Ceres possesses her occasionally, filled with bloodlust for Aki and the Mikage family. Aya, however, can switch back, so this transformation happens quite frequently; luckily, her protector Yuuhi and Aki's amnesiac bodyguard Toya are good at kissing her back into her senses. Like many anime series from the 2000s, the dub is filled with tongue-in-cheek cultural references from the time, designed to make it more relatable to Americans. There is a frequent image of a nude woman, a 'bathing maiden'