Ga-rei Zero: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

The creative team behind the Full Metal Panic! trilogy is back with a nightmare-inducing series about teenage exorcists forced to draw swords against bloodthirsty creatures of unholy origins.

Kagura and Yomi may look like ordinary school girls as they walk the streets of Tokyo clad in short skirts and knee-high socks, but they're the heroes you scream for when monsters creep out of the darkness. These sword-toting sisters are part of an elite counterattack unit that specializes in suppressing outbreaks of supernatural activity. They train together, live together, eat together, and spend their nights disemboweling demons with sacred blades. Tragedy strikes when Yomi is possessed by a dark spirit, and Kagura must choose between raising her weapon against the eerily familiar face of ultimate evil – or watching her flesh and blood slaughter innocent citizens. In a life or death battle that pits sister against sister, survival may be the greatest agony of all.

Series details

• Title: Ga-rei Zero
• Format: Animation
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Action, Anime, Horror, Thriller
• Premiere date: 2008-10-06
• Final broadcast date listed: 2008-12-22
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Chiba TV
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 17852
• IMDb ID: tt1475263
• TVDB ID: 83359

Cast and credited roles

• Minori Chihara — Kagura Tsuchimiya
• Ryōko Tanaka — Mei Isayama
• Tomoaki Maeno — Tooru Kanze
• Eri Kitamura — Natsuki Kasuga
• Mitsuru Miyamoto — Kiriya Konparu
• Megumi Matsumoto — Kazuhiro Mitogawa
• Tetsuo Komura — Garaku Tsuchimiya
• Norio Wakamoto — Nabū Brothers
• Maki Tsuchiya — Kiri Nikaidou
• Tetsu Inada — Koji Iwahata
• Shinya Takahashi — Noriyuki Izuna
• Kaoru Mizuhara — Yomi Isayama

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2008-10-06; final listed air date 2008-12-22.

Source and licence

Adapted from Ga-rei Zero on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.