Mao is the half-beast princess of the land of Bestia, with only a pair of animal-like ears and fangs to identify her true heritage, and is also the true leader of the mercenary knighthood Weiss Ritter. She left End-Earth for Earth in search of Zero and inadvertently brought Souma and Kureha back to her homeworld. Her soul blade, named the &quot;Beast King Sword Lion King&#039;s Flame Dance,&quot; possesses properties of fire and is Souma&#039;s preferred blade (but not his Ultimate). Throughout the later episodes it is implied that Souma and Mao have feelings for each other, though nothing culminates until the end.

Mysterious disappearances are occurring one after the other in Tatsumi Town. Kiriya has a vision from a mysterious beautiful girl with pointy ears. A book talking for an alternative world is found. And Mao searching for her long lost friend, Zero, comes to our world. But what she didn&rsquo;t expect is to find Souma and Kureha, and even less, to accidentally take them to her world. Now, Souma and Kureha have to find a way to come back. But other forces are playing their part in the darkness and Souma with Kureha will find that going back is harder than they first anticipated.
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(Source: Anime News Network)

__Agency:__ I'm Enterprise

A close personal friend of [Kozue Amano](https://anilist.co/staff/96937/Kozue-Amano). She was invited on stage to Anime Festival Asia 2011.

In 2013, she married a man from outside the anime industry.

__Non anime roles:__
- Azami - Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (VG)
- Dorothy - Goddess of Victory: Nikke (VG)
- [Jean](https://anilist.co/character/190865/Jean-Gunnhildr) - Genshin Impact (VG)
- [Kotori Kanbe](https://anilist.co/character/37486/) - Rewrite (VG)
- Mayer - Arknights (VG)
- [Wakamo Kosaka](https://anilist.co/character/287031/) - Blue Archive (VG)
- Changli - Wuthering Waves (VG)
- Castorice - Honkai Star Rail (VG)
- Metis - Persona 3 Reload : Episode Aigis -The Answer (VG)
