Ayashi no Ceres/Headscratchers


 * At the end, there are two reveals. One: Celestial maidens need human males to reproduce. Leaving their Hagaromo for a male to find and then marying him is the usual procedure, and in fact they are apparently quite jealous of humans for whom getting kids is so easy. OK, fine. Two: Tooya was created by Ceres' own power, by her own Hagaromo. And he made Aya/Ceres pregnant. So.... what exactly do they need humans for again?
 * Ceres was a full-blooded tennyo, but Aya was one of her (mostly) human descendants Ceres was haunting. Tooya, while male, is essentially a full-blooded tennyo as well. Thus, his making a baby with Aya amounts to the same kind of cross-breeding with humans that Ceres did with her husband, just with the sexes reversed.
 * Don't celestial maidens cross-breed with humans to create genetically superior offspring? The Hagoromo is a part of Ceres's body (recall that she is literally incomplete without it), so it might have the same or similar genetic material as she does. That said, what bugs me is how no one else seems to be bothered by the idea that Aya's pregnancy has some serious inbreeding/self-fertilisation thing going on.
 * As noted, though Ceres was time-sharing Aya's body with her, the body was Aya's. The anime doesn't mention how many centuries back this family goes, but presumably a whole lot of generations stand between Aya and her ancestor Ceres, to whom Tooya is presumably a genetic twin. With all the new genetic material introduced to the family line with each generation (unless a lot of Kissing Cousins are involved), any generations that preceded your great-grandparents are no more closely more related to you genetically than just about anyone from your ethnicity. Tooya may (by whatever quirk of tennyo genetics allows for opposite-sex clones) be genetically identical to Ceres, but the only thing linking him to Aya genetically would be her very diluted tennyo factor. One might still think there's something intuitively creepy in sexual relations between a girl and a being genetically identical to her ancestor, but they're not close relatives by any scientific standard.
 * It's mentioned early on in the manga that the Mikage family have been marrying cousins together for hundreds of years.
 * Also, if I'm reading events correctly, it took the hagoromo something like 5000 years of sitting in the ocean to evolve into Touya.
 * How does the C-Project actually work? Okay, I get that Kagami poisoned Japan's water supply with a drug that makes Ceres's female descendants ascend to their Tennyo forms, hence the sudden increase in Tennyo characters. But then how did Kagami manage to get all the Tennyo he placed in his secret underground society to consent to the experiment and happily become his baby factories? When Aya turns herself over after the Chidori incident, he explains all of women involved with the project gave their consent. Uh, how? We're shown he conveniently owns a brainwashing machine that he uses to awaken Aki's Shiso alter-ego and attempt to suppress Aya's memories so she's in 24/7 Ceres Mode, so are we meant to assume he also used it to make all of the captured Tennyo docile and was outright lying when he said they willingly joined the program? I'm not saying he's not a big enough bastard to pull it off that way, but if that's how it works, why didn't Watase just up and state this instead of leaving it all ambiguous? Or does his organization use some Handmaid's Tale-esque mass psychological conditioning on the mothers-to-be? Or does he only take in Broken Birds like Miori, who have already grown cynical toward humanity and have pre-existing reasons to think the C-Project is a good alternative? Is disgust in the human race just a natural characteristic for awakened Tennyo descendants, and Chidori and Shuro were random exceptions to the rule? It just seems like a huge element of the plot that was never explained at all.