You think your family parties are weird? Well, twins Aya and Aki Mikage have you beat. For their 16th birthday, everyone is going to grandpa’s house for a big surprise! They are going to kill Aya! What fun!

OK, a bit of background. Ceres Celestial Legend is a fantasy about a young girl whose body houses the spirit of the family’s ancestor – a vengeful angel named Ceres, who wants the return of her robe so she can return to heaven. And Ceres is willing to kill off the entire Mikage family to get her way. So killing Aya seems like a good idea.

So Aya goes on the run, meeting strangers who are willing to take her in and help her. And somehow she falls in love with Toya, one of the henchmen sent to track her down.

The story-line is interesting, enough for me to continue watching season two on YouTube, when Netflix only had season one. But the story-line also moves forward in an uneven path. We are asked to take leaps of logic, and subplots come out of nowhere to distract us. The second season is especially hard to watch as the pace slows.

The artwork? Nothing special. The animation? Below par. The blood? Flowing everywhere. The fan service? Often painted over.

So in Ceres Celestial Legend, we have an anime with a great story-line, but not necessarily well told. Oh, did I tell you in season two they fall back on some real clichés? Such as resurrection of the dead?

There is a bit of a moral, but that would involve a spoiler. The potential of Ceres Celestial Legend is there, but it only partly delivers.