Twelve

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Twelve

트웰브 (Teuwelbeu) · 2025 · South Korea

DirectorKang Dae-gyu · Han Yun-seon

WriterNot publicly listed

Episodes8 eps · ~60 min each

⏱️ Binge Time8h 0m

AiredAug 23 – Sep 14, 2025

GenreFantasy · Action · Supernatural

Content RatingTV-14

Disney+

Zodiac Mythology
Angels vs Demons
Ensemble Cast
Korean Superhero
Supernatural

One box. Everything you need to decide.

Ten zodiac angels, one crow demon, and a human guardian — every cast member carries a distinct mythology and the wound that comes with it.

Don Lee

Tae-san

Lead

Park Hyung-sik

O Gwi

Villain

Seo In-guk

Won-seung

Lead

Lee Ju-bin

Mir

Supporting

Ko Kyu-pil

Do-ni

Supporting

Kang Mi-na

Kang-ji

Supporting

Sung Yoo-bin

Jui-dol

Supporting

Ahn Ji-hye

Mal-sook

Supporting

Regina Lei

Bang-wool

Supporting

Sung Dong-il

Ma-rok

Supporting

Spoiler-light recaps — enough to remember where you left off, nothing that ruins the ride.

EP 01

The Awakening

August 23, 2025

Tae-san discovers the seal on the hell gate has weakened when evil spirits attack humans in Seoul. O Gwi appears and kills a human civilian, revealing his power to Tae-san in an encounter that makes it clear the old truce is finished. The remaining angels — Mir, Won-seung, and Do-ni — begin to sense their ancient duty pulling them back toward a fight most of them had quietly decided was over.

EP 02

The Tiger’s Burden

August 24, 2025

Tae-san confronts O Gwi in a rooftop battle but cannot defeat him alone — the gap between them is wider than expected. Won-seung reveals his foresight ability and delivers a grim prediction: more angels will die if the Twelve don’t reunite. Mir refuses Tae-san’s request to rejoin, still carrying unresolved trauma from their last war together, and her refusal has weight behind it that Tae-san has no immediate answer for.

EP 03

The Dragon’s Vision

August 30, 2025

Won-seung uses his foresight to track O Gwi’s next attack location, giving the group its first real tactical advantage. Jui-dol and Mal-sook are attacked by evil spirits in their neighborhood, forcing them to reveal their powers in public — exposure the Twelve have worked for centuries to avoid. Tae-san arrives in time to intervene, but the damage to their anonymity has already begun.

EP 04

The Snake’s Betrayal

August 31, 2025

Bang-wool secretly meets O Gwi after he offers her the one thing she cannot stop wanting — the restoration of her lost human lover. Tae-san discovers the meeting and confronts Bang-wool directly; she doesn’t deny it, and her honesty about what she wants makes the situation harder, not easier, to resolve. O Gwi uses Bang-wool’s vulnerability as a key and infiltrates the Twelve’s hideout, turning her grief into a weapon.

EP 05

The Ox’s Loyalty

September 6, 2025

Ma-rok, the only human chosen by God in the group’s circle, works to shield the angels’ identities from government investigators closing in after the incident in Episode 3. Do-ni sacrifices his own power to save Ma-rok from an evil spirit attack — a cost that significantly weakens him going into the final stretch. O Gwi captures Bang-wool after she fails his test, making it clear her value to him was always conditional.

EP 06

The Monkey’s Choice

September 7, 2025

Won-seung decides to confront O Gwi directly, knowing from his own visions that it will likely cost him his life — he goes anyway. Kang-ji and Jui-dol launch a rescue mission into O Gwi’s underground fortress to pull Bang-wool out before she’s used as leverage. Tae-san finally unleashes his full tiger angel power in open combat, removing all pretense of restraint for the first time in the series.

