Monochrome Factor: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Based on the manga by Sorano Kairi serialised in Comic Blade Avarus. Akira Nikaido is a typical slacker high school student who thinks he has a normal life--until a mysterious man called Shirogane appears and tells him to meet him at the school that night. He is skeptical but goes anyway...and gets attacked by a shadow monster! Shirogane convinces him that the balance between the human world and the shadow world has been distorted, and that Akira must become a shin--a creature of the shadow world--in order to help restore the balance.

Series details

• Title: Monochrome Factor
• Format: Animation
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Action, Anime, Horror
• Premiere date: 2008-04-07
• Final broadcast date listed: 2008-09-30
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: TV Tokyo
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 24 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 19463
• TVDB ID: 82509

Cast and credited roles

• Hiroshi Kamiya — Kengo Asamura
• Mitsuki Saiga — Haruka Kujou
• Daisuke Ono — Akira Nikaidou
• Junichi Suwabe — Shirogane
• Masumi Asano — Aya Suzuno

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2008-04-07; final listed air date 2008-09-30; episode order: 24.

Source and licence

Adapted from Monochrome Factor 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.