Anime · NHK G
MAO
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How MAO actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
MAO reads strongest on Bingeability, Spectacle and World Building.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
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. Together, they investigate the bizarre events that begin to occur around them, and Nanoka soon pieces together her broken memories of the accident and how she and Mao may have something more sinister in common.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Cinematography
- Akane FushiharaDirector of Photography
Music
- Shu KanematsuOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
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