family as well as the leader of the multinational conglomerate, Mikage International. His family has maintained great power and wealth under his strict rule--creating a regime founded on a belief in supernatural magic and ritual murder. Grandfather Mikage has selected his grandson, Aki, to lead the family into the future. But, his chosen successor may have more in store for the family than Grandpa bargained for...
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    Ceres: Celestial Legend
  2. Print length
    200 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    VIZ Media LLC
  5. Publication date
    October 1, 2003
  6. Dimensions
    5 x 0.6 x 7.5 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    1569319790
  8. ISBN-13
    978-1569319796
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Yuu Watase debuted in the Shôjo Comic manga anthology in 1989. She won the 43rd Shogakukan Manga Award with Ceres: Celestial Legend. One of her most famous works is Fushigi Yûgi, a series that has inspired the prequel Fushigi Yûgi: Genbu Kaiden. In 2008, Arata: The Legend started serialization in Weekly Shonen Sunday.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ VIZ Media LLC (October 1, 2003)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 200 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1569319790
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1569319796
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.6 x 7.5 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Janet H.
5.0 out of 5 stars Best (so far) in an awesome series!
Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2004
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The Ceres: Celestial Legend manga series is a wonderful version of the traditonal "Swan Maiden" fairytales. An enraged maiden has possessed the body of her descendant, with the aim of getting her heavenly robe back and getting revenge on the man who hid it centuries ago and forced her to marry him. (It's beyond me how a tale, basically, about abduction and rape could have become the romanticized fairytale that it is, now meant for children. But I guess that's the nature of the patriarchy we live in. I'm grateful to the author for giving this a more realistic twist.) Anyway, this is a very entertaining series and this volume is the best one I've read so far. Yu Watase manages to make the same scene horrifying, funny, and sexy all at the same time. THAT is talent.
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Lauren Johnson
5.0 out of 5 stars Ceres
Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2013
Yuu Watase is an amazing storyteller and draws some gorgeous artwork! She is one of my favorite manga authors and I love everything she has done. The characters in Ceres are amazing and imaginative and extremely easy to relate to. She is able to capture the character's emotions amazingly with a realistic outlook on life. Aya's reaction to finding out about her supernatural powers was real and her ongoing fight through all of her problems strikes the reader as something that would ring true. My favorite character was Touya, hot and mysterious with a little bit of attitude thrown in. The series has gory moments and is dark but everything about life is not always peachy as Yuu Watase truthfully is able to point out.

Note: this review is about volumes 1-14 .
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Erin Alicia Templin
5.0 out of 5 stars I liked this book.
Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2007
I really did enjoy this book.
I love this series and I can't wait until I buy the next book
it was so good. I liked the ending but I hoped that Aya and Toya would've
been together by the end of the book. The ending was very interesting
and surprising. I will defently order from amazon again and continue
to buy the books in this series.
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Pahoua Xiong
5.0 out of 5 stars A good book to pick up!
Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2004
this is one good of the series of Ceres Celestial legends, I even own it. It really keeps you in to it that you can't put it down once you start reading. but if you haven't read the first one yet..don't read this until you've read the four before!! it'll be spoiling the fun. it's really still a mystery to me, I've got the sixth book too and it really is the bomb!! This book rates to be one of my top five manga this year..i can't wait until the 7th one comes out..you should this if you haven't yet!!
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shadow_yoko
5.0 out of 5 stars Tooya who will you choose??
Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2003
This series I've been waiting so long for it to come out and it has finally come out, tooya....who will you choose? the one you love?aya? or will you choose the greedy and murderous family mikage? well I think all ceres fans know who he will choose....though he meets obsticales, obsticles that will put his life in danger.....he still protects the one he loves most!!!I recommend this for aya and tooya fans.Now go out there and GET THIS BOOK!!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Mikage
Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2003
WAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! it just ends like int middel of a really great part and makes me sad.... but i do have to say that thae was probly the bes book in the seris (cus it was right to left) no um because the other half of the story is now being told and aww i just want to cry untill i get the next book!!!!!!!!!!!
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Jude
3.0 out of 5 stars Getting better
Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2014
~3/5

[More of my reviews are available on my blog, Geeky Reading, to which there's a link on my profile.]

(Contains spoilers.)

This series is actually getting better, and I’m very happy about that. The humor isn’t bothering me as much. And maybe it’s just getting more exciting. And there was more focus on Aki, who I just generally find more interesting than Aya.

First, Toya decides that he’s leaving the Mikage company. He’s just like, screw them, I’m done with this crap, destroys their machines, tears up their cameras and lasers, the front door, and is out of there. He’s all bloody, and he was going to take Aki with him, but Aki decides to stay, but that’s no big deal. Aya is waiting for him, having talked to him before this, and is ready to comfort and take care of him, and love him even more and all that. She’s upset about her brother staying, though. Toya is hurt and stays with the Aogiri’s for a couple days, even gets included on their pay roll or whatever so that he’s included in their group, before deciding that he has to go back to the Mikage’s and take care of Aki, as he sees him as his responsibility.

Aya is happy to have him, and then upset that he’s leaving her again. Yuhi is surprisingly okay with it, even if he is unhappy because he wants to be with Aya. And Aya has a mirror conversation with Ceres, who’s blunt and straightforward about what she wants, and particularly the fact that she wants to kill Aki and find out where her Hagoromo (the robe) is. The two make a deal that Ceres won’t come out and Aya will find the Hagoromo and deal with all of it on her own.

And then some serious s*** happens with Aki. He wrote a letter for Toya to give to Aya, and he knows that he’s losing the fight with his past self, and he tells her that he wants her to kill him if his past self takes over. And he does, and he kills the Mikage grandfather (who, remember, doesn’t know anything about the c-project). Aki doesn’t even seem to be present anymore, and his past self is straightforward, blunt, a little crass, and determined to find Ceres (or Aya), who he calls "his woman", and we can tell that it isn’t Aki because he has all these scars. And then he does find her, with Toya as he’s leaving, and he kisses her. He also has a standoff with Ceres and Toya and Yuhi, who try to protect her, before he passes out and is taken away by the Mikage’s. Also, all of this is in public, there are dozens of people around, but that doesn’t seem to matter.

The volume ends with the Aogiri group seeing some famous pop star on television claiming that he’s a celestial descendent, and that he has the Hagoromo at his house. Which is sure to be interesting, and I’m guessing it’s not Ceres’.

So: getting better. I’m very happy about this, and am actually looking forward to seeing what happens next. Also, I might not be reviewing the next one, just to let you know.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Love series
Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2022
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5.0 out of 5 stars truly above great
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 11, 2004
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this is one of the better manga's out there, the plot never slows and the characters never become too serious nor too funny. By the 5th novel, the character Aki shows his darker side and reveals that he is probably more of a danger to Aya then Ceres is. Aki's fight to keep within his own state of mind is heartfelt and interesting and Toya's sacrfice of his memories for Aya shows he is capable of actual human emotion. Readers may notice that the books are in the origanal japanese format which may be bothersome for some but the reading style just takes getting used too.
Warning though: ceres 5 contains strong violence and a Aki has a twisted 'relationship' with his sister, which is of course, completly justified but a fair warning that ceres is for an older reader.
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