# Seikimatsu Occult Academy (2010)

> A skeptical young woman teams up with a time agent from the future to uncover her late father's secrets at an occult academy before a Nostradamus-driven apocalypse begins.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/34556

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 13
- Episode runtime: 24 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: animation, science fiction, comedy
- Network: TV Tokyo
- Cast: Yoko Hikasa, Takahiro Mizushima, Yu Kobayashi, Kana Hanazawa, Hiroki Takahashi, Minori Chihara, Sayuri Yahagi, Masaaki Yajima
- TMDB rating: 6.6/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1690414/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: mild
- Tone: playful, eerie, brisk, apocalyptic, witty

## What critics say

Viewers broadly appreciate the offbeat blend of comedy, occult mystery and time-travel premise, though the single season is viewed as only moderately successful.

## Synopsis

Occult Academy is a Japanese animated supernatural comedy-mystery built as one thirteen-episode season. Skeptical Maya Kumashiro returns to Waldstein Academy, an institute for paranormal study nicknamed the Occult Academy, for her father's funeral and resents everything the place represents. She is pulled into an uneasy partnership with Fumiaki Uchida, a time agent sent from the future to 1999 to head off the Nostradamus Prophecies, which mark the school as ground zero for a world-ending cataclysm. Their investigation of a principal's death becomes a race against a shrinking clock, with each episode layering quirky supernatural puzzles, odd classmates, and mounting doomsday pressure onto a playful school-life premise. The tone blends brisk, witty comedy with eerie occult atmosphere and a restless undercurrent of apocalyptic dread, the feel of a late-1990s end-of-the-world fable. Viewers who enjoy school-based supernatural mysteries and time-bending stakes will find the mix of levity and foreboding distinctive, though the show's ambitions outpace its single run.

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