Maboroshi

About Maboroshi

Looking for background on Maboroshi (Alice to Therese no Maboroshi Koujou)? This fantasy, romance and drama series by MAPPA (2023) starts out like this. In short: Masamune, a third-year middle school learner, lives in a town where all the exits have been sealed off due to a sudden explosion at a steel mill, causing time to stand still. Residents are forbidden from making any changes and spend their suffocating days in the hopes of returning to normalcy someday.

As things develop, one day, Masamune's unexplained classmate Mutsumi guides him to the fifth furnace of the steel mill, where they encounter a girl who cannot speak and resembles a wild wolf. The meeting between the two girls and Masamune disrupts the balance of the realm, and the unstoppable "impulse of love" from boys and girls tired of their daily lives starts to destroy the realm.

In a fantasy series like this, world-building, magic systems and creature design set the tone. This one is best suited to fans of magic, kingdoms and invented worlds.

Production & Appeal

MAPPA is the studio behind Maboroshi, and its direction shapes everything from character design to motion. Because it leans on fantasy, world-building, magic systems and creature design set the tone. A 7.2/10 score points to a dependable, well-liked series. It aired in 2023, which makes it easy to place in the wider anime calendar.