MAO

About MAO

Eight years ago, Nanoka Kiba was saved from the wreckage of a fatal accident at Gogyō Town Shopping Center. Drawn to the abandoned passage of storefronts on her walk home from school in present day, she becomes inexplicably transported to Japan's Taishō period where she meets the mysterious Mao, a fellow traveler whose arrival at a ghost-inhabited village is simultaneous with hers.

NHK G's MAO is an action-adventure, animation, and mystery series. Yuki Kaji leads the cast as Mao (voice), Natsumi Kawaida as Nanoka Kiba (voice), Hiro Shimono as Hyakka (voice), and Toshiyuki Toyonaga as Kamon (voice).

It has run to one season of 26 episodes since April 2026. The series began as a manga.

Members will find katana, taisho period, onmyōji, and based on manga in it. In the United States it streams on Hulu. It carries a TV-14 rating.

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Dororo, and Blue Exorcist make useful companions to MAO, all filed under dark fantasy.