Format: TV
Episodes: 26
Episode length: 25 min
Status: Finished
Aired from: Apr 4, 2026
Until: Sep 26, 2026
Season: Spring 2026
Source: Manga
Average score: 66%
Mean score: 67%
Popularity: 20,149
Favorites: 277
Studio: Sunrise
Producers: Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions, Shogakukan, Bandai Namco Music Live, Bandai Namco Filmworks, NHK Enterprises
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Supernatural, Romance
Hashtag: #アニメMAO
Romaji: MAO
English: MAO
Native: MAO
Synonyms: マオ MAO หาญสู้พลิกชะตาอาถรรพณ์

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MAO

★ 6.6 20,149 members

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)