MAO
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)
MAO is a tv with 26 episodes, from Spring 2026, produced by Sunrise, rated 6.6/10 on AniList.
Synopsis
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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Tags
- Historical — Partly or completely set during a real period of world history.
- Female Protagonist — Main character is female.
- Exorcism — Involving religious methods of vanquishing youkai, demons, or other supernatural entities.
- Shounen — Target demographic is teenage and young adult males.
- Male Protagonist — Main character is male.
- Time Manipulation — Prominently features time-traveling or other time-warping phenomena.
- Youkai — Prominently features supernatural creatures from Japanese folklore.
- Demons — Prominently features malevolent otherworldly creatures.
- Isekai — Features a character from a modern-day setting being transported into an alternate world and has to adapt to their new surroundings.
- Primarily Teen Cast — Main cast is mostly composed of teen characters.
- Natural Disaster — It focuses on catastrophic events of natural origin, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, and severe storms. These works often present situations of extreme danger in which the characters struggle to survive and overcome the adversity.
- School — Partly or completely set in a primary or secondary educational institution.