Yuu Watase, the immensely popular writer/artist of the shojo(girl's) fantasy smash Fushigi Yugi: The Mysterious Play, has turned her creativity and wry sense of humour 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! No more deception, no more lies - now that Aya and Toya have finally let down all their barriers and come together, that is. But will something else - something outside their love - tear them apart? Miori Sahara seems a nice enough girl - goes to Aya's school, has a lot in common with Aya...looksa lot like Aya, actually. She says she's searching for her missing boyfriend, who's been gone a year now. After an accident robs Toya of his memories, will Aya turn to Yuhi once Toya goes back to his "real" girlfriend, Miori? A love like Aya and Toya's is supposed to last forever...has everything that's happened between the two of them this past year been a lieafter all?

Author Biography

A manga artist for over ten years, Watase's debut came in 1989 at the age of 18 when her short story PAJAMA DE OJAMA (An Intrusion in Pajamas) appeared in the monthly Shoc;jo Comic manga anthology. Since then she has written and drawn some 50 volumes worth of different short stories and long-running manga series, including the fantastically popular FUSHIGI YUGI, also available in English from VIZ. Her works have provided the basis for two television series, an OVA series, anime soundtrack CDs, and a string of novels.