MAO

MAO (original title: MAO) is a fantasy manga created by Japanese manga artist Rumiko Takahashi. It began serialization in the 23rd issue of Weekly Shōnen Sunday on May 8, 2019, and is published by Shogakukan. The project information was first announced through the 20th issue of the same magazine on April 17, 2019, with the title page bearing the caption "the place where two worlds meet." The story revolves around Kiba Nanoka, a third-year middle school student who, due to an accident in her childhood, was afflicted by a cat ghost curse and transformed into a demon. One day, she time-travels to the Taishō period and, at the boundary between times, meets the Yin-Yang Division MAO, who bears a cursed mark. Connected by their curses, the two begin to cooperate, gradually unraveling the secrets of the cat ghost's life-manipulating techniques and facing together the whirlpool of fate involving forces such as the Bell Call Cult.