MAO
Airing since Saturday, April 4, 2026. Episode 23 airs Sat, Sep 5, 2:46 PM UTC. Part of the Spring 2026 anime season. See full air dates, episode count and score below, or open the live calendar for local times, countdowns and reminders.
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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…
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