On April 3, VIZ Media announced it acquired the exclusive rights to the anime adaptation of MAO, the manga created by Rumiko Takahashi. Rumiko Takahashi is the legendary mangaka behind Inuyasha, Ranma 1/2, and Urusei Yatsura. MAO premiered on Hulu on April 4.
Inuyasha practically raised me so I cannot wait to get into a new series from THE GOAT!
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. When Nanoka was young, she was involved in an accident with her parents, and she was the only one who survived.
But when Nanoka decides to return to that fateful shopping arcade where the accident happened, 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.
Rumiko Takahashi’s latest work, MAO, finally comes to life as an anime!
A dark fantasy time-traveling mystery begins now.
Where a curse devours time itself…
Official Synopsis
The anime is directed by Teruo Sato (Yashahime) with Series Composition by Yuko Kahihara (The Apothecary Diaries). Yoshihito Hishinuma (Inuyasha) serves as the Character Designer and Chief Animation Director. The anime is provided by SUNRISE Inc. Yuki Kaji (My Hero Academia, Attack on Titan) stars as Mao. Natsumi Kawaida (The Demon Prince of Momochi House) is Nanoka Kina.
Source: VIZ Media Press Release