EP 07

The Crow’s Revenge

September 13, 2025

O Gwi pushes the red stone to its limit, transforming into a monstrous form that nearly kills Tae-san — the gap the series spent six episodes establishing finally becomes terrifying. Won-seung sacrifices his life to destroy the stone’s core, weakening O Gwi but leaving no room for his own survival; the show doesn’t look away from what that costs. Bang-wool, freed from O Gwi’s hold, turns against him and helps the remaining angels escape, completing her arc from temptation to clarity.

EP 08

The Twelve Reunited · Finale

September 14, 2025

Tae-san leads the remaining nine angels to the hell gate for the final confrontation with a weakened but still dangerous O Gwi. Mir forgives Tae-san for the failures of their last war and uses her snake powers to seal O Gwi inside the gate permanently — a moment the show earns because it took five episodes to establish what made that forgiveness difficult. Bang-wool chooses to remain human and walk away from the angels, finding a kind of peace that doesn’t require a replacement for what she lost. Ma-rok survives and continues quietly protecting the group’s identities; Do-ni, weakened from his Episode 5 sacrifice, survives and commits to training the next generation. Tae-san accepts Won-seung’s death not as a loss to manage but as a gift to honor — and carries that forward as the hell gate seals completely, the Twelve returning to their quiet lives among humans with the knowledge that what lies behind that gate is contained, for now.

Full spoilers ahead — everything that happens in the finale and what it all means.

The Final March. The finale of Twelve earns its resolution because the show spent eight episodes making sure the obstacles were real. When Tae-san walks his nine remaining angels toward O Gwi’s position at the hell gate, the weight of who isn’t there anymore — Won-seung, who saw this moment in his visions and chose it anyway — hangs over every frame. Tae-san is fully accepting his role as leader not because he finally wants it, but because he understands now that refusing it costs other people more than it costs him.

O Gwi’s Last Stand. Stripped of the red stone’s amplification after Won-seung’s sacrifice in Episode 7, O Gwi is diminished — but not finished. The drama is smart enough not to defang him completely: he still nearly kills Tae-san in their final encounter, and the battle at the gate costs the group in ways that can’t be undone. Park Hyung-sik plays the diminished O Gwi as something more dangerous than a weakened villain: a man who knows he’s losing and starts making decisions that are purely about destruction rather than victory. The show doesn’t offer a clean fight. It offers a necessary one.

Mir’s Forgiveness — and the Gate. Mir’s role in the ending is the payoff the drama has been building since Episode 2. Her refusal to rejoin Tae-san wasn’t stubbornness — it was a specific grievance about a specific failure from their last war. The finale gives that grievance its due. She doesn’t forgive Tae-san because the plot requires it; she forgives him because she’s watched him carry the weight of that failure for six episodes without flinching. When she seals O Gwi inside the gate using her snake powers, it’s with the full ability her unresolved anger had been partially blocking. The forgiveness and the sealing are the same act.

Bang-wool Chooses Humanity. Bang-wool’s ending is the quietest and possibly the most honest resolution in the finale. She spent four episodes being tempted by O Gwi’s promise to restore her lost lover, turned against him in Episode 7 when she realized he had no intention of ever delivering — and the finale doesn’t reward her with a substitute or a new love. She walks away from the angels, returns to a fully human life, and finds something that resembles peace without requiring someone to fill the empty space. The drama understands that what she lost cannot be replaced, only grieved properly, and it lets that be enough.

What Remains. The final image — the Twelve dispersing back into ordinary Seoul life, the gate sealed behind them — doesn’t carry the triumphalism most fantasy finales reach for. Won-seung is dead. Do-ni is permanently weakened. The government knows something happened, even if they don’t know what. And behind that gate, the sealed threat isn’t destroyed — it’s contained. Tae-san’s promise to honor Won-seung’s sacrifice by protecting humanity is sincere precisely because the show has never let him be sure it will be enough. Twelve ends not with certainty, but with commitment. That’s rarer, and it lands harder.