Bakassi is situated at the extreme eastern end of the Gulf of Guinea, where the warm east-flowing Guinea Current ( called Aya Efiat in Efik ) meets the cold north-flowing Benguela Current ( called Aya Ubenekang in Efik ).

She is voiced by Aya Hisakawa in the Japanese version, and Hilary Haag in the English dub.

* In Helen Oyeyemi's 2007 novel The Opposite House, the frame narrative character is Yemaya or Aya for short, and the protagonist of the novel, who is of African and Cuban descent, is named Maja.

* In the light novel Hidan no Aria, Gennai is the famous ancestor of the Amdo Butei Aya Hiraga.

At the same time, Elliot develops a relationship with the beautiful Hiroko ( Aya Takanashi ), who is, he later finds out, Uchiyama's daughter.

There is a one-book manga adaptation, Yami to Bōshi to Hon no Tabibito ~ Romance, illustrated by Aya Sakurai.

The series focuses on Aya Mikage, who learns on her sixteenth birthday that she is the reincarnation of a named Ceres, and her twin brother Aki the reincarnation of Ceres ' former husband, Mikage.

Aya is the reincarnation of a supremely powerful celestial maiden called Ceres.

Aya tries to control Ceres ' power and hold over her and Aki is eventually completely taken over by the vengeful and hateful spirit and soul of " Mikagi ", the original ancestor of the Mikage family who first stole Ceres ' celestial robe, forcing her to stay on Earth.

Aya also wrestles with her growing and deep romance love for Toya, a servant of the Mikage who is trying to kill her, but lost his memory of his past.

While Aya is initially horrified that her life has been turned upside down, she is determined to right the past doings of her family and recover Ceres ' hagoromo so that her family will no longer suffer in fear of her.

It is later revealed that he met Aya when she was a child.

He is determined to protect Aya and their children, Miku and Aki.

: Aya's twin brother, a gentle and caring person who is subject to becoming a medium for the spirit of Mikagi, the founder of the Mikage family who aggressively pursues Aya and Ceres and almost raped Aya.

In the sequel Episode of Miku, he is reincarnated as Aya and Touya's second child who, too, is named Aki.

She is capable of making protective charms for Yūhi as he strives to aid Aya.

Though attracted to Yūhi, Aya ultimately comes to see him as a close friend patonically, and Yūhi is able to accept the fact that Aya only has romantic eyes for Toya.

She has a relationship with her teacher, who is actually an agent sent by the Mikage International to capture and eliminate Aya ( Ceres ).

The other one, Yaeli ( Aya Koren, credited as Aya Steinovitz ), is very interested in Jagger, while she refuses the sexual advances of Ofir ( Assi Cohen ), who tries to make clear to her that Jagger is not particularly interested in her.

, commonly abbreviated as, is a Japanese role-playing video game metaseries which was originally based on the novel series Digital Devil Story by Aya Nishitani ( taking its name from the title of the first of those novels ) and has gone to become one of the major franchises of the genre in its native country.

: An anime-exclusive character, introduced as one of Aya Misaki's two friends.

Her other friends are divided into two groups — the married and the unmarried — who tease one another endlessly, with Aya Tamura ( Chikage Awashima ) her close ally in the unmarried group.

Project groups and soloists ( e. g. Morning Musume, Country Musume, Aya Matsuura, Melon Kinenbi, and others ) into one of three groups for a season-long collaboration to see which shuffle group can sell the most singles.

Traveling westward from the City of Tanauan and entering Talisay via the National Highway, one will reach barangays Aya, Tranca, Quiling and Tumaway.

During the next three years they made one film each year to play on the school festival, written by Aya and directed by Junpei.

Reimu or Marisa go underground with the help of one of three yōkai ( Yukari Yakumo, Suika Ibuki, or Aya Syameimaru for Reimu ; Alice Margatroid, Patchouli Knowledge, or Nitori Kawashiro for Marisa ) and stop the source of the geyser before things get far too out of hand.

That year also marked her first appearance on Kōhaku Uta Gassen, as one of Aya Matsuura's backup dancers, during the 54th edition of the renowned NHK New Year program.

After Maya's death, her organs were preserved, which allowed for one of her corneas to be transplanted into Aya in 1986.

At the same time, one of Maya's kidneys was transplanted into a young girl named Melissa Pearce, who was also an experimental subject of Klamp, and Maya's malevolent mitochondria began changing Aya and Melissa's genetic structures.

Action figures of Aya and Melissa from the original Parasite Eve game were released together in one set by Takara.

Aya starts as a nerdy top student wearing large glasses and unattractive hairstyle.

During the first episode of the series, straight A student Aya goes on subsidized dates because she wants to have money and fun like the other girls, but also because her strict parents and schedule do not allow her to have a job.

Main character Ran, even though she believes the gyaru ( gal ) philosophy “ If you want it, go and get it ,” strongly disapproves of Aya ’ s action because she believes a gyaru should have self-respect and not treat herself like merchandise.

When she transforms into Ceres, Aya obtains many supernatural abilities such as flight, teleportation, telepathy, incredibly strong and powerful telekinesis, premonition, projecting powerful and destructive deep pink glowing energy blasts from her hands, creating incredibly strong and powerful impenetrable shields and barriers of pure deep pink energy, and superhuman speed.

She welcomes Aya into her household when she discovers Aya has become Ceres ' latest medium.

Suzumi cannot become a tennyo like Aya, though she does possess slight psychic powers and abilities like clairvoyance and telekinesis.

He also seems to have no interest in girls ... until he bumped into Aya Kurihara at the library and she gave him a kiss to the lips!

The potential romance was cut short when she transferred back to France, as she was just an exchange student, and Yoshihiko learned the kissing is just European custom, although it turns out Aya has a different view on the romance.

In the live action series, she is played by adult film star Aya Sugimoto.

She also participated in her first shuffle group recording, 3-nin Matsuri, with fellow Morning Musume / Tanpopo member Ai Kago and solo singer Aya Matsuura ( previously, she had been a replacement member in the 2000 shuffle group Aoiro 7 ).

She uses red liquid again on Aya to shrink her about three inches tall as well because she didn't want her exposing her secret to anyone.

Ran found out and confronted her about it, making her realize that she was doing the wrong thing fortunately before Aya " did it " with somebody.

She asked him to date Aya because she knew Aya liked him.

Rei becomes annoyed with Aya when she wanted to go wherever he would go, telling her to be more decisive for herself and quit following what others want.

Aya eventually suspected that he didn't truly love her and that he may love Ran instead, finding both of her suspicions to be true when she confronts Rei about his true feelings.

Rei affirms to a crestfallen Naoki that he was going to kiss Aya because she was his girlfriend, which leaves Aya blushing until the end of the chapter.