MAO
MAO / マオ / MAO หาญสู้พลิกชะตาอาถรรพณ์Summary
A curse that binds past and present.
Mao, a young mystic who lives in the Taisho period of early 1900s Japan, is a mysterious onmyoji who, after suffering a life-altering curse, has continued to live for nine hundred long years. His world becomes even stranger when he meets Nanoka Kiba, a junior high schooler who seems to have traveled from the future. In spite of her tender years, Nanoka has lived a strange life herself, marked by her traumatic experience as a young child losing both her parents to a grisly accident. But when Nanoka decides to return to that fateful shopping arcade, she is transported to another time and place - a world where supernatural ayakashi thrive in an era long before her own. There she meets Mao, whose abrupt and bizarre question prompts Nanoka to see herself and her curious life in a completely new light. Now the two travelers from different worlds unite as they take on the dark powers that grip both their lives.
(Source: VIZ Media, Hulu, edited)
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Episodes
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Details
- Format
- TV series
- Number of Episodes
- 26
- Episode length
- 25 min
- Estimated total length
- ≈ 10 h 50 min (26 × 25 min)
- Season
- Spring 2026
- Start date
- April 4, 2026
- End date
- September 26, 2026
- Status
- Finished
- Source
- Manga
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Studios
- Sunrise
- Romaji title
- MAO
- English title
- MAO
- Native title
- MAO
- Other titles
- マオ · MAO หาญสู้พลิกชะตาอาถรรพณ์
Characters 25
Main characters
- Mao摩緒Main
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- Gender
- Male
Mao is the main character of the eponymous story Mao. Throughout his long life, Mao has remained mature, reserved and somewhat aloof. He tends to dwell on his past and what he can't remember, which drives his obsessive search for the Byōki who cursed him. Mao favors onmyōdō exorcism and healing techniques, and avoids curse techniques. When in his Byōki…
- Nanoka Kiba黄葉菜花Main
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- Age
- 15
- Gender
- Female
Nanoka Kiba is the narrator and heroine of the story Mao. Outspoken, determined and brave, Nanoka is extremely curious about the circumstances of her and Mao's curse, leading her to research history with her classmate, Shiraha, when she returns home from the Taisho era. Despite her being a natural fighter, Nanoka is afraid to engage in conflict. She…
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- Hyakka百火Supporting
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- Gender
- Male
Hyakka is a former classmate of Mao from 900 years ago. He was an apprentice 900 years ago, then worked in a circus, but he now travels with Mao and Nanoka.
- Kamon華紋Supporting
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- Gender
- Male
Kamon, also known as Kuchinawa, is a former senior disciple from 900 years ago. Following the Great Kanto Earthquake, he was serving Tanehiko who captured and murdered women in his mansion, by getting rid of their corpses. Just as he reunites with Mao who came to rescue Tanehiko's last victim Tenko, he was hired by his father to kill him as he was removed…
- Yurako幽羅子Supporting
- Tenko貂子Supporting
- Shiranui不知火Supporting
- Otoya乙弥Supporting
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- Gender
- Male
Otoya is a kid serving the protagonist Mao. He’s a Shikigami, the result of Mao infusing his spiritual power onto a doll.
- Daigo大五Supporting
- Hakubi白眉Supporting
- Natsuno夏野Supporting
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- Gender
- Female
Natsuno is a former disciple from 900 years ago
- Souma Kagami加神双馬Supporting
- Haimaru灰丸Supporting
- Sougen宗玄Supporting
- Miyako美哉子Supporting
- Masago真砂Supporting
- Shiraha白羽Supporting
- Beniko紅子Supporting
- Yoriko依子Supporting
- Sayoko小夜子Supporting
- Shouko鐘呼Supporting
- Mokuzu藻久不Supporting
- Funa Uozumi魚住フナSupporting
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- Gender
- Female
Nanoka's family's housekeeper.
- Ojii-chanおじいちゃんSupporting
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- Gender
- Male
Nanoka's grandfather whom she lives with after the death of her parents.
- Tanehiko Ibaraki茨木種彦Supporting
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- Gender
- Male
Staff and studios
Studios
Key staff
- Teruo SatouDirector
- Rumiko TakahashiOriginal creator
- Yuuko KakiharaSeries composition
- Yoshihito HishinumaCharacter design
- Shuu KanematsuMusic
- Yoshihito HishinumaChief animation director
- Izumi HokiArt director
- Hiroshi KatouArt director
- Hiromi KikutaSound director
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- Tomohiro FujieCG Director
- Akane FushiharaDirector of Photography
- Kazuhiro NiiEditing
- Masumi OotsukaColor Design
- Kis-My-Ft2Theme Song Performance (OP1)
- 20th CenturyTheme Song Performance (OP2)
- Reina UedaTheme Song Performance (ED2)
- Miho KarasawaTheme Song Performance (ED1)
- Tony OliverADR Director (English)
- Ryan RaydarkeADR Script (English)
- Conrado SoteroADR Director (Brazilian Portuguese)