Ceres: Celestial Legend, Volume 10 Book

I'm still a huge fan of Yuu Watase, but I must say that this is probably my least favourite of her series to date - it has her trademark high quality artwork and emotional drama but its so unrelentingly dark with no let up in sight.

So in this one Aya nearly gets raped twice - first gang raped by a group of her male classmates and then later by her twin brother possessed by the progenitor. The monster it would seem is a human who tried on a hagimono and got turned into an evil monster for 700 years.

The highlights of this volume are Toya who realises, with a doctor's help that perhaps being a cipher doesn't matter to Aya and they could still be happy together - his coming in guns blazing to rescue her towards the end made my heart beat a little faster - yay. The other strength is the issue of sex vs love - a strong theme both in the story itself and discussion in the side bars. Everyone it seems wants to possess Aya/Ceres in some way.

Enjoying this series over all, but be warned it is very dark.