TV Is Art

TV Is Art
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Yr 2026
Rt 25m
Status Returning Series
Animation Action & Adventure Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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Series Brief

Overview

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.

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Featured Players

Cast 11

Yuki Kaji
as Mao (voice)
Hiro Shimono
as Hyakka (voice)
Toshiyuki Toyonaga
as Kamon (voice)
Natsumi Kawaida
as Nanoka Kiba (voice)
Production Board

Crew

Director of Photography
Akane Fushihara
Series Composition
Yuko Kakihara
Original Music Composer
Shu Kanematsu
Art Direction
Izumi Hoki Hiroshi Kato
CGI Director
Tomohiro Fujie
Character Designer
Yoshihito Hishinuma
Supervising Animation Director
Yoshihito Hishinuma
Series Director
Teruo Sato
Color Designer
Masumi Otsuka
Sound Director
Hiromi Kikuta
Original Story
Rumiko Takahashi
Editor
Kazuhiro Nii
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Keyword Cloud

Keywords

based on manga dark fantasy shounen anime taisho period onmyōji
Technical Sheet

Details

First Aired
April 04, 2026
Status
Returning Series
Episode Runtime
25 minutes
Origin
JP
TMDB Votes
13